Conductive Yarns and Cables for Smart Textiles
Durable and discrete conductors
What can we offer you?
3ltex offers you a wide range of flexible, conductive yarns and cables for the production of smart Textiles. Our product portfolio consists of conductive, spun yarns and fine cables made of ultra-fine, stainless steel filaments and other metal combinations.
These durable, conductive yarns and cables can be discretely integrated into your material. They enable safe, reliable and efficient energy and data transfer in a wide range of applications, including: smart clothing, wearable technology, antennas and sensors.
3ltex’s conductive yarns and cables maintain their conductivity over extended usage and numerous washes giving them a long flex, service lifetime.
Other tailor-made cable solutions can be produced.
Benefits
• Long flex life
• Easy to process using traditional textile techniques
• Wide, customizable, conductivity range
• Can be discretely integrated into textiles
Proven performance
The performance of 3ltex’s conductive yarns and cables has been successfully proven in a wide range of applications in various industries. These include, among others, the medical, automotive, aeronautic industry. The world’s leading nano-electronics and nano-technology research center imec, and the University of Gent, tested the performance of 3ltex’s conductive yarns and cables in a number of conditions and applications in combination with their integration methodologies. The test results show that our conductive yarns and cables can be reliably integrated into flexible materials. They will continue to perform well under severe conditions.
Product range
3ltex offers a wide range of standard or custom-made conductors with electrical conductivity that ranges from 0,1 to 70 Ω/m or more.
Our solutions include:
Conductive spun yarns for sensors
| 3ltex blended spun yarn composition | Count | Electrical conductivity* | |
| Nm | Dtex | ||
| Metal fiber/Polyester | 50/1 | 200 | 40 Ω/cm (± 20%) |
| Metal/Polyester | 50/2 | 400 | 20 Ω/cm (± 20%) |
Cables for senors and other conductive applications:
Metallized conductive wire
| Diameters (um) | Filaments | Strength (cN) | Weight (g/m) | Elongation (%) | Conductivity (Ohm/m) |
| 8 | 1000Fx1 | 69 | 0.420 | 1.10 | 16 |
| 8 | 1000Fx2 | 108 | 0.850 | 1.10 | 8 |
| 12 | 100Fx1 | 24 | 0.110 | 1.10 | 59 |
| 12 | 100Fx2 | 41 | 0.190 | 1.10 | 38 |
| 12 | 100Fx3 | 69 | 0.280 | 1.10 | 22 |
| 12 | 257Fx1 | 59 | 0.260 | 1.10 | 27 |
| 12 | 275Fx2 | 75 | 0.540 | 1.10 | 14 |
| 12 | 275Fx3 | 125 | 0.780 | 1.10 | 9 |
| 12 | 275Fx4 | 130 | 1.050 | 1.10 | 7 |
| 12 | 275Fx5 | 160 | 1.300 | 1.10 | 5 |
| 12 | 275Fx6 | 180 | 1.500 | 1.10 | 4 |
| 12 | 1000Fx1 | 100 | 0.950 | 1.10 | 7 |
| 12 | 1000Fx2 | 340 | 1.900 | 1.10 | 4 |
| 14 | 90Fx2 | 46 | 0.190 | 1.10 | 44 |
| 14 | 90Fx1 | 25 | 0.110 | 1.10 | 47-64 |
*Other electrical conductivities available upon demand
Packing
Depending on your quality and production needs our products are available on cones, tubes or DIN bobbins.