Carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC) for Textile Industry Applications
At Hunan Sentai, we provide high-performance Carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC) solutions tailored for the textile industry. Our high DS CMC powders are engineered to enhance textile manufacturing processes, ensuring superior quality, efficiency, and sustainability.
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| Textile Grade CMC | Wrap Sizing CMC | Textile Printing Thickener | Textile Sizing CMC |
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| Textile Sizing CMC | Textile Grade CMC | Textile Printing CMC | Textile Printing Grade CMC |
Key Applications in Textile Manufacturing
1. Warp Sizing Agent
• Strengthens Yarns: Forms a protective film on warp yarns, reducing breakage during weaving.
• Easy Removal: Washes off completely during desizing without residue, ensuring smooth fabric finishing.
• Improved Weaving Efficiency: Reduces friction and static, enhancing loom productivity.
2. Printing Thickener (Replacing Alginate)
• Vibrant, Precise Prints:
High DS (≥1.3) ensures electrolyte resistance (pH 3–12), preventing dye migration. Provides uniform viscosity for dye pastes enhances color sharpness and pattern clarity on cotton, silk, and synthetics.
• Precise Print Definition: High Color Yield: Minimizes dye migration, improving pattern clarity on cotton, polyester, and blends.
• Superior Rheology:
High structural viscosity (PVI <0.5 vs. alginate’s 0.8) enables fine-detail printing for intricate designs.
• Cost & Performance Edge:
30% higher paste yield than alginate, reducing usage. Compatible with digital and screen printing.
• Eco-Friendly: Replaces synthetic thickeners, reducing environmental impact.
2. Fabric Finishing
• Softening & Anti-Static: Enhances fabric hand feel and reduces static buildup.
• Dimensional Stability: Helps control shrinkage in natural and synthetic fabrics.
4. Dyeing Assistant
• Level Dyeing: Promotes even dye absorption, preventing patchiness.
• Reduced Dye Waste: Improves dye fixation, lowering water and chemical consumption.
Technical Specifications
• Appearance: White to off-white free-flowing powder, or dyed brown
• Solubility: Instant in cold/hot water
• Viscosity (1% solution): Adjustable (500–5000 mPa·s)
• Ultra High DS (drgee of substitution): 0.9-1.6
• pH Stability: 5–10
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Textile Grade CMC is a high DS carboxymethyl cellulose product designed for textile manufacturing applications. It can be used in warp sizing, textile printing, fabric finishing, and dyeing processes to improve production efficiency, processing stability, and final fabric performance.
In textile processing, CMC provides film-forming, thickening, rheology control, binding, anti-static, and stabilizing functions. It helps strengthen yarns during weaving, provides uniform viscosity for dye pastes, supports clear printing patterns, and improves fabric finishing performance.
Item | Specification |
|---|---|
Appearance | White to off-white free-flowing powder, or dyed brown |
Solubility | Instant in cold/hot water |
Viscosity, 1% solution | Adjustable, 500–5000 mPa·s |
Degree of Substitution, DS | 0.9–1.6 |
pH Stability | 5–10 |
Textile manufacturing requires stable yarn performance, smooth weaving, clear print definition, and consistent fabric finishing results. Textile Grade CMC helps support these requirements through its water solubility, film-forming ability, viscosity control, and compatibility with textile processing systems.
As a warp sizing agent, it forms a protective film on yarns and helps reduce breakage during weaving. As a printing thickener, high DS CMC provides electrolyte resistance and stable viscosity for dye pastes. In fabric finishing and dyeing, it helps improve hand feel, reduce static buildup, support dimensional stability, and promote even dye absorption.
Textile Grade CMC can be used as a warp sizing agent to protect yarns during weaving. It forms a film on warp yarns, reducing yarn breakage and improving weaving stability.
Its sizing film can be washed off completely during desizing without residue, helping support smooth fabric finishing after weaving. It also helps reduce friction and static, improving loom productivity.
Forms a protective film on warp yarns
Helps reduce yarn breakage during weaving
Reduces friction and static buildup
Improves loom productivity
Washes off completely during desizing
Leaves no residue for smoother fabric finishing
Textile Grade CMC can be used as a textile printing thickener and as a replacement for alginate in suitable printing systems. High DS CMC helps provide electrolyte resistance and uniform viscosity for dye pastes, supporting sharp patterns and stable printing results.
It helps prevent dye migration and improves pattern clarity on cotton, silk, synthetics, polyester, and blended fabrics. Its structural viscosity supports fine-detail printing for intricate designs, while its paste yield and compatibility with digital and screen printing help improve printing efficiency.
Provides uniform viscosity for dye pastes
Helps prevent dye migration
Improves pattern clarity and print definition
Supports high color yield
Suitable for cotton, silk, synthetics, polyester, and blends
Helps enable fine-detail printing for intricate designs
Compatible with digital and screen printing
Can replace synthetic thickeners and reduce environmental impact
Textile Grade CMC can be used in fabric finishing to improve fabric hand feel and reduce static buildup. It also helps control shrinkage in natural and synthetic fabrics, supporting dimensional stability after processing.
Enhances fabric hand feel
Reduces static buildup
Helps control shrinkage
Supports dimensional stability in natural and synthetic fabrics
Textile Grade CMC can also be used as a dyeing assistant. It promotes even dye absorption and helps prevent patchiness during dyeing. By improving dye fixation, it can also help reduce dye waste and lower water and chemical consumption.
Promotes level dyeing
Helps prevent uneven coloration and patchiness
Improves dye fixation
Helps reduce dye waste
Supports lower water and chemical consumption
Explore how Textile Grade CMC supports warp sizing, textile printing, fabric finishing, and dyeing processes in textile manufacturing.
Sentai provides customized CMC solutions according to customer requirements in textile printing and dyeing applications. Different textile processes may require different DS, viscosity, particle size, dissolution behavior, rheology, and processing performance.
For warp sizing, customers may focus on film strength, yarn protection, friction reduction, anti-static performance, desizing cleanliness, and weaving efficiency. For textile printing, the key requirements may include dye paste viscosity, electrolyte resistance, print sharpness, color yield, dye migration control, and compatibility with screen or digital printing. For fabric finishing and dyeing, customers may require hand feel improvement, dimensional stability, level dyeing, and better dye fixation.
Sentai can customize CMC specifications based on these application needs, including DS, viscosity, particle size, and specialized performance requirements such as enhanced solubility. The available customization range includes DS from 0.4 to 1.5, viscosity from 20 to 10,000 mPa·s, and particle size from 10 to 300μm.
Through collaborative development, application testing, process optimization, technical support, and full-process quality control, Sentai helps customers select and customize Textile Grade CMC products according to their textile formulation, production process, and target performance.
Textile Grade CMC is a carboxymethyl cellulose product developed for textile manufacturing applications such as warp sizing, textile printing, fabric finishing, and dyeing assistance.
Textile Grade CMC can be used as a warp sizing agent, textile printing thickener, fabric finishing additive, and dyeing assistant. It helps strengthen yarns, improve weaving efficiency, stabilize dye paste viscosity, improve print definition, reduce static, and promote even dye absorption.
In warp sizing, Textile Grade CMC forms a protective film on warp yarns, helping reduce breakage during weaving. It also reduces friction and static, improves loom productivity, and washes off during desizing without residue.
Yes. Textile Grade CMC can be used as a printing thickener and can replace alginate in suitable printing systems. High DS CMC provides electrolyte resistance, uniform viscosity, dye migration control, and clear print definition.
Textile Grade CMC can be used in textile printing and processing for cotton, silk, synthetics, polyester, and blended fabrics.
Yes. Textile Grade CMC helps prevent dye migration, provides uniform dye paste viscosity, improves pattern clarity, and supports fine-detail printing for intricate designs.
The listed viscosity range is adjustable from 500 to 5000 mPa·s for a 1% solution.
The listed DS range is 0.9–1.6. High DS CMC is especially useful for textile printing applications that require electrolyte resistance and stable viscosity.
Yes. Textile Grade CMC is listed as instant soluble in both cold and hot water.
Yes. Sentai can customize Textile Grade CMC according to customer requirements, including DS, viscosity, particle size, solubility, rheology, and textile application performance.
Yes. Sentai provides collaborative development, application testing, process optimization, technical support, and full-process quality control to help customers customize CMC products for textile printing, dyeing, sizing, and finishing applications.
