Polyester



Background

Stone Paper Books, air, water, and petroleum. Developed in a 20th-century laboratory,Stone Paper Eco Friendly Tissue Holder. In this reaction,Stone Carton Board 2mm.Stone Carton Board 3mm.

Polyester is used in the manufacture of many products, including clothing, home furnishings,Stone Paper Carton Board, computer and recording tapes, and electrical insulation.Stone Paper Film 60um. It does not absorb moisture, but does absorb oil;Stone Paper Film-, soil-, and fire-Stone Card Paper 250um. Its low absorbency also makes it naturally resistant to stains.Stone Paper 180um,Stone Paper Soft.Full Automatic Marshmallow Production Line, and not damaged by mildew.Deposited Marshmallow Line, nonallergenic insulator, so the material is used for filling pillows, quilting, outerwear, and sleeping bags.

History

In 1926,Full Automatic Extruded Marshmallow Production Line-based E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.Popping Boba Line. This early research, headed by W.H. Carothers,Chocolate Blocks Guitar Cutter, the first synthetic fiber. Soon after, in the years 1939-41, British research chemists took interest in the du Pont studies and conducted their own research in the laboratories of Calico Printers Association, Ltd. This work resulted in the creation of the polyester fiber known in England as Terylene.

In 1946,Chocolate Slicing Machine. The company conducted some further developmental work, and in 1951, began to market the fiber under the name Dacron.Small Chocolate Machine,Chocolate Enrobing Line. Today, there are two primary types of polyester, PET (polyethylene terephthalate) and PCDT (poly-1, 4-cyclohexylene-dimethylene terephthalate). PET, the more popular type, is applicable to a wider variety of uses.Chocolate Tempering Machine, though PCDT is more elastic and resilient. PCDT is suited to the heavier consumer uses, such as draperies and furniture coverings.Chocolate Blocks Crusher.

Raw Materials

Polyester is a chemical term which can be broken intopoly,meaning many, andester,a basic organic chemical compound. The principle ingredient used in the manufacture of polyester is ethylene,Chocolate Paste Making Equipment. In this process, ethylene is the polymer, the chemical building block of polyester,Chocolate Forming Moulds.

Polyester

The Manufacturing
Process

Polyester is manufactured by one of several methods.Chocolate Moulds. The four basic forms are filament,Hollow Chocolate Spinning Machine, tow, and fiberfill. In the filament form,Chocolate Equipment, producing smooth-Sandwiching and Packaging.Rotary Rack Oven, filaments are cut to short,Rack Oven.Automatic Multifunctional Biscuit Production Line. Tow is a form in which continuous filaments are drawn loosely together. Fiberfill is the voluminous form used in the manufacture of quilts, pillows, and outerwear.Automatic Multifunctional Biscuit Production Line.

Manufacturing Filament Yarn

Polymerization

Drying

Melt spinning

Polyester

Drawing the fiber

Winding

Advance Rasing Film Vacuum Cooker

Vacuum Batch Type Cooker, polymerization, drying, and melt spinning (steps 1-4 above) are much the same as in the manufacture of filament yarn. However, in the melt spinning process,Gummy Kitchen System. The rope-Advance Gummy Production Line.

Drawing tow

Crimping

Setting

Cutting

The Future

Jewelry Polishing Cleaning Cloth Printed,Microfiber Camera Cleaning Cloth's fastest-growing fiber.Camera Cleaning Cloth. However, polyester has suffered an "image problem" since that time, and clothes made out of polyester were often devalued and even ridiculed. Several new forms of polyester introduced in the early 1990s may help revitalize the image of polyester. A new form of polyester fiber,Cleaning Cloth For Eyeglasses, was introduced to the public in 1991. More luxurious and versatile than traditional polyester,Packaging For Sunglasses. Clothing designers such as Mary McFadden have created a line of clothes using this new form of polyester.Spectacle Frame Box, a superfiber material used to make bulletproof vests. This type of polyester may eventually be used as composite materials for cars and airplanes.

Where To Learn More

Books

Corbman, Bernard P.Textiles:Black Sunglasses Case Packaging.6th ed. Gregg Division, McGraw-Hill, 1983, pp. 374-92.

Encyclopedia of Textiles.3rd ed. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1980, pp. 28-33.

Polyester: Fifty Years of Achievement.State Mutual Book & Periodical Service, 1993.

Periodicals

Fellingham, Christine. "Will You Learn to Love Polyester?"Glamour,April 1992, p. 204.

Templeton, Fleur. "Show Me a Bulletproof Leisure Suit, In Pink."Business Week,July 6, 1992, p. 65.

Thomas, Marita. "At 50 Years, Polyester Gains New Fashion Vitality."Textile World,December 1993, p. 62+.

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raghu t s
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Sep 19, 2006 @ 6:06 am
oil is more viscous than water how can you say polyster absorbs the oil
jasmin
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Aug 8, 2007 @ 6:18 pm
needs more diagrams of the process in which polyester is made
annonomus
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Oct 21, 2009 @ 3:15 pm
i thought it was awesome, gave me a lot of info for my science fair project
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Jun 22, 2011 @ 3:03 am
This is a very usefull page but do you now what is the energy input for making polyester?
Spinning of Polyester Filament Yarn

The polyester polymer produced from PTA and MEG is extruded in the form of a ribbon. This ribbon is then converted into chips.
These chips received in the bulk packing of 750 kgs to 1250 kgs

The wet chips are dried with hot dehumidified air in the continuous dryer and fed through a hopper to the extruder for melting at high temp 285 C.Sunglasses Product Packaging. In the form of continuous filaments

Each spinnerette contains 12 to 196 holes. A cool controlled air is blowing across the bunch of filaments for proper cooling.Paper Packaging Box For Eyeglasses Frames.Corrugated PVC Suction Hose.
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the yarn produced is deoffed from the winders checked for the properties and packed in the pallets of 60 spools each.
Jenny
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Dec 20, 2012 @ 8:08 am
Clear And Transparent PVC Tubing??
good information, why polyester makes over lapping in drawing simplex and ring spinning process? and what is remedy ?
homa
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Sep 3, 2013 @ 4:04 am
to ajay:
PVC Clear Hose,General Purpose PVC Garden Hose
Non-kink PVC Garden Hose,it is mainly for sticking filaments together
Enid Hartwig
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Nov 8, 2014 @ 6:06 am
Are either of the compounds cobalt dichloride or thiuram mix used in the manufacture of polyester or in the material itself. Have an allergy to these 2 compounds and am trying to trace what is causing my itch.
With being chemically sensitive, I now know why I can not wear polyester clothes or have it in sheets. The itch and rash is horrible.
Mercy
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Oct 23, 2017 @ 8:08 am
What are the health risk of polyester and what chemicals cause them
kashiram Rote
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Jan 13, 2018 @ 12:00 am
Home PVC Garden Hose/c having some lubricants used then after cone winding at the viewing m/Flexible PVC Garden Hose.

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