Technical

The vision for the future of the construction industry is to build lighter, more efficiently, and more intelligently while conserving resources. This involves not only efficiency—using lighter materials to save resources—but also aesthetics, enabling the creation of concrete structures with finer, more varied shapes and forms while maintaining strength and rigidity.
Repairing and restoring existing buildings and bridges is becoming increasingly important. In conventional applications, such as textile roofs, the textiles produced on our machines provide attractive design possibilities.

Various warp-knitted coating substrates, typically made from high-strength polyester yarns, feature two straight yarn layers oriented at 0° and 90°. These are secured with knitting yarn to create a textile substrate with exceptional tear propagation resistance and tensile strength at low weights per unit area.

Combining different materials to form a composite in order to improve their properties and achieve synergistic effects is a widespread objective. KARL MAYER machines enable you to utilize this technology for all your lightweight construction needs.

High-performance textile reinforcements provide the building industry with materials suitable for constructing thin, slim, and lightweight concrete elements that conserve resources while delivering high performance.

The hollow fiber membranes of water purifiers are used to remove the smallest particles, rust and turbidity from the water. To ensure the maximum performance of the hollow fiber membranes, a defined arrangement of the hollow fiber membranes and a large filter surface are crucial. With KARL MAYER’s weft-insertion technology, we ensure sensitive handling of the hollow fiber membranes. 

Requirements such as separation, filtration, drainage, reinforcement, tension equalisation and protection are becoming increasingly important in the construction industry. Warp knitted geogrids, geocomposites and non-crimp fabrics can be used here. The requirements for the physical characteristics of the textile substrates demand top-quality production methods in order to optimally exploit the properties of the high-performance fibres.

Whether in your latest smart phone, household appliance or in heavy industrial machines. You can find printed curcuit boards with glass fibre woven fabrics in almost every device around you. Our glass filament line makes sure that you produce glass fabrics in the optimum required qualities.

A wide variety of protective materials are used in many areas. For example in this sector KARL MAYER offers technologies for producing multilayered, multiaxial textiles from aramid fibres for bulletproof vests, as well as machines for producing biaxial, weft-insertion, warp knitted textiles from high-performance yarns with a large number of filaments.