Auxiliaries
High-Performance Textile Auxiliaries by Zetra
Textile auxiliaries play a vital role in unlocking the full potential of fabrics—from enhancing feel and color to adding advanced functionalities.
At Harris & Menuk, our Zetra range of solutions offer innovative, high-performance textile auxiliaries that are designed to elevate every stage of textile processing—from pretreatment and dyeing to washing-off, finishing, and special effects—helping you create textiles that truly stand out.
Our auxiliaries at Zetra not only improve fabric feel, functionality, and appearance but also support cleaner, more efficient production, helping our customers stay ahead in a dynamic market.
Pretreatment is a very crucial and precise stage of wet processing as it decides the efficiency and effectiveness of subsequent processes like dyeing, printing and finishing. Since textile materials have several end uses, different pre-treatments are given to make them suitable. Mainly, the removal of impurities takes place during the pre-treatment process.
During the process of dyeing, dyes/pigments and dye bath auxiliaries are applied to textile materials such as yarn and fabrics to obtain the desired color effects and colorfastness. Dye molecules are anchored to the fiber/filament by absorption, diffusion, and fixing, with pH, temperature, time and other parameters being the controlling factors.
After-treatment is carried out after dyeing or printing of textiles to enhance or add functional properties.
High-speed winding and unwinding generate heat and static buildup, affecting yarn performance.