
Swiss Textile Machinery members drive filament yarn production for the expanding world of technical textiles
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Swiss Textile Machinery members drive filament yarn production for the expanding world of technical textiles
High-performance yarns now offer almost unlimited possibilities for replacing traditional raw materials in a vast range of technical applications. Often tailor-made, these filament yarns go way beyond the conventional idea of ‘textiles’ – finding new uses in sectors such as automotive, aviation, maritime, medical and construction, among many others. Machines and technology from Switzerland are in the forefront of many such developments, producing the yarns which are the basis for these innovations.
Technical textiles are everywhere in our daily lives today, even if we may not always realize it. Some are in more obviously textile products, from