Open AccessNon-conventional textile structures with technical destination, designed and developed at S.C. Cora Trading & Service S.R.L.
Author(s) -
Marian-Catalin Grosu,
Alexan Alexandru
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
industria textilă
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 1222-5347
DOI - 10.35530/it.070.01.1611
Subject(s) - wool , textile , population , raw material , renewable energy , service (business) , engineering , business , materials science , composite material , chemistry , demography , organic chemistry , marketing , sociology , electrical engineering
Wool fibers are a natural, renewable, sustainable, low impact on the environment, with huge potential for humanity.Given the exponential growth of the Earth’s population, raw materials are getting less and less, a business based on theprocessing of renewable raw materials, especially wool fibers, has a high chance of survival and development.Romania, with an overwhelming agrarian economy, has a population of nearly 10 million sheep and a production of over16,000 tons of medium and coarse wool. Given the need to set minimum energy performance requirements for newbuildings and for the major renovation of existing ones at European Union level, the development of new materials andtechnologies is necessary, so that the opportunity to capitalize on wool for buildings be a workable item on long term.This paper presents the experimental results of the characteristics of 4 non-conventional textile structures (UTS) madeof 100% wool fibers, designed and developed at S.C. Cora Trading & Service SRL, on their existing adapted technology.The fibrous blend used, consisting of both tanning wool and coarse shared wool allow development of innovativestructures, with potential of use for their thermal insulation capacity and great potential of sustainable development ofthe manufacturer.