Ensures safety by preventing hazardous chemicals from penetrating the fabric, making it ideal for industrial and protective applications.
Enhances comfort by allowing sweat vapor to escape while maintaining a dry interior, ensuring breathability and wearer comfort.
Provides a reliable barrier against harmful biological contaminants, making it suitable for medical, military, and hazardous environments.
Maintains durability and performance in harsh environments by resisting degradation from common industrial and military substances.
Shields against harsh wind conditions, ensuring warmth and comfort while maintaining breathability in extreme outdoor and work environments.
Enhances durability by withstanding wear and friction, making the fabric suitable for rugged applications where longevity is essential.
Here we will explain more in-depth details concerning the properties of both PU membranes and ePTFE membranes used in technical textile products.
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Properties
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ePTFE Laminate
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PU Laminate
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Breathability
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More breathable.
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Depends on thickness & chemistry.
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Hydrostatic Resistance
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Very good after exposure and launderings.
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Not as good as ePTFE
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Thermal stability
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Thermal resistance
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Not as good as ePTFE
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Chemical Resistance
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Excellent chemical resistance.
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Good chemical resistance can be built in.
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Cold Flex
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Excellent cold flex. Retains properties to -40C°
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Poor cold flex properties below -10C°
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Abrasion
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Excellent abrasion resistance, maintaining properties.
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Good abrasion resistance.
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We have experience in satisfying customer needs for protective technical textiles by designing, developing, sampling fabrics according to your needs, requirements and specifications.
To laminators we can source and supply outershell fabrics dyed or printed, liners and propose solutions for their specific end-uses such as medical, military, law enforcement, fire-fighting, electrical arc, workwear and sporting as well as offer dot coating lamination machines and knife coating machines.
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