Applications
What our fabric is made into
We sell fabric by the roll to factories that press it into finished protection. Three end uses cover almost every enquiry we receive. Each one asks a different question of the cloth, and each one has a different answer about what we can and cannot publish.
Soft Armor Panels
Vest and insert panels pressed from cross-plied UD layers. This is the one application where we publish layer counts and areal density against a named standard and threat, because we hold the reports for it.
Helmet Shells
Plain weave UHMWPE and para-aramid for shells pressed in your own mould. We publish the fabric specification; the shell result belongs to your lay-up and your press.
Hard Armor Plates
Heavier para-aramid and UHMWPE cloth for rigid plate and vehicle panel pressing. Same position as helmet shells: fabric specification from us, panel testing from you.
Why only one of the three carries protection levels
A soft armor panel is built almost entirely from the UD fabric itself, so a layer count and an areal density describe it usefully, and we have paid for the reports that prove it. A pressed helmet shell or a hard plate is a different object: its performance comes from your lay-up, your resin, your mould and your press cycle as much as from the cloth. We publish the fabric specification for those lines and leave the panel data to your own testing rather than quote a level we have not measured.