Speciality finishes of textiles: Antimicrobial finishing

摘要

The textile product final application will be considered from many points of view like wearability, hand, mechanical resistance, wettability, washability, deformability, fireproof ability and many others. The word textile finishing, defines a series of processing operations applied to gray fabrics to enhance their appearance and hand, properties and possible applications. The term finishing includes all the treatments applied to gray fabrics such as scouring, bleaching, dyeing or printing while we will use the term functional finishing. The terms finishing and functional finishing are therefore similar and both play a fundamental role for the commercial excellency of the results of textiles, strictly depending on market requirements that are becoming increasingly stringent and unpredictable and permit very short response times. The main purposes of functional finishing processes are the following: 1. Develop the "product finishing" in all its fundamental elements such as hand and appearance 2. Give the finished fabric some properties that grant an optimum behaviour during the making up and all through the life of the textile.