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Areas: Textiles; Materials; Production technology
Level : Senior
Vectran™
Vectran™ is a manufactured fibre, spun from a created liquid crystal polymer by Celanese Acetate LLC and now manufactured by Kuraray Co., Ltd. Chemically it is an aromatic polyester.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectran
Vectran™ fibre exhibits exceptional strength and rigidity. Weight for weight it is five times stronger than steel and ten times stronger than aluminum.These unique properties characterize Vectran™:
http://www.vectranfiber.com/engineering_introduction.asp
The first use of Vectran™ was for demanding and specialized military applications. The unique properties of the high-performance fibre satisfy many of the military and aerospace needs of today - airbags made with Vectran fibre successfully cushioned the 1997 Mars Pathfinder landing on the surface of Mars.
http://www.vectranfiber.com/applications.asp#
A copy of the Dictionary of fibre and Textile Technology can be downloaded from the site. It provides an up to date glossary of terms encountered in the manufactured fibre and textile trades including recent developments in fibre forming polymers, new commercially manufactured fibre, textile equipment advancesand new applications for textile materials such as geotextiles and advanced composites.
http://www.vectranfiber.com/pdf/vectran_fiber_2.pdf
AgResearch
AgResearch is the largest of New Zealand's Crown Research Institutes with research centres at Ruakura, Grasslands, Wallaceville, Lincoln and Invermay.
The Textiles division at AgResearch was formed out of Canesis Network , originally the Wool Research Organisation of New Zealand (WRONZ). Agresearch Textiles is now a world leader in applying science and engineering to the domain of textiles for industrial and fashion applications.
The AgResearch Textile processing plant offers a comprehensive range of equipment and facilities for processing product development and research, specialising in the processing of wool, mohair, alpaca, llama, opossum or syntheytic fibres
http://www.agresearch.co.nz/textiles/docs/textile-processing.pdf
Textiles: From farm to finished product is one of a range of AgResearch publications . It details recent innovations in textile technology including ways in which nanotechnology can be used to create better textile products.
http://www.agresearch.co.nz/publications/agresearch-textiles.pdf
