Coats plc, the
world’s leading
industrial thread
and consumer textile crafts business, is launching Hemseal, a new product
delivering additional fixing qualities to the hems of tailored garments. The
adhesive thread has a low melt portion which adheres to fabrics when pressed
under heat, helping to hold hems in place even if the stitching fails.
Blind
stitching hems of garments produces a neat, unobtrusive hem line but, because it
is a chain stitch using a single thread, it can easily unravel and cause the hem
to drop down. Hemseal is used as part of the hem construction and can also be
reactivated by repressing.
Rajiv
Sharma, CEO, Industrial Division, Coats plc said: ‘The advantage of Hemseal is that the
hem remains in place even if the blind stitch used to sew it unravels. This
helps enhance the durability of the garment and will reduce those annoying
‘instant’ hem drops that can happen in clothing like tailored suits and school
uniforms.’
Hemseal can
be used on most types of fabrics – including heavier ones requiring additional
seam adhesion where it can be incorporated in the overlock stitching.
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Coats Hemseal is constructed from 85% low melt co-polyamide and 15% polyester.
It is designed for use in the hems of tailored trousers, dresses and skirts to
deliver additional security to the blind stitched hem. Using a blind stitch for
the hems of tailored garments produces a neat, unobtrusive hem line but because
the stitch formation used (stitch type 103) is a single thread chainstitch it
can easily unravel allowing the hem to fall.
When producing an overlock serged and blindstitched hem Coats Hemseal delivers
additional security because it is used as part of the overlock serged hem
construction and when the seam is pressed the low melt Co-PA portion of Coats
Hemseal adheres to both fabric plies. This results in the hem remaining affixed
even if the blindstitch used to sew the hem becomes unravelled.
Thermal Properties
Co-polymer polyamide melts at 110ºC, softens at 90ºC
Polyester melts at 250-260 degrees, softens at 220 - 240 °C
To find out more about Hemseal go to: http://www.coatsindustrial.com/en/products-applications/industrial-threads/hemseal
About
Coats
With a rich heritage
dating back to the 1750s, Coats
is the world's leading industrial thread and consumer textile crafts business,
at home in more than 70 countries, employing over 20,000 people across six
continents. Revenues in 2013 were US$1.7bn.
Their well-known brands and strong relationships with customers and consumers mean their products and services meet current and future needs. Their company-wide
understanding of their business partners and consumers, coupled with the deep
expertise of their people, builds trust and certainty.
Coats’
pioneering history and innovative culture ensure the company continues leading
the way around the world: providing complementary and value added products and
services to the apparel and footwear industries; extending the crafts offer into
new markets and online; and applying innovative techniques to develop products
in new areas such as tracer threads, aramids and fibre
optics.
· One in five garments
on the planet is held together using Coats’ thread
· 100 million car
airbags are made using Coats’ thread every year
· Coats produces enough
yarn to knit 70 million scarves a year
· In three and a half
hours, Coats makes enough thread to go to the moon and
back
· 400 million pairs of
shoes are made every year using Coats’ thread
· One million teabags
using Coats’ thread are brewed every 10 minutes
· Thousands of surgical
operations take place every day using Coats’ thread
· Thomas Edison used
Coats’ thread in 1879 to invent the light bulb
· Coats produces enough
thread to reach around the Equator every 11 minutes
· Coats is the second largest and
fastest growing global zip manufacturer
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