Applications >Automotive & Transports > Woven

Fibroline can impregnate fabrics, non woven, foams in a dry way with fire retardants to minimize the risk of fire starting and fire spreading, thus allowing suppliers to the road, rail, air industries to answer a great concern of the transportation industry.

Fibroline superiority:

- Possibility to impregnate in a dry way supports with very low porosity thanks to the use of fine powders.
- Fibroline process can lead to raw material and energy savings, and to innovative products

Textile:

- Fabric:
Cotton
PES
Cotton/PES

Weight: from 50 to 150g/m²

- Nonwoven:
Thermobonded, needlepunched, Spunbonded…
PP
PES

Weight: from 50 to 500g/m²

Fire retardant:

Ammonium polyphosphate, red phosphorus, melamine, borate, ATH, MgOH…

- Intumescent products: Formation of insulating protective layer through carbonization.
- Hydrated products: Decomposition through energy consumption and release water.
* No halogenated products used, to avoid toxicity of the smokes.

Weight: From 5 to 50%

Properties:

- Decrease of the energy released when burning.
- Ignition time delayed.
- Possible bonding of the fire retardant.
- Stiffness maintained.
- Possible to make washable fireproofed products.

Example of a 35g/m² PP spunbonded treated with ammonium polyphosphate: Fire behaviour

% of intumescent powder (%)	Ignition time (s)	RhR peak (kW/m²)	Ignition time delayed and decrease of the energy released.
0	14	179
10	23	92

Applications:

Seat and other automotive parts covering.
Public transports interior...
Filters.
Carpets, curtains, furnishing parts.