Fabric Development, Inc. - Capabilities
We meet special application needs from prototype and custom runs to high volume production.We offer the capacity and experience to meet a wide range of special textile applications. With 80,000 square feet of space for research and development and manufacturing, and over 100 looms we offer a unique flexibility to produce small, specialized projects and full-scale, high volume production.
Our capabilities include:
Yarn Preparation
- Twisting
- Plying
- Serving
- Specialty Sizing
- Warping
Weaving
- Narrow Fabrics
- Shuttle Looms
- Iwer Looms
- Dornier Looms
Quality Control
- AS 9100 Certified
- Physical Testing Laboratory
- Tensile Testing
Fiber Experience
- Carbon – Standard Modulus
- Carbon – High Modulus
- Thermoplastic/Graphite Blends
- Aramid – Kevlar™ and Twaron™
- Ceramic – Nextel™ and Nicalon™
- Vectran™
- PTFE – Teflon™ and Gore-Tex™
- Fiberglass
- Nomex™
- Spectra™
- Quartz
- Zylon™
Multilayer Weaving
- Spiral Woven
- Cruciform
- Turbine Blades
- Hat Sections
- I Beams
- Tapered Sections
Braiding
- Flat
- Solid
- Hollow (Tubular)
