Spacer Fabrics
Spacer fabrics allow the use of material components in a spatial structure with variable specific design features for the use as textile upholsteries and three-dimensional reinforcing structures for fiber composites.
The developed machine technology makes it possible to produce near-net shape, pressure-elastic workpieces with a high degree of functionality.
Pressure-elastic spacer fabrics as textile upholsteries
Properties+
- an optimal seat temperature enabled by the thermoregulation of moisture
- excellent thermal conductivity
- outstanding air permeability
- excellent drainage of moisture
- active and passive climatisation
- comfortable seating by means of adjustable compression forming characteristics during the entire life cycle
- variable distribution of the seating pressure
- excellent vibration absorption
- good resilience and recovery with minimum continuous load deformation
- design-orientated near-net-shape textile workpieces
- outstanding adaptation to the substructure by means of very good formability
- seating construction requires less space compared to foam
- 100 % PET, completely recyclable
- load-bearing fiber structures for functionality in thicknesses between 20 and 60 mm
- variable orientation of the spatial fiber structures, also on one workpiece
- variable strain and through-flow behavior of the surface structures
- integrated textile articulated sections
Technical details+
- spacing of base fabric is up to 150 mm
- extreme flexibility in knitting construction and design of spaced-thread constructions
- bidirectionally reinforced base fabrics or base fabric sections
- variation of deformability by partly different stitch lengths
- no risk of delamination with bonded-fabric structural components
Fields of application+
- fiber composite components to be used in mechanical engineering and vehicle construction, in the aerospace industry, and for sports and leisure articles
- foamed or coated and inflatable shaped parts
- filtration elements and shaped parts filled with solids
- fully fashioned textile end products for medical and sanitary applications
- reinforcing textiles for textile applications in the civil engineering and construction industry