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In recent years, hotel linen has unique advantages in creating atmosphere, optimizing the environment, and providing humanized and personalized services, so it has become an important link for hotels to enhance their competitiveness. Hotel material procurement occupies an important strategic position in hotel operations. Blindly pursuing cheap or stubbornly choosing high-end products is not the ultimate good strategy for hotel linen procurement. Only by selecting linen suitable for the hotel can it bring good benefits to the hotel. Today, the hotel linen editor will lead everyone to explore the "secrets" of hotel linen, so that customers can better choose hotel linen and avoid stepping on thunder.

trap one

The thicker the fabric, the better, and the thicker and more expensive it is not just thick fabrics. 4040 fabrics are obviously thicker than 6040 fabrics. Thick fabrics often do not feel comfortable. The thickness of the fabric has a lot to do with the thickness of the yarn, specifically, it is distinguished by its fiber count. Fabric count refers to the number of yarns in a square inch of fabric, called British branch, referred to as S. The count is related to the length and weight of the yarn. For example, if one tael of cotton is made into 30 yarns with a length of 1 meter, that is 30 counts; if one tael of cotton is made into 40 yarns with a length of 1 meter, that is 40 counts. Therefore, the higher the count, the softer and stronger the fabric, and the relatively thinner the fabric, the better the quality of the fabric. Obviously, the higher the count, the finer the yarn, the higher the requirements for equipment, the higher the quality of raw cotton, the more expensive the price of yarn per ton, and the higher the cost of cloth. Count is the most important index to measure the thickness of yarn. The larger the count, the finer the yarn, and the more yarns are arranged per square inch, so the higher the density of the bedding with the same count, the better, and the higher the count, the higher the density. This is what we often hear " High-count and high-density fabrics. Therefore, the thicker the linen fabric, the better, and the thicker it is, the more expensive it is.

trap two

Fabrics with a sense of crispness, good hotel quilt covers, bed sheets, pillowcases and other linens will be sizing after being washed by a regular washing company. The purpose of sizing is to increase the stain resistance of the fabric, prevent the dirt from penetrating into the fiber, and create a "separation layer" between the dirt and the fabric. At the same time, the contaminated quilt cover sheet is easy to remove the dirt when washing. Another purpose of sizing is to increase the stiffness of the fabric, prevent the fibers from fluffing, and have a good appearance. If the yarn count density of the fabric does not meet the standard, the so-called thickness of the fabric will be increased by sizing, but this thickness and stiffness are temporary and will disappear after being put into the water. The last process of fabric gray fabrics of many manufacturers in the bleaching and finishing plant is also sizing, because the yarn count density of the fabrics cannot meet the standard. However, the yarn count density of our fabrics is up to the standard, and it is not used for sizing treatment, but softener is added. The cost of softener is much higher than the price of size. So the fabric with crisp feeling is not necessarily the best.

trap three

The fabric is very bright, which is chemical fiber. What is mercerizing? The so-called mercerizing refers to the process of washing away the caustic soda after the cotton fabric is treated with concentrated caustic soda to melt the hairs on the surface of the fabric and shrink the fibers in the yarn. After treatment, the shape of cotton fiber changes, the reflection of light becomes more regular, and the surface of cotton fiber becomes very shiny. Mercerizing is a process in the finishing process and has nothing to do with the material of the fabric. Factories that do not have mercerizing equipment use the calendering process. The calendering machine is composed of several hard rolls and soft rolls with smooth surfaces. After the fabric is rolled and pressed by the combination of hard and soft rolls, the yarn is flattened and the surface is smooth. Enhanced shine and firm feel. However, the durability of the gloss effect of the fabric is poor, and it will gradually lose its luster after several times of water. Calendering is a mechanical and physical treatment, while mercerizing is a chemical treatment, which are two different things. Therefore, some customers think that the fabric is bright, thin, and made of chemical fiber, which is actually wrong. For the same fabric, mercerized is more expensive than calendered. In hotel linen procurement, to distinguish the quality of a fabric, one depends on the yarn count density, and the high-count and high-density fabric must be good. The second is to look at the finishing process. Good fabrics have undergone a series of finishing processes such as singeing and mercerizing, and the price is also more expensive. The most important point: When choosing linen, you must choose a manufacturer with guaranteed quality and after-sales service, so that your money is worthwhile.