Our Services
ADCOM undertakes leading edge research and
development in collaboration with a range of
industry sectors and key players in the advanced
materials supply chain:
- Aerospace
- Automotive
- Medical
- Construction
- Sports
- Geotextiles
- Other high
performance applications
By utilising centuries of skill, knowledge and
innovation in spinning, weaving and finishing of
complex fibres, yarns and fabrics, the textile
industry is now producing multifunctional materials
for a wide range of applications.
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Your business can be part of that success |
Fibre Science Laboratory
- Bicomponent
melt spinning
- Wet spinning
- Dry spinning
- Centrifugal
spinning
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Electrospinning (yarns)
- Filament
drawing
- Rheometers
- Thermal
pressing
- Thermal
analysis
- Copper Vapour
laser (polymer mods)
- Plasma
coating line
- Laminating
- Coating
- Vacuum
bagging (composites)
- Nano-particle
deposition
- Porometry
- Image
analysis (pore structure, fibre orientation,
structural characterisation)
- Liquid
transport, wicking and absorbency
Fibres to Yarns & Fabrics Laboratory
- Drawing and
Roving
- Ring-spinning
- Self-twist
spinning (roller and air-jet)
- Disc spinning
- Wrap spinning
(Tritex)
- Chenille
- Twisting
- Air-jet
weaving
- Rapier
(electronic jacquard)
Fabric Weaving & Knitting
- 3D weaving
(composites)
- Spread tow
weaving system (composites)
- Warp knitting
- Weft knitting
We offer highly advanced testing and measuring
service designed to suit your specific technical
requirements:
Testing and Characterisation Laboratory
- Standard
textile testing facilities for fibres, yarns and
fabrics in accordance with BS, ISO, ASTM and IST
- Microscopy
- Fibre
dimensions (length, diameter distribution,
crimp, cross-sectional shape) and surface
analysis
- Contact angle
and wetting
- Yarn and
fabric dimensions
- Yarn
torsional properties
- Frictional
properties
- Electrostatic
properties
- Hairiness
- Tensile
testing: fibres, yarns and fabrics
- Burst testing
- Tear testing
- Pilling
- Abrasion
- Dimensional
stability
- Handle
testing (Kawabata, FAST)
- Crease
recovery
- Drape
Geotrac-Rapide Laboratory
- Instron
tensile testing suite for <1N - 2000 kN
- Multi-axial
tester
- CBR Puncture
- Impact drop
test
- Shear box
- Cylinder test
-
Transmissivity of geosynthetics
- Permeability
of geosynthetics
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