The Security Requirement and New Situation of Textile Auxiliary

The security requirement of Htfine's auxiliary is a necessary index for choosing promoter in textile industry. It elaborates the basic security requirement nowadays: (1)no VOC( no volatile organic compound), (2) no FA or low FA( no formaldehyde or low formaldehyde), (3) no DS( no dangerous chemical substances), (4) no EH( no environmental hormone), (5) no PFOS and PFOA( no perfluorooctane and solphone and perfluorooctanic acid), (6) no AOX( no absorbable organic halogen compound), it put forward the development tendency about the market's requirement to textile security and further elaborates the new situation about disabled and limited chemical substances in textile auxiliary: (1) It is more strict in polychlorinated dibenzopdioxin and polychlorinated dibenzo-p-furans, (2) Forbidden fluorinated greenhouse gases, (3) new limitation for fire retardant.

The security requirement and new situation of textile auxiliary

Textile needs to use various chemicals in the process of producing textile, no matter analyzing from the view of types or quantity, textile auxiliary is used most frequently. According to the incomplete statistics, its annual output is more than 4.5 million t with nearly 100 classes and 16 thousand types, its annual consumption is 4.3 million t. Among these auxiliaries, there is so many types will do harm to human's health and environment in the process of using, when people are wearing these textile and clothes, the harmful substances that on clothes will do harm to human's health and environment, therefore, many countries and organizations did careful researches about toxicology and ecological toxicology internationally and enacted a regulation about forbidden and limited promoter, especially in Europe.

According to a rough statistics for forbidden and limited auxiliary in market, at present, the for forbidden and limited printing auxiliaries in international market is more than 18 classes and 3000 types, Although it is for the security requirement and ecological requirement of ecological textile, general textile still can't has toxic substance according to the requirement of international market, or it still belongs to unaccepted products even with high skill and quality.