Teijin has developed Solotex RC, a polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT) fiber with a bulky three-dimensional structure for lightweight and cushiony high-function knitted fabrics. The new fiber offers a number of advantages, including soft, smooth texture and colorability, as well as cushioning thanks to its shape-retaining property. In addition, the fiber offers warm and gentle elasticity thanks to a molecular structure and omni-directional bulkiness due to a three-dimensional structure. The fiber is easy to care as a synthetic and it also provides for highly comfortable wear due to stretchability.
Applications for Solotex RC include sports apparel, bedding and industrial materials. Teijin previously developed Solotex, a soft, shape-retaining, stretchable PTT fiber that aims to offer bright coloring, eco-friendliness and compatibility with a wide range of other materials. The newly developed Solotex RC, however, is designed to provide superior vertical cushioning thanks to the use of crimped PTT fiber arranged in a continuous radial around a main axis. The three-dimensional fiber also offers significant freedom in designing.
Teijin is a technology-driven group offering advanced solutions in the areas of sustainable transportation, information and electronics, safety and protection, environment and energy, and healthcare. Its main fields of operation are high-performance fibers such as aramid, carbon fibers and composites, healthcare, films, resin and plastic processing, polyester fibers, products converting and IT.
