Browsing: Technical Textiles

DuPont has recently launched DuPont´ Tychem® ThermoPro, a single layer, triple-threat protection garment, at the Civil Defence Training Center in Dubai Academic City. DuPont´ Tychem® ThermoPro is an innovative single layer garment that offers protection from liquid-chemical jet, flash fire, and electric arc. During the launch, a live demonstration of DuPont´ Tychem® ThermoPro garment on the Thermo-Man® life-sized instrumented mannequin system was also conducted.

Sioen Industries NV´a diversified stock quoted Group with an extensive portfolio of products and activities: spinning, weaving and coating, manufacturing of garments, production of fine chemicals and processing of technical textiles´has announced two acquisitions: Dynatex and Le Comptoir Zouloo.

AUTEFA Solutions, at Techtextil in Frankfurt, will present the Automatic Needle Exchanger 2.0, which has experienced an enormous boost of innovation within the last two years and hardly reminds on its predecessor model, which was shown at Techtextil 2013.

Oerlikon Barmag is one of two companies worldwide that deliver machine solutions for the production of HMLS yarn. The material is extremely tear resistant, but elastic and temperature as well as dimensionally stable. It is predominantly used in high-speed tyres, which´as a result of the high speeds achieved´are subjected to particularly high loads.

Initially used in functional clothing, the energear´ textile technology from Schoeller Technologies is now being used as well in the field of upholstery fabrics and mattress toppers. energear´ allows the body´s own energy, which is radiated in form of far infrared rays, to be reflected back to the body. This can have a positive influence on the body and its energy balance.

Picanol NV (Ieper, Belgium) will be exhibiting for the fourth time at the bi-annual Techtextil fair in Frankfurt. Picanol will be at the Belgian Lounge, organised by Symatex, the Belgian Textile Machinery Association.