Environmentally friendly textile finishing system

Abstract EN

Conventional system of applying textile finishes, that is pad-mangling and drying and curing in stenters, releases large quantities of effluent water containing excess finish and auxiliaries and consumes large amounts of energy to evaporate excess water.

Disposing of large quantities of industry-soiled water is expensive and uses costly treatment plants.

Soiled water also pollutes.

A reduction in the amount of water used in textile finishing is thus highly desirable and will reduce pollution for protection of the environment and give major, reductions in the cost of energy.

In this work, a novel system of applying multiple finishes has been developed using foam technique.

Foam application of finishes is known to minimise waste and to use much less thermal energy: the process is currently being used to apply crease-resist finishes.

This paper describes a method for applying successive crease-resist and anti-static