Technical yarns for professional and protective clothing
Beyond consumer clothing, SOFILA has developed significant expertise in recent years on yarns for professional or protective clothing and garments. These specific professional garments involve more and more requirements for their end users, asking weavers and knitters to develop the historical proposals that were sometimes simpler.
For professional clothing (uniforms, workwear or presentation wear), features such as comfort (addition of elastane, such as a polyamide/elastane blend), durability (use of polyester/cotton instead of cotton alone), and in particular the ability to withstand numerous industrial washing cycles (durability) are now being incorporated.
This last feature is provided by SOFILA by integrating a specific elastane; XLA (from XLance) or T400 (from Lycra) with better temperature resistance than standard elastanes.
High-performance yarns combining high resistance and comfort for professional clothing
These strong, attractive and comfortable threads are of a much higher quality than those made with “core spun” threads, which come directly from spinning mills and are a rough mixture of materials.
For protective clothing, the requirement is even higher: this time it is a question of protecting the physical integrity of the user.
Various applications, customized threads
for every requirement
anti-radiation Threads
Anti-radiation yarns, isolating the wearer of the garment from nearby radiation. As with antistatic yarns, this technique is applied to various conditions of professional use: protective clothing for personnel in medical, biological or chemical research laboratories, or protective clothing for work in explosive environments (ATEX) such as chemical plants or oil rigs (ATEX, medical) but also for defense, and for people suffering from EHS (Electro Hyper Sensitivity). These fabrics are obtained from a specific yarn assembly with a metal covering.
Antistatic threads
Antistatic yarn, allowing the dissipation of electricity, either by autonomous discharge or by discharge to earth. They are particularly widely used for protective clothing in special environments: work clothes on oil platforms, in chemical factories with risk of material explosion, full suits for medical, biological or chemical research laboratory personnel.
Each requirement must be qualified and studied according to the conditions of use (ATEX environment, protected medical environment, laboratory, etc.) and incorporates exactly the right proportion of antistatic material, via an assembly or covering process. SOFILA supports weavers in defining the characteristics, including the assembly to be provided on the looms for good conduction of the finished fabric.
Cut-resistant threads
These yarns are then incorporated into assemblies, which can be complex for fabrics that are highly resistant to cutting: applications for lumberjacks (gloves), for sportswear (fencing), for material cutting operations (metal, wood) and especially for law enforcement uniforms for bodily protection during operations (army, police, fire brigade). These cut-resistant yarns, or ballistic protection yarns, are manufactured using a mixture of materials including cut-resistant materials such as metal, glass, Vectran, or high-tenacity polyethylenes or even Kevlar. SOFILA also offers a covering of these materials with polyamide, which allows the final fabric to take the dye (which is generally not possible on the most technical materials).
Highly abrasion -resistant threads
These yarns are used to make fabrics that will withstand intensive use and repeated washing over time: uniforms for hotel and hospital staff, administrative staff, receptionists, etc.Made from polyamide or high-tenacity polyesters or aramid, with elastane for comfort (including from fiber materials such as Nomex or polycotton)
anti-radiation Threads
Anti-radiation yarns, isolating the wearer of the garment from nearby radiation. As with antistatic yarns, this technique is applied to various conditions of professional use: protective clothing for personnel in medical, biological or chemical research laboratories, or protective clothing for work in explosive environments (ATEX) such as chemical plants or oil rigs (ATEX, medical) but also for defense, and for people suffering from EHS (Electro Hyper Sensitivity). These fabrics are obtained from a specific yarn assembly with a metal covering.
Antistatic threads
Antistatic yarn, allowing the dissipation of electricity, either by autonomous discharge or by discharge to earth. They are particularly widely used for protective clothing in special environments: work clothes on oil platforms, in chemical factories with risk of material explosion, full suits for medical, biological or chemical research laboratory personnel.
Each requirement must be qualified and studied according to the conditions of use (ATEX environment, protected medical environment, laboratory, etc.) and incorporates exactly the right proportion of antistatic material, via an assembly or covering process. SOFILA supports weavers in defining the characteristics, including the assembly to be provided on the looms for good conduction of the finished fabric.
Cut-resistant threads
These yarns are then incorporated into assemblies, which can be complex for fabrics that are highly resistant to cutting: applications for lumberjacks (gloves), for sportswear (fencing), for material cutting operations (metal, wood) and especially for law enforcement uniforms for bodily protection during operations (army, police, fire brigade). These cut-resistant yarns, or ballistic protection yarns, are manufactured using a mixture of materials including cut-resistant materials such as metal, glass, Vectran, or high-tenacity polyethylenes or even Kevlar. SOFILA also offers a covering of these materials with polyamide, which allows the final fabric to take the dye (which is generally not possible on the most technical materials).
Our cut-resistant threads
Highly abrasion -resistant threads
These yarns are used to make fabrics that will withstand intensive use and repeated washing over time: uniforms for hotel and hospital staff, administrative staff, receptionists, etc.Made from polyamide or high-tenacity polyesters or aramid, with elastane for comfort (including from fiber materials such as Nomex or polycotton)
Our abrasive-resistant threads
