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Textile & leather
Taking fabrics to the next level of performance
We can provide superior properties to fabrics, helping drive the next generation of high-performance textiles. Our materials offer enhanced feel, making clothes and fabrics more comfortable, and colours brighter and more durable.
Elkem Silicones becomes Bluestar Silicones, unveiling its identity for the next chapter
The company returns to a well-established brand name, while introducing a new visual identity and reaffirming continuity for customers, partners and stakeholders
Textile & leather
Silicone coatings for technical fabrics used for protection
Protect people and assets from hazards in a wide range of industries
There is an ever-increasing demand worldwide for high-performance technical fibers and textiles to meet the most critical protective needs in a wide range of industries. This ranges from heavy-duty architectural textiles to anti-slip treatment of conveyor belts, via airbags for the automotive sector.
Silicones for technical textiles used in sportswear
Innovative silicone solutions taking technical textiles to the next level of performance
There is increasing demand for technical fibers and textiles in a very wide range of areas, from consumer goods to specialist applications. R&D developers, product designers and manufacturers are constantly seeking to develop new and innovative high-performance textiles that enhance functional efficiency, comfort and safety.
Silicones for high-performance coated fabric
Silicones, the sustainable solution for high-performance coated fabric
Are you limited by the selection of authentic leather or polyurethane-coated textiles? Silicone chemistry is disrupting the world of coated textiles with a performance fabric that looks and feels like leather but is totally different.
Silicone for textile printing inks
Silicone inks for environmentally friendly textile printing
Silicones are an environmentally friendly high-performance option for textile printing inks. Elkem's TCS screen-printable silicone system is engineered to provide the viscosity, rheology and work life required to print efficiently in existing textile printing operations.
Silicone textile finishing
Solutions to improve the quality, performance and comfort of clothing and accessories
Fashion designers and manufacturers of clothing and sportswear work with textiles and leather to create comfortable, convenient, durable and aesthetic products for a wide variety of uses and a great diversity of people and fashion trends.
Anti-slip silicone coatings for enhancing clothing and accessories
Silicone coatings improve the look, feel and function of textiles for fashionable lifestyles
Fashion designers and manufacturers of clothes and accessories use a wide range of products to create attractive and comfortable textiles for different uses. These products are designed upstream to improve the manufacturing process for fabrics of all sorts. Downstream, silicone coatings and fabric enhancement products give consumers choices that are pleasant to the touch and offer desirable characteristics, such as drape, elasticity, resistance to wear and water-repellency.
Silicones to control foam at all stages of textile & leather manufacturing
Foam control solutions to improve the productivity, quality and safety of clothing, accessories and footwear
Textile & leather manufacturers use a wide range of products, including specific silicone enhancers, in their finishing processes to obtain the right features for their fabrics. These include softness, water-absorbency or waterproofing levels, resistance to yellowing, skin-friendliness and attractive appearance.
Silicone coatings for technical textiles
Innovative silicone solutions are taking technical textiles to the next level of performance
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