What Is Flock?

Flock is fibers cut into small particles. The fibers can be natural or synthetic. These fibers can be cut randomly, where the length of each fiber is not the same, or they can be cut precisely, allowing the each fiber to be the same length.

What Is Flocking?

Flocking is the process of coating the flock fibers to a substrate using some type of adhesion. The process can be done by dusting the flock or electro statically spraying the fibers.

What Materials can be Flocked?

We have the ability to flock most goods that are in a roll – textiles, films, foams, nonwovens, etc. We can coat or print our adhesives in a continuous process. We use mechanical and electro static methods to provide an even, orientated fiber coating.

What Fibers can be Flocked?

We can flock many of the fibers on the market today. Most of our flocking is done with Nylon, Rayon, Acrylic, Polyester, Cotton and our own Vivid Fiber. We are not limited to those fibers though. Through our R&D developments with various customers we have flocked Kevlar, Basofil, etc.

What Size Fibers can be Flocked?

Spectro can flock fibers from   a .8 micro denier all the way to a 45 denier fiber. Lengths can as short as .015” to .080”.

What is the Adhesive made of?

Our adhesives are all water based acrylic latex adhesives. They are non toxic and have a low VOC’s. We filter all our adhesives through a system that separates the water and the acrylic latex. The clean water is sent to the town and the recovered latex is reused in some of our own adhesives. We also have the ability to use many other water based adhesives systems that can be designed for a particular end use.