Open AccessPERFORMANCE PROPERTIES OF KNITTED FABRICS PRODUCED FROM rPET AND COTTON/rPET BLENDED VORTEX AND RING YARNS
Author(s) -
Ahmet Oruç,
Yavuz Arikan,
E. İlanbey,
K. Özşahin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
tex teh
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2068-9101
DOI - 10.35530/tt.2021.32
Subject(s) - textile , yarn , spinning , materials science , composite material , environmentally friendly , biology , ecology
An awareness of environmental issues is crucial for textile engineering due to increasingconsumption of textile fibres. In addition, levels of pollution are ever increasing due to single use polymericpackaging materials in our daily life. Single use polymeric packaging materials, such as PET beverage bottles,have impacts on the consumption of raw materials and energy, on the contamination of our water andatmosphere, on human health, on global climate change. In this point of view, the ability of the textileproducers to recycle the disposed PET beverage bottles into textile products has a critical importance. In thisstudy, performance properties of knitted fabrics produced from rPET and cotton/rPET blended vortex and ringyarns are investigated to figure out the reproducibility of environmentally friendly textile products. For thisaim, 100% rPET, 50-50% rPET-Co and 50-50% VPET-Co yarns were produced by Vortex and Ring Spinningtechnologies with same yarn number as Ne 30/1. Then the knitted fabric samples were produced from thesesample yarns and the fabrics were dyed. Dimensional stability, bursting strength and pilling resistanceproperties of the fabrics were examined. Dimensional stability properties of rPET used fabrics were found tobe similar with the ones which VPET used. Pilling resistance and bursting strength of the sample fabrics wereclose to each other that rPET usage does not demonstrate any disadvantage. Consequently, rPET fibre usageinstead of VPET fibre is found to be appropriate.