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Schoeller makes ceraspace technology for protective fabric

30 Apr '15

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Schoeller AG, German developers of highly functional protective fabrics and textile technologies, has developed ceraspace technology with protective properties that combines colour and safety.

The ceraspace technology offers a new dimension in abrasion proofing and heat resistance. The functional fabrics with ceraspace technology display significantly higher abrasion resistance than leather and feature a stretchy soft-shell-comfort that is very comfortable to wear.

The new ceraspace technology from Schoeller owes its outstanding protective properties to a unique composition of special ceramic particles anchored in a polymer matrix. The special ceramic particles are nearly as hard as diamonds and are firmly attached as a 3-dimensional coating to the textile. A textile with ceraspace proves to be much better than high-quality leather in terms of abrasion. The new high-vis-yellow version offers now highest visibility compared with security. The ceraspace coating brightens as colour-matching is possible with the base fabrics in the signal colour, the company said in a press release.

The Schopper Abrasion tester uses abrasive paper P280 grid and performs the test until a hole in the textile appears. The test was conducted on ceraspace technology, and the fabric proved to wear out significantly slower.

A second test named the Fall Simulator Test, which simulates a fall from a motorcycle and then evaluates the damages to the textile after the fall, was also conducted with the new fabric. With ceraspace technology, even lightweight tested samples support crashes at minimum 80 km/ hour on this test. With the duroplastic properties of the polymer, no melting is possible, minimizing the possibility of exposure to harmful heat and abrasion for the wearer.

ceraspace is used in all areas in which textiles with maximum protective properties are required, such as, motorcycle, workwear and military apparel; footwear or protective trim for ski and outdoor clothing. The carrier materials, onto which the ceraspace technology is added are available in full width and lengths and are variable depending on the requirements of functionality and end application. Therefore, this highly technological protective function can also be applied on soft and smooth softshell fabrics. (GK)

Fibre2fashion News Desk - India

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