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Japan's Toray develops Camifu polyester filament fabric

06 Dec '21
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Pic: Toray
Pic: Toray

Toray has developed Camifu, a polyester filament fabric that combines the softness, smoothness, and comfort of synthetic fibres with the natural feel and random unevenness of traditional Japanese paper. The multinational firm specialises in industrial products centred on technologies in organic synthetic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and biochemistry.

The company will recommend the fabric for an array of apparel uses, from casual medium-weight fabrics for men’s and women’s outerwear to cut-and-sewn apparel, broadening the horizons of upmarket fashions in Japan and overseas markets. The company plans to commercialise Camifu from Spring/Summer 2022. Unlike conventional fabrics, Camifu can match the Japanese paper features that inspired it. That is because Toray employed Nanodesign, its conjugate spinning technology, to develop a flat C cross-sectional shape that delivers a precise arrangement of three different polymers, Toray said in a media statement.

Using Nanodesign, Toray created a special cross-sectional structure in which it has arranged polymers with different heat shrinkage properties in special shapes on the left and right of a flat cross section, with a soluble polymer in the fibre centre. Toray heat treated polymers on the left and right side of the fibre to bend along the fibre. This, coupled with a flat shape, creates a unique twist and stretch. Varying the arrangement and shape of the polymer with adjacent fibres generates different torsional structures for each yarn, resulting in a yarn bundle structure containing complex voids.

A yarn bundle structure produces a random unevenness in the fabric texture so it feels like hand-made Japanese paper. Single yarns comprising polymers with different colorations and dyeability cover the fabric without aligning, for attractive fluctuations like those of Japanese paper. Camifu is eco-friendly, as one of its polymers is recycled from film scraps, according to Toray.

In designing Camifu, Toray created a hollow structure inside the fibre by placing a soluble polymer within, augmenting yarn bundle voids from filament twisting during relaxing and weight reduction process on textile. The hollow portion imparts a lightness and resilient feel to the fabric. A precisely designed slit keeps functional agents within the fibre, making it possible to incorporate a range of features in the fabric.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (GK)

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