What become of Power Rip® ? ~Our customer use it in a various ways! ~

This time, we would like to introduce what our customers make out of the Power Rip®.

Although this fabric was originally made to be used as a perfect spinnaker cloth, it turned out to be very suitable a fabric in a variety of way, not only for a outdoor sports goods.

The most often heard use is as a fabric for a free flight aircraft.
Free flight aircraft is a type of a model aviation which is free of external control, such as by radio.

The wing part is made with fabrics and supporting frames. 

Since the free flight's sole object is a duration of flying time, an aircraft needs to be designed and crafted in a way it can stay in the air longer.
One of the crucial aspect is a weight of an aircraft.

Power Rip® weighs ultra light when compared to similar type of rip stop fabrics. Power Rip® T6016 weighs 33 g/sqm and Power Rip® T7017 39 g/sqm.
(Most of rip stop fabrics sold now is 40g or more per square meter.)

Moreover, Power Rip® is made of polyester yarns, which gives great advantages in outdoor fabrics. Polyester is highly durable to ultra-violet light ( from Sun light) and it doesn't stretch or shrunk when contacted with water and it is resistant to abrasion, whereas nylon (most rip stop fabrics are made of nylon) are more easily damaged by these factors.

We often heard requests, from customers, for more varieties in colors.
 Free flight aircraft are flown in a far distance, that they need to stand out and distinguishable in the sky. 

Power Rip® T6016                                      Power Rip® T7017

So, we have made more colors in our stock.

For T6016, we added some fluorescent colors too!
(fluorescent yellow, orange and green )





Another use of Power Rip® we hear quite often from our customers is for a sport kite.
Sport kite is a kite controlled by people's hand through lines attached to a kite. The competition can be exampled in that of figure skating: a kite 'ballet' in the sky dancing to music, by one flyer or by a team of flyers.

In sport kites, use of Power Rip® is a great advantage just in the same way in free flight aircraft.


A very interesting use of Power Rip® is making of a balloon light by our regular, long-term customer in Japan. This customer company makes a balloon light for a construction site.

Because Power Rip® is very thin and strong, it can transmit light quite well while maintaining its durability. 

Power Rip® is made of polyester which can be melted by heat, that we don't recommend to use it as a light shade. 
However, this balloon is puffed up with air constantly flowing into the balloon, that there is little risk the fabric is touching a light bulb then be heated up.





Recently use of LED light has become very common, and Power Rip® can be used with lightening facilities since LED does not transmit heat.

 

With the innovation of LED light,
there will be a lot more chances 
for Power Rip® to debut in the art world !










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D-TEX starts Blogger!! ~What is D-TEX?~

Hello !  Welcome to D-TEX blog site !

Here on D-TEX blog, we will be explaining What is D-TEX ? and something more about our products, which are often asked about.

First of all, D-TEX is a website through which you can purchase our Power Rip®, a specific type of fabrics we sell.

Power Rip® is a super-light polyester fabric. 
It was produced originally for a spinnaker of yachts, so the fabric is very light while performing a great resistance to tensions in different directions. 

The fabrics possess advantageous properties as outdoor sport material: Great resistances to ultra-violet ray, to water, to abrasion and to tearing. 

These properties come from its unique structure and the material of polyester.

Most of the similar-type fabrics in the markets are made of nylon, which perform less resistance to sunlight or water.  

In such a way, Power Rip® is made very original and unique and perfect for certain outdoor sports material.

Our regular customers are big  manufactures of yacht and sailing boat of Japan.

Power Rip®, although made so perfectly for yacht's spinnaker, are used in many different ways nowadays.

Many of our customers from abroad use Power Rip® for kite surfing. People create a kite, a sports kite to kite surf.

People also use Power Rip® to make airplane models for free flight competitions. 

Some others make a light shade, bags, light balloons.

We would like to introduce how Power Rip® can be used in various ways in coming blogs!

Until very recently, we were not selling Power Rip® to individual customers openly. Now, thanks to many requests from individual customers, we have opened D-TEX site through which you can contact us and ask questions, make requests and order. 

We also offer samples of the fabrics for free if requested ( we charge shipping fee for its shipment ). If you are interested in the fabric and would like to touch what it is like, please contact us through the D-TEX site.

The products are sold either by 10m roll or by 100m roll. However, with a request we can sell the fabric in different lengths, like 2m, 6m, 16m etc. ( In such cases additional charges will apply.) 
Please feel free to send your specific requests through 'contact form' on D-TEX. We will try our best to answer to your requests.

Power Rip® is a registered trademark of Teijin, and D-TEX is the only site selling this Power Rip® in the world. 
We are located in Fukui prefecture, JAPAN, managing inventory of Power Rip®. Cutting, rolling-up and packaging of the fabrics are all done, with a great care by hand, in this location. 

  Come visit our D-TEX site !!

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