ABSTRACT
Biotechnology is the application of living organism and their components to industrial products and processes (Alat, 2001). It also offers the potential for new industrial processes that require less energy and are based on renewable raw materials (Anon, 2001). Advances in biotechnology and enzymology have brought new lines of research on organic cotton textiles and have accelerated the development of enzymatic applications in textile wet processing for sustainable process. Among the various stages of cotton preparation, textile wet processing is a highly energy-, water-, and chemical-consuming process (Naik and Paul, 1997; Warke and Chandratre, 2003). Enzymes are known for their speciicity, high eficiency, and ability to work under mild conditions and provide a promising solution to eco-friendly processing
challenges (Carlier, 2001). The need of the organic cotton fabric for textile wet processing is required to process with minimum safe chemicals to health or alternative way to go into enzyme technology, because enzymes are substrate speciic biocatalysts; they operate best at ambient pressures, mild temperatures and often at a neutral pH range. Enzymes are gaining an increasingly important role as a tool in various wet textile pre-treatment and inishing processes (Etters and Anis, 1998). Biocatalysts have proven to be a lexible and reliable tool in wet textile processing and a promising technology to fulill the expected future requirements.
