Garment Wet Processing Products
Dexter Chemical can meet all of your garment wet processing needs with one of the industry's most extensive product lines. Once you find the product line you're looking for, we'll help you select the exact product that best suits your needs, or work with you to customize a product to your exact specifications.
| Buffering Agents | Dispersants | Machine Cleaners |
| Desizing Agents | Dye Fixatives | Softeners |
| Detergents | Lubricants |
Lakol BFR-54 This product is an alkaline buffer designed to maintain a pH of 11.5-12.5. Useful in chlorine bleaching and alkaline desizing.
Lakol BFR-90 This product is an acid buffer designed to maintain a pH of 4.5-4.8. Useful in cellulase enzyme treatment, exhausting softeners and neutralizing alkali.
Lakol AME-120 This product is an alpha-amylase enzyme used for desizing fabrics containing starch. It is used in desizing applications where the temperature ranges from 85°F to 160°F. This product does not require special addition of calcium salts and is compatible with wetting agents and surfactants normally used in the desizing process.
Lakol CMB A special combination product which acts as a desizing agent, scouring agent and lubricant in garment processing. This product breaks down starch, emulsifies slasher oils and waxes, helps to remove residual color and prevents redeposition of color. This product also acts as a lubricant to prevent bruises, cracks, creases and chafe marks.
Lakol KAH-2 This product is a special combination product designed to desize, scour and lubricate in garment processing. This product breaks down starch, emulsifies slasher oils and waxes, helps to remove residual color and prevents redeposition of color. This product also acts as a lubricant to prevent bruises, cracks, creases and chafe marks allowing more garments to be processed in each machine load.
Lakol ARS A complex blend of surfactants designed for the preparation of fabrics and yarns. This product promotes rapid saturation of these substrates during initial wet-out and desizing stages. Outstanding absorbency is achieved via extremely effective emulsification components. This product contains no solvents, glycol ethers, alkylphenols or phosphorus.
Lakol MA-5 A special, very low foaming, non-solvent, multifunctional surfactant designed to remove oils and waxes. This product, which contains no alkylphenols, displays strong wetting, dispersing and emulsifying powers.
Lakol SEK-50 A non-alkyl phenol containing complex surfactant. This product provides detergency, wetting, emulsification and dispersion. This product reduces backstaining during garment processing, which increases the contrast between abraded and nonabraded areas thereby improving the look of the garment. It can be used with acid and neutral cellulase enzymes with and without stones. It is also an outstanding surfactant which can improve enzyme or alkaline desizing as well as enhance subsequent "clean-up" steps.
Lakol SKP-1 A scouring agent designed especially for use in garment finishing. It provides excellent color removal and "pull down" with little, if any, redeposition. When used in chemical stonewash procedures, the amount of cellulase enzyme can often be reduced by as much as 20-25%.
Lakol TU-5 A multifunctional nonionic scour which is designed for the removal of spinning oils and cotton waxes. This product, which contains no alkylphenols or silicones, displays strong emulsifying, dispersing and wetting properties.
Lakol Scour CP-16 A scouring agent designed especially for use in garment processing. This product has strong wetting, dispersing, emulsifying and chelating properties and is compatible with most oxidative bleaches, alkalis and brighteners.
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Lakol COM-100 This product is a compatibilizer, dispersant and leveling agent.
Lakol SLDS A special dispersing agent which inhibits and helps to remove inorganic salt scale through innovative chelation/dispersion technology.
Lakol SO-6 A strong dispersing agent which has been especially formulated for garment wet processing. This product helps to prevent redeposition of color without "pulling down" the desired shade. It is therefore able to reserve white areas without changing the depth of shade in the colored areas. It has minimal, if any, effect on the grey component of indigo dye.
Lakol DNM This product is a dye fixative which helps to prevent color loss during garment finishing. This product is especially effective for holding color on sulfur and indigo dyed garments during prewashing and subsequent processing.
Lakolube 193 This product provides excellent fiber-to-fiber and fiber-to-metal lubricity during garment processing. Many stages such as desizing, dyeing, clean-up, and rinsing benefit from this product. Inverted seams, crack marks and creases are reduced with this product. It can eliminate turning, produce smoother stonewashing and reduce water consumption.
Lakolube FRM This product is designed to reduce fiber-to-fiber and fiber-to-metal friction for synthetic and natural fibers. This reduction of friction helps to prevent crack marks, creases and inverted seams. It is also very highly salt stable.
Lakol FRC This product is a heavy-duty cleaner for removal of dyestuffs, trimer and other soil from all types of dyeing machines. It is effective when used with a caustic hydrosulfite mixture but, in many cases, can be successfully used with caustic alone. Because of its high foaming activity, it reaches the "hard to get to" areas of dyeing equipment.
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Lakol OZN-600 A multifunctional softener designed to inhibit the color loss, due to ozone fade of bleached, indigo dyed, denim garments. It imparts a soft, slick hand to the cotton garments.
Lakol Soft CBG A silicone softener modified with special, soft polymers and cationics. The components coalesce with the substrate and create an extended molecular film. It produces a fine luxuriant hand that adds ambulance and lubricity.
Lakol SoftNSS-1 Premier silicone softener which imparts an extremely luxurious, soft, slick hand without yellowing to natural or synthetic fibers. It is compatible with permanent press resins and helps to overcome the harsh hand caused by the resin. It is resistant to 4-5 home laundering without resin, and is even more permanent when resins are used.
Lakol Soft RNG A general purpose economical softener for garment finishing. It imparts a slick, full-bodied hand to denim fabric. It is cationic and easily exhausted onto cotton denims from laundry machines. This product will not stain pockets as will many softeners, and its antistatic properties reduce the amount of grit clinging during drying.
Lakol Soft SDL-300 A polymeric silicone softener modified with special nonionic compatiblilzers. It produces a luxuriant hand that was developed for harsh, stiff substrates. It minimizes the rough texture of material manufactured from open-end yarns and plasticizes film forming binders without excessive crocking problems.
Lakol Soft SE-250 A special silicone enhanced softener which imparts an extremely soft, slick hand to fabrics. It can readily be applied by padding or exhaustion techniques. It is compatible with permanent press resins and helps to overcome the harsh hand caused by resin. It is also a good antistat and can also be used as a fiber lubricant.
Lakol Soft SLC-430AF A premier silicone softener which imparts an extremely luxurious, soft, slick hand to natural or synthetic fibers. It is compatible with permanent press resins and helps to overcome the harsh hand caused by resin. This product is resistant to 4-5 home launderings without resin, and is even more permanent when resins are used.
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