Protection & Safety

Protective and Safety Clothing for textiles

Technical textiles play an important role in producing protective & safety clothing. The variety of protective functions that need to be provided by various textile products is diverse and considerable. These types of textiles include protection against types of severe impact which include fire and extreme heat, hazardous dust and particles, biological, nuclear, and chemical hazards, foul weather, extreme cold, and poor visibility. Protective clothing includes garments and related paraphernalia for protection from harmful chemical environments.

Protective clothing or protective textiles are one of the parts of technical textiles that are used principally for their performance or functional properties rather than their decorative or aesthetic properties. Protection from extreme environmental situations has always been a crucial requirement for textile products.

There are some key characteristics of protective clothing which are listed in the following:

• Lightweight and low bulk
• High durability and dimensional stability
• Low noise emission
• Water repellant
• Air permeability
• Thermal insulating
• Ultra violate resistant
• Flame retardant
• Heat and melt resistance or low smoke emission
• Safety from the radar spectrum

Protective textile covers

Protective textiles have multiple applications. Protective textiles are used in almost all work situations for special purposes and to protect workers. There are a large number of essential application areas where protective textiles are of utmost importance. Some are discussed below.

Protective textile covers

Protective textiles have multiple applications. Protective textiles are used in almost all work situations for special purposes and to protect workers. There are a large number of essential application areas where protective textiles are of utmost importance. Some are discussed below.

Flame Retardant Textiles

These types of garments are made using cotton/nylon as well as special fibers and chemical finishes, which reduce the combustion rate of the fabric.

Mechanical Protective Textiles

Mechanical performance of fibers, in their interlacing mode, hybrid yarns reach the textile material. This includes Ballistic, Blade cuts, Puncture, Projection of Fragments, Knives, Slashing, etc.

High-Temperature Protective Textiles

This type of textile product is used at a temperature of about 200 degrees Celsius.

Protective textiles have several important features that should be present in every garment based in the workplace.

• Lightweight
• High durability
• Water and wind-resistant
• Resistant to fire and flame
• Bulletproof
• Resistant to bacteria
• Thermal insulation
• Ultraviolet (UV) resistant
• Air permeability
• Resistant to chemicals

Ecological protection textiles

These types of technical textiles are used for the protection of the environment and ecology. Though this type of technical textile overlaps with several other areas such as industrial textiles, geotextiles, and agricultural textiles it’s not a well-defined segment yet.

The textile industry is considered by most as the most ecologically harmful industry in the world. The eco-problems in the textile industry occur during some production processes and are carried forward right to the finished product. In the production process like bleaching and then dying, the subsequent fabric makes a toxin that swells into our ecosystem. During the production process controlling pollution is as vital as making a product free from the toxic effect.

Eco textiles are textile products that can be manufactured, used, and disposed of without altering the ecological balance and manipulating human health. Eco textiles cover products that are manufactured using materials and methods that do not pose any harm to people and nature from textile fiber production to the makeup of the finished article and that can be disposed of without harming human health and nature.