- Branche: Textiles
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Celanese Corporation is a Fortune 500 global technology and specialty materials company with its headquarters in Dallas, Texas, United States.
A wet-processing unit for open-width processing of fabric. The fabric passes up and down over rollers in the liquor. The unit is widely used for dyeing, washing, pretreating, and aftertreating.
Industry:Textiles
Woven carpet in which the pile yarns are woven in as an integral part of the carpet, being held in place by the filling, usually made on a loom with a Jacquard head. The pile may be formed by wires and hooks or by weaving between two backings, in which case, the pile ends are cut to form two separate carpets. Wilton carpets are made in two types: (1) cut pile, e.g., tournia, Wilton moquette, plush, and velvet, and (2) loop pile, e.g., Brussels.
Industry:Textiles
A horizontal measurement of a material. In woven fabric, it is the distance from selvage to selvage, and in flat-knit fabric, the distance from edge to edge.
Industry:Textiles
A broad term describing any goods that have been finished in the white conditions.
Industry:Textiles
1. Cord, loosely woven or braided tape, or tubing to be cut into wicks. 2. Dispersing or spreading of moisture or liquid through a given area, vertically or horizontally; capillary action in material.
Industry:Textiles
A type of crepe fabric produced from false-twist¬textured polyester yarn.
Industry:Textiles
A compact woven fabric having a very steep twill on the face of the goods. Whipcord is used in dress woolens, worsteds, or wool blends and in many types of uniforms.
Industry:Textiles
The measurement of the strength of a material when it is saturated with water, normally relative to the dry strength.
Industry:Textiles
Fabric made by the wet-forming process. The short fibers typically have more random orientation in the web and the web has more isotropic properties than carded webs.
Industry:Textiles
