Commercial Distributors Company

	What's New Use of Sanforizer as a finishing tool grows. Burlap, hopsack and wool increasingly used as fashion goods due to hand and appearance enhancement on sanforizer.

Although the original process by which cloth is mechanically pre-shrunk was patented in 1928 and the development of the Cluett rubber belt compressive shrinking machine was first patented in 1938, this process, frequently referred to as Sanforizing, remains as one of the most important cloth finishing operations for cotton and cotton blend fabrics in use today.

Over the years, this process has grown in importance and is actually used today, as much for hand and appearance improvement, as for dimensional stabilization (shrinkage control) of cloth. As the process is the very last finishing operation to which cloth is subjected, prior to leaving the textile mill and is carried out on goods to which much value has been added by prior processes, any defects in cloth appearance, hand, or shrinkage control are likely to be very costly.

Commercial Distributors Company multi-lingual staff have very broad international experience. Company personnel have been providing technical assistance and training to textile mills, technical organizations and universities in 82 countries worldwide since 1959. Mr. C.D. Clickner, President of Commercial Distributors, who began his career in textiles working under Mr. Sanford Cluett, the inventor of the compressive shrinking process, is the author of the only complete book written on the subject of "Pre-shrinking of Textile Fabrics". Mr. Clickner resigned, as vice president from Cluett, Peabody & Company, owners of the Sanforized trademark, in 1985, after 27 years with the firm.

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