- 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.
The ability of a substance to transform radiant energy into a different form, usually with a resulting rise in temperature. Mathematically, absorbance is the negative logarithm to the base 10 of transmittance.
Industry:Textiles
Specially engineered low-melting point fibers are blended with other fibers in a web, so that a uniformly bonded structure can be generated at low temperature by fusion of the binder fiber with adjacent fibers.
Industry:Textiles
The ability of a substance to be broken down by bacteria so that it can be returned to the environment without posing an environmental hazard.
Industry:Textiles
The ability of a fiber or fabric to withstand surface wear and rubbing.
Industry:Textiles
That part of a drafting roll of largest diameter where the fibers are gripped. It may be an integral part of the roll, as in steel rolls, or it may have a covering of leather, cork, etc. In the former case, the boss is fluted.
Industry:Textiles
Spun or filament yarns of two generic fibers or two variants of the same generic fiber.
Industry:Textiles
Products used to treat the smooth fiber-face of closely constructed base fabric to provide a chemical bonding site for subsequent coating. This step is done because it is difficult to get good coating adhesion via strikethrough and mechanical bonding in closely constructed fabrics. Products containing the isocyanate group are the most widely used promoters.
Industry:Textiles
Products that prevent or minimize matting and compaction of textile materials.
Industry:Textiles
Print cloth treated with pyroxylin or starch and clay and used in bookbinding.
Industry:Textiles
Polymers modified chemically to make them receptive to acid dyes.
Industry:Textiles
