Treatment of cotton with enzymes

Pectin is the generie term for polysaccharides like galaeturonans, rham-nogalacturonans, arabinans, galactans and arabinogalaetans. The hemicelluloses. 

The relative colour depths of caustic soda-scoured and environmentally friendly bioprepared fabrics do not show signihcant differences.  

The effect of scouring with enzymes was compared to conventional caustic soda treatment and solvent extraction. Whereas caustic soda treatment resulted in the highest deterioration on a molecular level, but led to a high level of whiteness, the solvent-extracted samples showed superior tensile strength and the bioscoured samples the best softening effect.  

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