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Engineered Coated Fabrics

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Leading technology in engineered fabrics

Advanced technology accelerates performance

Our use of leading-edge technology in developing, testing and processing makes us a leader in engineered fabrics, driving innovation to create application-specific solutions that accelerate performance.

Proven processes, latest innovations

Our production processes are based on well-established principles, but remain at the cutting edge of innovation. We employ the latest coating, lamination and hot melt technology to ensure the strongest materials can be produced on time and on budget.

Screen coating

The fabric is passed between rotating screens where compound is applied to both sides simultaneously. The material is then infrared dried before entering a second screen coating tower. Oven curing and inline inspection is the final step. Only one pass is required using this process.

Saturation

The fabric is submerged in a dip tank then passed between pad rollers to control the amount of coating.

Spread coating

The base fabric is passed beneath a stationary blade, then through a drying oven where solvent is driven off. One or more passes are used to build the coating to the desired thickness.

3-roll or 4-roll calendering

The rubber compound is formed into a film by the top two rolls and transferred to the fabric as it passes between the two lower rolls. We offer both 3-roll and 4-roll calendering capabilities.

Roller head calendering

A rubber film is formed by extruding and shaping between two calender rolls.

Rotocure

The netting is created between the polymer chains to obtain the final desired properties of the product.

Lamination and hot melt

We provide film lamination capability for urethane-coated fabrics, as well as fabric-to-fabric lamination, which offers maximum quality and strength at a wide variety of gauges.

Unrivalled test resources

Our laboratories worldwide have the latest test equipment and an unrivalled network of experts in rubber and coated materials testing. We can draw on over 100 years of experience in testing rubber and rubber-coated products. Consequently, we offer you the best in-house test resources available from a supplier. 

Trelleborg provides:

    Physical properties testing
  • Curing behavior
  • Viscosity
  • Hardness
  • Tensile stress-strain
  • Tear strength
  • Creep
  • Density
  • Ageing, in air and different medias
  • Compression set
  • Relaxation
  • Low temperature resistance
  • Flex cracking
  • Resistivity, surface and volume
  • Dielectric strength
  • Ozone resistance
  • Limited Oxygen Index, LOI
    Material preparation
  • Lab. mixing rubber
  • Lab. mixing solutions
  • Lab. coating

Material preparation

Customized options at every stage of the process mean we can deliver a truly application-specific solution. We can custom gauge to many product thicknesses in addition to the following:

  • Supported coated fabrics 
  • 0.05-10 mm on each side
  • Unsupported rubber sheeting 
  • 0.10-16 mm

We also offer a variety of surface preparations for custom needs, such as: 

  • Unbalanced coatings
  • Uncured
  • Gums
  • Biasing
  • Finishing
  • Slitting
  • Buffing
  • Printing
  • Powdering
  • Step jointing
  • Cut to length

Find the ideal engineered fabric solution

Fabric selector

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Substrates

Substrates

A wide variety of fibers and weaving techniques are combined to create optimized substrates.
Coatings

Coatings

Rubber, urethane and other polymers provide optimized coating properties for substrates.

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