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Title: Careers in Textile Chemistry


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Careers in Textile Chemistry
  • Kevin Tomasko

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What is Textile Chemistry?
  • Textile Chemistry applies the principles of basic
    chemical fields to the understanding of textile
    materials and their modification into useful and
    desirable items.
  • Textile materials are used in clothing, carpet,
    tire yarn, sewing thread, upholstery, airbags,
    etc.

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What Does a Textile Chemist Do?
  • A textile chemists spend their entire career
    working with textile materials.
  • This involves the dyeing, printing, and finishing
    of textiles using chemicals such as dyes,
    surfactants, fire retardants, fluorochemicals,
    detergents, fiber fabric lubricants, etc.

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Where can a Textile Chemist find a Job?
  • Textile chemists must be ready to move overseas
    because chemists are employed globally by
    chemical companies that manufacture the basic
    polymer from which synthetic fibers are made.
  • In the 1980s many major US textile companies
    moved overseas in search of cheap labor.
  • Today, many textiles of the world come from
    countries like Turkey, China, India, and Pakistan

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Personal Characteristics of a Textile Chemist.
  • Textile Chemists are generally people interested
    in the intersection between chemistry and the
    kind of engineering that goes into textile
    marketing.
  • They enjoy the modification and improvement of
    basic polymers and like using their knowledge of
    materials to solve problems.

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The future in Textile Chemistry
  • The job outlook is much more promising
    internationally than it is in the US, although
    significant positions for bright students still
    exist today.
  • Jobs at dye companies are harder to find -
    although most have moved overseas, there are
    still a few US-basses companies.

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What it takes to be a Textile Chemist.
  • Although a number of schools specialize in
    textile chemistry, a textile degree is not a
    prerequisite for a job in the field. Many
    chemists in the field have been trained as
    polymer chemists.
  • Important courses of study include organic,
    analytical, and colloid chemistry
  • Textile chemistry is a highly competitive field,
    and an M.S. or Ph.D. degree is very valuable as a
    potential employee.

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Additional Information and References.
  • How to Become a Textiles Chemist.
    http//www.ehow.com/how_2068986_become-textiles-ch
    emist.html
  • American Chemical Society - Textile Chemistry.
    http//portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content -
    search textiles chemistry
  • Textile Expertise. http//www.intota.com/viewbio.a
    sp?bioID616166perID718196strQuerytextilechem
    istry
  • Answers.com - Textile Chemistry.
    http//www.answers.com/topic/textile-chemistry?cat
    technology
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