Theme: Light Industry The history of silk Textile Fibre Knitting Textile Engineering Light Industry

Theme:

• Light Industry
• The history of silk
• Textile Fibre
• Knitting Textile
• Engineering

Light Industry
Light industry are industries that usually are less capital-intensive than heavy industry and are more consumer-oriented than business-oriented, as they typically produce smaller consumer goods. Most light industry products are produced for end users rather than as intermediates for use by other industries. Light industry facilities typically have less environmental impact than those associated with heavy industry. For that reason zoning laws are more likely to permit light industry near residential areas.
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es require fewer raw materials, space and power. While light industry typically causes little pollution, particularly compared to heavy industry, some light industry can cause significant pollution or risk of contamination. For example, electronics manufacturing, itself often a light industry, can create potentially harmful levels of lead or chemical wastes in soil without proper handling of solder and waste products (such as cleaning and degreasing agents used in manufacture).
32 new investment projects in light industry, totaling over $2.2 billion, are scheduled for implementation in Uzbekistan over the next three years.
“Over half of the projects will be financed through foreign investments and loans. For example, it is planned to establish 112 cutting-edge and high-tech industries, expand, upgrade and re-equip 20 operating enterprises. We expect that the projects will scale up export capacity of the industry to $2.5 billion per year, and create 25,000 additional jobs,” Uzbekyengilsanoat reported.
Last year’s projects in the light industry totaled $123 million. Uzbekyengilsanoat increased its export capacity by $53.3 million through the commissioning of new capacities, and establishing 3,165 new jobs.
(Source: «Uzbekistan Today» newspaper)
Export Capacity ligh industry of Uzbekistan
The production of silk originated in Neolithic period China within the Yangshao culture (4th millennium BC). Though it would later reach other places in the world, the art of silk production remained confined to China until the Silk Road opened at 114 BC, though China maintained its virtual monopoly over silk production for another thousand years. The use of silk within China was not confined to clothing alone, and silk was used for a number of applications, such as writing. Within clothing, the color of silk worn also held social importance, and formed an important guide of social class during the Tang dynasty.Silk cultivation spread to Japan around 300 AD, and, by 552 AD, the Byzantine Empire managed to obtain silkworm eggs and were able to begin silkworm cultivation; the Arabs also began to manufacture silk at the same time. As a result of the spread of sericulture, Chinese silk exports became less important, although they still maintained dominance over the luxury silk market. The Crusades brought silk production to Western Europe, in particular to many Italian states, which saw an economic boom exporting silk to the rest of Europe.