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Specialty fibers, fabrics and textiles are based upon a unique composition, weave, or technology, and are designed for specialized applications. There are many different types of products. Specialty fibers are bulk, chopped fibers or thin, continuous filaments that are supplied as monofilaments, multi-filaments, threads, or strands. Specialty fabrics include sleeves and wraps, blankets and batts, knitted products, and braided structures. Sleeves and wraps are flexible, fibrous refractory fabrics for insulating pipes, tubes, ducts and other process components. Knitted products consist of continuous fibers that are processed into a knitted structure with either two or three dimensions. Braided structures are used for tubular composite structures, thermal insulation, and in other applications. Blankets or batts are specialty fabrics that are made of thick layers of fabric sheets. Specialty textiles include a variety of woven and non-woven products. Non-woven materials can be shaped into mats of randomly-oriented fibers, felt, needlepunched cloth, spun bound, or meltblown structures. Wet-laid and air-laid non-wovens are made from short-cut fibers and used to create highly uniform structures. Carded and needlepunched non-wovens offer very high loft (low density) at very low cost. Specialty fibers, fabrics, and textiles such as roving, yarn, rope, cordage, webbing, ribbons, strapping, and tape are also commonly available.

Specialty fibers, fabrics and textiles are made of many different natural and synthetic materials. Natural specialty fibers are often made from plants such as cotton, hemp, jute, or flax. Linen, leather, silk, and wool textiles are also available. Synthetic specialty fabrics contain petroleum-based polymers and fibers. Mineral wool is a category of industrial fabrics that includes slag wool, rock wool, and glass wool. E-glass is a relatively inexpensive glass fiber that combines strength with high electrical resistivity. S-glass®, a registered trademark of Owens Corning, is stronger than E-glass and has better properties at elevated temperatures. Ceramic specialty textiles are made from alumina or zirconia fibers and are designed for high-temperature applications. Boron, quartz, silica, and silicon carbide (SiC) products are also available. Metallic fibers have a shiny surface, high melting point, high hardness, and high thermal and electrical conductivity. Material type choices for specialty fibers, fabrics and textiles include: acetate and triacetate, acrylic and modacrylic, aramid and polyimide, elastomeric, fluropolymer, nylon and polyamide, olefin and polyolefin, polybenzimidazole (PBI) and poly-p-phenylenebenzobisoxazole (PBO), polypropylene, polyphenylene sulfide (PPS), rayon, styrene acrylonitrile (SAN), polyvinyl chloride (PVC).


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Ceramic Insulation and Textiles
Ceramic insulation and textiles are fibrous refractories or thermal insulation products that consist of ceramic fibers in bulk, cloth, batting, paper or rope forms.
Industrial Fabrics
Industrial fabrics consist of woven or non-woven cloth made from natural or synthetic materials.
Nonwovens
Nonwovens are fiber-based products in the form of a mat of randomly orientated fibers, felt, needle punched cloth, spun bond or melt blown structures.
Synthetic Fibers and Fabrics
Synthetic fibers and synthetic fabrics consist of bulk fibers, yarns, woven cloth or other textile products manufactured from polymer-based materials such as polyamide (nylon), polyester, aramid, or other spun thermoplastics.

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Zirconia or zirconium oxide (ZrO2) is an extremely refractory compound of zirconium and oxygen. Zirconia may have additions of calcia, magnesia or baria to stabilize the structure into a cubic... (Read More)
Mineral wool includes slag wool (slag from a metallurgical furnace), rock wool (mineral-derived), or glass wool (sand- or glass-derived), depending upon the raw material from which it is produced. (Read More)
Ceramic textiles consist of ceramic fibers in bulk, fiberboard, paper or rope forms. Some fibrous ceramic products have an organic binder that burns off in the furnace during end-use application. (Read More)

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... of intelligent textiles is given:. Specialty fibers. Two types of fibers are currently available to human society:-. 1) Natural Fibers. 2) Synthetic Fibers. Natural fibers have existed for 4,000 years ...
China to need more industrial-use chemical fibers in next decade
... according to Xu Pu, honorary president of the China Association for Non-woven Fabrics and Textiles for Industrial Use. More industrial-use chemical fibers will also be needed by agricultural, ...
Hanyang University Dep. Molecular System Engineering
Woven Structure I *Chemistry and Chemical Processing of Fibers and Textiles I *Analysis of Textile Materials *Seminar *Chemistry and Chemical Processing of Fibers and Textiles II *Textile Finishing ...
Hills Inc, BARRIER FABRICS OF SPUNBOND SPECIALTY FIBERS FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS...
... of special fibers for the areas of medical textiles where spunbond and non-woven fabrics are widely used. Since these textiles are not generally thought to come into contact with body fluids and are ...
3M Ceramic Textiles & Composites - Literature Center
High Performance Oxide Fibers for Metal and Ceramic Composites. (PDF, 427Kb) D. M. Wilson and L. R. Visser, 3M Specialty Fibers and Composites. Paper presented at the Processing of Fibers & Composites ...
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