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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 nonfibrous material added to a fabric to increase its weight or to modify its appearance or hand. Also referred to as back-sizing. Examples of fillers are insoluble clays or gypsum, starches, and gums.
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A long, narrow strip of wire card clothing with which the doffer and cylinder of the card are spirally wrapped.
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The act or process of forming fibrils. The act of breaking up a fiber, plastic sheet, or similar material into the minute fibrous elements from which the main structure is formed.
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Orientation, crystallinity, and molecular morphology of polymers, including fiber-forming polymers.
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1. Miscellaneous items attached to garments and shoes during manufacture. Included are buttons, hooks, snaps, and ornaments.
2. Miscellaneous fabrics in garments such a zipper tapes, linings, pockets, waistbands, and facings.
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A powder added to a solution to be filtered that forms a porous bed to improve filtration.
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Any cloth used for filtering purposed. Nylon, polyester, vinyon, PBI, and glass fibers are often used in such fabrics because they are not affected by most chemicals.
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In a woven fabric, the yarn running from selvage to selvage at right angles to the warp. Each crosswise length is called a pick. In the weaving process, the filling yarn is carried by the shuttle or other type of yarn carrier.
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The linear density of a filament expressed in units such as denier or tex.
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