"Change" Of Excipients: The Great Hidden Trouble Of Textile And Clothing Product Quality

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In early 2010, the animated cartoon ghost mother, adapted from the American writer Neil Gaiman's novel "Coraline," caused a sensation in China.

Although the poor plation in China has produced an indescribable name for it, it is almost the same name as the Hongkong ghost.

But it still did not affect the audience's assessment of its "creepy but full of wisdom".

The core prop of this cartoon is the button. The Black Gothic Black Eye brings the Gothic style to the audience.

With the rapid development of the textile and garment industry, consumers' pursuit of personality and fashion, including buttons and accessories, has already been paid extra attention to decoration and ornamentation.

The designer's proper use of textile and garment accessories can definitely make the finishing touches and achieve twice the result with half the effort.

In the autumn of 2011, Miss Zhou, a college student in Chengdu, went shopping for a long white and windbreaker.

White represents purity, which is more appropriate for college students who live in a "white paper" state.

Therefore, Miss Zhou wearing this windbreaker is very comfortable, especially confident, whether she goes to the classroom or the dining hall.

One day, however, she had a quarrel with the little girl in the dormitory because of trifles.

It is normal for young people to have some friction and disputes.

But each other's words made her have a view of her favorite windbreaker.

During the quarrel, Miss Zhou's classmates had no intention of saying, "what is the spirit, do not wear a white coat all day, you pretend to be a nurse......"

The speaker has no intention of listening.

Later, how did Miss Zhou feel about this white windbreaker?

How to do this? Although the price of the windbreaker is not very expensive, it is also valuable for poor students.

After several deliberation, she finally felt that she was going to "pform" this pure white windbreaker.

In the weekend, Miss Zhou bought several royal style metal buttons in the nearby small commodity wholesale market.

After coming back, she divided these buttons into two rows and arranged them neatly on the white windbreaker.

Suddenly a royal style double breasted coat appeared before her eyes.

After wearing it, compared to the pure white windbreaker, Miss Zhou felt a sense of nobility, showing a great style and wearing a lot of handsome.

In fact, Miss Zhou accidentally coincided with the "pformation" of her buttons on clothes, and the idea of using some buttons to guide fashion at the moment.

In the clothing and fashion industry, as a garment accessories, the small buttons can be used to make the finishing touch as long as they match properly.

The good clothing brands in the domestic market attach great importance to the small details of buttons. Generally, buttons not only conform to the design style of clothes, but also have fine features and even unique, so as to make their clothing products instantly "dazzle".

The Eleventh Guangzhou international textile fabric accessories and yarn exhibition opened in November 9, 2011.

Careful people can easily find that the functionality of excipient products has changed a lot in today's market conditions.

In the past, the zippers, buttons and lining of garment accessories were applied to clothing products with their functionality and practicability.

For example, the zipper is used as a connecting piece in the textile and clothing products to play a role in connection; lining is only used for the inner layer of clothing products to play a reinforcing role.

However, after many years of development since the reform and opening up, China's garment accessories industry has already had a certain degree of specialization, the level of specialization is higher and higher, and there are more and more kinds of products.

With the change of consumer demand, textile and garment accessories are turning from "practical function" to "fashion decoration function".

The design of accessories has also begun to integrate into the overall design of clothing, becoming a fashionable and popular key element.

Nowadays, it is difficult to find a particularly dazzling clothing product decorated with accessories at the scene of the high fashion show or in the crowded shopping malls and stores.

Color zippers, diamond zippers and flash zippers are already commonplace in the clothing industry.

In fact, the zipper's decoration and artistry even surpass its practicability, becoming the new direction of zipper products in the apparel and apparel industry.

In addition, according to the survey data, buttons on clothing products now only have 30% connection functions, and the other 70% assume the role of decoration.

A plain dress often appears to be different because of the ingenious decoration of buttons.

Even those products that are most practical, such as interlining, have begun to assume some decorative functions today.

In some famous brand clothing, one of the most prominent means is to use colourful lining in collar and front door.

For example, a woman's autumn winter jacket, they mix the pink and the color of the relatively dull gray fabric, immediately played a striking decoration and embellishment effect.

Let shopping mall consumers feel bright at the moment, evoke the desire to buy.

In addition, the appearance of products such as metal fasteners, thread belts, lace and so on in the category of excipients itself has a very important decorative function, which adds a lot of elements that were not previously available to dress design.

At the same time, looking at the development trend of China's garment industry, it is certain that any garment accessories will further enhance the decoration and ornamentation of clothing products in the future.

Although there is no way to "win the competition", textile and garment accessories will inevitably be painted in the fashion and personalized process of fashion products.

Toxic substances exceed the standard and deserve attention.

With the continuous development of human science and technology, all kinds of advanced production technology and technology have been applied to the textile and garment industry.

However, technology is a double-edged sword. In recent 100 years, the rapid development of science and technology has promoted the economic development and improved the living standard of the people. At the same time, mankind has also paid a heavy price.

A series of environmental problems and accidents such as heavy metals, toxic chemical residues and so on can happen again and again, and three of them can not help us feel bitter.

In May 2011, a children's clothing enterprise in Dongguan, Guangdong received an order from a baby cotton knitted sweater from the United States.

The United States has a very high demand for the fabric, color and technology of the products, but there are no specific requirements for the accessories of the sweaters, but only for the requirements of the relevant laws and regulations of the country.

At this time, the number of export orders in China's textile and garment industry has declined.

The children's clothing factory was naturally overjoyed when they received the business, so they began to organize production all the time.

More than a month later, the baby cotton knitted sweater was shipped to the United States for customs declaration.

However, it was not long before the garments were shipped, and the United States managed to return them.

At the same time, it was told that after testing, the total lead content of these garments exceeded that stipulated in the consumer goods Improvement Act of the United States.

After hearing this news, the children's clothing factory in Dongguan was temporarily confused.

Obviously, when they received orders, they paid attention to the production of garments. They also neglected the quality inspection of accessories.

After careful internal investigation, it was discovered that in order to make the buttons have a pearl luster effect, the excipient manufacturers unauthorized the addition of a small amount of pearlescent pulp with basic lead carbonate in the production process, resulting in serious lead exceeding the standard for the buttons of the garments.

Basic lead carbonate, commonly known as white lead or white lead powder, is white heavy powder and toxic.

It is mainly used for paint in China, especially for antirust paint and outdoor paint.

When it is heated, it is decomposed into lead oxide, water and carbon dioxide.

The children's clothing enterprise in Dongguan is ignoring or ignoring the problem of heavy metal exceeding the standard of garment accessories, which will lead to the return of the entire batch of clothing products by the United States.

A small button brought great trouble to the garment enterprise, but also directly caused the huge economic losses of the company.

If the economic loss suffered by the Dongguan enterprise is still in its scope, then the result of the quality problem of the garment enterprises in Zhejiang is that they cannot afford it.

Also in early 2011, the clothing company in Zhejiang received orders from a number of European children's nylon jackets.

This enterprise is not large, but it has been engaged in the export business of textile and garment products since the middle of 90s. It has a long history and rich experience.

Before producing a batch of products, all fabrics, zippers and buttons should be inspected according to the requirements of customers.

In fact, it is precisely because of certain product quality awareness that the clothing industry's reputation in the industry is quite good.

After receiving the order, the company still arranged the production step by step as usual.

But the production of these children's nylon jackets after export, but this clothing business has brought disaster.

The European Union concerned discovered the 69.9ppm four amino azobenzene in the grey sewing thread of these jackets, and then informed the Zhejiang garment enterprise beyond the limit of the EU banned azo dye.

It is understood that four amino azobenzene is a harmful aromatic amine.

The four amino azobenzene produced in textiles is generally derived from the dyes synthesized with it as the intermediate. These dyes are mainly acid dyes and disperse dyes.

Decomposable aromatic amine dyes are prohibited in national mandatory standards.

After use of azo dyes containing carcinogenic aromatic amines, dyes can be absorbed by the skin and spread in the human body after long term contact with the human body.

Subsequently, under the biochemical reaction conditions of normal metabolism of human body, the reduction reaction may occur, and the carcinogenic aromatic amine can be decomposed, and the structure of human DNA can be changed through activation, causing human diseases and inducing cancer.

In 2009, the European Union put four azobenzene dyes in the list of banned azo dyes.

Next, the EU customers who placed the order for the enterprise also offered huge compensation to them.

The garment company, which was originally a small size, could not afford such a huge compensation and could only go bankrupt.

In fact, even though the garment company did not go bankrupt at last, because it has been notified by the EU concerned, it has no chance to receive foreign trade orders from the EU.

On the face of it, Zhejiang's business is overlooking a very easy "neglected" sewing thread inspection problem.

But in fact, due to the slow recovery of foreign finance, the profit of China's export textile and garment products is low.

Some garment factories choose to reduce the cost of production by choosing inexpensive accessories which are not guaranteed by quality.

The result is the bankruptcy of the garment enterprise in Zhejiang. It can be said that it is a bad thing to do a bad thing.

The problems of heavy metals and chemical residues in textile and garment accessories have not attracted the attention of the relevant parties in the industry for a long time.

This has led to a series of export textile and clothing products in recent years or returned, or encountered customer claims many times happened.

Considering the long-term development of the whole industry, it is urgent for textile and garment enterprises to strengthen the inspection of excipients.

Excipient physics "accident" is impossible to guard against.

Speaking of physical accidents in textile and garment accessories, it is not only limited to zipper breaking, zipper blasting, lace stripping and so on.

The accident caused by textile and garment accessories is far beyond our imagination.

Around 6:30 in the evening of January 4, 2012, a downhill escalator suddenly broke down at Guangzhou Railway Station of Guangzhou Metro Line 2.

Fortunately, the fault was located at the end of the escalator, causing no casualties.

Now our city construction is getting better and better, more and more public facilities. It is reasonable to point out some accidents.

But the investigation of the cause of the accident almost surprised everyone.

According to the Guangzhou metro, the accident was caused by the fact that the combed plate of the escalator was stuck by a suitcase zipper head when it was subjected to excessive external force, causing the comb plate to rise until it broke.

Although a small zipper head did not cope with a "murder case", its lessons deserve our deep consideration.

Of course, the accident in Guangzhou Metro is just an accident caused by excipients.

However, we often see the accident of accessories on flying clothes that pilots often see on TV.

Flying clothing is now used in all countries around the world, but in early flying clothing, buttons are used.

Why is there such a change? It has to start from scratch.

In the 1931 ad, the fighter engines and bombers all over the world used piston engines.

At the same time, the engine compartment is just below the cockpit, which is restricted by objective technical conditions. Some pmission control mechanisms have not completely separated the engine room and the cabin.

In May of this year, a large joint exercise of land, sea and air was held in France.

During the exercise, a pilot's button on his flying suit fell off accidentally.

At the end of the day, it wasn't sure where it slid along the gap, but the consequence was the crash.

Fortunately, the pilot had to jump in time to survive.

After the accident, from the French air force, the flying clothes of all countries in the world were replaced by zippers.

This little button was written into the textbook of world aviation history because of this.

It can be said that the quality of garment accessories has brought about a revolutionary change in the human flying suit.

In fact, some textile and clothing products are more vulnerable to consumers because of the quality problems of their accessories because of their specific users.

For example, children's clothing, infant safety has been the focus of attention.

However, because of the quality of garment accessories, the lack of sewing fastness between accessories and fabrics, and unreasonable design, small accessories such as buttons, sequins, hot drilling and rivets fail to meet the requirements of tension or bite test, and the small parts are shedding.

There are hidden dangers such as suffocation and other accidents that can be swallowed by children.

In addition, there is a risk of injury to children due to the formation of sharp edges or sharp edges due to garment accessories.

Due to poor quality of parts or damaged parts after use, all kinds of accessories such as plastic and metal fasteners and zippers are very easy to form sharp or sharp edges, causing children to be stabbed, cut and other accidents.

In terms of the quality of textile and garment accessories, our enterprises, especially export oriented trade and production enterprises, have suffered a lot.

Although there is no specific statistical data on the economic losses suffered, it is certainly huge.

And some textile and garment enterprises fail because of this reason.

However, as far as the industry is concerned, the quality of textile and garment accessories has not been given enough attention by our enterprises.

Needless to say, for a long time in the future, the developed countries and regions such as Europe and the United States are still the main markets for the export of our textile and clothing products. The various technical barriers to trade they have announced to some extent indicate the future development direction of related industries.

In order to further enhance the international reputation of our export garments and enhance the competitiveness of our textile and clothing products.

On the one hand, relevant trade and production enterprises should strengthen their in-depth study and understanding of foreign technical regulations. On the other hand, we should strengthen the quality control of garment accessories from the aspect of self-discipline, and deepen the standard of product quality requirements, so as to gradually reverse the relative passive situation of textile and garment export products inspection and quality identification.