Disperse dyes ‐ the challenge of the 1990s: (Meeting demands for increasingly higher levels of wash fastness in the exhaust dyeing of polyester/cellulosic blends)

International industrial trends to increasing usage of polyester/cellulosic Mends for sportswear and leisure wear apparel outlets have put increasing demands on the performance of disperse dyes, particularly the cross staining and fastness. Innovation in developing novel disperse dyes to meet increasingly higher quality demands is reviewed. The prospect of rendering thermomigration a problem of the past' with respect to dispetse dyes is also considered.