Leather & Textile
Overview
Leather and textiles are versatile products used in the automotive, aircraft, upholstery, and fashion industries. ICL’s range of leather products spans the entire Beamhouse leather production process. On the other hand, the textile industry relies heavily on the use of polyphosphates to perform various functions in textile processing plants.
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Leather- cleaning, finishing, tanning, and dyeing
ICL’s Specialty Polyphosphates are widely used in leather processing to improve the efficacy of detergents used in cleaning, finishing, tanning, and dying to improve their penetration, wetting, emulsifying, and dispersing properties which allow soaking and liming processes in the same bath.
Textiles - cleaning, finishing, tanning, and dyeing
ICL’s Polyphosphates perform various functions within textile processing such as cleaning, finishing, and dyeing. In addition, polyphosphates combined with soaps or with synthetic detergents are widely used in the textile industry due to their synergistic effects on detergency to improve their penetration, wetting, and emulsifying; and as textile scourers where they function as a dispersant before dyeing to reduce streaking and spotting.
Protective clothing
Protective clothing can be treated with ICL’s fire retardant products which assist in deep penetration into the fiber structure to deliver more effective heat resistance and to inhibit the spread of fire for longer.
Flame retardants
Flame retardants for leather and textile find application in many industries. For the automotive and aviation industries, furniture and curtains, heavy-duty workwear clothing, and protective gear, and many more. ICL’s TexFRon products line provides flame-resistance properties, which are bound into the textile. TexFRon is applied as a dispersible acrylic emulsion. ICL offers a range of tailor-made and sustainable products for these applications.
TextiMag™
TextiMag™ is a revolutionary odor adsorption technology that harnesses the power of magnesium
to keep textiles fresher for longer. From pharma to textiles, ICL introduces the first-ever use of
magnesium for an odor-reduction textile finishing.
Magnesium is an essential mineral, renowned for its health and wellbeing benefits for humans. It’s
also a vital ingredient used in deodorants to combat odor without the use of harsh chemicals. With
the launch of TextiMag™ ICL is unleashing the power of magnesium for the textile industry. This is
the first-ever use of magnesium for an odor-reduction textile finishing. TextiMag uses the same
high-quality magnesium in the food and pharma grade, which means it’s pure enough for human
consumption. Not only does TextiMag TM perform optimally, it has also been produced optimally.
TextiMag™ has been meticulously produced to limit its impact on the environment. ICL has designed
the simplest production process possible to extract magnesium chloride from the purest magnesium
source, the Dead Sea.
This innovative product can be easily applied to any woven, knit or non-woven fabric to effectively
adsorb odor. For more information, please download the full TextiMag TM brochure
Key Benefits
- Traceable Source: TextiMag’s magnesium is a compound sourced from the Dead Sea
- Natural-Based: Environmentally-friendly, non-toxic textile finish
- Food & Pharma Grade: High-purity magnesium from pharma to textile
- Sustainable: Keeps garments fresher for longer and reduces the need to wash textiles daily
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