Denim garment finishing

Enzymatic desizing is one of the oldest nonfood appHcations of commercial amylases. Another type of enzyme, microbial ceUulases, has developed within the textile iadustry as a tool for fabric finishing, ia particular for denim garment finishing. CeUulases can achieve the fashionable worn look traditionaUy obtained by the abrasive action of pumice stones, ie, stone-washing. 

Denim Finishing. Most denim garments are treated in laundries before reaching consumers. The garments are given a fashionable appearance such as the stone-wash or acid-wash finishes. 

The lipases in DeniPrime are for the removal of tallow—a waxy white fat composed mainly of triglycerides. For denim finishers, it is often impossible to know what type of size has been used on the denim. If tallow has been used and it is not fully removed at the start of the processing, streaks and crack marks may result from uneven abrasion. As denim garments are too expensive to reject, the streaks and crack marks are often filled in by hand with dye. All denim finishers are aware of these quality problems and therefore DeniPrime can be seen as a form of insurance. By using DeniPrime, finishers can be sure... 

In denim manufacturing, it is an amazing fact that one style of jeans is converted into different colours, which is achieved by garment washing. In today s denim manufacturing, many denim finishes are done to give the jeans a broken-in look, much like what unwashed (dry denim) denim looks like after it has been worn many times. There are two main types of garment washes for denim chemical and mechanical. 

The acceptance of lyocell by the garment processing industry was relatively straightforward as they were already used to enzyme systems for indigo denim. (It is also interesting to note that cellulase enzymes were only introduced for textiles in the mid-1980s so prior to that lyocell would have been impossible to process to a controlled fibrillated finish.)... 

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