Revamped technical yarn portfolio at Radici
05/06/2013
Radyarn and Starlight Trace Micro Taggant are polyester yarns containing anti-counterfeiting, tracing capabilities. “When the yarn is incorporated into textiles, it allows for tracking the items without altering their look, feel or other properties,” said Daniele Dossi, quality manager of Noyfil, part of the Radici Group. “It’s like having a bar code in the fabric – polyester that is traceable through all processing stages.”
Radyarn and Starlight UV Protection polyesters feature sunscreening properties. “They also offer high performance in resistance, colourfastness and abrasion resistance,” added Mr Dossi.
The group has developed new nylon yarns: Radilon PA6.10, which has a “smaller environmental footprint, achieved through the use of 64% renewable source polymer of biological origin”, says the company. It has also enhanced its Raditeck Fine range – a fine-count, high-tenacity PA66 yarn – with new “air-textured” items.
Filippo Bona, of Radici Yarn’s research and development department, said: “We have expanded our Radilon line of continuous filament yarn to include not only PA6 and PA66-based products, but also a PA6.10 version. The biological content and technical characteristics of this new product make it the ideal yarn for high performance technical fabrics, it offers comfort, light weight, less water absorption, resistance and colourfastness. All these properties, plus less environmental impact. The sustainability aspect is becoming more and more important and, for this reason, our entire yarn production chain has been concentrating on it for some time.”
The PA6.10 range is made from a polymer developed and produced by Radici Chimica, RadiciGroup’s Italian chemical facility. “We have been producing high volumes of this new polymer since May of last year, and market response has been very good,” said Nicolangelo Peduto of Radici Chimica’s R&D department. “It is a highly competitive material in terms of cost/performance.”
The group will be displaying the new ranges at the upcoming Techtextil trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany, from June 11 to 13.
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