- Industry: Textiles
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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 vessel for dyeing fabric in rope form, consisting primarily of a tank and a reel to advance the fabric.
Industry:Textiles
A volatile, flammable, colorless liquid hydrocarbon, (C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>6</sub>), used as an illuminant, a solvent for fats and resins, a raw material in dye synthesis, and the hydrocarbon source for many manufactured fibers.
Industry:Textiles
An optical term meaning double refraction, and used in examination of manufactured fibers to measure the degree of molecular orientation effected by stretching or drawing.
Industry:Textiles
An automatically inflating bag in front of riders in an automobile to protect them
Industry:Textiles
An adhesive applied with a solvent or a softenable plastic melted to bond fibers together in a web or to bind one web to another.
Industry:Textiles
An additive that minimizes the formation of bubbles within or on the surface of a liquid by reducing the forces that support the bubble’s structure.
Industry:Textiles
Adjacent stripes of varying width used to represent alpha-numeric characters. These permit rapid reading by means of electronic scanners.
Industry:Textiles
A two-dimensional fabric that when oriented in the XY plane contains fibers that are aligned in a different direction, i.e., 45° to the X-axis fibers.
Industry:Textiles
A treatment of a textile material to make it resistant to, or to retard growth of, bacteria.
Industry:Textiles
