Stretch fabric development from Teijin Frontier
The fibres division of Tokyo-based industrial group Teijin has developed a new stretch fabric with an extra-fine three-dimensional structure.
It combines what the manufacturer, Teijin Frontier, has described as “exceptional elasticity with a soft, airy texture and a natural uneven surface”. It said this helps make the fabric lightweight with good drying and moisture-wicking performance too.
It will launch the fabric for autumn-winter 2026 season and will aim to sell 100,000 metres of it in the first fiscal year and 1 million metres within three years.
Teijin explained that, traditionally, stretch fabrics in sportswear have relied on polyurethane. For this new material, Teijin Frontier used its experience of developing polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT) spinning and drawing technologies to develop an extra-fine side-by-side conjugate yarn by bonding two different PTT polymers in parallel.
