Nick Vos (ed.), Strijd en overleg : de Twents-Achterhoekse textielindustrie van 1815-1955
In dit verkennende artikel tast ik af hoe context, tijd, ruimte en schaalgrootte kunnen bijdragen tot een beter begrip van delokaliseringsprocessen in de geschiedenis van de lokale samenleving en de bedrijven. Ik richt de blik op de gemechaniseerde katoennijverheid in een plattelandsdorp, die in de periode 1880-1925 nog heel conventioneel bleek. En...
Het jaar waarin de Franse regering aan ondernemer Lieven Bauwens de toestemming verleende om Gentse gedetineerden voor zich te laten werken, was eveneens de periode waarin de eerste gemechaniseerde katoenmachines bedrijvig sponnen op het Europese vasteland. Durfal Lieven Bauwens staat symbool voor een historische mentaliteitswijziging: die van hand...
Industrial wastewater contains many pollutants in general. Our interest is focusing on heavy metals found in textile effluents because of their known toxicity effect in the environment. Wastewater from a textile industry (UTEXRWA) in Rwanda has been screened for the occurrence of Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb and Zn. Batch and pilot experiments on adsorption equi...
The textile and garment industry has made a remarkable contribution to the economic development of Vietnam and employs currently a large labor force of 2.5 million people.However, the textile industry is also seen as a most polluting and unsustainable industry due to the use of excessive amounts of materials and the release of large amounts of poll...
The rapid economic development accompanied by increasing manufacturing output in Malaysia for the past two decades is not balanced with sufficient environmental management. Although pollution control measures have been formulated and implemented by the Malaysian government, the improvements and achievements in environmental performance vary from on...
This thesis explores and analyses recent changes and challenges faced by the apparel industry of Bangladesh and the consequences of those for the Bangladesh economy. More specifically, it explores and analyses the importance of the apparel industry in the Bangladesh economy, the challenges faced by this industry, impacts of implementation of variou...
The colour removal achieved under anaerobic conditions is also called reductive decolourisation, which is composed of a biological part, i.e. the reducing equivalents are biologically generated, and a chemical part, i.e. the formed electrons reduce chemically the dyes. The overall objective of this research was to explore different strategies to in...