ESA DYE MONITOR

BY KEITH NUTHALLUNTIL now the human eye has reigned supreme in textile and clothing companies wanting to carefully check dye colour quality in their products, but that, claims the European Space Agency (ESA), is now ending. It has helped to develop an artificial eye, now being sold to textile companies to help them monitor dying quality, reducing wastage. ESA claims that until the Coltex system was created by it and a consortium led by Italy's IRIS DP, mechanical monitors were much less effective at checking for colour flaws than trained workers. But it says that ...


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