LYCRA Let The Fabric Have A Little More Flexibility.

< p > tight, elastic, long term trend, let Lycra fiber have enough time to guide the "a target=" _blank "href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/ "clothing" /a "revolution.

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< p > nowadays, elastic fabrics are almost everywhere, from underwear to jeans, or even sports a target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/" > shoes < /a > upper.

Elastic makes underwear more close fitting and makes fashionable tight jeans possible.

But after the elasticity of underwear and jeans, can the fashionable corduroy look old and fashionable? Can the most representative outfit of outdoor products get rid of the current situation of loose and unsightly, too much emphasis on functionality? < /p >

The R & D team of P INVISTA is doing all these breakthroughs.

The company's main product is LYCRA, a fabric that makes fabrics more elastic.

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In 1958, when chemist Joseph Chivers (P Joseph) invented LYCRA in the laboratory of DuPont Co, he probably didn't think that after half a century, the influence of this humble fiber almost extended to everyone's daily life in the world.

No wonder the American clothing "a target=" _blank "href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/ "designer" /a "Association (CFDA) should be included in" one of the 20 most creative inventions in twentieth Century ".

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< p > "there is a saying in our industry that it is called" no bombs, no materials. "

Shen Yi, director of Lycra fiber sales and marketing in North Asia Pacific clothing department of INVISTA, told the first financial weekly, "almost all of the fabrics are elastic nowadays."

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< p > there is a white Lycra spool on her desk.

It looks almost the same as ordinary cotton. Only when you pull it out of the bobbin, will you find that the Lycra fiber feels closer to the rubber band.

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< p > "Lycra" is the brand name applied by DuPont for this elastic fiber. Its scientific name is "spandex fiber".

Compared with traditional cotton yarn, spandex has the greatest characteristics of excellent ductility and recovery. It can stretch to 4 to 7 times the original length. When the tensile force is gone, it will be able to restore the original shape, and this fiber can be mixed with any other fabrics.

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Like P, which is 20 years earlier than lycra and also made by nylon invented by DuPont, spandex is also a kind of fiber extracted from petroleum.

Interestingly, the fate of these two great inventions in twentieth Century is always related to each other.

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< p > 2002, DuPont announced that the Lycra, nylon and other "a target=" _blank "href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/ "textile" /a "and interior decoration materials business spin off to become an independent DTI company.

The company has nearly $6 billion 500 million in sales and is the oldest in the textile industry.

After that, DTI was renamed as the English group and waiting for buyers.

1 years later, the American Coriolis industry group spent its income.

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< p > in the factory in Qingpu, Shanghai, it is difficult for you to link the production line of Lycra with the traditional "textile workshop".

Here it looks more like a chemical plant: huge cans arranged one by one, containing the raw materials needed to produce Lycra.

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< p > in 1960s, nylon stockings and underwear with Lycra fiber were the fashionable goods that many women dreamed of.

At that time, there was a round of "costume revolution" in the place of van Leica fiber.

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< p > first is women's underwear.

Lycra has replaced the rubbers in women's underwear to make the clothes more intimate and not tight at the same time.

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After "P", Enviros improved the technology patent of the river, which made the Lycra fiber more resistant to chlorine, so that it could adapt to the chlorinated swimming pool environment.

In this way, the heavy and easy to swim swimsuit became light and breathable, and bikini became popular since then.

By the 1972 Olympic Games, almost all the top swimmers wore light swimsuit containing Lycra fibers, hoping to get better results.

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< p > "underwear and sportswear" is the earliest application area of a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_f.asp" > Lycra < /a > until now it is also the largest market of Lycra, accounting for more than 50%.

Shen Yi said.

In underwear and sportswear, the content of Lycra usually reaches 8% to 18%, or even higher, in order to ensure the special functional requirements of these garments.

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< p > nowadays, the application area of Lycra has expanded to 8 main categories.

In recent years, the fastest growing area, which also makes Lycra really known to ordinary people, is jeans.

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< p > it is hard to find out which clothing is more popular than jeans.

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< p > University of London (UCL) Professor of anthropology Danny Miller (Danny Miller) has done an interesting experiment.

In every country, he will immediately record the wearing of the 100 people he saw.

In the end, he found that nearly half of the people in Philippines or Turkey, in India or Brazil, wore the same pair of jeans - jeans.

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Less than P, the application of Lycra to professional underwear and swimsuit to popular jeans is due to its unique R & D management mode.

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"P" is different from the traditional B2B company. We are taking a market based management model, starting with the "a href=" "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > industry chain < /a > the most end consumers, and in turn promoting our research and development. "

Shen Yi said.

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