Noise in the U.K. Textile Industry

A survey of the noise levels in the U.K. textile industry has recently been completed For the Commission oF the European Eommunities.This paper contains a summary of the main conclusions which were presented as part of the Final report of this study.For the purposes of the investigation the textile industry was assumed to comprise all the operations which are required to produce cloth from natural or man-made Fibres.This meant that the making up process and the production of synthetic filament was excluded.It proved convenient to divide the industry into different processes rather than use the starting material as the besiefor sub division of the industry.Although the machinery used is not_genarally transferable many of the processes which occur are common to cotton, woollen and man-made fibres.An outline of the major process routes is shown in the Figure .'