Whither textile colour application research？

摘要

Colour and colour application science and technology are widely practised throughtout the world today. However, there are quesions which are still unresolved, and sometimes this is due to the experimental difficulties involved in pursuit of the answers. In the USA and Western EUrope, recent years have been the added commercial problems of excess global dye and chemical capacity, international sourcing, and prifing pressures. The result has been a complete reorgtanization of those multinational chemical companies with textile colour related divisions, followed by divestments, mergers, acquistions, downsizing of services and a broad loss of colour and coloration experise. Technical and comercial problems both have an impact on the future of textile colour application research, and this paper addresses some of these problems.