Why Plasma Gold Coated Yarns?

SwicoGold yarns are a part of the Plasma Metal Coated Yarns programme. Coating a filament yarn by the plasma coating method gives much better wear, a perfect level coating and little to no conductivity fluctuation compared to usual techniques of coating yarn with metal. SwicoGold yarns are easy to process in the textile chain and products on the fashion side have a wonderful noble appearance. Furthermore, they are easy to adapt to customer's requirements such as count, conducivity or base yarn material.


SwicoGold yarns are longlasting as SwicoGold yarns are the only one in the world where 24K Gold is brought straight onto the base yarn. There is no silver or copper layer underneath the Gold! 
This is a huge advantage for demanding applications. The final product is easy care. The big problem that all other Gold coated yarns have - the underlying silver or copper oxizidizing through the gold coating, turning the gold black therefore - is inexistent for SwicoGold yarns. They can be washed without hesitation and without having to fear the gold to turn black.

  

Advantages Why choose SwicoGold	Applications The sky is the limit
Programme Standards right from the stock	References Implementations of SwicoGold
Possibilties Tailored upon your requirements	Inquiry What to do when interested

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• excellent washing behaviour
  After 60 household washing cycles, there is 90-95% of metal still on the SwicoGold yarns according to tests conducted by EMPA Switzerland.

 

• very regular coating along the yarn
  Ideal for automation applications, where uniform conducitvity is important to keep performance at a steady level and reaction margins extremely narrow.
   
• coated with Gold only
  There is no layer of any other metal or adhesive substance underneath like it is with other metalization processes - SwicoGold yarns will therefore not start to oxizie as there is no silver / copper involved.
   
• inertness
  SwicoGold yarn, composed of only the base material of your choice and gold, is technically inert which makes it very suitable for medical applications where characteristics such as corrision resistance and high conductivity are crucial for new fields of technologies.
   
• tailored upon your requirements
  Additional to the standard programme, SwicoGold yarns can also be made according to properties you need. This includes conducitivity values, base yarn material counts or twist. We do everything so that the yarns are easy to process for you.
   
• very fashionable
  Products on the fashion side with SwicoGold yarns have a wonderful noble appearence due to the yarn's elegance and fineness.

Furthermore, thanks to the coating with real 24K Gold, SwicoGold yarns also comprise the characteristics of gold, which include inertness

SwicoGold FDY yarns are available from stock on bobbins of 100m or 500m.
SwicoGold embroidery yarns are available on king spools of 1000m.

 

PLASMA GOLD COATED POLYESTER DTY YARN

PLASMA GOLD COATED POLYESTER EMBROIDERY YARN

Not only concerning the count (from a fine dtex 8 mono- or multifilament up to a coarse dtex 550 high tenacity multifilament) but also in reference to what materials can be coated.


So far, the following materials have been used for this process:

• Polyester (PET)
• Polyamide 6.6
• Polyamide 6
• UHMWPE
• Viscose (CV)
• Silk
• Meta-/ Paraaramide
• Vectran

Also, friction textured HE or Set yarn can be coated which provides a "geometric" elasticity to the product.
Everything is possible as long as the yarn is a continuous filament yarn with a count of between dtex 8 - dtex 550.
 

The field of application for SwicoGold yarn is broad. Correspondingly, SwicoGold yarn can be found in most diverse products. A few impressions on where SwicoGold yarn so far have been incorporated:

Please use the below plasma coated yarn checklist (.docx file - attention, not the same checklist as for other Swicofil products) and send it completely filled in to us by email.