Textile Pretreatment and Processing

Enhancing textile processing and creating intelligent textiles

The textile pretreatment process can help eliminate sizing agents, oils, waxes, seed hulls, soils, pectin and other impurities, while improving whiteness and feel of the fabric. A typical pretreatment process includes three steps: desizing, scouring and bleaching.

Additionally, textile processers want to go beyond simple coating, waterproofing and softening to deliver functional fabrics that offer the perfect combination of comfort, performance and style.

Our product portfolio includes specialty surfactants, amines, solvents and silicone-based performance enhancers and processing aids to help you:

Improve wetting and fabric penetration

Emulsify and disperse impurities

Prevent or knock down foam in the harshest manufacturing and processing conditions

Cationize cotton to enable unique, brighter colors and reduce resource use

Deliver fabrics that are UV- and water-resistant or repellent

Improve tear strength, abrasion resistance and wash durability

Give socks, gloves and sportswear high-grip properties

Add unique moisture-management, wrinkle-free, stretch and recovery attributes

PRETREATMENT
AFTER-TREATMENT

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Pretreatment process

Three-step process includes de-sizing, scouring and bleaching. Right now, there is a sprint for energy saving process’ to improve the quality of the product and the environment. To help the process, we are now including surfactants to help meet expectations.

TERGITOL™, TRITON™, ECOSURF™ and DOWFAX™ Specialty Surfactants – play a key role with penetrating the fabric, emulsifying and dispersing impurities.

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After-treatment processes

Brings together the most important treatment agents that turn the fabric product into the recognizable softening feel. Dow produces silicone softener that acts as emulsifiers or intermediates.

XIAMETER™, DOWSIL™, TERGITOL™, and ECOSURF™ – Imparts the softness, improves wear and deepens the color to the fabrics.

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R&D World, ECOFAST™ Pure Feature

News | 21 March 2019

ECOFAST™ Pure pretreatment is awarded the 2018 R&D 100 Award.

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Combining expertise for more sustainability solutions in fashion

Learn how we combined materials science and industry expertise to create better textile treatment, helping to address the 5 trillion liters of water used a year for cotton dyeing.

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