- 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.
A continuous, considerably compressed sheet of fibers that is rolled under pressure into a cylindrical package, usually weighing between 40 and 50 pounds. The lap is used to supply the card.
Industry:Textiles
Ornamental openwork fabric, made in a variety of designs by intricate manipulation of the fiber by machine or by hand.
Industry:Textiles
In this knitting stitch structure, loops are transferred from the needles on which they are made to adjacent needles to create a fabric with an open or a raised effect.
Industry:Textiles
A knit fabric in which an effect yarn is tucked in, not knitted into, the fabric structure. The laid-in yarns are held in position by the knitted yarns.
Industry:Textiles
A fabric woven with flat metal threads, usually silver or gold, that form either the background or the pattern.
Industry:Textiles
Continuous dye range for carpets. The unit wets the carpet, applies dyes and auxiliary chemicals by means of a doctor blade, fixes the dyes in a festoon steamer, and washes and dries the carpet in one pass through the range. An optional auxiliary unit may be installed to randomly drip selected dyes onto the background shade for special styling effects. This process is called TAK dyeing.
Industry:Textiles
This yarn produced by tightly twisting plant fiber is sometimes used in carpet backings.
Industry:Textiles
Continuous process for shrinkproofing wool tops in which there is a direct chlorination step with no intervening chemical reaction followed by anti-chlorination and neutralization. Provides better hand and strength than does conventional shrinkproofing.
Industry:Textiles
A method of constructing fabric by interlocking series of loops of one or more yarns.
Industry:Textiles
