A tour of industrial garment factories shows how fabric moves from arrival through dyeing, drying in a 2,000 kg cylinder with eight chambers, chemical finishing, quality inspection, and automatic rolling. Each step uses massive machines that apply precise temperature and tension control to prepare material for shipment.
These are some of the largest machines you will ever see in the production of clothing. Fabric is received here, comes here off the truck into the warehouse. So what they're doing is they're unspooling the fabric, which is the shape it needs to be in in order to go into dyeing, because you're not going to literally dye the entire roll. You are going to dye the fabric like this so that the color hits it more evenly. So in this case, this huge machine here, this huge cylinder, 2,000 kilograms, 8 chambers, 8 areas you could put fabric in from that it can handle. This is where drying process begin? Number one, it's going to apply a certain level of tension to make sure the fabric is stretched out properly so that it's evenly dried everywhere. Secondly, the temperature is controlled so that it's dried evenly throughout the fabric. When the fabric comes out, it's as if it's been ironed. If you actually take a look at the fabric over here, that really wet, really wrinkled fabric from before is now this very nice uniform dry fabric, and it's ready to be turned into rolls that are going to be dried off. So over here, the fabric has had the softener applied to it, it's had whatever other parameters they want for finishing, and the The fabric is coming down here and it's being prepared for its final step where it's going to be taken to a QC. This guy's looking out for any flaws in the fabric, and if it's all good, the fabric runs underneath and it starts being rolled. Once it achieves a certain weight, it'll stop, it gets cut, and it's done.
