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Supply Type Manufacturer, Exporter, Supplier
Preferred Buyer Location All over the world

RCM produces several lines of home textiles rooted in nature. The towels and bedding are made from 100% certified hand-picked organic cotton, which undergoes a process to guarantee the high quality....

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RCM sheeting fabric (Sateen and Percale), after the cotton is grown, harvested, washed, spun into thread and woven into large sheets of fabric. Sateen sheets come in 250 and 325 thread count and percale in 220. We also do prints and jacquards.

The process involves the following steps:

Cleaning: The fabric is processed with a natural amylase enzyme, similar to the natural enzymes found in saliva, to remove the wheat starch that was applied to the textile during the weaving process to minimize fluctuations in sizing.
Singeing: The starch-free fabric is then passed over and under a very small flame at high speed. This burns off fibers protruding from the fabric surface, leaving it smooth and minimizing pilling.
Washing: The fabric is washed with biodegradable soap.
Softening: Before being dyed, sodium hydroxide is applied to the fabric as it is stretched. This powerful cleaning agent makes the yarn rounder and more lustrous, stronger and more receptive to dyes.
Whitening: White and dyed fabrics are then whitened with hydrogen peroxide. (Natural-colored fabrics skip the whitening/dyeing process.)
Dyeing: We use low-impact, fiber-reactive dyeing in all our products. Our dyes are very safe, GOTS certified and "low impact," which means that we use less water, less heat and produce less wastewater runoff than regular chemical dyeing processes. The bonding effect with this type of dye is greater and, therefore, more environmentally friendly
Smoothing: The fabric is smoothed between highly polished steel rollers. This is a process done mainly to satin weave fabrics to create sheen on the fabric surface.
Preshrinking: Finally, the fabric is Sanforized, a mechanical process that uses steam and rubber rollers moving in opposite directions to preshrink the fabric.

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Decision makers in the Ethical Textile business are sensitive to environmental issues and wish to be sure that their products are made according to socially and ecologically responsible business practices. They want to change the way business is done internationally and their product sourcing is part of the change.
On the production end of this chain, there are very few truly dedicated actors. Most are merely looking to extend their conventional business by adding organics to their production activities. Among the really committed few in Organic cotton manufacturing, is RCM, with their vertical chain of production for organic cotton textiles – from farmer to finished product.
While as, the majority of factories produce organic cotton products as a sideline, RCM deals only in Organic and Fair Trade cotton, including mixes of organic cotton with other eco- fibers.