Woven or entwine screens ? What are the properties ? Why does one accommodate better than the other ? If you ask those doubtfulness to Peter Ollevier of Phormium , you will get a comprehensive result . " First of all , woven cloth is 3 to 5 times stronger than the knitted . This has to do with the raw material . The yarn / bands of woven material has a higher strength . This gamey tensile strength is need for the weaving technology used . The advantage is that the screen door fabric is strong . We give , with simpleness , an eight - year warranty on woven cloth . "
Peter Ollevier and Els De Martelaer ( merchandising ) , Phormium
In trial run at their R&D section , they see that the life-time of this stuff is longer than knitted material . This is due to that high mechanical strength . This also makes it a sustainable alternative . The lifespan is farseeing ; the necessary replacement takes a long meter . Peter : " That ’s why thread screen cloth is also a financially golden option . A grower ’s budget is not unnumbered . "
Knits for clear clothsBesides woven cloths , Phormium also has knitted ones in its grasp . Peter explain that they offer knit for unclouded textile . " If light transmitting is the chief requirement , a knitted cloth is a good result . For a few year now , we have also been bring on these in Lokeren . PhormiTex Crystal and Crystal V. "
stamp loomsMost of the screens make by Phormium are the woven variety . 150 loom stamp 24/7 in the manufacturing plant to fill this demand . These cloths are wind with yarn grow in - house . It is preceded by an excrescence process .
Grains are melted into a film
This film is cut into tapes , which are heatset in an oven .
During that process in the oven , the foil strips are pulled to make them strong . And to stretch them until it becomes a yarn .
The four extrusion line of credit in Lokeren add the entire plant with narration . Before they are processed into cloth , a process follows to prevent shrinkage , during the strong months . During that thermofixation , the yarn is heat up for more than 12 hours to get the maximal amount of shrinking out of it . And if that is not enough , an additional thermofixation is provide on the final fabric for certain projection screen fabric .
Weaving
R&DThe R&D department plays a big role in the society . Peter take us there to show us the shaft used to arrive at a Modern , gamy - quality Cartesian product .
unco , as one of the first machines we ' bump into ' , we see a small loom and a humble knitwork political machine . Peter explains that this is very nice . " We can now start knitting and weaving at a very early stage . We do n’t have to ' discharge up ' a whole loom for a mental test . Also , the material costs are much smaller . There is no need to knit or weave a few hectares to see if the screen does what it is supposed to do . Literally with a bobbin of thread , we can cursorily wander a few square metres . And that is enough to carry out initial tests on .
The fact that they control the extrusion process themselves also gives the R&D section flexibility . " We can switch speedily . We are not dependant on other party , " Peter divvy up with us .
In the R&D department , we see a pot more technical ingenuity : the QUV tester ( to evaluate the effect of light , temperature and wet on the fabric ) , a equipment to measure the ductile strength and stretchability of the fabric and the spectrophotometer . The latter allows you to make light measure . The principle of spectrophotometry relies on the fact that every chemical compound absorbs or transmits light , depending on its wavelength . With this meter , absorption or transmitting can be accurately measured .
The latest Phormium newsLast , but not least , R&D is hold fruit . Soon , nursery gardening can anticipate an innovative covert from Phormium . It will be launch soon . Peter : " We await that the sector is waitress for this . This new screen fuse the best of everything . "
Sales Team : Marta Gentile , Vitalina Tsourkan , Peter Ollevier , Tayyar Erzurumlu , Arjan Van Der Veer , Joshua Gauché , Rémy Ballet
PhormiumPhormium has made a spurt since its intro into the fencing world in 1977 . Phormium now employs 180 masses and has a turnover of around € 30 million . The sales squad consist of seven people . Phormium is part of the listed company Duroc .
For more information : Peter OllevierPhormium+32 477 77 32 77[email protected]www.phormium.com
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