Applications    Overview Agriculture Building and Construction Chemical Processing Personal Care and Cleaning Products Oil and Gas Exploration Paints and Coatings Paper Textiles   Textile Sizes — Solutions of CELLOSIZE™ HEC make useful warp sizes that can be removed from the fiber by water-washing. In combination with other resins, CELLOSIZE HEC has found wide application in textile finishes. It is also used as a water-soluble forming size and binder in glass fibers, and as finishing and binding agent in leather pastes. Textile Latex Coatings, Binders, and Adhesives — Latex adhesives thickened with CELLOSIZE HEC are pseudoplastic; that is, they thin under shear but rapidly return to high viscosity to control strike-through and improve print definition. CELLOSIZE HEC controls water release and permits continuous running without buildup of adhesive on the print rolls. Controlled water release allows more open time for good acceptance of flock and formation of a better adhesive film without noticeably extending drying time. CELLOSIZE HEC QP 09L, at 0.2 to 0.5 percent, improves mechanical stability in nonwoven binder formulations, reduces wet picking at nip rolls, and increases the wet strength of the final product. CELLOSIZE HEC QP 52000H is an effective thickening agent for nonwoven print bonding formulations, providing exceptional pattern definition. The properties that make CELLOSIZE HEC an excellent thickener for acrylic-based binders and nonwoven flock adhesives commend it for thickening textile backcoating and laminating formulations. It is compatible with many fillers and effective at low concentrations. Textile Carpet Dyeing and Printing — In carpet dyeing, such as the Kusters continuous dyeing system, very few thickeners can match the thickening efficiency of CELLOSIZE HEC QP 100MH. None can match its total combination of properties: thickening efficiency, ease of dissolving to lump-free solutions, low levels of impurities to interfere with dye pickup and color development, freedom from insoluble gels that would introduce dye specks on finished goods, and uniformity of properties within a narrow specification range. Learn About Other Dow Products for Textiles