Products and Solutions : Stainless steel fibre

The problems:

 

Electrostatic discharges

Static electricity is generated at the surface of two substances when they are separated thus creating severe separation of positive and negative charges accumulated at their surface.
It creates a wellknown "discharge", the degree of which is dependent on speed, pressure, moisture content and temperature.
This discharge creates a spark whose effects are:

• uncomfortable electrical shocks (when changing clothes, when getting out of the car, when holding a door knob after walking on a carpet…)
• electronic device malfunctions involving further maintenance costs (computers, on board flight electronic devices…)
• fires (in « dry material » environment such as paper pulp, sawmills…) and even explosions in explosive environments (grain silos, petrol stations, flour mills, industries…)

Making material sufficiently conductive with the adding of antistatic/conductive fibres is the solution to neutralize static electricity.

 

Heat resistance

Some end-uses demand that textile materials resist to very high temperature while not altering the quality of production.

Glass industry for example (car windows or glass articles) uses woven or knitted fabrics exclusively composed of stainless steel (moulds or gripping pliers are covered with stainless steel fabrics).

Stainless steel fabrics are preferred to fibre glass fabrics: they resist to a higher temperature and offer an optimal glass quality while lasting longer.