Denim Washing BASIC DENIM WASHING PRINCIPLES: Some important steps in the process of Denim Washing 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Pre treatment ( Desizing, Rinsing, Scouring etc) Enzyme or Stone wash Clean up to adjust the desire effect Bleaching Tinting / Dyeing Softening & Much more..

1. Pre-treatment This step is the basic,but most important part of washing. Related to the final target we have to take the correct prevention in this part. This process has 3 main targets; removing the impurities coming from the fabric, de-sizing at weaving fabrics and decreasing the crease risk on the garment. *removing the impurities: -either from the cotton or from the manufacturing period garment can contain some impureties. These impurities can be based on oil, alkaline or acidic chemicals and all of them can cause several problems in the next steps of washing. In this step a professional laundry man has to decide about the risk and he has to use the suitable auxiliaries to remove these impurities. *de-sizing: -all of the weaved fabrics contains size on them. During the weaving processes there can be two main problems; One is breaking of the yarn because of high friction and second is dust formation. Size is the solution of these problems, because sizes are making a floppy film on surface and improves the tensile strength and directly causes better efficiency. However, this size becomes a problem so it must be remove in washing. There are several types of size are available in the market. But they can divided in two groups-water soluble sizes (CMC or PVA based sizes) and dissolvable sizes in water (starch based sizes)Starch based sizes still are used widely and have the biggest market share because of their cheap prices and easy purchase conditions. Methods of Removing Sizes from Denim Jeans Washing with High Alkaline agents (i.e. Soda ash) Washing with High Acidic agents (i.e. Acetic acid) Washing with Oxidative chemicals (i.e. Hydrogen Peroxide) Enzymatic desizing with Alfa amylase.. This is eco friendly & convenient. First three methods are difficult, risky and expensive method at laundry business because of this nearly all of the market prefers enzymatic de-sizing. Page 1 of 8

Denim Washing Preventation of creases: One of the main problems in laundry business is creases. We can separate creases into 4 groups related to their reasons; Mechanic based creases: these are the creases related to the ratio of water, loading capacity and rotation speed of drum. Chemical reaction based creases: These are the creases related to the wetting time of fabric or unevenness auxiliary applications

Fabric based creases: These are the creases comes from the production of the fabric Storage based creases.

DESZNG RECPE LQOUR RATIO: 1/6-1/10 (DEPENDNG ON MACHNE TYPE) TIME : 10 MNUTES LAVA ZYME DEZ0,5-1 GR/LT( amylase enzyme for removing of size) LAVA WET W-LA0,5-1 GR/LT(wetting and scouring agent) LAVA SPERSE KDS0,5-1 GR/LT(dispersing and washing agent) SERA LUPE M-CF0,5-1 GR/LT(anti-crease agent)

WETTING DISPERSING AGENT Used in Desizing process. Must rapidly wet out jean. Prevents white lines caused by rigid creases. Permits penetration of Amylase to fully desize. Page 2 of 8

Denim Washing Prevents back staining of loose indigo onto weft yarns and pockets. Also used in stonewash / after washing to reduce back staining.

BACK-STAINING: Re-deposition of loose indigo, or indigo dyed short fibres, removed during desizing, stonewashing or enzyme washing. Re-deposited Indigo, reduces the contrast between warp and un dyed weft Re-deposited indigo stains pockets and labels Re-deposited indigo is more prone to Ozone and yellowing

ANTI-CREASE (Lava Lupe M-CF) Prevents crease formation during the washing procsess . Increases the loading capacity of the washing machine Reduses the stone spots risk during the stone wash procsess

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