Textiles
Key components for textile treatment
Textiles
Key components for textile treatment
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Surfactants are necessary auxiliaries in the viscose process. Use our solutions to dramatically enhance the quality of your viscose process and products. Utilizing our surfactants will positively affect the end properties of viscose fiber and film.
Our main additives and their primary functions:
Reactivity additive
• Less wear and tear of filters and spinnerets
• Improves fiber quality
• Improves accessibility of NaOH and CS2 — which creates a more
• uniform reaction with less formation of gel particles
Process additive
• Keeps the system clean; fewer cleaning operations of spinnerets
• More uniform cross section of fibers, improved spinnability
• Less fiber breakages
Modifier
• Improves the tenacity of the fiber
• Decreases deposits
• Retards the regeneration of cellulose
Spin bath additive
• Extended spinneret life
• Reduces cleaning operations
• Improves fiber quality
Expancel for technical textiles and nonwovens
Expancel Microspheres have a spherical shape and are fantastically low in density. This means you get a filler for technical textiles and nonwoven composites that's both lightweight and has great expansion capacity. Letting you add volume but not weight.
Even with relatively small dosages of Expancel Microspheres added, the need for binder or other heavier fillers is reduced. This allows you to save on costs of raw materials and at the same time – enhance the properties of the substrates.
With its low density, the microspheres equip your final technical textile and nonwoven composite product with superior insulation. They will also increase bulk and thickness as well as dimensional stability.
Expancel can be used in a wide variety of binder systems which are applied on the substrate, either by impregnation, coating, spraying or lamination.
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In textile applications, sizing pick-up can be adjusted by using different FINNFIX grades to correct the rheology of a sizing solution.
Surfactants are necessary auxiliaries in the viscose process and will positively affect the end properties of viscose fiber and film.
With its low density, the microspheres equip your technical textile with superior insulation. They will also increase bulk, thickness and dimensional stability.
Improves the performance of dye baths and removes and deactivates metal ions that would otherwise catalyze the decomposition of the peroxide bleaching agent.
Levasil® colloidal silica is used in treatment formulations by the textile industry to help stabilize weave structure and improve seam slippage.
Textile manufacturers use hydrogen peroxide as a bleaching agent for the treatment of natural and synthetic fibers.
Sodium hydrosulfide is used as a highly reactive form of sulfur and acts as an intermediate in the production of other chemicals, especially for thiochemicals used in textile processing.
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