Safety for membrane and lightweight construction

Innovative architecture and construction engineering require efficient, innovative materials. Today, technical textiles and films enable trend-setting and sophisticated solutions for roofs and facades. We help you implement these special projects safely – from the start.

The laboratory for technical textiles and films (formerly the Blum laboratory), which is DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025 accredited, supports manufacturers and planners in their development and quality assurance as well as builders in their subsequent use of the products. As a recognized testing, monitoring and certification body (PÜZ) according to the state building regulations and the building regulation list, we support you in the field of membrane and lightweight construction with leading expertise and the experience of more than three decades. Our independent expertise has been and is sought-after for a number of spectacular lightweight construction projects worldwide.

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Throughout the world, within the most technologically advanced industries, we add layers of innovation to ensure the highest performance in coated fabrics.

Our advanced technical textiles solutions are built on technical and industry know-how, delivered by experienced teams across a proven and efficient process methodology. With every angle covered, we go further to engineer customized and innovative coating solutions that improve the performance of industry innovations and accelerate our customers’ business. We come up with fully equipped advanced technology for overall customer satisfaction.

Our PVC Coated Fabrics for Signage are used for large format advertising, Indoor and Outdoor application, Billboards, Light Boxes, Exhibition booths and many other applications. We ensure that customer’s ultimate satisfaction is guaranteed because our products are having high tear resistance, high intensity graphics on solvent, eco solvent, latex and UV inks, Flame Retardant, UV resistant and fungus resistant.

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Environmentally friendly resorcinol-formaldehyde-free adhesive systems for textile-rubber composites

Technical textiles deliver solutions for a wide range of applications such as reinforcements for mechanical rubber goods (MRG) and composite materials. The surface of reinforcing fibers and in particular the interphase between the fiber and rubber matrix is essential to meet these challenges and specific requirements. Resorcinol-Formaldehyde-Latex (RFL) chemistry is at the core of textile reinforcements for the application in mechanical rubber goods such as tires, timing belts, hoses and air springs.

Due to regulatory issues, formaldehyde has been recently classified as carcinogenicity category 1B substance and according to the EU commission regulation No. 605/2014 these new legal obligations apply to producers, importers and downstream users. As a result of this re-classification, mixtures containing free formaldehyde contents of 0.1% or more are required to be labelled as carcinogenic i.e. H350, as they may cause cancer. Since Resorcinol is also in focus, there is therefore an immediate need to look for alternative cross-linking systems for technical fiber reinforcements in the field of MRG.

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Technical textiles made of high-performance fibers are currently being rediscovered as reinforcing materials for structural elements subject to high stress. Here carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics will be particularly prominent in the materials of the future. Experts expect the automotive branch to be the largest driver and thus the principle future market for carbon fibers. However, current use is still dominated by prepregs (pre-impregnated fibers), so that the predicted “Automotive” growth scenario will only come to pass if the cost of carbon-fiber-reinforced components drops significantly and the potentials for cost savings are leveraged to the greatest extent possible.

Since these savings potentials are primarily found in use of materials and in the component manufacturing process, it will only be possible to realize these tangible ecological and economic effects as forecast in large-scale industrial series manufacturing of this type of component. This makes it absolutely necessary to develop new textile machines as a central unit in new manufacturing processes for semi-finished textile products and preforms, also with regard to intelligent hybrid components in multi-material design.

By consolidating the individual areas of expertise of the member institutes, they intend to represent the entire textile value creation chain, from the textile machine to fiber production, manufacture of preforms/semi-finished products, textile functionalization, Smart Technical Textiles, process and product simulation, all the way to fiber-reinforced composite components.

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