Profession finishing textile technician

Finishing textile technicians perform operations related to setting up finishing processes. The finishing processes are the final series of operations that improves the appearance and/or usefulness of textiles.

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Personality Type

Knowledge

  • Dyeing technology

    Processes involved in textile dyeing using different dyeing technologies. Also, addition of colours to textile materials using dye stuffs.

  • Challenging issues in the textile industry

    The efficiency aims and environmental issues posed by challenges in the textile industry.

  • Textile finishing technology

    Processes used for changing the properties of textile materials. This includes operating, monitoring and maintaining textile finishing machines.

  • Textile printing technology

    Addition of colour partially, according to the designed pattern, onto textile based materials. Processes for adding coloured patterns onto textile materials using printing machines and techniques (rotary of flat bed screen printing or others, heat transfer, inkjet, etc.).

  • Textile chemistry

    Chemical processing of textiles such as the reactions of textiles to chemicals.

  • Health and safety in the textile industry

    The requirements, rules and applications of health and safety measures in the textile industry.

Skills

  • Prepare equipment for textile printing

    Manufacture screens and prepare printing paste. Use tools and equipment associated with screen printing. Select screen types and mesh for appropriate substrates. Develop, dry and finish screen image. Prepare screens, test screens and printed quality.

  • Maintain work standards

    Maintaining standards of work in order to improve and acquire new skills and work methods.

  • Finish processing of man-made fibres

    Complete the processing operation of man-made fibres and ensure that the product is made according to customer specification.

Optional knowledge and skills

nonwoven machine technology textile technologies conduct textile testing operations test physical properties of textiles develop textile colouring recipes design woven fabrics tend textile finishing machines knitting machine technology research and development in textiles

Source: Sisyphus ODB