Finishing Chemicals

Textile finishing provides fabrics, yarns and fibers with special properties. This includes water and oil repellency, antistatic behaviour and flame retardancy but also soft handle, luster, wrinkle resistance and anti-slipping properties can be achieved.

Today, textiles need to meet demanding requirements which fibers, yarns, knitted and woven fabrics usually cannot fulfil. By optimizing textile-chemical or mechanical finishing after pretreatment, dyeing or printing, the goods can be provided with new properties and features.

For example, textile-chemical finishing includes the resin finishing of cellulosic fibers in order to reduce the creasing and shrinking tendency of fabrics. With this treatment, also called easy-care finishing, natural or regenerated cellulosic fibers are crosslinked by means of resins. These resin finished textiles are crease resistant and dimensionally stable. Furthermore, chemical finishing can provide textiles with antistatic, flame retardant, and oil or water repellent properties. Mechanical and thermal finishing include processes such as calendering, napping, sanforizing, shearing, emerizing, singeing or heat setting . Textile fabrics are often refined by both textile-chemical as well as by mechanical or thermal finishing processes.

The following is a selection of our textile auxiliaries for finishing:

1) Anticrease Agents

2) Antislip and Antisnag Agents, Lustering Agents

3) Water and Oil Repellents, Soil Release Products, Flame Retardants Antistatic Agents

4) Optical Brighteners