This finish includes the application of special additives and coatings to fabric surfaces. Our stain resistant finishes can withstand discolouration caused by contact with liquids, including oil and grease, and/or solid surfaces. Commonly a liquid stain occurs because of a fibre being Hydrophilic, where the liquid gets absorbed by the fibre, and on drying the fibre becomes unintentionally discoloured i.e. stained. The basic objective of stain resistance is therefore to prevent liquid absorption and fine particles adherence to both fibre and fabric surfaces.

This technology is now being widely marketed on children’s clothing and workwear, making for easier laundering, and giving garments extra life. Water and stain resistance are highly common functionalities added to upholstery, rugs, and carpet.

Some fabrics, with specialty treatment, allow for stains to be removed more easily during laundering than possible with most common untreated fabrics. This treatment includes the application of chemical coating on fabrics to improve soil removal during cleaning. Soil release finishes are necessary because hydrophobic fabrics, including fabrics treated with durable press finishes, have exceptionally low water absorbency. In these cases, soil release finishes accomplish the tasks of making the fibres more absorbent (hydrophilic), thus permitting better wettability for improved soil removal.

This mechanism is obtained by chemicals such as PVA, caprolactam oligomers, ethoxylated products, sulfonates, and polyacrylic acids. It is achieved by having anionic polymers like polyacrylates, CMC, or sulfonates, which repulse the negatively charged soil particles. Increasing the carboxylic and hydroxyl groups of the fiber also helps enhance repulsion between the fiber and soil, making the removal of the soil easier.

Soil release finishes are particularly suited for active wear and leisure wear markets. They are also particularly useful where the market demands for white and pastel coloured garments. Industrial uniforms are an example of a market area where soil release is a desirable product feature.

This finish provides durable liquid repellence (water and oil) without compromising the natural feel of cotton. With proper chemical treatment and selection of fabric construction, garments can be produced that provide a host of benefits to the wearer, such as staying clean longer, faster drying, and protection from rain and snow. A spilled drink will just bead on the surface, allowing you to wipe it up with a clean, dry cloth. Spills like ketchup, mustard, and grease come clean with a little soap and water.

Safety apparel usually requires a water/stain repellent finish, where the focus is on a high degree of water repellency.

Ajax Textile’s water repellant services include our 200 Wash and 25 Wash offerings.

This finish gives the fabric protection against odor-causing bacteria. The purpose of this finish is to make garments hygienic, to prevent cross infection of pathogenic micro organisms, to control the infection of microbes, to safeguard the textile products from staining, discoloration and quality deterioration, and to stop the metabolism of microbes.

As hygienic problems and harmful diseases become more prevalent, the demand for this finish grows. Antibacterial finishes can be used within the health care sector, within water purification systems, in food packaging systems, within the dental sector, and more. While antibacterial treatments will prevent bacterial growth, they do not protect against other odour-causing and damaging microbes to the extent that antimicrobials can.

This finish controls microorganisms and reduces odour from perspiration, stains, and other soil on textile material. This finish is sometimes known as Ultra-Fresh™. Antimicrobial treatments may provide an additional line of defense against microorganisms beyond what antibacterial treatments can offer. Antimicrobial fabrics provide both antibacterial and antifungal protection. Therefore, your products and materials are further safeguarded from odor and stain-causing mold, mildew, algae and/or dust mites.

Antimicrobial textile products continue to increase in popularity as demand for fresh smelling, skin friendly, high performance fabrics goes on. Some other applications for Antimicrobial finishes are to reduce the risk of cross infection being carried by feet from ward to ward in hospital, to control spread of disease and danger of infection following injury, and to control the deterioration of textiles particularly fabrics made from natural fibre caused by mildew. Antimicrobial products have long been used in health care environments for hospital gowns, patient clothes, curtain, bed cover, etc.

This finish protects fabric from the formation of fungi and algae, reduces dust mites and odors, and provides long-lasting material protection to polymers and paints. Sanitized™ is an example of a commercially available product for antimicrobial finishing, like Ultra-Fresh™. This is an eco-friendlier way of achieving an antimicrobial finish than the standard chemicals used. Sanitized™ harnesses the natural antiviral and antibacterial properties of silver.

In recent years, the demand for antifungal-finished textile products has increased with the increasing level of cleanliness in the living environment, and correspondingly, various antifungal finishes have been developed. Textile materials face common mold problems in store, in packed garments or in shipment containers.

This finish is for industrial or outdoor end-uses that often require antimicrobial treatment for mold. Antifungal treatments control the growth of fungi, mold, and mildew.

This is a finish applied to fabric that keeps wrinkling to a minimum. This is achieved by the addition of a chemical resin finish that makes the fiber take on a quality like that of synthetic fibers. Fabrics treated with this finish retains its smooth appearance, shape, creases, and/or pleats after laundering. In such garments, little or no ironing is required, particularly if the garment is tumble dried. Also known as durable press finish.

Synthetics like polyester, nylon, acrylic and olefin, have a natural resistance to wrinkles. The advent of synthetic fibres also created an urgency to produce wrinkle free of durable press cotton garments. Ironing is a tedious task that tops the list of unpopular household chores. Therefore, there is always an inevitable need for effective means of reducing wrinkles in textiles.

This is a finish that provides the fabric with a pleasant feel to the touch, is lightweight, highly absorbent, and thick and crease-resistant. It features excellent antibacterial and anti-allergenic properties. Aloe vera is a natural plant, gives maximum extent of is aloe gel which has particularly good anti microbial effects together with other functional properties suitable for textiles. It exhibits 200 or more different biologically active substances. It can be used on fabrics of any kind of fibre and does not impair the handle.

The materials with this finished effect could be used to produce many valuable garments such as baby garments, formal and non formal garments, and home furnishings.

This is a finish that is applied to the fabric to add water repellency, resistance to crushing or luster. It also improves a fabric’s crease resistance, reduces shrinkage during laundering, and improves comfort to wearer in different climates. We use chemicals to impart durable press properties in a fabric or garment. Synthetic resins are complex organic products of high molecular weight.

Resin results when several simple molecular or low molecular weight become jointed together and to form much longer molecules which may be linear or linear molecules cross-linked. The process of applying resins on textile material so that they cross link inside the amorphous region, block the free hydroxyl groups, prevent the H-bond formation, and thus improve resin finishing. It may be applied on the surface of the material to form a coating or it may be applied to the amorphous region of the material to impart a crease resisting property. It is a permanent chemical finishing.

This is a finish which is applied to make it resistant to water and oil-borne stains. Silicone finishing is becoming increasingly important in textiles as it imparts an incredibly unique soft handle with supple, pliant, sleek, and fluffy effect. It also enhances smoothness, flexibility, drape, and pliability of the fabric greatly.

Silicone softeners are also applied with permanent press finishes to improve garment wear life and permanent-press finish durability. It can also be used with other finishing agents for multifunctional finishes, for example, it can be used in resin finishing to have a soft wrinkle resistant fabric.

This is a washing process that uses a cellulose-based solution to give a look and feel of a stonewashed or acid washed fabric. This is easier on the fabric than stonewashing or acid washing. It makes the fabric soft on the surface; and it also

This finish uses cellulase enzymes to modify the surface of cotton fabrics. Pilling (lint balls on the fabric) is reduced, colour retention is improved, and stronger, longer-lasting fabrics are produced.

This is a process that reduces space between open-width and tubular fabric fiber pockets. It uses a mechanical process that causes the fabric to be reduced in length resulting in shortening and thereby less length shrinkage. This is the advanced version of calendering and is suitable for knitted fabrics. We can gum at the compacting machine and are capable of precision folding tubular fabrics.

This is a process that involves folding a fabric in half and running it between a pair of steel rollers or calenders. While the fabric is pressed under these rollers, it's heated. The combination of heat and pressure creates changes to the fabric's surface, smoothing and compressing it to give it a flat glossy finish. This is a less advanced version of compacting.

Sometimes a smooth texture isn't what's desired. Napping is a process that involves running open-width and tubular fabric through revolving cylinders with short barbs or wires to lift short loose fibers and create a textured surface. This is often done to woolens to make them heavier, softer, and warmer. It creates the comforting surfaces of textiles like blankets, sweaters, and flannel. Our Nappers are second to none due to the exemplary loft achieved on 2 and 3-end fleece.

This is a process by which the extra protruding fibers are removed from the fabric surface so that it looks smooth. This eliminates the fabric’s tendency to pill. We remove the protruding fibres by shaving them off. We can shear it a small amount (tip shearing) or several times to give a greater effect.

This is the technique whereby an open-width fabric is given the surface effect of a brushed or napped appearance. It is achieved by loosening and pulling out the individual fibers from the yarns so that they protrude. The surface fibers are lifted by means of sharp teeth imparting hairiness, softness, and warmth. The result is a velvety material surface.

We have the capabilities to dry open-width, tubular and garment fabrics in a very controlled environment to ensure the fabric isn't heated too much. This is done to ensure the removal of moisture from a substrate.

This method of drying uses a low-tension fabric dryer that hangs open-width and tubular fabric in vertical loops over continuously moving bars through a heated oven. The action on the fabric is even and gentle. Relaxation drying is the drying of a fabric under tensionless conditions.

This method of drying is done by placing a tubular fabric against a large perforated drum and either pulling hot air through the fabric and then the drum (suction) or by blowing the hot air through the perforations and then fabric (air impingement).

This process is done by using a continuous machine that applies heat uniformly to an open-width fabric while maintaining a desired width. This can be used for drying, curing, and heat setting.

This is a wet process where open-width fabric is passed through a trough that contains a bath and then passed through rubber rollers that squeeze out excess liquor. We use a horizontal padder machine.

This is a process that is done to match any coloured stripes on open-width fabrics.

This is a process where we tumble dry fabrics for shrinkage, then roll them around a tube to be able to ship it this way. This is an excellent way to save storage space for flat textiles.

We are capable of rolling, weighing, and measuring the dimensions of open-width and tubular rolls. We can roll small and large fabrics.

This is a process of heat finishing that will stabilize many manufactured fiber fabrics to inhibit any subsequent change in shape or size. Heat-setting of synthetic fabrics eliminates the internal tensions within the fiber, generated during manufacturing, and the new state can be fixed by rapid cooling. This fixes the fabrics in a relaxed state, and thus avoids subsequent shrinkage or creasing of the fabric.

This process is done to keep the edges of an open-width fabric from curling when being cut on the cutting table. This can be done on the compacting machine.

Also called sun-protective treatment. Is a treatment done to minimize the degradative effects of sunlight on the fabric fibers or the colour.