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Vetrotex fiberglass solutions are used as key ingredients in products that people benefit from every day. Main applications include technical textiles for construction, electrical and electronics, industry, transportation and many more.

Fiberglass Glossary

Includes the most important technical terms regarding glass fiber products, their production process and their applications.

Fiberglass Manufacturing

Learn more about glass, including technical terms, characteristics and how it’s manufactured.

Braiding

A circular braiding machine is composed of two rotating sets of bobbins on which glass filament yarns have been wound. One set runs clockwise, the other one counter clockwise around the center of the machine along a defined path.

Coating

Single yarns pulled from a creel are drawn through a PVC jet or bath and a die to form the desired round section shape.

Finishing

Glass fabrics can be impregnated with continuous processing line for industrial textiles taking into account the specificity of glass products.

Knitting

Vetrotex yarns can be used on a warp knitting machine to produce knit scrim for self-adhesive joint tape, as well as elastic casting tape for plaster reinforcement in medical applications.

Laid Scrim

The leno weave pattern is used for the production of scrims fabrics that are flat in structure and in which both warp and weft yarns are widely spaced to form a grid.

Multiaxial

The multiaxial machine is used to produce multi-layer structures for reinforcement applications.

Texturizing & Voluminizing

Texturized and voluminized products have various end uses because of their valuable characteristics, including aesthetics, fire resistance, dimensional stability and improved thermal insulation.

Warping / Beaming

In the texturizing process, the glass yarns or strands are overfed in a nozzle in which a pressurized air stream creates a turbulence that causes the formation of loops and imparts a moderate bulk.

Weaving

The weaving machine, or loom, interlaces the warp and filling yarns according to a weave pattern to form a fabric structure.

Other Technologies

Saint-Gobain Vetrotex glass products can be used in other various processes and applications like Covering, unidirectional reinforcement or Lamination.
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