In the textile industry, silicone is mainly used as lubricant, fabric finishing agent, defoamer and anti-stick agent for yarn and textile machinery, which plays an important role in improving textile quality and technology.

(1) silicone fabric finishing agent: Although synthetic fiber has many excellent advantages, it feels rough and hard, affecting the visual effect, tactile effect and performance of the fabric, so it is necessary to finish the fiber and textile. Silicone fabric finishing agent has good comprehensive properties, not only can meet the wear resistance, tear resistance, wrinkle resistance, crisp, ironing, and feel soft, elastic and super smooth, so it is widely used.

(2) Non-woven material and fabric silicone coating: silicone as a softener of non-woven material, both strong and soft, cutting and sewing is relatively easy, but also to reduce the surface tension of the resin binder, so that the resin evenly spread on the fiber surface, improve the utilization rate of the adhesive. Silicone fabric coating can improve the elongation and elongation recovery of knitwear, improve the wear resistance and shrinkage resistance of the fabric, has a pressure resistance, and can produce a kind of elastic feel memory ", promote the fabric during wearing and after washing to return to a certain balance position.

(3) Sanitary finishing of textiles: Silicone quaternary ammonium salt has the advantages of long-lasting bacteriostatic effect, safety and reliability, wide bacteriostatic range, etc. The hygienic finishing can achieve the best antibacterial and mildew resistance, and has excellent deodorant performance, and has excellent effect on socks, undershirts, underwear, sportswear, carpets, household daily necessities mildew and deodorant finishing, as well as the protection and decoration of ancient cultural relics.

(4) printing and dyeing process defoaming: silicone defoaming agent has the characteristics of small amount and good effect, while harmless to biology, can reduce pollution, has no effect on other additives in the dye bath, does not affect the color fastness, and therefore more and more attention. Silicone defoamer can be used in four forms: silicone oil, silicone oil mixture, silicone oil solution and emulsified silicone oil, which can be divided into non-aqueous defoamer and aqueous defoamer in application. It can be used in the silk industry, bleaching industry, knitting industry and other dyeing, washing, bleaching, surface treatment, desizing, resin finishing, printing and dyeing, printing and dyeing solvent recovery, dry cleaning, jet dyeing, mercerizing treatment, non-textile and carpet production and other processes.

(5) Silicone lubricants and anti-adhesive: silicone compounds have very low surface tension, can uniformly wet the surface of synthetic fibers, or form a film on the surface of its lubrication, and good thermal stability, less weight loss, can reduce the production of carbon powder and waste oxygen, thereby reducing air pollution. In addition, silicone can still maintain its lubricity when heated, which can reduce the parking time, so silicone has been widely used in the textile industry as an anti-stick agent for yarn surface and printing and dyeing machinery lubricant.

(6) Safety protection: Using the performance of organic silicone rubber and silicone resin, it can be made into car airbags, fireproof clothing, non-slip socks, cold-proof clothing, anti-static clothing, etc., to provide safety guarantee for people's production and life.

The silicone materials used in textile are mainly silicone oil and its secondary processing products, as well as a small amount of silicone rubber and silicone resin. Silicone oil can be divided into methyl silicone oil, amino silicone oil, vinyl silicone oil, hydrogen silicone oil, block silicone oil and so on. Textile silicone oil should be a variety of types, including block silicone oil, amino silicone oil, methyl silicone oil and hydrogen containing silicone oil, hydroxyl silicone oil, polyether modified silicone oil, carboxyl modified silicone oil, ice silicone oil, quaternary ammonium salt modified silicone oil.