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Michelman’s Unyte® brand is designed to help technical textiles and pre-preg fabrics achieve advanced form and function in woven and nonwoven materials. Using our unrivaled expertise in water-based emulsions, the performance and production of technical textiles are enhanced through improved adhesion (fiber-to-matrix and fiber-to-fiber), thermal resistance, lubricity, print receptivity, water & chemical resistance, and anti-blocking.
Today's textiles are not limited to traditional applications such as apparel. Strength, chemical resistance, and other performance characteristics can be optimized through advanced surface modification of the textile's fibers. These so-called technical textiles are utilized in a wide range of applications in construction, medical, automotive, and manufacturing, as well as offer protection against ballistics and other hazards. They also help safeguard the environment by replacing heavier, rigid components with lightweight, flexible, nonwoven materials, which help to reduce fuel consumption.
Our Unyte® family of products enhances the performance of many textile materials, and can be used with carbon, glass, aramid, basalt, natural, UHMWPE, and other polymeric fibers, including chopped and continuous formats.
How technical textiles are producedVarious types of fibers are reinforced and combined with other materials into basic intermediate formats — woven, nonwoven, braided, and three-dimensional — and then incorporated into a vast array of end-use applications.
We are well known globally for our emulsification and polymer dispersion technologies and have become the world’s leader in the development of fiber-sizing solutions. Our expertise in formulating surface treatments, strengthened by our understanding of end-use applications, provides technical textile manufacturers a robust set of solutions and capabilities.
Unyte® promotes adhesion between fibers and polymeric matrices, helping to improve various functional or mechanical properties. This increased fiber-to-matrix adhesion is beneficial to pre-preg fabric for composites and multilayer systems that combine woven and nonwoven materials.
Select Unyte® grades operate at elevated temperatures without degradation and can withstand more thermal cycling operations. In addition, they provide heat resistance during primary and secondary processing and impart heat resistance in end-use applications. They are ideal for use in braided three-dimensional structures for thermal insulation.
Unyte® offers multiple solutions that improve fiber-to-fiber adhesion. This improved binding of fibers creates a better structure for applications such as laid or woven scrim and pre-pregs.
Manufacturers of pre-preg fabric and multilayer systems combining woven and nonwoven materials can use Unyte® to increase lubricity and slip, and facilitate tow spreading of fibers in technical textile production. Unyte® is also used as over-sizing to improve release, drape, and fabric processability.
Unyte® boosts ink adhesion for improved print receptivity and minimal color bleed. Fabrics that are over-printed for decoration and branding—or with identification codes where legibility is essential— can benefit from these solutions.
Some products within the Unyte® family are designed to provide excellent wet-out and strong surface adhesion to fabrics. They impart performance benefits, including chemical resistance, water resistance, and hydrophobicity under humid conditions to fabrics, wovens, and non-wovens.
Certain textiles, nonwovens, and pre-pregs need to be stacked or rolled without sticking together. Unyte® products can promote anti-block properties to help improve interlayer release and stack-ability of finished products.
News (Tuesday, 13 August 2024)
Michelman’s PFAS-free Unyte® brand is growing to meet the form and function needs of technical textile manufacturers.