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Velcro Companies offers a wide portfolio of hook and loop products that incorporate our technology into raw and customized materials and components that help companies be more innovative and competitive in different markets and applications. Whether it is a standard product or a solution customized to your design and manufacturing specifications, we put more than 60 years of expertise in design, technology, automation, customization, process, and logistics into our hook and loop products and your success.

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Whatever your requirements are, we will work closely with you to develop a unique, optimized solution.

Cutting capabilities for VELCRO® Brand hook and loop products

Cutting Capabilities

Velcro Companies offers a global portfolio of customized cutting capabilities for our hook and loop products.

  • Customized design, tailor made shapes and cuts to fit your needs
  • Any shape pieces for easy handling, opening and usage
  • Different cutting technology options to create desired edge
  • Tactile, durable and secure
  • Shapes can be customized or designed for processing through standard labeling equipment
  • Straight cut: cutting, die cutting linear
  • Non straight cut: die cutting shapes, die cutting, die cutting narrow, punching
  • Slitting, slitwinding
  • Pre-cut
  • Mating
  • Scoring: kiss cutting and scoring
  • Multilayer cutting
  • Pattern cutting with retractable blade
  • Radio frequency, ultrasonic cutting and sealing

Several industries including: Construction, Footwear & Apparel, Industrial, Medical, Packaging, Personal Care and Transportation

Adhesive & lamination options for VELCRO® Brand hook and loop products

Adhesive & Lamination

VELCRO® Brand hook and loop products are available with a variety of adhesives to best fit your application. Before using an adhesive for production, it should be tested to determine the suitability of the product for its intended use. Woven VELCRO® Brand tapes have a binder coat which helps prevent fraying of the tapes when cut. Many commercially available adhesives will not readily adhere to the back of woven tape with coating. We recommend the use of a VELCRO® Brand pre-coated adhesive backing. Please contact us if you have special requirements.

  • Available with a variety of adhesives to best fit your application
  • Available in a variety of adhesives depending on the surface energy
  • Available in a variety of adhesives depending on the low, medium and high temperature resistance
  • Available with a variety of bonding forces depending on the substrates and adhesive to be used
  • Adhesive backing available on our flame retardant tapes
  • VELCRO® Brand pressure sensitive adhesives: rubber based hotmelts
  • VELCRO® Brand pressure sensitive adhesives: water based acrylic adhesives
  • VELCRO® Brand pre coat adhesives: heat / solvent reactivable adhesives
  • VELCRO® Brand pressure sensitive adhesives: PUR hotmelts
  • VELCRO® Brand pressure sensitive adhesives: acrylic transfer tape adhesives
  • VELCRO® Brand acrylic foam transfer tapes
  • VELCRO® Brand fabric fusion

Several industries including: Construction, Footwear & Apparel, Industrial, Medical, Packaging, Personal Care and Transportation

Printing options for VELCRO® Brand hook and loop products

Printing

Velcro Companies offers a global portfolio of customized printing options and technologies for all the product range.

  • Customized design, digital artwork, tailor made printing to fit your needs
  • Different printing technology options and printing quality technology options
  • On back side of woven tapes. On knitted tapes
  • Continuous or single printing of bulk pieces
  • Multicolor printing depending on the technology used
  • Flexographic printing
  • Roller transfer printing
  • Continuous or single pad printing
  • Stationary screen printing
  • Heat transfer printing
  • Inkjet printing
  • Rotary screen printing
  • Hot stamping
  • Dye sublimation
  • Custom label printing

Several industries including: Construction, Footwear & Apparel, Industrial, Medical, Packaging, Personal Care and Transportation

Lamination options for VELCRO® Brand hook and loop products

Laminates

Velcro Companies offers laminates that incorporate up to five layers of materials, including closed or open edge, VELCRO® Brand knits and a wide range of foams and other fabrics. In addition to custom laminates, we offer ready-to-ship VELTEX® Laminated Loop, ideal for display walls, signage, office partitions, and soft goods.

  • Wide range of standard colors in stock make ordering easy; custom color options available
  • Compatible with many VELCRO® Brand Hooks
  • Available in full 60 inches width or cut to the width, length or shape you need
  • Can be attached to surfaces by sewing, using a spray adhesive, or using a mechanical fastener
  • Withstands spot cleaning using bleach-free household cleaning agents
  • Base material: nylon knit/ polyester & polyurethane foam/nylon tricot fabric
  • Standard colors: black, white, eggshell, beige, Spanish red, par green, ice blue, royal blue, navy, purple, antique grey
  • Standard widths: 60 inches
  • Standard put-ups: 40 yd roll
  • Material component: Hook 88 – Medium
  • Fire hazard classification: Tested to: AS 1530.3 1999 (a) Smoke developed – 3 (b) Spread of flame – 0, FMVSS302 – Passed
  • Roll from 10 – 50 yards depending on the thickness of the materials
  • Compatible with a wide variety of hooks

Several industries including: Footwear & Apparel, Industrial, Medical and Transportation

Product assembly

Assembly

Velcro Companies offers a wide range of strap types including sewn and welded straps, die cut straps, and straps that include hardware like D-rings and buckles. In addition, hook and loop straps can be designed and produced according to your custom specifications.

  • Cost-saving: reduces cost in the supply chain by offering a reusable strap
  • Sustainable: vastly reduces waste when replacing single use alternatives such as shrink wrap, metal banding, and plastic ties
  • Quick and easy: secures and releases easily and quickly; no tools or equipment needed
  • Versatile: available in different lengths, configurations to best accommodate your particular application
  • Protective: woven hook and loop is soft to the touch and will not damage your packaging, and delicate products.
  • Multiple base materials for strap manufacturing polyamide, polyester and polypropylene
  • Wide color range
  • Multiple widths and lengths and different type of buckles depending on the application and client request
  • Standard put-ups in bulk and customized
  • Suggested mating components: self-engaging, different type of configuration upon request
  • Rolled goods (core, flange, grommet)
  • Shrinked film products
  • Autobagger & bodolay packaging

Several industries including: Construction, Footwear & Apparel, Industrial, Medical, Packaging, Personal Care and Transportation

Sewing capabilities for VELCRO® Brand hook and loop products

Sewing Capabilities

Velcro Companies offers a wide variety of seam types for different ranges of products such as straps and masks.

  • Custom measures and shapes
  • High strength and durable
  • Applicable for different types of material such as fabrics, webbing, laminates, lycra
  • Soft-touch material options
  • Reusable hook and loop products
  • Variety of seams: straight, zig zag, programmable patterns, overlock, double needle
  • Ultrasonic sewing
  • Variety of yarn styles and colors
  • Digital knitting

Several industries including: Construction, Footwear & Apparel, Industrial, Medical and Transportation

Controlled Manufacturing for medical products

Controlled Manufacturing Environment

A high-tech space specifically designed for low levels of contamination of medical components. It must have strictly controlled environmental parameters like: particles in air, temperature, humidity, air flow, internal air pressure, lighting.

  • The air entering the controlled manufacturing environment is filtered to remove suspended particles and microorganisms. It is completely renewed several times per hour, so as not to accumulate dust. The room is kept on a pressure scale slightly higher than that outside, so when the doors are opened, the air comes out and no air comes in from outside with contaminated with microorganisms
  • Having a multilayer rotary web converting system
  • Multiple converting processes running in ONE-GO with online process parameters control to fulfill demanding specifications and tight tolerances
  • Online process parameters control, meet tight specifications, high converting technology processes and flexibility
  • Online Vision System to check dimensions. On top view and background light
  • Different technology options at one shot: lamination with different types of adhesives and products
  • Multilayer built up: possibility to build up products with many layers of materials
  • Exact and milimetrical rotary die cutting options for many hook and loop products
  • Slitting capability in line for many products
  • Winding tension control for delicate products which have tight specifications
  • Corona treatment availability
  • Our facilities in Mexico and Spain maintain ISO 13485 certifications, and we are experienced working in compliance with medical regulations around the globe
  • Controlled Manufacturing Environment offers many services and possibilities: ultrasonic assembly, radiofrequency assembly, sewing, pad printing, tensile testing, packaging, maintain temperature, maintain positive pressure, special gowning process for entering and exiting the controlled environment

Several industries including: Industrial, Medical and Transportation