The effect of wrinkle recovery finishes on shrinkage of cotton fabric for different finish applying techniques

This research study was conducted to make wrinkle free fabric by applying formaldehyde free anti-wrinkle finishes like texicil dc,knittex rct,arkofix nec,arkofix elf. in this effort,various concentrations of these finishes were used by adopting three different finish applying techniques (pad-dry technique,pad-dry-cure technique and pad-flash-cure technique) on pure cotton fabric in order to optimize their application for best manufacturing results in sense of the shrinkage ability of the fabric. after making quality test of the resulting fabric it was depicted that pad dry method of applying finish proved itself better as compared to other techniques adopted in this research,while the finish arkofix elf and arkofix nec at concentration level of 120 g/l gave better results in respect of shrinkage of the fabric. © 2016,pcsir-scientific information centre. all rights reserved.