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SA8000 is a voluntary, worldwide standard for companies to certify and audit labour practices in their services. SA8000 is social accountability developed and monitored by independent third party commercial firms. Read more..

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Sandblast is a laundry process where jeans before washing are literally shot with guns of sand to make the worn look. While originally done only by hand, this processing has recently become automated. ‘read more..

Sanding is a fabric finishing process where fabrics sanded real sandpaper to make the surface soft without hair, can be performed before or after dying.

Sanforized is a Clouet Peabody and Company trademark for the pre-shrinking fabric process that limits residual fabric shrinkage to less than 1%, developed in the late 1920′s by the Sanforized Co. Read more..

A fabric weaves where one yarn floats over a series of yarns before it interlaced once. When the warp floats over a series of picks (at least four) the fabric called satin, when the filling floats over a series of ends, the fabric called Sateen; it weaves to make fabric surfaces shiny and very smooth.

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Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is any of class microscopic procedures that use electrons rather than visible light to produce magnified images, particularly of objects having dimensions smaller than the single wavelengths of perceivable light, with linear magnification approaching or exceeding a million (106). See Nanoscale.

Scenario is a term used to describe a plausible and often simplified version of how the future might develop, based on assumptions about driving forces and key relationships. While they may be plausible, it is usually hard or impossible to add probabilities to their occurrence as there are neither predictions nor forecasts. Read more..

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The Scientific method is a term used to describe the discovering scientific principles by formulating hypotheses, making predictions from them, and testing the predictions

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Sourcing is an industrial process where dirt or starch oil, grease, sizing taken off fabrics.

Scrap products that have completed their useful life, such as appliances, cars, construction materials, ships, and post-consumer steel cans; also includes new scrap materials that result as by-products when metals are processed and products are manufactured. Steel scrap is recycled in steel mills to make new steel products. Read more..

Screening is a laundry process where jeans checked for quality, repaired, price tagged and packed.

Along with Egyptian cotton fibre, the finest grade of cotton available. The fibre can be spun into yarn two times finer than Pima cotton, the next-best cotton grade.

Secondary materials that have been manufactured and used at least once and are to be used again secondary standards national ambient air quality standards designed to protect welfare, including effects on soils, water, crops, vegetation, synthetic (anthropogenic) materials, animals, wildlife, weather, visibility, and climate; damage to property. Read more..

Seconds is the name on imperfect fabrics (woven or knitted) containing flaws in the weave, finish, or dyeing, an sold as ‘‘seconds’’. Read more..