Garments Finishing Process

Garments Finishing:

Garments finishing means, mainly applies of pressing, folding & packing of garments.

Garments finishing m/c

Pressing
Pressing is a finishing process done by a cloth to heat and pressure with or without steam to remove creases and to impart a flat appearance to the cloth or garments. In garment industries pressing is also called ironing. After completing pressing the garments have to be folded.

Pressing

Folding
After completing pressing, the garments are folded with a predetermine area. Garments are folded according to the buyers direction, requirements in a standard area.

Folding

Folding classification depends on the fabric types. There are mainly four types of folding. They are –

Stand up: Collar is folded and situated at 90* angle.

Semi stand up: Collar is folded with body and situated at 45 degree angle.

Semi stand up

Flat pack: Collar is separated as a hole on the body of shirt.

Flat pack

Hanger pack: shirt is packed and transported by hanging on the hanger.

Hanger pack

At the end of the folding, garments are placed into a polythene packet.

Packing
After folding, garments are packing the size of polythene packet is permanent. Specially, it is needed to ensure the placement of sticker in proper place.

Packing

Barcode
Barcode is a specially Buyer wise sticker.

Barcode

Assortment
After completing the packing of garments, it must be placed the garments in a predetermined pack by sorting according to the size and color then garments are packed into inner box according to the size and color. This process working in order is called assortment.

Assortment

Metal Check
Checking the metal type component into the garments or with its accessories like button, zipper etc. is called metal check.

Metal Check

Cartooning
At last cartooning or packing the garments according to Buyer comment. The process of packing of inner boxes entered into the carton is called cartooning. The carton is properly warped by the scotch tape. Some information like carton box no, size, shipping mark and the destination are printed on the carton.

Cartooning

Final inspection
Final inspection is made by buyer. He checks the garments according some rules like AQL.

Final inspection

Spot Removing
Spot removing is one of the special inspections which are done after initial quality check.

Spot removing

References

1. Finishing Textiles from www.wikipedia.com
2. Garments Manufacturing Technology by Md. Saiful Azom
3. Lecture Sheet by Jahanara Akhter 

 

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