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New meta-aramid offers high level heat resistance

Teijin Limited announced today that it has developed a new type of meta-aramid fibre that offers the world’s highest level of heat resistance combined with excellent dyeablility, which will be produced in a facility to be built in Ayutthaya Province, Thailand. Construction begins this December and production is scheduled from July 2015. Teijin says the newly developed fibre will strengthen its global presence in the protective apparel market, where demand for high-performance materials is increasing.

11th July 2013

Innovation in Textiles
 |  Tokyo

Protective

According to the company, the production technologies it has developed enable the new meta-aramid fibre to achieve unsurpassed heat resistance and excellent dyeablity, providing customers with more diversified solutions for the design and manufacture of protective apparel.

“We have supported the global market for protective apparel over decades with our high-performance materials, such as Teijinconex meta-aramid, Twaron and Technora para-aramid, Pyromex flame-resistant fibre and since recently with Endumax high-performance polyethylene,” said Masaya Endo, Teijin group executive officer and general manager of Teijin’s high-performance fibres business unit.

“The new type of meta-aramid fibre strengthens Teijin’s competitiveness in the emerging economies and Asia, where the demand for heat-proof and flame-retardant high-performance materials is growing due to increasing safety regulations, and in North America and Europe, where the demand is high for advanced solutions that combine comfort and manoeuvrability with high protection.”

Teijin will invest around JPY 4.5 billion (US 45 million) to build the plant on the premises of Teijin (Thailand) Limited. When completed, the plant will nearly double the annual capacity of Teijin’s global meta-aramid fibre production.

The Teijin group, a world leader in ultra-high performance materials, says it will continue to strengthen capabilities in growing markets for protective apparel and efforts will include collaboration between the group’s Research Center in Osaka, Japan, Development Lab in Wuppertal, Germany, Research Center in Arnhem, the Netherlands, Technical Center Asia in Shanghai, China as well as the Iwakuni and the Matsuyama plants in Japan, the Emmen plant in the Netherlands and in the foreseeable future the new plant in Thailand.

www.teijin.com

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