Microcreping and Composites

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What does a ham and cheese sandwich have to do with Microcreping?

We like to use it as an example of what you can do to transform your materials. Many materials that would benefit from Microcreping will not process due to complications with temperature, fiber length, or a variety of other factors.

At Micrex, we can successfully Microcrepe these materials by building a composite “sandwich”: your material (the “ham and cheese” in our diagram) is placed between layers of a material that can be Microcreped. The Micrex®/Microcreper™ processes the whole “sandwich” to create a new product.

Methods of Material Selection and Optimization

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Microcreping delivers a new method of material optimization: many successful commercial Microcreped products have resulted when characteristics of the incoming substrate were also optimized for Microcreping.

Learn how material optimization can reduce costs and improve performance.

Turn 2D into 3D

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Most sheet materials (nonwovens, film, paper, textiles, composites) are two dimensional. Micrex compressive treatment technology allows you to alter an existing material to make it three dimensional. This transformation also changes other physical properties such as softness, bulk, extensibility, and more.

These enhanced properties give designers new options that would be impossible with existing 2D materials.

At Micrex, we are in the business of helping customers explore this technology to commercialize new products: