Still holding pipa: Acetate fiber has become the new darling of the apparel industry

Acetate fiber, also known as cellulose acetate, cellulose acetate. It is acetic acid and cellulose as raw material by the esterification of regenerated fibers. For a long time, cellulose acetate has been mainly used as a cigarette filter and as a raw material for clothing linings. Even before the 70s of last century, the main use of acetate fibers was limited to blending with silk to increase fabric strength and reduce costs. Acetate fibers are now blended with natural, synthetic or synthetic yarns to produce countless woven and knitted fiber fabrics. At the same time, acetate fabric also began to be widely used in the production of a variety of high-level evening dress, casual wear, sleepwear, underwear, wedding and so on. Due to the soft, slippery and elastic feel of acetate fiber and the properties of fiber such as good air permeability, fast drying, no electrostatic adsorption and strong coloring ability, it has become more and more popular with consumers. Innovate and broaden the field of use At present, the output of acetate fiber accounts for about 3% of the total global chemical fiber production, accounting for about 35% of the total output of cellulose fiber. About three-quarters of the acetate fibers are used to make cigarettes and the remaining one-quarter is used in the textile and clothing industry. Acetate fiber industry in China started late, and has long been mainly used for the production of tobacco acetate tow. Therefore, the research and production of acetate fiber used in our country have not got enough attention in our country. Therefore, in the past a long time in our country with acetate acetate fiber, staple fiber are dependent on imports. It is understood that after the reform and opening up due to foreign technology blockade and equipment monopoly, making China's fiber acetate fiber production line business, there has been huge investment, long payback time and other ills. Therefore, many fiber production enterprises "retreat from difficulties" will shift the focus of development to other textile fibers, such as viscose fiber development and production up. However, what deserves our attention is that at present the developed countries in Europe and the United States have basically stopped or even shut down the viscose fiber production plant. The main reason is because the viscose fiber production process of energy consumption is huge, and the pollution caused by the environment difficult to solve. Relative to the production of acetate fiber, the production of viscose fiber water consumption per ton is 30 times its power consumption is about 3 times. Therefore, Europe and the United States and other countries still retain the production capacity of cellulose acetate. We are able to see the chic figure of men and women models at all fashion weeks and fashion shows around the world, all without exception, they tend to unbutton their buttons Lining material to show the audience. In fact, this is not arbitrary, but the garment manufacturing enterprises deliberately arranged. Popular in Europe and the United States gentleman culture, similar to this seems to be inadvertently high-end, the atmosphere, on the grade of material in the show out of practice, called "no trace of elegance." In fact, this also implies that consumers in our apparel linings are so perfect, the overall quality of their clothing is of course self-evident excellent. Looking at the current world-renowned apparel brand products, it can be said almost all use acetate fabric as its lining. The reason is mainly that some of the fiber properties of cellulose acetate are very similar to those of silk. The fabric also has the brilliance and sheen of the silk fabric and also has the same drape and smooth feel. However, the price of acetate fabric is much lower than the silk fabric, apparel linings in the garment industry is not very important place where the use of fabric is the right choice. Therefore, whether it is the international or domestic use of acetate and fabric for textile and clothing, are starting from the lining of clothing. However, with the continuous improvement of the quality of life demands of consumers and the increase of domestic acetate fiber production, how to innovate and develop new fields of application for the acetate fiber textile and clothing industry has become an unavoidable problem in the industry The problem. As the cost of acetate fiber, the price is higher than the viscose fiber has been widely used in the apparel industry higher, so high-level dress, dress and other fields has become the main direction of development of China's acetate fiber industry. I first contact with acetate fabric, from the beginning of a online shopping wedding experience. At that time in Taobao, a shop a wedding looks good results. However, it was priced at 888 yuan. Compared to other sales of wedding dress, dress shop, the price of this wedding is relatively high. With a trace of curiosity, I tentative chat with customer service online shop up. Patiently listening to customer service, "Wang Bo sell melon" like the introduction finished their wedding how well, how to use accessories such as authentic, the author put forward the high price of their wedding products, higher than similar products store A big part. Subsequently, the customer service told bluntly that it also has the same style of the same color wedding dress for only 388 yuan, but the fabric is different. According to its claim, the price of 888 yuan for the wedding 100% acetate fabric, while the price of 388 yuan wedding is made of polyester and other fiber blend fabrics. In fact, from a psychological point of view, the average general consumer in the purchase of such important wedding dress, more or less will have a "buy expensive" mentality. Because the wedding dress to wear it once again, then it can only be placed in the closet as a memory. Therefore, the fabric, quality, most consumers will not go into, more concerned about the color of the wedding dress, style and upper body effects can make people shines. Do not understand the acetate fiber fabric in the end what kind of excellent fiber performance, the author also did not live temptation to buy a single acetate fabric wedding. To be realistic and truthful, this acetate fabric to get the wedding dress, whether it is feeling or feel really good. Prior to this when the wedding photographs also came into contact with the wedding studio studio, may be out of cost considerations, wedding photography studio is not only more dirty, and its fabric looks, feels feels are relatively inferior Stall goods. The kind of acetate fabric, such as silk wedding luster, the wedding day lights really let the wearer has a brilliant taste. Undoubtedly, the acetate fiber and acetate fiber and other fiber blended fabrics for high-end dress, dress, not only fully meet the requirements of such clothing products itself, while compared with the use of natural fiber fabrics such as silk clothing products also Reduce costs. In addition, such development, but also directly broaden the scope of the application of acetate fabric for the textile and apparel acetate fiber industry in the future faster and better development has laid a solid foundation. It is understood that the application of acetate fabric is still actively to the tie, embroidery crafts at the end of material and children's clothing and other directions. Fulfill weaknesses, the development of blended spinning process Speaking of textile fabrics, the author has on several occasions been "unknown truth" consumers asked: "Why do we want to textile fabrics blended?" In fact, this issue in children's books " One hundred thousand why? "There have been in the past. In short, the main purpose of the textile fabric blend is to avoid weaknesses, the advantages of co-existence, the strengths of different fibers play out, as far as possible to reduce the defect. So as to achieve functional complementarity between different fibers to further improve the spinnability of the fabric, while reducing the cost of the fabric. Realistically speaking, the biggest drawback of acetate fiber itself is its fiber strength is low, more prone to fracture phenomenon. In order to overcome this problem of cellulose acetate, most of the time, the textile enterprises usually produce the fabrics by blending them. It is understood that the acetate fiber as a new type of fiber raw materials in the application, the Chinese textile enterprises have developed a variety of textile fibers and acetate blend and interwoven products, for example, with its differentiated polyester, silk, wool, cashmere and nylon Fiber blended fabric.