Use Of Natural Plant Pigment To Produce Children'S Clothing

Chinese herbal medicine produces textile dyes, reactive dyes, alkali free dyeing, research and development of temperature sensitive fabrics. When the demand for "green" and "innovation" is put forward in the consumer market, it is a major feature of the transformation of Quanzhou textile and garment enterprises since the beginning of this year to look for innovative points to the upstream and promote the overall upgrading of the industrial chain from top to bottom.

Natural dyes to break trade barriers

The flowers, the Ma Lan grass, the gardenia, these people's eyes Chinese grass Medicinal materials are also the treasure of textile enterprises nowadays. "We have worked with a number of Chinese herbal medicine factories to extract three colors of red, yellow and blue from the liquid extracted from Chinese herbal medicine. Ceng Zhaohuang, assistant president of Bao de group, introduced the technology to make use of plant pigments and apply modern dyeing and finishing industry to produce healthy children's clothing.

According to the introduction, at present, the famous brand textiles such as "West knitted fabric" and "Big Island silk" and the Allegro natural dye company in the United States can provide all kinds of natural dyes for cotton with a variety of colors. Only one or two enterprises in the country develop plant dyes, the largest of which is Shaanxi vegetable dye company, which produces mainly vegetable dyes and printing and dyeing textiles to Europe and the United States. One industry insider said, "children's clothing market at home and abroad is paying more and more attention to" green consumption ". The EU has set up import restrictions on some synthetic dyestuffs, and natural dyes are one of the ways to break these restrictions.

The cost of extraction is two times that of ordinary dyes.

"Extracting dye from Chinese herbal medicine is actually a traditional process. regression " Ceng Zhaohuang said that China was the first country to use vegetable dyes in the world, and the diversity of dyes and processes made the chromatogram of ancient printing and dyeing industry very rich. "Cost is the biggest bottleneck now." According to the introduction, although we cooperate with Chinese medicine enterprises in the production, research and development and extraction of dyes, the cost of natural dye extraction is still two times higher than that of ordinary industrial dyes.

The industry expects that because of this technology, according to the consumption characteristics of children's clothing market, according to the number of plants planted by related enterprises such as madder, gardenia, Ma Lan grass and so on, it can produce more than 100 tons of natural plant dyestuffs for processing and dyeing fabrics in printing and dyeing factories. Enterprises use natural plant dyestuffs to develop children's clothing 1 million Suite / year, and increase sales revenue for enterprises by 180 million yuan.

Looking for innovative points from the upstream industry chain

Not only in the field of children's clothing, market demand for "green technology", let Quanzhou textile enterprises continue to increase investment and R & D in upstream raw material technology.

At the high tech fair, the "reactive dyes and alkali free dyeing technology" developed by Quanzhou enterprises attracted many eyeballs. In the process of dyeing knitted fabrics, new auxiliaries are used instead of alkali to achieve reactive dyes dyeing without alkali. A large amount of alkali pollution and a large amount of waste water are discharged. Meanwhile, the dye uptake rate and dye products are brightly colored. It has great inspiration to clean production of traditional printing and dyeing industry. With the appearance of water patterns and the appearance of warm patterns, the two products called camouflage fabric and temperature sensitive fabric are the two main products of Fujian Longfeng Textile Technology Co., Ltd. exhibiting at the Shanghai fabric exhibition this year.

"Before we researched and developed functional products, we were mostly after" Arrangement Process and work on some functional treatment. Since the beginning of this year, we have tried to perform functional processing in the preceding process. For example, select some special functional yarn, or choose and deal with slurry. In this way, from the upstream industry chain to look for innovation and profit point, downstream products can naturally increase many functions, so the industrial chain has been promoted from top to bottom. Longfeng textile technology research and development center responsible person.