Combat Technology
Combat & Security Innovations
Milliken’s contributions to the innovation of military and gear extend to many areas of the battlefield, and this includes bringing fresh thinking to everyday combat apparel as well as imagining totally new designs in security and protective fabrics.
Protek™
Protek™ is Milliken’s solution to making the gear our troops wear and use every day as high-tech and sophisticated as our most advanced fabrics. We accomplished this mission by making Protek™ the optimal combat uniform fabric for everyday use through applied technologies like wrinkle-resistance and a comfort stretch fabric construction, along with treatments to heighten durability resistance to tearing and abrasion. Protek™ is the everyday military fabric of the future.
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Tegris™
Tegris™ is a 100% polypropylene thermoplastic composite which offers application- specific combinations of impact resistance, stiffness and light weight. Tegris fabrics are woven from specially engineered tape yarns with a highly drawn core for strength properties. Tegris provides remarkable impact resistance over typical thermoplastic composites as well as excellent protection against fragment, projectile or blast threats. Tegris composites are currently used in vehicle and body armor applications.
Designed to be easily processed, Tegris composites are available in fabric or sheet stock. The sheet stock can be used for panel applications or can be molded using pressure thermoforming techniques. The fabric can also be molded using similar techniques. Tegris composites can be easily painted as well as bonded to other materials to form hybrid solutions. It is a highly advanced, highly versatile solution to a variety of challenges faced by our modern military.
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Conceal™ PSV
The technology associated with two-way mirrors is not necessarily new, but applying that technology to fabric in a military environment to gain a strategic advantage certainly is. Milliken’s Conceal™ PSV, through a proprietary technology, offers warfighters a secure vantage point on one side of the Perimeter Security Veil allowing them to see through to the other side while remaining out of sight. It is truly a technology designed to make an immediate impact and bolster our ability to better manage military conflicts when they arise.
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