This document summarizes a study on correlating dyeing results between lab and bulk production processes. Samples were dyed in the lab using different pressures and speeds on the padding mangle. The dyed samples were compared to a control sample dyed in bulk production. For a shade called "Sage", samples dyed at 1-2 bar pressure came out darker and greener-yellow than the control. Raising the pressure to 3 bar produced samples closer in strength to the control. Higher speeds generally resulted in lower strengths. In conclusion, a pressure of 3 bar and speed up to 5 m/min on the lab padding mangle best matched the bulk dyeing results.

1. JAYWANT JAGDISH BARI
SWARANJALI SUHAS JOSHI
D.T.T. – IV Year
A STUDY PROJECT ON LAB TO
BULK SHADE VARIATION FOR
PAD BATCH DYEING
A
PROJECT WORK DONE AT
ALOK INDUSTRIES LTD.
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2. COMPANY PROFILE –
• ALOK Industries Limited, processing division Vapi.
• Alok was established in 1986 as a private limited
company.
• In 1993 Alok became a public limited company.
• In 2000 Introduced the term “Integrated Textiles
Solutions” highlighting the company’s unique position in
providing facilities for texturising, weaving, knitting and
processing.
• It has five core divisions: cotton yarn, apparel fabrics,
home textiles, garments and polyester yarn.
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3. • Exports of 9 crore in FY 2000 and 2217 crore in FY 2011.
• 1st textile company to get the IMS certification for its
manufacturing facilities at Silvasa and Vapi.
• Won the Ramakrishna Bajaj National Quality (RBNQ)
performance trophy in 2010.
• In 2001 Alok was 1st to invest under TUFS.
• Opens home textiles sector in 2002.
• Alok’s range in this segment includes - entire range of top
of the bed i.e., sheets sets, duvets, comforters, blankets,
quilts, jacquards, dobbies, prints, embroidery, yarn dyed.
• Curtains and towels to its portfolio.
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4. INTRODUCTION
• The manufacturing of a textile begins with the fibre input,
whereby each processing step results in an added cost to
the final product. As dyeing of a textile is often the last step
in the manufacturing of a fabric, it requires extra caution to
get it right by avoiding waste and maintaining cost control.
• There was a problem of shade variation of dyed fabrics in a
textile company leading to the increase in process cycle
time due to the extra amount of colour addition or
stripping
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5. • In this project study, the attempts were made to identify the
suitable parameters for the lab padding mangle and the bulk
padding mangle to correlate between them for lab to bulk
shade variation.
• The accurate correlation of a laboratory dyeing to a
production dyeing lot is a universal concern of dyeing
operations. Laboratory dyeing techniques, which are both
accurate and repeatable to bulk dyeing processes, are
absolutely essential for the optimization of the production
output and the cost effectiveness of the modern competitive
dyeing operation.
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6. COLD PAD BATCH DYEING –
• Fabric is padded with a reactive dye in the presence of
an alkali at cold temperature.
• After padding the batches are wrapped in polyethylene
sheet to prevent water evaporation and stored at room
temperature.
• Batching time is 12 to 16 hours in wet stage.
• During the storage period, the rolls must be kept slowly
rotating to prevent seepage of dye liquor. Because the
alkaline liquor should collect at the lower portions of the
batch due to gravity that could result in intermittent
variation in shade along the length of the fabric.
• The dyed fabric finally washed out.
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7. 7
Cold Pad Batch Machine

8. FABRIC PREPARATION PRIOR TO
DYEING
• The fabric should be desized, bleached and
mercerized.
• The essential requirements are
- Material must be made available for dyeing in
neutral form.
- Uniform and readily absorbent.
- Residual size content should be nil.
- Whiteness of the fabric should be even.
• Such pretreatments give the further advantage of
better colour yield.
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9. • Parameters checked for chemicals
- Alkali concentrations by titration method
- Alkali solution pH
- Dye solution pH
- Pad liquor pH
• Machine parameters
- Trough temperature
- Speed of the machine
- Mangle pressure
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10. DYEING ON BULK PADDING MACHINE
• Concentration of chemicals
 Dyes – X gpl (as per the recipe)
 Soda ash (sodium carbonate) – 20 gpl
 Caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) – varies for light,
medium and dark shades.
• Trough temperature – below 25° C.
• Mangle pressure – L : 1.8 bar, M : 1.1 bar, R : 1.8 bar.
• Dwell in pad liquor – 3 to 4 sec.
• Speed of the machine – 40 Mtr/ min.
• Batching time – 12 to 16 hrs.
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11. DYEING IN LABORATORY
• For the lab to bulk variation trials were taken and samples
have dyed by varying pressure and speed of the padding
mangle in the lab.
• Total 15 samples were prepared as follows:
• Concentrations of alkali were decided as per the dyeing recipe.
Set 1 Set 2 Set 3
Pressure
(Bar)
Speed
(mpm)
Pressure
(Bar)
Speed
(mpm)
Pressure
(Bar)
Speed
(mpm)
1
1
2
1
3
1
2 2 2
3 3 3
4 4 4
5 5 5
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12. • Then the samples were wrapped in
polyurethane.
• These wrapped samples had been kept in
Rota dyer’s pot separately for rotation at 60°
C for 30 min.
• After 30 min. samples were taken for
washing, first cold wash then soaping at 100°
C and neutralizing with cold water.
• Then the washed samples were dried.
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13. COLOUR DIFFERENCE EVALUATION
• The samples dyed in the bulk were collected
after washing.
• The samples dyed in the bulk had been
compared with the samples dye in the
laboratory.
• Before the samples were checked for colour
difference, they are kept for conditioning.
• The difference in the shade of the samples
were checked by using the
Spectrophotometer.
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14. SHADE – SAGE
• Recipe – A
• Novacron Yellow CRG – 0.9128 gpl.
• Novacron Blue C5X – 0.8912 gpl.
• Novacron Red HF4BC – 0.3632 gpl.
• Acetic acid – 0.1 gpl.
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15. Sr. no. Process ΔL ΔC ΔH ΔE Strength % Remarks
1 Bulk 0.07 - 0.13 - 0.36 0.39 99.57 Light, redder-blue
Lab
Pressure Speed
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1
1 -1.34 1.15 0.47 1.83 135.60 Dark, greener-yellow
3 2 -0.98 0.98 0.24 1.41 125.19 Dark, greener-yellow
4 3 - 1.14 1.11 0.23 1.61 129.12 Dark, greener-yellow
5 4 -1.00 0.77 0.40 1.32 126.17 Dark, greener-yellow
6 5 -0.89 0.55 0.47 1.15 123.39 Dark, greener-yellow
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2
1 -0.72 0.78 0.31 1.10 118.33 Dark, greener-yellow
8 2 -0.59 0.70 0.31 0.96 114.84 Dark, greener-yellow
9 3 -0.61 0.61 0.70 1.10 115.09 Dark, greener-yellow
10 4 -0.36 0.49 0.48 0.77 109.13 Dark, greener-yellow
11 5 -0.69 0.71 0.40 1.07 117.30 Dark, greener-yellow
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3
1 -0.51 0.64 0.68 1.06 112.89 Dark, greener-yellow
13 2 -0.10 0.60 0.15 0.63 102.37 Dark, greener-yellow
14 3 -0.12 0.49 0.40 0.64 102.89 Dark, greener-yellow
15 4 -0.03 0.47 0.40 0.61 100.81 Dark, greener-yellow
16 5 -0.07 0.23 0.68 0.73 102.12 Dark, greener-yellow15

16. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
• CMC difference values of various samples dyed by pad
batch method using recipe A for the shade Sage have
shown in the table.
• The approved sample was taken for the comparison.
• The shade produced in bulk was little lighter than the
approved sample.
• From Table it was observed that for the pressures 1 and 2
bars, shade produced were considerable darker and
greener-yellower in tone.
• So in the next experiment pressure was increased to 3
bars and 5 samples were produced at various mangle
speeds. The strength of all the samples was very close to
standard i.e. 100-102 %.
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17. • It was also noticed from Table that as mangle pressure
increases, the strength of samples decreases.
• This is due to the reduction of wet pick up or percentage
expression at higher pressure.
• Also, as the speed of machine increases, the strength of
the samples decreases. This decrease in strength at higher
speed may be due to lower wet pick up at higher speed.
• The same results were also presented graphically.
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18. 99.5
135.6
125.1
129.1
126.1
123.3
118.3
114.8 115
109.1
117.3
112.8
102.3 102.8
100.8
102.1
90
95
100
105
110
115
120
125
130
135
140
Strength%
Dyed samples
Shade - Sage
Bulk P 1/ S 1 P 1/ S 2 P 1/ S 3 P 1/ S 4 P 1/ S 5 P 2/ S 1 P 2/ S 2
P 2/ S 3 P 2/ S 4 P 2/ S 5 P 3/ S 1 P 3/ S 2 P 3/ S 3 P 3/ S 4 P 3/ S 5
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19. CONCLUSIONS
• After taking the trials on 15 different shades we have
concluded as follows:
• The % strength of the shade dyed in the laboratory
were considerably darker than the shade of bulk dyed
samples.
• While dyeing in the laboratory, pressure of 3 bar and
higher speed up to 5 Mtr/min. would be best
applicable condition on padding machine.
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