SwicoSilver 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. SwicoSilver 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.


SwicoSilver yarns are the only ones in the world that provide flexiblity, very high conductivity and longevity thanks to its new production process, the Plasma Metal Coating, where no chemo-galvanical methods are used. 
This is a huge advantage for demanding applications. The final product is easy care. The big problems that all other silver coated yarns have - brittleness and low adhesion - is inexistent for SwicoSilver yarns. 

  

Advantages Why choose SwicoSilver	Applications The sky is the limit
Programme What has been done so far?	References Implementations of SwicoSilver
Possibilties Tailored upon your requirements	Inquiry What to do when interested

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• highly conductive
  SwicoSilver yarn meet high conductivty levels of up to 1 ohm/cm. Even lower conductivity values can be reached by SwicoSilver type HiCon (abt. 0.06 ohm/cm).
   
• textile touch
  Despite being coated with silver, SwicoSilver yarns feel like a normal textile yarn and are just as versatile.
   
• exceptional adhesion
  The silver coating holds perfectly onto the yarn. Due to the plasma coating production process, the silver is not brittle and will not crumble off the yarn.
   
• 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 silver only
  There is no layer of any other metal or adhesive substance underneath like it is with other metalization processes. Yet, SwicoSilver provides excellent adhesion of the metal on the yarn - much better than traditional methods.  
   
• tailored upon your requirements
  Additional to the standard programme, SwicoSilver yarn can also be made with the 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.

 

Furthermore, thanks to the coating with pure silver, SwicoSilver yarns also comprise the characteristics of silver, which are:

 

• antimicrobial
• antifungal
• static dissipation
• shielding from radiation
• shielding from electromagnetic force

Below list only refers to SwicoSilver normal type. For a product overview for SwicoSilver HiCon, please click here.

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

Need higher counts? Try SwicoSilver HiCon.

 

PLASMA SILVER COATED POLYESTER DTY YARN

PLASMA SILVER 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.
 
*: for even lower conductivity values, please refer to "SwicoSilver HiCon".

SwicoSilver has been successfully implemented in various projects concerning transmission, engineering or luxury accessoires. Please contact us for more detailed information.

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.