Textile chemist jobs in Finland
Textile chemists coordinate and supervise chemical processes for textiles like yarn and fabric forming such as dyeing and finishing.
Textile chemist - Which skills are essential?
The requirements, rules and applications of health and safety measures in the textile industry.
Processes involved in textile dyeing using different dyeing technologies. Also, addition of colours to textile materials using dye stuffs.
Developing specifications for fibre based technical products with functional performances.
Plan and monitor textile production to achieve control on behalf of quality, productivity and delivery time.
Maintaining standards of work in order to improve and acquire new skills and work methods.
Use textile finishing machine technologies that enable the coating or laminating of fabrics.
Chemical processing of textiles such as the reactions of textiles to chemicals.
Development of new concepts through the use of scientific and other methods of applied research.
Textile technologies to design, manufacture and evaluate the properties of textiles.
Developing structural and colour effects in yarns and threads by using yarn and thread manufacturing techniques.
Developing structural and colour effects in warp knitted fabrics by using the warp knitting technique.
The influence of chemical composition and molecular arrangement of yarn and fibre properties and fabric structure on the physical properties of textile fabrics; the different fibre types, their physical and chemical characteristics and different material characteristics; the materials used in different processes and the effect on materials as they are processed.
Addition of colour partially, according to the designed pattern, onto textile based materials. Processes for adding coloured patterns onto textile materials using printing machines and techniques (rotary of flat bed screen printing or others, heat transfer, inkjet, etc.).
Prepare for textile testing and evaluation, gathering the test samples, conducting and recording tests, validating data and presenting results.
Evaluate textiles and their properties in order to manufacture products in conformity with specifications.
Processes used for changing the properties of textile materials. This includes operating, monitoring and maintaining textile finishing machines.
Textile chemist - Which skills are useful but not essential?
Perform the operation, monitoring and maintenance of machines and processes to manufacture man-made fibers, ensuring that the product meets the required specifications, keeping efficiency and productivity at high levels.
Manufacturing of nonwoven fabrics according to specification. Development, manufacture, properties and evaluation of nonwoven fabrics.
Develop recipes for dyeing and printing processes of textiles.
The efficiency aims and environmental issues posed by challenges in the textile industry.