The automobile industry in India has been expanding in a bigway. Along with this automotive fabrics market share is also rising. Polyesterhas now become a leading fiber for car manufacture as well. Polyester invarious forms like filament, spun and air texturised are commonly used.


Automotive yarn is the yarn used in automobile upholstery.Yarn is 100 % polyester. Yarns should have better pilling, better abrasion andbetter light fastness.


Types of automotive yarns


There are basically 5 types of yarn:


  1. Texturised yarn (155/34, 80/34,225/72)
  2. Air-Texturised yarn (840 dtex, 790 dtex, 650 dtex, 630 dtex, 600 dtex)
  3. Roto filament yarn (450, 600)
  4. Spun 100% polyester yarn ( 2/24 )
  5. Flock yarn


Texturised yarn is supplied by Reliance Industries Ltd. Thedenier is 155 and the number of filaments is 34. They are manufactured innormal draw texturising machines.


Air-Texturised yarn is obtained from air texturisingmachines using the following polyester manufactured by Indorama-Butiburi, Nagpur, and Reliance Industries Ltd.


  1. 235den and 48 no of filaments
  2. 235 den and 68 no of filaments
  3. 235 den and 34 no of filament


Roto-filament yarn is also manufactured by RelianceIndustries Ltd.


Spun 100% polyester yarn is manufactured by RSWM-Lodha,Banswara (Rajasthan), Indorama-Indore (MP)


Flock yarn is a three component yarn consisting of thecarrier thread (technical viscose filament yarn), the acrylate bonding agentand the flock material (Nylon 6.6).It is the latest technology .Flock yarn isnot manufactured in India. It is imported from Italy.


All the above yarn are used because they give the fabricsless abrassion , pilling etc. which are required for automotive fabrics used byMaruti, Tata, Honda, General Motors, Toyota and other such car manufacturers



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About the Author


Dr. M NMahapatra is a BSc (Tech) in Textile Chemistry from UDCT, Mumbai. He holds 25Years of experience in textile industries in India and abroad. Presently he isworking as Vice President (Technical Marketing), Hindprakash Lonsen IndustriesPvt. Ltd, Vatva, Ahmedabad