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Light Textiles
Technical coatings to be used with a variety of fibre types and fabric
constructions, incorporating Flammtex®, flame retardant water
based coatings
Flammtex®: Products are designed to meet varying
fire retardancy standards.
The coatings are water resistant and durable, imparting good handle
and dimensional stability to the fabric in addition to flame retardancy.
The Flammtex® range can be applied by knife coating, padding,
spraying, paste, foaming, lick coating or rotary screen printing.
Flammtex® compounds can be typically used in the following industries
and applications:
• Automotive/Transport > seats, headliners, door
board fabrics
• Home Furnishings > upholstery, curtains and blinds, bedding
• Medical > curtains, bedding
• Geotextiles > landscape stabilization meshes, scrims
• Sport & Leisure > tarpaulin, canopies, tents
FAQ&A
Q: How has
VLP adapted its flame retardant product range to be in line with
the latest EU directive?
A: VLP is very aware of the EU Directive 2003/11/CE due to our
involvement in the supply of flame retardant latex compounds.
We have assured ourselves that the Brominated Hydrocarbon flame retardants
that we formulate into our latex compounds do not themselves contain
more than 0.1% of Penta and OctaBromoDiPheny Ether as impurities,
and thus can assure all our customers that all the products that VLP
supply will comply with Directive 2003/11/CE. Other suppliers of FR
compounds using raw materials from less reputable sources may not
be able to make the same clear statement as VLP can!
Q: Do you produce a flame retardant finishing for domestic
fabrics which keeps its potency after 5 washes?
A:
The majority of the FR treatments for curtains are simple phosphate
salt solutions which redisolve when the fabric is made wet, and cannot
therefore be made wash resistant. The only phosphate FR system that
is suitable for use on cotton fabrics is the 'Pyrovatex' type product,
which is durable to multiple laundering, but does have a detrimental
effect on the tear strength of the treated fabric. 'Pyrovatex' is
not suitable for Cotton/PES blend fabrics.
Vita Liquid Polymers products are in fact coatings that can be applied
to the back of the fabric. Our products are supplied in liquid form
at a viscosity suited to the piece of coating equipment that the coating
compound is to be applied with.
Curtain fabrics are best coated using a 'Crushed Acrylic Foam compound'
to which a layer of ground viscose flock has been applied whilst the
coating on the fabric is still wet. It is a slightly complicated application
and processing method which requires that you to foam the compound
through a mechanical foaming unit, before coating the foamed compound
onto the textile substrate with a knife over roller coating head,
situated in front of a stentor drying oven equipped with an electrostatic
flocking station also in front of the drying oven. At the stentor
oven exit, the stable foam coating compound is crushed flat between
rollers. The coated fabric is then passed down the stentor again to
fully cure and cross link the compound, so that it develops its full
wash and dry clean resistance. Curtain fabrics treated in this way
can withstand repeated laundering, and the FR additives incorporated
into the coating compound remain in the coating after laundering and
maintain the FR performance of the coated fabric.
Fabrics treated in this way give the 'thermal lined' appearance. Application
of three coats (first coloured white, second coloured black, third
coloured white) give a 'blackout' appearance. |
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