Bally Ribbon Mills (BRM), an industry leader in the design, development and manufacture of highly specialized engineered woven fabrics, announced the availability of advanced webbing solutions utilizing Kevlar® EXO™, a next-generation aramid fiber platform engineered for demanding performance and protection needs.
The new Kevlar EXO offerings expand BRM’s portfolio of high-performance tapes and webbings for mission-critical applications in defense, aerospace and industrial safety markets.
Kevlar EXO is designed for ballistic applications to deliver higher comfort, flexibility, and wearability while maintaining high strength, low weight, cut resistance, and thermal performance expected from aramid-based protective materials. BRM’s engineering team leverages its expertise in weaving advanced fibers to translate these material advantages into narrow fabrics and webbings that can be integrated into seam reinforcements, harnesses, and high tensile load applications.
By combining Kevlar EXO with BRM’s custom weave designs, customers can achieve superior strength, low elongations at a lighter weight. The tenacity of the new webbings is engineered to be 40-50% stronger than legacy Kevlar webbings. They also exhibit 15-40% weight savings at the same tenacity targets.
BRM collaborates closely with OEMs and program teams to optimize Kevlar EXO-based webbings for specific end uses, including color matching, custom widths, specific weave designs and targeted performance properties. From prototyping through full-scale production, BRM’s manufacturing and quality systems support consistent, repeatable performance for domestic and international customers in highly regulated markets.
Kevlar EXO webbings from BRM complement the company’s broader line of high-performance textiles, including E-WEBBINGS, specialty aramid and polyester tapes and engineered narrow fabrics for aerospace, defense, commercial aviation, medical, safety and commercial/industrial applications. Together, these solutions provide designers and engineers with an expanded toolbox of advanced materials to meet evolving protection, comfort and system-integration requirements.
Bally Ribbon Mills (BRM) designs, develops, and manufactures highly specialized engineered woven webbing, tapes, specialty fabrics, woven preforms, and two dimensional and three-dimensional structural fabrics. With more than 100 years of textile manufacturing experience, BRM has earned a reputation for meeting new advanced design challenges. Working in aerospace, defense, medical, safety, automotive, commercial, and industrial applications, BRM offers ingenuity, technical know-how, extensive weaving capabilities, and rigorous quality assurance systems.
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