Investigation of the Usability of Cationization Process in Towel Fabric Pretreatment and its Effect on Product Properties

Year 2023, Volume: 33 Issue: 3, 229 - 237, 30.09.2023

Ece Kalkanlı Turan Belkıs Zervent Ünal

https://doi.org/10.32710/tekstilvekonfeksiyon.1012376

Abstract

In the scope of the study, it was aimed to examine the usability of cationization process instead of bleaching process in the pretreatment process of terry fabrics and the effect of these process parameters on fabric performance properties on tensile strength, softness and hydrophility values. For this purpose, 4 different towel fabrics with two different weights and two different pile raw materials (100% cotton and 100% modal) and all other characteristics are same, were produced. Then, sample fabrics were subjected to the cationization process at different concentrations after the bleaching process, while some of them were unbleached. After all the processes applied, the processed samples were tested in accordance with the standards. As a result, it was determined that applying cationization process instead of bleaching process contributed positively to terry fabrics in terms of tensile strength and softness, and acceptable results were obtained in terms of hydrophility.

Keywords

Cationization, Bleaching process, Towel fabrics, Performance properties

Thanks

The authors wish to thank Hateks Tekstil A.Ş (Hatay) for supporting to provide towel fabrics and METEM (Turkish Textile Foundation Vocational and Technical Training Center, Adana) for enabling us to make applications. Some of the results of this study were presented at the Eurasia 5. International Congress of Applied Sciences Conference with the name of the study is “Investigation the Effect of Applying the Cationization Process on the Color Fastness of Towel Fabrics”

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