Magnasoft™ Textile and Leather Enhancers
More than keeping up with growing demands faced by our textile-mill and dye-house customers, Momentive scientists continue to innovate the chemistry of textile softeners and enhancers. In the two decades since we introduced silicone polyethers for textile treatment and laundry softeners, the industry has sought an array of benefits beyond softness, including other aesthetic qualities, quick water absorption (or for leathers and similar fabrics, water repellence), color and/or shade protection, and easy processability for mass textile finishing. Magnasoft products, generally, not only deliver the particular set of performance characteristics desired in each application, but they do so at low use levels, opening the door to greater cost efficiencies.
The Magnasoft line of textile softeners typically offers multiple benefits because of the multifunctional capacity of our patented linear [AB] n silicone copolymer. By engineering these molecules to meet specific needs, our chemists have produced Magnasoft products that can deliver:
- Soft, voluminous feel with hydrophilicity
- Silky smooth feel with drape and hydrophilicity
- Silky soft feel with nonhydrophilicity
We also have designed Magnasoft products to provide aesthetic benefits related to moisture management, such as whiteness or color retention, without sacrificing fabric softness. Our Magnasoft line can generally help impart other differentiating qualities, including breathability, stretch recovery, dry/cool feel and wrinkle resistance. Some grades do not interfere with soil release properties of fabrics treated with fluorocarbon soil release agents.
Many of the properties engineered into Magnasoft products can also enhance fabric strength and durability. Certain grades may improve fabric tear strength and abrasion resistance. In addition, many Magnasoft grades may even protect treated fabrics from the effects of aging and various dry/cure conditions typically used in textile finishing. They also can typically help products retain sensory qualities through numerous home laundry cycles.
Importantly, textile and leather makers have leveraged the multiple features of Magnasoft products to lower production costs without sacrificing quality. Magnasoft products disperse uniformly in water using common emulsifiers. Excellent stability to high shear in textile finishing baths, even with broad pH and temperature differences, is characteristic of most Magnasoft grades. These softeners are typically compatible with a full range of demanding textile processes, including high-speed padding, kiss rolls, exhaustion, jet finishing and overflow finishing. And most are effective at low use rates, which may directly benefit production cost efficiencies.
Our Magnasoft softeners have also aided textile mills and dye houses in replacing regulated substances, such as APEO (alkyphenol ethoxylates) and certain fluorine-based chemicals.
With careful selection from the more than 130 products in the Magnasoft portfolio, textile and leather makers can add just the right mix of value-adding properties to their end products, and they can do so cost-efficiently.
Explore the Magnasoft product family to discover the right solution for your textile processing needs.
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