Chapter 5
I 1788 - State Of The Art In Textile Technology
II Australian Textiles - The Early Days
III Australian Textiles - The 20th Century
IV Australian Textiles - To Date
i Narrow-tape Weaving Loom and the Nyguard Zipper
ii Vacuum Packaging System for Knitting Yarns
iii 'Computer' Socks
iv 'Jumbo Cakes' (Large Cheeses of Spun Yarn)
v Out-Draw Texturing - Nylon
vi 'Bored-Out' Pack
vii Computer Control of Heat-Setting Conditions for Synthetic Yarns
V Acknowledgements
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The Australian textile industry has shared in the fruits of this technology, but its role in the advances has been small. Not surprisingly, with no significant textile-machine manufacturing infrastructure, the emphasis in any technical development, with a couple of exceptions, has been on innovative process adaptation or application to solve a particular company production problem or develop a different product. The examples of this below are by no means the total, but they show the types of innovation typical in the better Australian companies.
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