Jowat SE, the leading supplier of industrial adhesives, will attend this year’s Techtextil trade fair for technical textiles and nonwovens, with the showcase of the company’s innovative adhesives for increased functionality of textiles and laminated automotive interiors.

Jowat SE is attending this year’s trade shows under the headline think differently. From a basis of comprehensive applications know-how and in close cooperation with manufacturers, subsuppliers and engineering companies, thinking differently can generate additional customer value and also offer a high potential for improved efficiency thanks to the adhesives used, the company believes.

Innovative adhesives

The technology of bonding is a well-established integral operation in the manufacturing processes of the textile and automotive industries.

Innovative adhesives with improved and new performance characteristics are focusing on aspects far beyond the primary functionality of for instance textile end products.

“The adhesive novelties presented at the Techtextil 2015 prove that when the customer requirements are consistently followed up, it will lead to totally new performance criteria, which have a direct positive impact on efficiency, flexibility and reliability in manufacture,” says the company.

Durable adhesives

Breathability, washing resistance, windproof characteristics, and water repellence are some of the properties that are expected to be fulfilled in modern, functional clothing textiles.

With the new moisture-curing polyurethane hot melt adhesives from the product series Jowatherm-Reaktant PUR Tex introduced by Jowat SE at the Techtextil, new standards in the areas of breathability and washing resistance are established, the company reports.

The textile compounds produced with the new PUR hot melt adhesives (at equal adhesive coatings) are said to offer great breathability, as well as excellent washing resistance. Good adhesion on a variety of membranes and textiles and high compound strength round off the multiple advantages of these new breathable PUR hot melts, according to the manufacturer.

Innovative raw materials

“The consistent introduction of innovative new raw materials led to adhesive formulations with characteristics unknown so far, and an extraordinary elasticity of the laminated textiles,” explains the company. “The resulting extremely soft handle of the textiles substantially improves the comfort of wear of the garment materials.”

Especially in the manufacture of functional textiles, manufacturing processes can be made substantially more efficient when the bonding technology is consistently exploited. Highly challenging for the finishing process of membrane lamination are textiles that have already been impregnated with fluorocarbons for improved water repellence.

These difficult to bond surfaces require powerful products with excellent adhesion properties. Utilising the new, breathable adhesives from Jowat is said to support the optimisation of the laminating processes, with reduced pressing times, higher reproducibility and improved handling flexibility of the base materials and laminates.

Applications and products

Sympatex Technologies, one of the leading suppliers of high-tech functional materials in clothing, footwear, accessories and technical applications, is drawing on the advantages of the breathable laminating adhesives from Jowat.

Apart from numerous other applications for adhesives in automotive interiors, Jowat SE is focusing on products for the lamination of automotive interior panelling. The higher the level of complexity of the materials selected and the more challenging the geometry of the components, the greater are the requirements on the adhesives and on the application technology used.

The VACFLOW method, developed jointly by Jowat SE and solution partner companies, is said to ensure that the manufacture of pilot production components is less time and cost intensive. A complete range of reactive PUR / POR and PO hot melt adhesives from the product series Jowatherm-Reaktant and Jowat-Toptherm is ready to be used in the VACFLOW process.

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