Wool Research Association

Development, Application and Benchmarking of Eco-friendly Moth Repellent and Moth Proofing finish for Woolen textiles.

To develop ecofriendly moth proofing finish for woolens, the exercise is for replacing the toxic insecticides to provide a safer moth proofing agent to the wool processors.
To give treatment of developed moth proofing finish on woolens. The evaluation would involve the testing for moth resistance against the potential moth species to determine the minimum effective concentration.
Studies on the fastness properties, wet fastness and fastness to dry cleaning would be carried out to determine the permanency of the treatment.
To do benchmarking of developed product

Literature Survey is in the Final stage
Raw material and Chemical Purchases are on-going.
Capex Purchase Done.
Provisional Patent and paper writing in progress.
Development herbal based moth proofing agents (Neem Aza.,Tobacco Extract, Camphor, Nano silver neem extract)
Application of Eco-friendly Herbal and Chemical based moth proofing agents on wool is done and evaluation for performance is done
Testing of the Applied moth proofing agents on wool fabric by Bioassay Method (TM-20)