About Canvas Tarpaulin

• A canvas tarpaulin or tarp is a huge sheet of flexible, strong, waterproof material.
• Traditionally tarpaulins were made out of cotton however currently nylon and polyester fibre fabrics are being increasingly used in manufacturing tarpaulins.
• Canvas tarpaulins are largely used as truck covers.
• Trucks travel long distances and hence come across huge climatic variations.
• Given India‘s rough environmental conditions, damage to goods is inevitable if the goods are not adequately shielded.
• A steel body truck not only increases the weight of the truck but also reduces the fuel efficiency. Thus, truck tarpaulin covers are widely used as truck covers.
• As the logistics industry is getting more and more organized, the product liability clauses are being enforced on the logistics players leading to increase in usage of truck covers.
• Moreover, the advent of organized players in retail industry has also given boost to the use of well covered trucks.

Product Characteristics

• Canvas Tarpaulin covers are made of cotton canvas or nylon or polyester fibre fabrics coated with PVC.
• The cotton fabric is available in GSM ranging from 380 to 500.
• Vinyl coated polyester fabrics are 610 GSM to 678 GSM with the base fabric of 102 GSM to 107 GSM.
• These fabrics being heavy have lower elongation, minimum shrinkage over wide range of temperature and humidity conditions and resistance to UV degradation.

Technology used:

• Weaving
• Coating