The COVID-19 pandemic has put personal protective equipment (PPE) in the spotlight and made PPE a common term among the public, say Rajanna L Gotipamul and PV Kadole.
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Face masks are indeed becoming a part of gift baskets this holiday season. With wintry weather on the horizon, cases are expected to rise, as is evident in the recent surge in Europe and United States. Given these circumstances, knowledge dissemination on biomedical and nonmedical countermeasures are the need of the hour.
Porous cotton substrates are better in destabilizing the SARS-CoV-2 virus. With global COVID-19 cases over 37 million and deaths crossing one million, medical and nonmedical countermeasures such as masks are critically needed.
The year 2020 started with lingering trade tensions between two leading producers of cotton, China and United States.
YKK has developed a line of zippers with tape treated with Polygiene’s ViralOff, so these parts are essentially self-cleaning.
EFI Reggiani textile solutions are changing the way textile and apparel products are designed and produced, bringing environmental sustainability to the industry in a big way.
During CS 2019-20, cotton production is estimated to have increased by 13.6 per cent to 6 million tonnes during CS 2019-20 on account of higher yields backed by favourable monsoon conditions.