U.S. Revolution in Dyeing of Textiles by Radio Active Means

Grey River Argus, 8 November 1949, Page 5

U.S. Revolution in Dyeing of Textiles by Radio Active Means

(Rec. 10.50) ' NEW YORK, Nov. 6 A, new furnishing process in the dyeing of textiles has been developed through what is believed to be the first successful u-.e of materials from a radio-active source in industrial production. The New York Herald said this to-day. It added that the process promised to revolutionise the handling of all types of textile fabrics. The process has been developed by aj company working under a licence from the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Through the use of a new compound, manufactured from nadio-active source of materials, a method has been developed which has permitted the use of photochemistry for the first time in the dyeing and finishing of all types of textiles. The method was applied through a radically different type of equipment, which not only required far less space, and less manpower, than the normal finishing plants, but, in single operation it dyed, finished, and dried the fabric at high speech