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Filtration Textiles
5.1 Introduction
There is hardly a human activity, industrial, commercial, or domestic, that
is not affected by ltration. The general signicance of environmental
protection justies mention of the topic here—because ltration has a
major role to play in many of the schemes trying to achieve this protection.
The market forces exerted by the imposition of environmental legislation
are an important driver for the ltration market. Textile lter fabrics
play an essential part in a countless industrial processes, contributing
to product purity, savings in energy/production costs, and a cleaner ...