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Coated fabric is reinforced and flexible.(Industrial)

Publication: Advances in Textiles Technology
Date: Sunday, July 1 2007

Naizil SpA of Campodarsego, Italy, says it has developed a coated fabric for applications such as truck coverings and canopies, and tensile and tent structures. The fabric can be reinforced readily without being made too rigid, the company claims.

European Patent EP 1 777 336 describes a fabric constructed such that is contains parallel tubular passages, one set running longitudinally and the other orthogonally to the first. Elements inserted in these passages reinforce the coated fabric and can be chosen to give the desired degree of flexibility or rigidity; for instan

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