Middelen Tagged: Small Business

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  1. Spinning: a handbook

    Spinning: a Handbook describes the basic principles and processes of spinning as they apply to small-scale operations, supplemented by methods of testing spun yearn quality; descriptions of the different types of small-scale spinning machines; how to plan a small-scale production-and where to go...
    Small Business Spinning Developing countries

  2. Appropriate food packaging: materials and methods for small businesses

    Appropriate Food Packaging is a compendium of packaging materials and cost-effective methods that can be applied at a small to medium scale in developing countries. This book helps manufacturers to face the challenges that improving their packaging systems present, including assessing whether...
    Food-Packaging Food Developing countries Small Business

  3. Backyard Market Gardening: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Selling What You Grow

    01-01-1993 Discover how easy and profitable it is to grow and sell vegetables, fruits, flowers, herbs and small livestock from your own Backyard Market Garden.
    Truck farming Market Gardening Vegetable gardening Small Business New Business Enter... United States

  4. Baked, Leavened Breads

    01-01-1991 This profile describes a small bakery operating with a single shift and producing 100 tons of baked products a year. It also describes a medium-sized plant operating on the same basis but producing 250 tons of baked goods a year. Dry materials are received and water added to make dough, which is...
    Bread Baked Products Ind... Baking VITA Recipes Small Business Downloads

  5. Women's Broadcloth Dresses

    01-01-1987 This Profile describes a plant operating with one shift and manufacturing 72,000 women's dresses a year (1,440/week, 288/day). It also describes a larger plant running a single shift and producing 104,000 dresses a year. Other similar products such as women's and girls' blouses, cotton skirts,...
    Clothing Patterns VITA Small Business Business management Downloads

  6. Glass Containers (Batch Process)

    01-01-1991 There are many processes by which the hot, viscous glass can be formed into the desired shapes. Bottles are made by blowing a thick bubble of glass into a mold to give it the desired external shape and to form such features as screw threads or emblems. Such articles as dishes and electrical...
    Glass Containers VITA Small Business Business management Downloads

  7. Paint Manufacturing

    01-01-1989 This Profile describes a small plant that will serve local needs, mainly in the trade-sales sector. Its output may exceed 4,000 liters per week (L/wk). For economic reasons, at least part of its total output may have been imported in bulk, and then tested, modified, and repackaged for the local...
    Paint Paint Production VITA Small Business Buisness Business Planning Downloads

  8. Small-Scale Paper Bag Manufacturing Process

    01-01-1989 This process is for the manufacture of small, box-shaped paper bags (our specific process turns out one and three quarters kilo bags, but a similar process is possible for other sizes as well.) It is designed to make 500 bags per day with a labor force of 3 to 5 people. This method uses labor as...
    Small Scale Paper Industry Papermaking Paper Bag Small Business Construction Manual

  9. Hand Papermaking

    01-01-1979 In many areas of developing countries paper is scarce. Rural schools may not have enough paper for their students and market goods may be wrapped in old newspapers if at all. Often this is because resources are not available to invest in modern papermaking factories, which require large amounts...
    Papermaking Paper Industry VITA Small Business Downloads Small Enterprise D...

  10. Men's Work Shirts

    01-01-1987 This Industry Profile is one of a series briefly describing small or medium-sized industries. The Profiles provide basic information for starting manufacturing plants in developing nations. Specifically, they provide general plant descriptions, financial, and technical factors for their...
    Small Business Clothing VITA Downloads Patterns