Filacon Systems offers different solutions for material placement and fixation with needle and thread. Coming from the embroidery industry we have more than 70 years of experience in machine building for special applications.
Thick fabric like foam…
is no problem for us. Using knitted or woven fabrics, thin or thick foils out of thermoplast or epoxy. Nearly everything is possible. Copper wires, steel wires, stainless steel wires we placed them all already succesfully for the applications of our customers.
Heating applications Tailored Wire Placement (TWP)
Since the 1990’s our technology is used for the environmental friendly and sustainalbe fixation of heating wires into car seats. If you have a warm back during cold winter mornings you could be thankful to Filacon Systems. Nowadays more than 70% of car seat heating systems worldwide were manufactured in our technology.
https://www.filacon.com/wires
Tailored Fiber Placement (TFP)
IPF (Institut für Polymerforschung in Dresden) was the first institute who used TFP technology for composite applications. And it was a FILACON machine that IPF used. Since that time plenty of applications nowadays use the efficient technology to produce light-weight parts like TFP aircraft window frames.
https://www.filacon.com/fiber
ECM Electronic Component Machine
Together with TITV institute Filacon systems created an innovative technology to not only place wires but also electric components to fabrics and foils. https://www.filacon.com/smart