PERMALON® High Lightfast Acid Dye for Wool

PERMALON® High Lightfast Acid Dye for Wool

This selection of PERMALON® Acid Dyes exhibit excellent light fastness properties to make them highly suitable for active wear and outdoor fabrics.

 

PERMALON®

High Lightfast

Acid Dye for Wool

Xenon Light Fastness

Wash Fastness 2A

Perspiration Fastness

(Acid)

PERMALON® 
Yellow E2GL
1.0%

6-7

3

4-5

PERMALON®
Yellow NW 250%
1.0%

6-7

3

4-5

PERMALON®
Orange RDL 160%

1.00%

6-7

3

5

PERMALON®
Scarlet ML

1.00%

6-7

5

4-5

PERMALON®
Red 2B 200%
1.0%

5

3-4

4-5

PERMALON®
Pink B
1.0%

6

3-4

3

PERMALON®
Bordeaux SRLB

333%

1.00%

6-7

3

5

PERMALON®
Violet FBL

100%

1.00%

6-7

4-5

5

PERMALON®
Blue 2G

1.00%

5

2

3

PERMALON®
Blue LGGL 200%
1.0%

5-6

4

5

PERMALON®
Dark Blue MTR
1.0%

6-7

4-5

5

PERMALON®
Navy S2BN
1.0%

6-7

4-5

5

PERMALON®
Brown SGL

1.00%

6-7

4-5

4-5

PERMALON®
Grey BL

200

3.00%

6-7

5

5

PERMALON®
Black BGL

200%

3.00%

7-8

4-5

5

PERMALON®
Black MRX

3.00%

6-7

5

4-5

PERMALON®
Black WA-C

3.00%

6

4

5

Procedures:

Dyeing at 140º

Pre-scour with 1& STANSCOUR® BRC at 160º for 20-minutes.

  1. Drop & rinse.
  2. Set bath at 90ºF with:
    1. Xg/l salt (per chart below)
  3. Add PERMARBIL® Reactive Dye (pre-dissolve in 160º-180ºF water).
  4. Run 10-minutes.
  5. Add 1/10 total amount of Soda Ash over 10-minutes.
    1. Run 10-minutes.
  6. Add remaining 9/10 Soda Ash over 10-minutes (pH 10.8-11.2).
    1. Run 10-minutes.
  7. Heat to 140ºF at 2ºF/minute.
    1. Run for 45-minutes.
  8. Sample.
    1. If shade is acceptable, drop bath.
    2. When sampling shade, swatch should be: rinsed cold, rinsed warm, and neutralized with 0.25% Acetic Acid. Then, scoured at 200ºF – see steps 12-18.
  9. Rinse at 120ºF for 10-minutes.
    1. Drop bath.
  10. Rinse at 140º for 10-minutes.
    1. Drop bath.
  11. Neutralize at 120ºF with 0.25% Acetic Acid (pH 7-8).
    1. Run 10-minutes.
    2. Drop bath.
  12. Set fresh bath to 120ºF.
  13. Heat to 200ºF.
    1. Hold 10-minutes.
    2. Drop bath.
  14. Set bath to 120ºF.
    1. Hold 10-minutes.
    2. Drop bath.
  15. Finish as usual.

Salt and Soda Ash Recommendations for Cotton/Rayon

% Reactive Dye

g/l Sodium Chloride or Sodium Sulfate

g/l Soda Ash

0-0.25

30

5

0.26-0.50

50

5

0.51-1.00

60

10

1.01-2.00

60

10

2.01-3.00

80

10

3.01-5.00

80

10

Above 5.00*

*When dyeing above 5.00% the yield should increase with use of 100g/l salt

80-100

10

PERMABRIL® Brill Blue R Special Requires Reduced Salt

% Reactive Dye

g/l Sodium Chloride or Sodium Sulfate

up to 0.50

20

0.51-2.00

30

2.01-4.00

40

Above 4.00

50

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