About Sioen Tents and Textile Architecture
Sioen Tents and Textile Architecture
Protection through innovation
The Belgian company Sioen Industries is a diversified stock quoted group with an extensive portfolio of products and activities: coating of technical textiles, manufacturing of protective clothing, production of fine chemicals and processing of technical textiles. Vertical and horizontal integration, diversification and permanent growth provide a solid basis for a promising future.
Our business
Sioen Industries is:
- The world leader in coated technical textiles
- A market leader in industrial protective clothing
- A specialist in fine chemicals
- A global player in the processing of technical textiles
Our strengths
- Vertical integration, making us independent of outside suppliers and giving us a major technical advantage.
- Technical expertise. Sioen products predominate where technical specifications are decisive.
- A “hands-on”, unbureaucratic corporate culture.
Where we’re going
Exploiting our technology base to enter new markets and develop new products and processes as opportunities present themselves. We want to continue to grow and be market leader in all our activities. Within this frame we have developed and launched an extensive range of textile architecture membranes varying from type 0 to type 4.
Textile architecture membranes
Sioen fine-tuned and dedicated its machinery in such a way that today we are capable of producing high quality textile architecture membranes with the utmost care. The success of the technology is based on the full integration of each critical process step such as the spinning of the yarns, the weaving, the fabric pre-treatment, chemicals and the formulation of the topcoats used.
New technology
The newly installed coating machine provides better overall tension of the textile architecture membranes. We coat back and front side in one run, immediately followed by a special lacquering treatment.
Advantages
Extra UV & thermal stability
To guarantee a maximum life span of the PVC coated fabric, Sioen managed to optimize the overall composition in such a way that it shows excellent UV, thermal and biochemical resistance.
The PVC and the pigments in Sioen’s T-qualities are selected for their highly stable nature on their own, in order to achieve the highest possible ageing resistance. Our labs have managed to increase the life span of the coating considerably even further by incorporating the best UV, bacterial and thermal stabilizers. In this way, the risk of undesired effects like discoloration is reduced to an absolute minimum. Excellent stability is not a challenge, but a standard.
Lacquering
Lacquer treatment is of key significance in textile architecture. The type, quality and amount of numerous lacquer components have been elaborately investigated in our R&D labs. Our Siofluo /PVDF lacquering has an excellent dirt repellence and improved chemical - radiation protection.
Our TA range, with new and exclusive yarns – formulations – techniques – lacquering, is the result of intensified collaboration between our researchers, external specialists, universities and some of our major clients.