Metal Coated Textiles

It is currently used as a heat shield and fire blanket in automobiles and appliances.

What is this?

The sample pictured (on the photo of the sample) is a woven glass-fiber fabric coated with aluminum. The fabric feels fairly stiff, but a 12” long piece will still drape over the edge of your hand. The process for coating can be used to coat any fabric with almost any metal and it does not use any binders or adhesives.

If you apply metal to a fabric using a binder or adhesive, then you can no longer use the product in high temperature application. One common use of this metal coated fabric is fire protection blankets inside the walls of automobiles and appliances. Glues or binders will typically break down at high temperatures long before the glass fibers or the metal itself would fail.

The manufacturer reveals very little information about how the process works, but they claim the process even works on combustible fabrics like cotton. Other uses for metal coated textiles is to shield electronic emissions, for filtration, and in architectural applications.

What metals can you coat?

Every metal on every textile fabric.
Frenzelit is working mainly with glass fibers and silica fibers. So we prefer to coat Aluminum on glass because both materials are on similar application temperature level.

Can you coat any fabric with any construction?

Yes, coating any fabric is possible.

Is it possible to stitch/adhere metal coated fabrics with other fabrics?

Yes.

Why it first this developed?

Automotive producer like VW / Audi. Also for fire curtain applications.
What are some current application?
Although the consumer industry has a great potential, vendor has focused its efforts in industrial applications in the past such as filtration, architectural, EM-Absorption and military applications.