"The fabric I just showed you is made of natural fibers. Cotton produced in the fields is spun into yarn and then made into fabric. After ordinary dyeing, these fabrics become the common cotton fabrics on the market."
Synthetic fiber fabrics are made by processing materials such as nylon and polypropylene into yarns, which are then woven into fabrics. These fabrics require chemical dyes to achieve their desired colors.
Song Qing touched the fabrics in her hand, which were dyed with the same dye from different materials. Indeed, the synthetic fabrics were lighter and thinner, and the colors were more vibrant.
If you gently knead it with your hands, wrinkles will quickly appear on cotton fabric, while synthetic fabrics will soon return to their smooth state.
"Does the production and dyeing/weaving process of synthetic fiber fabrics need to be more precise?"
"That's right. Feel the synthetic fiber fabric in your hands. Although it is light, thin and corrosion-resistant, it is not resistant to high temperatures and its shrinkage rate is much higher than that of ordinary fabrics."
Therefore, precise control is required throughout the entire fabric production process.
Therefore, there are not many manufacturers on the market that can produce synthetic fiber fabrics, and the prices are very high.
Zhao Qin lingered on the brightly colored swatches from the dyeing factory, unable to put them down. Fabric production is ultimately just raw material; it is the subsequent processing that creates more economic value.
However, the economic value of different fabrics is also different.
It is clear that synthetic fiber fabrics are more popular on the market now.
Unlike later generations who pursued natural fibers, people today prefer various synthetic fiber fabrics that are soft to the touch and do not wrinkle easily.
For example, varnish, which is often used to make trousers, costs 1.8 yuan per meter, while making a pair of trousers generally requires 1.2 meters of fabric, so a pair of trousers costs close to 10 yuan.
This isn't even the most expensive one. A crisp, sturdy, and durable Dacron shirt costs 18 yuan just for the fabric alone.
The average worker's salary is only 30, and most people really can't bring themselves to spend so much money on a set of clothes.
These days, owning a set of Dacron clothes is considered very fashionable. Even if you grit your teeth and make a set, you wouldn't usually wear it.
"Tests show that these processed fabrics have excellent colorfastness and abrasion resistance. In addition to solid color fabrics, we now also produce various satin fabrics and floral fabrics."
Seeing their interest, the people from the dyeing and weaving factory gave a more detailed explanation.
This is almost the most advanced textile factory in the country. In addition to dyeing technology, printing and embossing are also the most advanced.
"That's a high-temperature, high-pressure prototyping machine that we just purchased. It will only be put into production after the small sample has been dyed and verified."
They are now visiting the dyeing and weaving factory's laboratory, where the staff are wearing white coats and masks, and they look very energetic.
A woman raised an eyebrow at the prototype machine, greeted the person showing them around, and then went back to her work.
"This is Fang Ru, a technician from our dyeing and weaving factory. She will be the one to guide you when you enter the dyeing factory in the future."
Our technician is a top student from the Chemical Fiber Department of East China Textile Institute; he's very capable.
After touring the dyeing and weaving processes, it was already noon. Xiao Liu led them to the factory canteen.
Are you going to visit our garment factory this afternoon?
After all, their textile factory only produces fabrics; the dyeing and garment-making lines are not yet operational.
This morning, Song Qing and her colleagues were like country bumpkins visiting the Grand View Garden, marveling at all the advanced production lines.
"Go, go, go, broaden your horizons."
"I didn't dare to speak loudly inside, for fear of breaking someone's things."
"That's right, the craftsman just now let me touch it, but I didn't dare to move."
"The technicians at the dyeing and weaving factory are amazing; they're all college graduates."
Only when you compare them do you realize that they are the real technicians. With their white coats and masks on, they look exactly like the highly educated intellectuals in magazines.
"Everyone who comes to our factory for the first time is stunned." Xiao Liu is used to it.
The canteen at the dyeing and weaving factory is a three-story building, and it was already break time, so it was packed with people.
Xiao Liu had just finished getting their food and was about to find a seat when he turned around and saw Fang Ru, whom he had just met.
"Isn't that Technician Fang?"
Fang Ru got her food and walked out of the cafeteria, followed by a man.
"Is that Technician Fang's boyfriend? Isn't her boyfriend the purchasing agent from the machinery factory?"
After settling Song Qing and the others in, Xiao Liu happened to run into some acquaintances who were also there, so he sat down at the table next to Song Qing.
As soon as everyone sat down, they started gossiping in hushed tones. Fang Ru was quite famous in their large factory. She was good-looking, a college graduate, and most importantly, her father was the deputy factory director.
“I remember that her boyfriend came to pick her up at last year’s party.”
Nowadays, even if people are dating, they won't be affectionate in public, and once they start dating, they assume they will get married later.
When Fang Ru suddenly appeared in front of everyone with someone who wasn't her boyfriend, everyone was suspicious and couldn't stop speculating.
Upon hearing this, Song Qing couldn't help but look over there, only to see a very unexpected person: Chen Yuqi.
In a flash, those somewhat familiar names all came together in her mind.
Fang Ru, Yangxi Machinery Factory. In her previous life, the last time she met Chen Yuqi was in 1978. Chen Yushu somehow found out her address and asked her for help.
Putting aside her relationship with Chen Yuqi, just considering her relationship with the Chen family, she couldn't refuse to help with this kind of favor.
In order to collect information, she went through everything that the Chen family had experienced during those ten years.
It was only at this moment that Song Qing remembered that the Yangxi Machinery Factory where the Chen siblings worked was not far from the textile factory.
When they met again in 1978, the two sat down like friends and talked about their experiences over the past 10 years.
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