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Univar Solutions offers an extensive range of chemicals and services to support a wide array of textiles and leather applications.
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Textiles & Leather Chemical Solutions
Textile formulators can use our products for many processes including yarn and fabric manufacture, pre-treatment of textile products, dyeing and finishing products. Our portfolio of materials includes pH regulators, bleaching chemicals, sequestering agents, antifoams and defoamers, emulsions and polymers, enzymes, silicone coating additives, wetting agents, lubrification, dispersing agents, softeners, emulsifiers, water hydrophilic/hydrophobic agents and more….
Leather formulators also require a variety of chemicals at different steps of the manufacturing and formulating process. From tanning / re-tanning, to finish, we have an extensive range of products suitable for the leather sector. Our offering includes touch modifiers, silicones to increase chemical and physical performance, water repellents, defoamers, stabilisers and many other unique products in to support our EMEA leather treatment customers.
Silicones can be used in various stages of textile processing and manufacturing such as thread lubrication, foam control agents during textile pretreatment and dyeing process as well as in the finishing treatments
Leather and textile manufacturers are under ever-increasing pressure to make high-quality products in a cost-effective way. They also need to make their production more sustainable.
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