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Rubber Coated Textile

Also known as technical coated textiles or rubber proofed fabrics, rubber coated textiles grant rubber characteristics to a wide variety of fabrics and materials.

We produce these materials specifically for a range of industries from marine and aviation to defence. However, the superior safety properties that rubber coated textiles provide enable you to use them in a variety of applications.

Rubber coated textiles are typically manufactured using either the spread coating or calender coating process.

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The Process And Advantages of Digital Printing Fabric

The introduction of digital printing fabric has brought great advancement in the process of printing onto fabric. As it’s a new process it’s also continually evolving. The basic process involves sending a digital file of your artwork from a computer to a specialised printer. This means you can create your artwork in Photoshop or Illustrator and prepare your file according to the digital printing fabric companies specifications, send your file to them and have it directly printed onto the fabric. Each company will have their own requirements in regards to file format etc.

The two main types of printing used are dye sublimation and digital pigment printing. Each digital printing fabric company will have their preferred method so it’s best to do some research and see which you prefer. Dye sublimation involves printing with dyes and digital pigment printing uses pigments. Your choice will depend on factors such as the fabric you want to print on and the end use of the fabric.

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Coated Textiles: Principles and Applications

The use of coated textiles for protective clothing, shelters, covers, liquid containers, etc., dates back to antiquity. Historically, the earliest recorded use of a coated textile was by the natives of Central and South America, who applied latex to a fabric to render it waterproof.

Other materials such as tar, rosin, and wax emulsions have been used over the years to prepare water-resistant fabrics. Due to their vastly superior properties, rubber and other polymeric materials have become the preferred coatings.

Today, coated fabrics are essentially polymer-coated textiles. Advances in polymer and textile technologies have led to phenomenal growth in the application of coated fabrics for many diverse end uses. Coated fabrics find an important place among technical textiles and are one of the most important technological processes in modern industry.

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PVC FREE Banners That Work

Several alternatives have been trialled over the years, but a PVC free banner that truly worked for the market could not be found. Until now.

The PVC free banner endures high wind loads due to its very high tear resistance and form stability. And the material’s qualities enable easy processing, and reduced waste disposal costs after use.

It is like traditional PVC banners in terms of texture and printing quality. But using PVC free banner will enable you to continue to provide high-quality products to your clients, and due to its lightweight construction, it will reduce transport costs and thus reduce their carbon footprint.

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Digital printing on fabric

There are lot of benefits for digital printing but following are the main benefits digital printing fabric brings to the textile industry:

    • Print on demand, print as much as you need.
    • Low cost start up.
    • Needs less operational space.
    • Quality of printing: high printing accuracy, sharp printin.
    • Savings on electricity.
    • Reduced water consumption.
    • Lower need of resources enables faster production cycle.
    • Fashion designers can print low quantities, increased number of niche products hence more creativity in apparel industr.

Personalization of home and household fabrics according to consumer requirement.

  • Needs less education as compared to traditional printin.
  • Wide range of Color variety, unlimited color.
  • Cost savings from absence of ongoing need of plates or drum.
  • Print short runs without any preparatio.
  • Short time needed to design a textile print patter.
  • Low inventory levels for fabric, ink, and other chemical.
  • Reduced time to introduce new designs or garments, less Time needed to get the product ready for market (Fast Fashion.
  • Low cost for making a prototype of an apparel.

 

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Many Materials Serve Non PVC Banner Applications

Non PVC banner is a substitute for PVC banner in display products like signs, posters, backdrops and adhesive films. The most common substitutes are PET, PP, PE and polyester, which are types of plastic but better for the environment than PVC.

Vinyl and laminates aren’t measured in GSM but in MC (microns).

PET vinyl

PET vinyl is made from Polyethylene Terephthalate, a highly recyclable plastic used to make block-out and one-way vinyl.

PP vinyl

PP vinyl is made from polypropylene, another highly recyclable plastic used to make high tack, removable and permanent vinyl products.

PE vinyl

PE (polyethene) is used as a coating system for holographic vinyl and to manufacture woven products for short-term use, like posters.

Polyester

Polyester is used to manufacture polyester canvas for banners, with the synthetic woven fabric used outdoors for long-term use.

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Coated Textiles Applications

Also known as technical coated textiles or rubber proofed fabrics, coated textiles grant rubber characteristics to a wide variety of fabrics and materials. We produce these materials specifically for a range of industries from marine and aviation to defence. However, the superior safety properties that coated textiles provide enable you to use them in a variety of applications.

Coated textiles are typically manufactured using either the spread coating or calender coating process.

Also known as knife coating, the spread coating process utilises a precision knife over air and knife over roller technique. The fabric is suspended under tension below the blade, which enables us to easily change the thickness of the coating. This enables us to apply solvent based polymer coatings directly onto the fabric from a variety of weights on a single side or two sides of the material.

Once the solvent has fully evaporated it leaves behind a layer of polymer on the fabric. This is then cured in extreme temperatures in specially crafted ovens to vulcanise the coating and fix its final characteristics. In order to achieve the best results, the weave structure of the fabric must be tight and capable of being held taught.

Calender coating utilises a different set of tools to achieve similar results. The process involves passing fabric through a set of heated rollers. These heated rollers serve an important purpose as they singe off any surface fibres which gives the fabric a superior smoothness.

The rubber coating is applied simultaneously as the fabric passes between the rollers. This reduces production time as it enables us to coat both sides at the same time. The thickness of the coating can be changed by adjusting the width of the nip between the rollers.

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Smart Thermally Actuating 5 Meter Textiles

Soft robots have attracted attention for biomedical and consumer devices. However, most of these robots are pneumatically actuated, requiring a tether and thus limiting wearable applications that require multiple controlled actuators. By pairing liquid-vapor phase change actuation with a 5 meter textile-based laminated manufacturing method, smart thermally actuating 5 meter textiles eliminate the need for a pneumatic tether.

Smart thermally actuating 5 meter textiles are lightweight and unobtrusive for wearable applications and exploit a facile manufacturing approach that supports arbitrary customization of the form factor and easy creation of connected arrays of individual robotic modules.

Through integrated sensing and heating elements, smart thermally actuating 5 meter textiles demonstrate closed-loop feedback that enables dynamic pressure control in the presence of environmental temperature fluctuations.

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Analogue printing – digital printing fabric

Screen printing is an analogue method of digital printing fabric. Screen printing involves pressing the paint through a printing screen (made of a steel frame and a nylon mesh) and thus making a print. This operation can be performed manually (the paint is then squeezed manually through the screen) or with a machine (the paint is automatically pressed by the machine through the screen).

Preparing the screen in screen printing resembles preparation of a template, where individual parts of the grid are covered, and a specific shape is obtained on the digital printing fabric. By means of screen printing, one colour is printed at a time as each colour is a separate layer. For this reason, screen printing is not particularly recommended for multicolour prints – in such cases, digital printing will work much better. Screen printing method can be used both with material beams (in such instance a rotational screen is used) or on ready-made clothing items (T-shirts, bags, accessories).

This article comes from ctnbee edit released

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Turning textile with recycled yarn waste into valuable yarn

To utilize spinning wastages and convert into a value-added product, different blends of fiber reclaimed from textile with recycled yarn waste and rags/fabric clippers were made with different soft wastages. Theses fibers were converted into open end textile with recycled yarn. Fiber reclaimed from textile with recycled yarn waste had superior properties than fiber from rugs in term of fiber length, uniformity %age and floating fiber %age which are 8% and 8.95% and 12% respectively.

Textile with recycled yarn produced from blended waste textile with recycled yarn sample have less textile with recycled yarn irregularities and better tensile strength properties than of rag waste blended textile with recycled yarn. Among, soft wastages, liker-in waste fiber in textile with recycled yarn showed better results as compared to card fly and ring ac fan. A cost comparison was made which showed that the cost of textile with recycled yarn produced from fibers extracted from rag is cheaper than yarn-waste. Statistical evaluation of fiber and textile with recycled yarn properties was conducted using ANOVA statistical approach.

We provid the level of significance of the relationship between the waste types and the fiber and textile with recycled yarn properties at α value of 0.05. These textile with recycled yarns can be used for manufacturing higher quality textile products like denim, chino cloth for trousers and towel. Cost with recycled content is potentially beneficial in terms of resource depletion and waste minimization strategy.

This article comes from sciencedirect edit released