Singeing basics

• Fabric singeing is a highly crucial process in the textile finishing process. Mistakes cannot be easily covered up by re-working the fabric (as opposed to, for instance, in dyeing). In addition, the fabric in process has already seen significant value addition by the time it reaches the singeing stage, and anything less than first quality is extremely costly. Therefore, customers worldwide trust PAREX MATHER singeing machines with a heritage dating back to 1852 and expertise that delivers RFT (right first time) every time.

Technology

• Early singeing machines were either plate singes or brick singes. In both cases, the fabric was guided over and brought in contact with hot surfaces, e.g. hot copper plates or hot bricks.
• Despite its inherent disadvantages (poor usage of energy, lack of precise direction of heat, overheating when machine is stopped), this indirect type of singeing was necessary in those days because no other practical method of uniform heat transfer was commercially viable.
• Adopting advanced precision engineering techniques in its design, the PAREX 5000 burner with direct flame technology was launched in the 1960s. Thanks to continuous technical development, it remains the industry benchmark for both uniformity and precise direction of heat in fabric singeing – both on open width and tubular fabrics.
• The latest solutions-driven technology introduced by PAREX MATHER at ITMA 2011 is “SOFTOUCH”. Using optimized burner technology and a purpose-oriented product specification based on the PAREX MATHER UNIVERSAL machine, a smooth fabric surface and a soft fabric handle are achieved via post-dyeing singeing. This innovation is proving to be a highly viable alternative and cheaper alternative to enzyme treatment during dyeing.

Singeing machines

Open-width singeing

• PAREX MATHER offer machines suitable for open-width singeing of woven and/or knitted fabrics. These machines use the uniquely reliable and energy-efficient PAREX 5000 burner.

• This burner delivers an absolutely uniform flame and is used on singeing machines up to 14m working width. Its exclusive aerodynamic flame width control ensures that only the required working width is hot. Other than brick-type burners, the PAREX 5000 burner does not leak heat outside of the fabric area – you can test this yourself by checking the surface temperature of the burner housing left and right of the running fabric.

Singeing of woven fabrics

PAREX MATHER MK10

Fig. 1: PAREX MATHER MK 10 singeing machine for woven fabrics

Singeing of knitted fabrics

• PAREX MATHER UNIVERSAL
• PAREX MATHER UNIVERSAL SOFTOUCH (for post-dye singeing)

Fig. 2: PAREX MATHER UNIVERSAL singeing machine for open-width knitted fabrics