Us Apparel & Textiles (pvt

TOPIC • GARMENT WASHING

PRESENTERS Mr.AAMIR SHABBIR Mr. SALMAN MANZOOR

US Apparel & Textiles (Pvt.) Ltd.

CUSTOMERS

STORE ROOM  warehouse facility stocks up to 1.2 million meters of fabric at all times,  plus a host of garments related accessories

CUTTING DEPARTMENT Cutting department with the addition of the most modern GERBER fully automatic fabric spreader and vacuum tables.

EMBROIDERY MACHINE • •

Tajima (Japan) Place of origin: China

STITCHING DEPARTMENT Juki DDL-8700 High-speed Single Needle Straight Lockstitch Industrial Sewing Machine with Table and Motor

STITCHING TYPES PLAIN STITCHES • basting, • running, • the running and back stitch, • half back stitch, • back stitch, • overhand or whipping stitch, • overcast, ORNAMENTAL STITCHES • outline, • chain, • blanket or loop, • hemstitching, • French knots, • button hole • Cross stitch. • The satin stitch

WET PROCESSING: •

U S Apparel has one of the most modern garment wet processing facility in the country.

WASHING MACHINE • • •

TONELLO 420 Made in Italy It is possible to store up to 500 recipes (with 200 steps/each).

TUPESA TUMBLE DRYER Steam heated dryer

BASIC WASHES IN DENIM FABRIC DENIM WASHES ARE OF TWO TYPES:

1. Mechanical washes • Stone wash • Microsanding 2. Chemical washes • Denim bleaching • Enzyme wash • Acid wash

MECHANICAL WASHES STONE WASH:

 SELECTION OF STONE:

 PROBLEMS CAUSED BY STONES:

MECHANICAL WASHES MICROSANDING There are 3 ways for this technique: • Sandblasting • Machine sanding • Hand sanding or hand brushing

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SAND BLASTING

CHEMICAL WASHES  DENIM BLEACH: In this process a strong oxidative bleaching agent such as sodium hypochlorite or KMnO4 is added during the washing with or without stone addition.

 ENZYME WASH Cellulase enzymes are natural proteins which are used in denim garment processing to get stone wash look on to the denim garments without using stones or by reducing the use of pumice stone.

CHEMICAL WASHES ACID WASH: It is done by tumbling the garments with pumice stones presoaked in a solution of sodium hypochlorite or potassium permanganate for localized bleaching resulting in a non uniform sharp blue/white contrast.

CHEMICALS ON GARMENT Kieralon_ F-ALB as a: • Anti back staining agent • wetting agent Quantity 4g/l SETAMOL_ BL All purpose liquid dye dispersing agent. Quantity 2g O.W.F REPUTEX 20 • Antimicrobial finishing FINOZYME AX(biopolishing) Hydrolyses the microfibrils of fabric/ garment thereby effectively removing fuzz/ pill ball and imparts a smoother and polished appearance to surface of fabric/ garment.

APPLICATION OF RESIN ON GARMENTS There are two methods of resin applications on the garment  DIPPING METHOD Recipe: • • • • • •

Fixapret F-ECO 125 g/l to 150 g/l Condensol FM 25 g/l to 32 g/l Perapret F-PEB 60 g/l to 70 g/l Softeners: Silicon softener 15 g/l to 20 g/l (depends on finish) Non-ionic softener 15 g/l to 20 g/l

 SPRAY METHOD Recipe: • Perapret PU-New 80 g/l to 100 g/l ( for spray finish)

NEW DEVELOPMENTS TOWARDS ECONOMICAL AND ECOLOGICAL DENIM PROCESSING •

USE OF LASER TECHNOLOGY

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OZONE FADING

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WATERJET FADING

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SPRAY TECHNIQUES

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SINGLE BATH STONE WASHING AND TINTING TECHNIQUE

TRIMMING: After washing, broken threads are removed by trimming. In U S Apparel manual trimming is carried out which is mostly done by women.

BUTTONING US APPAREL have machines from Pessani (Italy) for laser guided accurate buttoning process.

PRESSING Automatic topper presses and auto body presses are used with a combination of manual and auto steam irons from MACPI.

FINISHING & PACKING

SPECIAL THANKS  Sir. KASHIF MUNIR  PRESTON UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT  U S APPAREL  US DENIM  NAVEENA APPAREL