Belgium based Europlasma, a leader in low pressure plasma technology, is presenting s durable water repellent (DWR) nanocoating Nanofics technology for technical textiles at Texprocess 2015 that is taking place in Frankfurt this week.

The company’s new Nanofics technology is used by a renowned customer base for the coating of filtration products, functional textiles, medical devices and consumer electronics, according to the company.

Nanofics technology

Nanofics refers to nanoscaled functionalization into the core of complex shaped materials and products. It is Europlasma’s patented and patent pending nanocoating technology platform, first applied on industrial scale in 1996.

The Nanofics DWR is derived from the Nanofics 110 coatings, which are highly water repellent (water contact angle of 110 degrees according to ASTM D5946) and highly oil repellent (oil repellency level 6 according to ISO 14419) nanocoatings deposited by low pressure plasma technology. These coatings are completely free from PFOA and PFOS, the manufacturer reports.

Sustainable solution

“We see great interest from different industries to use Nanofics instead of wet chemical processing for functionalization of technical textiles. Customers not only use Nanofics to increase the performance of their materials, at the same they want to reduce their environmental footprint by using dry and clean plasma technology,” said Peter Martens, Europlasma’s Sales & Product Manager.

Wim Huijsman, Europlasma’s Sales Manager and environmental specialist explained: “From several case studies we have found that our customers, by using only 1kg of Nanofics DWR chemical, they can save the world from 5kg of traditional wet chemicals, more than 115kg of waste water, and almost 80kg of CO2. Nanofics DWR also eliminates the use of crosslinking agents, chlorides, formaldehyde, and other toxic products.”

At Texprocess 2015 the Europlasma team will be ready to discuss the potential of Nanofics technology for customers’ products, and the impact it could have on the environmental footprint of the company.

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