Guard Against Excessive Shrinkage Of Knitted Garments

A few days ago, a group of garment enterprises exported a number of children's knitted garments because of the shrinkage rate exceeded the standard problem led to return, inspection and quarantine departments in the return survey found that the batch of knitted garments shrinkage rate of 3.8%, exceeding the requirements of 3% of foreign customers, resulting in return.

China is the largest garment producer and exporter in the world. Shrinkage is an important quality indicator for clothing.

The shrinkage rate of textile and clothing refers to the percentage of shrinkage after washing or soaking. The raw materials, density, thickness and production process of clothing affect the shrinkage of clothing. The instability of shrinkage rate brings great difficulties to garment production. It has a negative impact on garment layout, layout, sewing, washing and other aspects. It greatly increases the production cost and the difficulty of making garments. Once an intermediate part is not properly handled, it will easily lead to failure.

When signing the contract, it clearly stipulate the requirements for the quality of the export garments, and carefully purchase the fabrics according to the specific requirements of the customers, and the quality of the fabrics directly affects the shrinkage of the garments. Therefore, it is necessary to detect the shrinkage rate before the fabric is purchased; therefore, the cotton fabric generally has the problem of shrinkage and fading, so we should pay attention to the finishing process, so that the shrinkage rate of the fabrics can be effectively controlled within the standard or customer requirements after the shrinkage treatment, and strengthen the self inspection and self control ability. Before the garment is released, the small and medium sized enterprises with incomplete testing equipment can be sent to the local inspection and quarantine departments or the authoritative third party testing institutions to conduct tests to ensure that the shrinkage of garments is qualified before shipping the export. In this regard, the inspection and quarantine department reminds export garment enterprises that they should carefully take orders according to their own production capacity, and