LABORATORY FACILITIES

    Theoretical know-how and prowess are supplemented with practical work. This is achieved with the help of excellent laboratory facilities available in the Department. Some of the facilities available in the laboratories are given below.

SPINNING LABORATORY

• Blow Room and Card
• Draw Frame
• Comber
• Speed Frame
• Ring Frame
• Miniature Card
• Miniature Draw Frame
• Miniature Roving frame
• Miniature rotor spinning machine
• Two for One Twister

WEAVING LABORATORY

• Dobby Loom
• Jacquard Loom
• Automatic Pirn Changing Loom
• Air jet weaving machine
• Miniature Rapier Weaving Machine

CHEMICAL PROCESSING LABORATORY

• Miniature Processing Machines – Soft Flow Dyeing, Jigger, Padding Mangle, Curing Chamber and Steam Ager
• Spectrophotometer
• FTIR Spectrometer
• Colour Fastness Testers
• Environmental Test Chamber
• Thermo Gravimetric Analyzer
• Freeze Drier
• Low Temperature Freezer

TESTING AND QUALITY ASSURANCE LABORATORY

• Yarn Fault Classifying System
• Universal Tensile Tester
• High Speed Tensile Tester
• Evenness and Hairiness Tester
• Video Microscope and Image Processing System
• Fabric Evaluation Equipments – Tensile, Tearing, Bursting, Abrasion, Pilling, Bending, Drape

KNITTING LABORATORY

• Circular Weft Knitting Machines
• Flat Bed Knitting Machines
  

GARMENT LABORATORY

• Single and Double Needle Sewing Machines
• Embroidery Machine
• Over Lock Machine
• Steam Pressing Machine
  
• Feed off Arm Machine
  
• Button Hole and Button Sewing Machine
  

CAD LABORATORY

• Woven Design Software
• Garment Design Software
• Statistical Software

TECHNICAL TEXTILE LABORATORY

• Miniature and Medium Scale Electro Spinning Machines
• Nano Spider Electrospinning Machine
• Gas Permeability Tester, Probe Sonicator, Viscometer, Compression Moulding Machine

DEPARTMENT LIBRARY

      In addition to the University Central Library, the Department has its own library with a congenial atmosphere for reading. Books covering the entire gamut of textile field and relevant books on allied sciences and engineering are available. The students are free to access the library and browse the internet facility available in the library. The library is also equipped with textile magazines and information brochures. In addition to this, CDs on machinery and equipment are made available to get a better understanding of their working mechanism. Moreover, it has also various technical publications and proceedings of seminars and conferences held in the various parts of the world.