- Industry: 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.
An arbitrary value adopted as the moisture regain to be used in calculating the commercial or legal weight of a fiber shipment.
Industry:Textiles
An individual or organization which buys greige fabrics and sells them as a finished product to cutters, wholesalers, retailers, and others. The converter arranges for the finishing of the fabric, namely bleaching, mercerizing, dyeing, printing, etc., to the buyers’ specifications.
Industry:Textiles
An unbleached muslin base fabric used to produce a chenille-like fabric by applying candlewick (heavy-plied yarn) loops and cutting the loops to give a fuzzy effect.
Industry:Textiles
Fibers imbedded so deeply in the wire clothing on a card cylinder that they resist transfer to the doffer cylinder according to the normal fiber path through the card. Causes include improper finish, excess moisture, or static on the fiber. The fiber builds up to such an extent that the carding operation is adversely affected. In extreme cases, the card will be slowed or stopped.
Industry:Textiles
Fibers composed of two or more polymer types in a sheath-core or side-by-side (bilateral) relation.
Industry:Textiles
Degree of resistance of a material to chemicals, such as acids, bases, solvents, oils, and oxidizing agents, and to chemical reactions, including those catalyzed by light.
Industry:Textiles
Color changes in localized areas of a garment resulting from differential wear.
Industry:Textiles
Any technique for evaluating a given color in terms of standard colors.
Industry:Textiles
