NARROW TEXTILES IN FUNCTION II – TENSIONING
02 November 2020
Secure and stable, flexible and fixed – textile solutions for numerous industries
Technical textiles fulfil many functions: they hold, they lift, they secure, they stretch … – and they tension. In this function, our narrow textiles perform an important role in product development. At the same time, they offer significant advantages over tensioning elements made of metal or plastic, such as springs or clamps.
Compelling properties
Textiles are lightweight: a property that plays a key role in modern mobility. Textiles are flexible: from extremely high to extremely low elasticity – the force-elongation behaviour of elastic narrow textiles can be defined with absolute precision, depending on the specific tensioning task to be performed. Textiles provide tension in confined installation spaces: elastics can be used even where space is too limited for springs and clips. Textiles are energy-efficient: low weight, high tensioning force. Textiles are easy to handle: replacing a connecting element spontaneously and without tools, quickly adjusting the length or rolling up and storing a supply … – with textiles, no problem. And textiles are sustainable: natural fibres and rubber are natural and biodegradable raw materials, while synthetic fibres can be made entirely from recycled materials.
Exciting applications
Development teams across numerous industries make use of these properties in their products. For example, for flexible machine components in plant engineering, for switching contacts in electrical engineering, for oscillating closing systems in the construction sector, for noise- and vibration-free seating systems in the automotive industry, or for gripping rings in the toy industry.
Exciting tasks
At a time when we are spending more time than usual within our own four walls, applications of narrow textiles in the furniture industry are particularly relevant. They extend far beyond the field of classic home textiles: as tensioning elements in armchairs, sofas and chairs, as hinge solutions in cabinets, as fixing elements in extendable or foldable tables – narrow textiles are used throughout the home in a wide range of demanding applications.
“JUMBO-Textil GmbH – with its 111 years of textile engineering experience – has specialised in precisely implementing the individual requirements for defined force-elongation values of elastic narrow textiles: we tailor the technical properties of our products exactly to the specific task and the respective raw materials,” explains Deniz Calis, Sales Director Automotive. “Precise technical specifications combined with sustainable raw materials – this combination is decisive in the 21st century.”
Exciting solutions
Elastic cords, tapes and nets: high-tech textiles from JUMBO-Textil GmbH
Photos: JUMBO-Textil GmbH
