In the field of technical textiles, the companies of the Van de Wiele Group are active in different sectors of textile machinery and are offering solutions to actual demands of their technical textile customers.

NV Michel van de Wiele, the leading supplier of carpet and velvet weaving machines offers machinery and know-how, based on the double cloth weaving principle. Double cloth fabrics have three yarn systems: pile warp, backing warp and weft. With the double cloth weaving process, two superimposed backing fabrics are woven simultaneously, while the pile warp is connecting both fabrics together. The so obtained double fabric is split on the double rapier weaving machine by the pile cutting motion into a top and bottom fabric.

When the pile cutting motion is not used, the Van de Wiele weaving machines are able to produce distance fabrics, transportation fabrics and other technical fabrics.

The weaving process gives the opportunity to create dense top and bottom layers with almost stretched fibers, and with connections between those layers.

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The author is the Manager Technology & Intellectual Property of the HUVan de Wiele GroupU