Utexbel NV
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Vertically integrated Textile Company, founded in 1929 as a merger of different textile companies.
Being one of the first AQAP certified companies we still write Quality in capitals. "Textile is our Passion, the Customer our reason for being", is our Company quote and one of the reasons that we are market leader in different fields of textile applications.
Sustainability and innovation our the keys for our developments and initiate our constantly evolving product portfolio, going from 100% cotton to high performant conductive and non flammable textiles.
Spinning:
We have 4 spinning mills, 1 Open End, 1 Worsted Spinning and 2 Combed spinning. Specialised in different types of yarns for weaving and knitting we have a very broad range of materials that we offer.
Weaving:
Our 2 weaving mills give us a high flexibility and the possibility to offer fabrics ranging from 35 to 800 g/m². This for as well clothing as technical applications.
Dyeing:
Possibility for yarn dyeing and piece dyeing gives us complete flexibility and a very broad range of products, ranging from shirt to tent fabrics and the complete workwear collection.
Finishing:
Specialised in water- and insect repellent fabrics, we also offer flame-retardant treated fabrics.
Raw material range: cotton, polyester, polyamide, Tencel, Kermel, Lenzing FR, Modacrylic, PreOx, Para-Aramid, steel fibres, carbon fibres, acrylic, viscose, bamboo
Our product groups
- Technology and Processes
- Fibres and Yarns
- Woven Fabrics, Laid Webs, Braidings, Knitted Fabrics
- Coated Textiles
Our application areas / Solutions
Keywords
- Protective
- Military
- Yarns & Fabrics
- Recycled
- Stretch
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A complete range of products suitable for industrial laundry based on stretch fibers that guarantee comfort and wellbeing.
Mono Stretch
Resisting 95°C laundering
Cool Max
For applications where resistance to industrial laundry are important we use fabrics containing T-400 (Elastomultiester) or XLANCE (Elastolefin).
For uniforms we use blends with elastane.
Recycled
Utexbel has a broad range of ecological textiles.
We are Oeko-tex STeP certified, we have post-consumer recycled textiles (RETEX-project), we use Tencel REFIBRA, recycled PES and bio- and fairtrade cotton.
Military
Utexbel is the number one supplier of camouflage fabrics for European armies clothing.
We develop ourselves new camouflage-patterns, and apply them on all kind of fabrics (often inherently flame-retardant).
Flame retardant
Utexbel has three spinning mills and makes a lot of different flame retardant fabrics, especially for protective clothing.
We use (often in blends): aramids (meta and para), Protal and Lenzing FR.
Since almost 20 years we have inherently flame-retardant high-vis (orange, red and yellow) fabrics. We also have a range of treated flame-retardant fabrics, where we are proud of our Tencel-containing fabrics, for example in a blend with cotton and polyamide.
HEPTA: fabric containing 7 fibers, and being flame-retardant and high vis. This fabric can also be used by welders and gives a high protection against an electric arc.
LAVApro: majority Lenzing FR + para-aramid. Excellent for welders and protection against molten iron. Can be washed industrially.
Kermel Alpha and Kermel LCI: Affordable Aramid-blends, Can be washed industrially. Kermel GMT 10, Kermel KTS and Kermel HTA: solutions for firefighter intervention suits.
Treated cotton/PES, cotton/tencel/PES, cotton/PA, cotton/tencel/PA.