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Celanese Acetate LLC
Industry: Textiles
Number of terms: 9358
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Company Profile:
Celanese Corporation is a Fortune 500 global technology and specialty materials company with its headquarters in Dallas, Texas, United States.
A supplementary material combined with a base material to provide special properties. For example, pigments are used as dope additives to give color in mass dyeing.
Industry:Textiles
A substance to retard deterioration (of fiber, fabrics, finishes, etc.) resulting from reaction with oxygen.
Industry:Textiles
A solid or liquid mixture of two or more metals; or of one or more metals with certain nonmetallic elements formed by fusing the components.
Industry:Textiles
To stir or to mix, as in the case of a dyebath or solution.
Industry:Textiles
The greatest distance, measured parallel to the selvages, between a filling yarn and a straight line drawn between the points at which this yarn meets the selvages. Bow may be expressed directly in inches or as a percentage of the width of the fabric at that point.
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
1. A rich, Jacquard-woven fabric with an all over interwoven design of raised figures or flowers. The pattern is emphasized by contrasting surfaces or colors and often has gold or silver threads running through it. The background may be either a satin or a twill weave. 2. A term describing a cut-pile carpet having a surface texture created by mixing twisted and straight standing pile yarns.
Industry:Textiles
1. A sheer, woven, mercerized fabric of combed cotton or polyester/cotton resembling nainsook, only finer, with a lengthwise streak. 2. A rayon fabric decorated with dobby woven striped and Jacquard florals. 3. A smooth, fine, woven fabric, lighter that challis and very similar to nun’s veiling.
Industry:Textiles
1. A process for adhesive laminating two or more fabrics or fabric and a layer of plastic foam. There are two methods: the flame method used for bonding foam and the adhesive method used for bonding face and backing fabrics. 2. One of several processes of binding fibers into thin sheets, webs, or battings by means of adhesives, plastics, or cohesion (self-bonding).
Industry:Textiles
1. A fabric woven in cylindrical or tubular form on an ordinary cam loom and used for grain bags, etc. 2. Fabric bulging caused by extension at the knees, elbows, etc., of a garment lacking dimensional stability.
Industry:Textiles