From optimizing fiber production processes, to offering more sustainable textile printing solutions, to helping fashion textiles stay crisp and wrinkle-resistant, our proven suite of chemistries and broad range of technologies for fabrics can help you meet the needs of diverse consumer and industrial markets.
Silicone meterials for textils
- Provides a premium, adjustable hand feel
- Hydrophonic or hydrophilic (depending on type)
- Water repellency
- Good stretch and recovery
- Improved elasticity and resiliency
- Excellent drape and flexibility
- Good durability
- UV Resistance
- Heat and low temp resistance
- Breathbility (gas permeability)
- Excellent fiber to fiber lubrication
- Exhaustible
Silicone in Textile application Thread finishing
- Lubricant - reduce coefficient of friction
- Hydrophobicity - water repellant
Fabric softener
- Amino modified PDMS for stronger attraction to negatively charged fabric (esp. cotton-based)
- Low yellowing structures
- Reactive to increase durability
- Hydrophilic – high water absorbency towel
Antifoam
- Scouring
- Finishing
- High-shear jet dyeing – stableness of emulsion is critical as to avoid deposition.
