Systems and Products for specialist markets

FET customers manufacture high value textile materials, in demanding and precise environments. They expect us to provide yarn and fibre engineering knowhow and extrusion equipment which will allow them to consistently produce fibres of the highest quality and to be able to meet required regulatory standards. We excel in the area of specialised novel fibres from exotic and difficult to process polymers.

FET is particularly active in the medical and composites sectors:

Biomedical applications

FET equipment is highly suitable for the development and small volume production of exotic and difficult-to-process biomedical materials, such as resorbable polymers used in medical devices. These include the Engineering Polymers such as PPSU, PEI, PEEK and PC. FET systems are also suitable for processing sustainable polymer types (S-Polyamides, PLA, PHA, S-PET etc.)

FET-100 systems in particular can be specified to be multi-functional, allowing easy and fast conversion between material formats. It configures to all combinations of multifilament, monofilament and melt spinning of nonwoven structures for medical device applications.

Extrusion module options include multi-polymer capability, bi-component, tri-component and can be specified for high temperature capability and corrosion resistant construction. The bi-component systems are ideally suitable for yarn engineering and particularly in sheath core format. This facilitates the inclusion of functional materials into the polymer matrix.

Composite applications

FET systems are used in the development and small volume production of pre-cursor synthetic textile materials used in the manufacture of high performance composites.

They are capable of working with exotic and difficult-to-process polymers which are frequently those used in composite structures. These include so-called “engineering polymers” such as PPSU, PEI, PEEK and PC Polycarbonates. FET systems are also suitable for processing sustainable polymer types (S-Polyamides, PLA, PHA, S-Pet etc), which means they are ideal for the production of bio-degradable composite materials.

Systems configure to all combinations of multifilament, monofilament and melt spinning of nonwoven structures as required. A particular speciality can be found in melt blowing viscous materials into nonwoven web structures for use as composite veils.