Technical Textiles

Whether for automobiles, electric devices or construction, technical textiles are part of daily life, and must meet ever more rigorous demands. This makes it all the more important to have a trading partner who can supply products that are intelligent as well as sustainably manufactured. Let ITOCHU solve your challenges.

Technical Textiles

Elektronics

We offer a special selection of textile products, for example for the semiconductor and glass industries:

  • Polishing cloths
  • Pads
  • Abrasives

Hygiene

Around the world, leading manufacturers of hygienic products depend on raw materials supplied by ITOCHU. From us, you get:

  • PP/PE and PLA fleeces, such as for diapers, female hygiene and wipes 
  • PLA materials
  • SAPs
  • Elastane yarns
  • Breathable films and foils 
  • etc.

Work and Protective Clothing

Let us supply you with textile raw materials for work and protective clothing: 

  • Cleanroom applications
  • Heat protection applications (aramid, etc.)
  • High-strength PVA filament yarns (cut protection)
  • PTFE materials
  • Polyimide materials
  • Yarns and fabrics for shielding sensitive rooms (IT centres, etc.)
  • Face masks
  • Spark protection fabrics
  • Yarns and fabrics for articulated busses and train bellows 
  • etc.

Construction

We supply high-quality raw materials for your construction needs:

  • Composite construction laminates
  • Housewrap fleeces
  • Roof lining membranes
  • Asbestos replacement fibre materials
  • Glass mats
  • Glass fibre
  • Backlit fabrics for advertising banners
  • Adhesive tapes
  • Spark-protection fabrics (carbon) 
  • etc.

Home Textiles

Let our specialists provide you with the entire range of raw and semi-finished products for home textiles: 

  • Short cut fibres for wallpapers
  • Glass yarn
  • Fleeces
  • Fabrics / fleeces for window decoration (interior)
  • Yarns for awning fabrics (outside)
  • BCF yarns for carpets
  • Yarns for uphostery
  • etc.

Filtration

With ITOCHU you can cover your needs for innovative products for use in filtration or industry:

  • Fibres (chopped, short cut, staple) for making wet fleeces, airlaids, spunlaces etc.
  • Thermal or chemically hardened fleeces and meltblowns
  • Fleeces such as pleatable spunbondeds for oil and petrol filters
  • etc.

We will also be glad to put you in touch with manufacturers in microfiltration (RO membranes, acetates and triacetates)

Foods

ITOCHU supplies the entire range of textiles for the food industry:

  • Raw fibres
  • Semi-finished (special papers, fleeces, films, liquid-absorbing materials etc.) 
  • Finished packaging for FMCGs (including all relevant certification such as FDA, LFGB, EU food, halal and kosher) 
  • etc.

Medical & Cosmetic

In this sensitive field you can rely on our wide range of high-quality products:

  • Fleeces for wound dressings
  • Water-soluble medical sutures
  • Adhesive tapes
  • Yarns
  • Fibres  
  • Fleeces for cosmetic face masks, refreshment towels, eyeglass polishing cloths 
  • etc.

Automotive

Whatever you need, we can supply you with all textile and related raw materials for the automotive industry:

  • Yarns and fabrics for airbags 
  • Filters (gas and liquid filtration)
  • Glass fibre for roof linings etc. 
  • Interiors: Seating, cladding components, insulation materials (noise, temperature)
  • Tyre cords 
  • Toothed belts
  • Power transfer systems (MRG), especially textile reinforcing materials like nylon yarn and aramid fibre 
  • etc.

We will also be glad to meet any product need for e-mobility:

  • High-performance battery separators (or their textile raw materials)
  • Insulating or conductive tapes for battery cells  
  • etc.

Agricultural Textiles

ITOCHU offers many high-quality textile raw materials used in agriculture:

  • Water-soluble PVA fibres
  • Moisturizing acrylic fibres and yarns
  • Covering fleeces
  • Fabrics
  • Bi-component PE/PP fleeces
  • PLA composites 
  • etc.

Sustainability

Few future issues affect the present as strongly as environment and climate protection. ITOCHU works actively to make its contribution. Among other things, we develop concepts in the following areas:

  • Manufacture of sustainable textile raw materials (products based on agriculture waste, etc.) 
  • PLA-based textile raw materials
  • Biodegradable products (PBS)
  • Recycling processes, for example for discarded clothing (joint venture in China)

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