Textile, Dyeing, and Finishing Technologies

Global Vertical Integration and Control of Fabric Formation Produces a Superior Product to Tell Your Story

Shawmut Makes Materials That Perform

Our applications experience across industries has taught us how to understand the performance challenges to design and finish a material that will excel in the application. 

Shawmut’s advanced control process allows for complete product traceability from polymer chip to laminated product. Our core competency in color development and color consistency is unmatched in the industry. 

Our Shawmut Design Studio, located in the heart of the automotive and creative design communities in Southern California, is a dynamic hub for design and concept development.

Textile, Dyeing, and Finishing Challenges We Solve

Our vertical integration from the fabric design to the warping stage, through knitting, dyeing, coating, chemical finishing, and mechanical finishing such as calendaring, Moiré, and napping ensures that our lamination process, or your cut and sew process, will go as smoothly as possible.

Textile Design
  • Customer collaboration infrastructure
  • Ability to design to specific comfort, aesthetic, sophistication or performance targets
  • Lightfastness, water repellency, and flame-retardant performance
  • Extreme temperature cycling
  • Precision color matching
  • Extreme pressure, heat, shear and pull
  • Durable soil release properties
Knitting
  • Warp knitting
  • 2, 3, and 4-bar Tricot knitting
  • Ability to knit to 220” wide
  • Spacer knitting
  • Patented filtration tricot knit
  • Elasticity, controlled elongation and stretch for supreme moldability 
  • Sustainable solutions and recyclability
Color Dyeing
  • A2LA accredited labs
  • Rapid color formulation
  • Custom color development
  • Precision color matching
  • State-of-the-art color control and consistency over long program life
  • Jet dyeing
  • Beam dyeing
  • AI automated optical inspection
Finishing
  • Finishing up to 220” wide
  • Dyed fabric is finished to achieve target properties (width, weight, etc.)
  • Pre-tensioning and heat setting to ensure stability in future processing steps
  • Simultaneous runs to increase production flow
  • Advanced finishing techniques to improve or impart specific properties
  • Drapability for comfort and appearance
  • Multiple mechanical finishing technologies, including brushing, napping, sueding, Moiré, and calendaring
  • Durable protective properties through the rigors of numerous launderings and critical end-use applications
  • AI Automated Optical inspection

Textile, Dyeing, and Finishing Capabilities

Textile, Dyeing, and Finishing Featured
Solutions

Explore in more detail how Shawmut can add textile, dyeing, or finishing value to your textile product’s story.

Materials Testing

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Textile Design

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Mechanical Finishing

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Color Control Expertise

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Textile, Dyeing, and Finishing Applications

Premium Fabric Design
With premium-look fabrics like Neoluxe™, we create a design journey to tell your product’s story.

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Custom Knits and Mesh
Lightweight and high-performance knits and meshes for apparel and gear applications.

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Automotive Fabrics
Shawmut is the premier provider of engineered materials solutions and flexible soft composite materials for automotive interiors.

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Performance Fabrics
Shawmut excels at technical fabrics for athletic, utility and military apparel and footwear applications.

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Fabric Development
From Moiré, structural and dimensional knits, and composites, we create fabrics to meet your demanding specs.

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Utility Wear
Unlock the key to high-performing CBRN fabrics with Shawmut engineering..

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3D Spacer Knits
Cutting-edge, mono-material, lightweight, and recyclable, our InfinKnit™ spacer knit family is a sustainable alternative.

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Reverse Osmosis Filtration
Shawmut’s permeate carrier fabrics are vital components in the reverse osmosis process.

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