What Is Acelon FD Flat Yarns?

What Is Acelon FD Flat Yarns?

There is a wide array of yarn available on the market today and it may be daunting to narrow your choices down to just one. Knitters must consider factors such as gauge, ply and weight when purchasing yarns. While some yarn companies provide such details directly, others don't - it is therefore vitally important that knitters can identify differences between companies by knowing the information available - for instance you can learn this data directly from their label as well as from websites or industry resources such as Yarn Council.

Today there are numerous types of flat yarns on the market. Each variety serves its own specific function, application and style. Acelon produces various FD flat yarns including fire retardant (FR), OEYF and FDY in various thicknesses, lustres and colorways. Plied yarns tend to hold together better when knitted into fabric than single-plies; thus reducing pilling risk considerably.

Fire retardant (FR) flat yarn is created using a blend of polyethylene terephthalate (PTA) and mono ethylene glycol, or polyester, chips. Extrusion takes place via high speed extrusion from these chips directly into filament yarns that can then be formed into tapes, stockings, knitting projects or fabrics with varied uses. They come with round cross sections; bright hues; semi dull or full dull lusters for optimal performance.

OEYF (elastic) flat yarn features an elastic core covered by an elastane covering, making it stretchy. This versatile product can be found in active sportswear and workwear applications alike. Elasticity is achieved primarily through tightening tension on a sheath yarn; when tension is released, elastic core retracts while its covering remains attached and interlaces itself into itself to form the elastic. This process is known as air-covering or ACY.

Polyester FDY yarns are widely utilized flat yarns. Produced from virgin or recycled PET (polyethylene terephthalate), these spun yarns come in raw white, solution dyed or dope dyed colors for dope dying or dope & dye applications such as knitting, braiding and wider weaving as well as technical textile applications.

FDY yarn can be formed into flats through spinning in conventional fashion or by employing an air-covering device, to produce interlaced elastic. This machine entails covering its core with an air nozzle before applying high pressure compressed air at regular intervals to this cofed flat yarn allowing its sheath yarn to retract back over itself forming what is known as double covered yarns (DCYs).