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About
International Institute for Cotton
The IIC was an intergovernmental body, founded, in 1966, by several of the nations that grow cotton, in order to promote the use of cotton textiles in Western Europe and Japan and to carry out Market Research, Technical Research, and Commercial Servicing. IIC was very successful in these aims for several decades, with the result that cotton utilization in the programme area was maintained, even against the heavy support given to competing fibres, especially polyester. The cost of such market operations was obviously quite high and the member countries decided, in 1990, that they were not prepared to maintain the effort so the IIC was closed down. Since 1990, the market share of cotton in Western Europe and Japan has continuously declined.Cotton Technology International
The Director of the Technical Research Division of the IIC was S. Allan Heap and he undertook to attempt to keep the technical effort alive, in a small way, by exploiting and further developing the STARFISH software together with former manager of the IIC Knitting Research section, Jill C. Stevens. Between them, Heap and Stevens have completely redesigned Starfish and have organised and expanded the vast body of know-how into a training course in cotton circular knitting production, which has been successfully delivered to many manufacturing companies, plus a few National Technical Centres, throughout the world. Sales of the STARFISH software have also been fairly numerous worldwide. Unfortunately, health issues have forced them to retire from active research and commercial operations so the next key step in the upgrading of the software could not be taken. So that the accumulated data and know-how shall not be lost, this on-line warehouse has been devised to store the majority of them.
About
International Institute for Cotton
The IIC was an intergovernmental body, founded, in 1966, by several of the nations that grow cotton, in order to promote the use of cotton textiles in Western Europe and Japan and to carry out Market Research, Technical Research, and Commercial Servicing. IIC was very successful in these aims for several decades, with the result that cotton utilization in the programme area was maintained, even against the heavy support given to competing fibres, especially polyester. The cost of such market operations was obviously quite high and the member countries decided, in 1990, that they were not prepared to maintain the effort so the IIC was closed down. Since 1990, the market share of cotton in Western Europe and Japan has continuously declined.Cotton Technology International
The Director of the Technical Research Division of the IIC was S. Allan Heap and he undertook to attempt to keep the technical effort alive, in a small way, by exploiting and further developing the STARFISH software together with former manager of the IIC Knitting Research section, Jill C. Stevens. Between them, Heap and Stevens have completely redesigned Starfish and have organised and expanded the vast body of know- how into a training course in cotton circular knitting production, which has been successfully delivered to many manufacturing companies, plus a few National Technical Centres, throughout the world. Sales of the STARFISH software have also been fairly numerous worldwide. Unfortunately, health issues have forced them to retire from active research and commercial operations so the next key step in the upgrading of the software could not be taken. So that the accumulated data and know-how shall not be lost, this on-line warehouse has been devised to store the majority of them.
