Textile Pre-Treatment & Processing Solutions

Enhancing textile processing and creating intelligent, sustainable 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

Solutions for textile mills
We can help you deliver high-quality textiles.

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Coloring Cotton
Combining expertise for more sustainable fashion

Pretreatment

Includes a three-step process: 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.

After-treatment

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.