Saturday, December 28, 2013

Laboratory Dyeing Techniques

A modern dye house is not operable without support from laboratory work. The laboratory’s tasks are among others:

-Working out formulations for new shades, supported by colorimetry and computer color matching.
-Production tests on the textile material to be dyed; fastness testing.

-Maintaining consistency of production adjudicating claims.
-Establishing tolerance ranges.
-Dye selection in view of compatibility, fastness properties, dyeing rate, time requirements and cost.
-Development of appropriate dyeing techniques, suitable for new types of textiles and novel styling requirements.

Laboratory equipment permits dyeing of small (5g) to larger (1Kg) textile samples. Most lab dyeing machines work batch wise, but installations for continuous operation are also available.

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