Textile Finishing Process

Textile finishing process refers to a serious of processing to improve the appearance, hand feeling and dimensional stability and imparts special functions during the production of textiles.

Basic Finishing Process

Pre-shrinking: It is to reduce the shrinking of fabric after soaking by physical methods, so as to reduce the shrinkage rate.

Tentering: By using the plasticity of the fiber under wet condition, the fabric width can be stretched to the specified size, so that the fabric shape is stable.

Heat setting: It is mainly used for thermoplastic fibers and blended or interwoven fabrics. By heating, the fabric shape becomes relatively stable and the dimensional stability is improved.

Desizing: It is to treat with acid, alkali and enzyme, etc., to remove the sizing added to the warp during weaving. 

Appearance Finishing Process

Whitening: It is to improve the whiteness of textiles by the principle of complementary color of light.

Calendering: It is to improve the luster of fabric by using the roller to roll the fabric surface or roll out with fine twill.

Sanding: It is to use a sanding roller to make a layer of short and fine fluff on the fabric surface.

Napping: It is to use dense needles or thorns to pick up the fibers from the top of the fabric to form a layer of fluff.

Handle Finishing Process

Soft finishing: It is to impart fabric soft hand feeling by softener or knead machine.

Stiff finishing: It is to dip the fabric in the finishing bath made of high-molecular material that can form a film so as to adhere it to the surface of the fabric. After drying, there can form a surface film and impart the fabric stiff handle.

Functional Finishing Process

Waterproof finishing: It is to apply waterproof material or coating to the fabric to impart fabric waterproofing performance.

Flame-retardant finishing: It is to impart fabric flame-retardant performance, so that it can prevent flame spreading.

Anti-fouling and oil-proof finishing

Antibacterial and mildew-proof finishing

Anti-static finishing 

Other Finishing Process

Coating: It is to apply a coating to the surface of the fabric to impart it special function, such as waterproofing, windproof and breathable, etc.

Composite finishing: It is to combine the different type of fabric together by gum and pad pasting, etc. to gain better performance.

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