The Application of Hot Melt Adhesive Powder on Textiles
April 02,2022
Hot melt adhesive powder provides high-strength bonding solutions for a variety of different industries. It is widely used in fabrics, linings, automotive interiors, industrial textiles, and consumer electronics industries. Today, in this blog I will mainly introduce the application of hot melt adhesive powder on textiles.
What is the Hot Melt Adhesive Powder?
Hot melt adhesive powder is the most widely used type of adhesive in textiles, especially in garment processing. It is widely used in the bonding of non-woven fabrics, carpet seams, clothing linings, zippers, etc.
The hot melt adhesive powder used in the textile industry should have good bonding strength, excellent softness, and resistance to washing/dry cleaning.
In addition, most of the fabrics are subjected to steam treatment during the setting process. Therefore, the hot melt adhesive powder textile needs to be resistant to high-temperature steam. For fabrics with excellent softness, the hot melt adhesive is required to have a lower processing viscosity.
- Fabric paste
Substituting bonding for sewing can greatly reduce the labor intensity of garment making. Garments pasted with hot melt adhesive powder are fine, fit, and strong. The hot melt adhesives used for fabric sticking mainly include polyamide, polyphenol, and polyurethane.
- Interlining processing
The adhesive interlining is made by evenly coating the surface of the fabric with hot melt adhesive powder textile. As the skeleton of the garment, the adhesive interlining simplifies the garment processing technology and time, making the garment light, beautiful, comfortable, shape-preserving, washable, and durable.
The general requirements for hot melt adhesive powder textile for interlining processing are colorless, odorless, soft texture, fast bonding, etc.
A variety of hot melt adhesive powder textiles are available for interlining. The most used ones are ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) hot melt adhesive, polyamide hot melt adhesive, and high-pressure polyethylene (HDPE) hot melt adhesive powder. The hot melt adhesives and processing methods used for different purposes are also different.
- Carpet adhesive
The basic materials of hot melt adhesive powder textile for carpet backing are mostly copolymers of ethylene and other ethylenic monomers, such as ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, and ethylene acrylate copolymer, etc. In the vast majority of these cases, ethylene is used.
Precautions for Using Hot Melt Adhesive Powder Textile
- Viscosity
Different coating machines and coating methods determine their melt viscosity. For hot melt adhesive powder textile, the viscosity of hot melt adhesive also depends on the coating machine and the method of different manufacturers.
- Application
There are several categories of hot melt powder: PES, PA, EVA, and TPU. These hot melt powders are ideal environmentally friendly bonding materials, widely used in the bonding of embroidered labels, armbands, and trademarks, and are suitable for clothing, shoes and hats, luggage, medical, toy products, and other fields.
With the development of bonding technology, bonding replaces traditional stitching, and new changes have been made in clothing technology. Hot melt adhesive powder textile plays the role of reinforcement and shaping of clothing and is an indispensable auxiliary material for clothing production.
At Last
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