- Stenter frames
- Milling and washing machines
- Softening and drying equipment (Airo 24)
- Color kitchens and chemical stations
- Special equipment for washing of the knitted fabrics. Antipilling systems.
- Weft straighteners
- Rope opener and squeezing equipment
- Singeing, desizing, washing, bleaching, dyeing and drying of the fabric in open width
- Jiggers
- Dyeing equipment for woven and knitted fabrics, for yarn and fibers
- Preparation equipment
- Autoclave decatising and pressing machines for wool fabrics
- Raising, shearing and brushing equipment
- Calander
- Inspection, packing, palletizing machines
- Equipment for washing, drying and softening for the fabric in a rope
- Equipment for treatment of knitted fabrics
Textile manufacturing is a major industry. It is based on the conversion of fibre into yarn, yarn into fabric. These are then dyed or printed, fabricated into clothes. Different types of fiber are used to produce yarn. Cotton remains the most important natural fibre, so is treated in depth. There are many variable processes available at the spinning and fabric-forming stages coupled with the complexities of the finishing and colouration processes to the production of a wide ranges of products. There remains a large industry that uses hand techniques to achieve the same results.