LIGHT airy structures made using Serge Ferrari’s tensile fabrics have been attracting attention worldwide in diverse applications ranging from architecture and industry to yatching. The French industrial group, a leader in composite textiles, will now be at The Big show with its solutions for the construction sector, confident of making a major impression on visitors to this major show.

Serge Ferrari’s textiles provide lasting, light and eco-efficient solutions, which are appealing on account of their technical and aesthetic benefits, as well as by the way they interplay with wood, metal, concrete and other materials.

These textiles have immense dimensional stability which is ensured by Precontraint Serge Ferrari, an exclusive, patented technology that keeps textiles tensioned during the manufacturing cycle both in the weft and warp direction. “This gives Serge Ferrari textiles exceptional dimensional stability, controlled homogeneity and increased longevity,” says a spokesman for the company.

One of the major advantages offered by textile architecture is natural day lighting. Depending on the application, Serge Ferrari textiles can serve either as light-reflecting screens or as translucent membranes, optimising the ingress of natural daylight or artificial light.

For indoor architectural applications, Serge Ferrari provides textiles whose open-work weaving provides for aesthetic covers with sound insulative properties to ensure efficient acoustic absorption.

Serge Ferrari’s products also address the global move towards sustainable construction. The spokesman comments: “Textile solutions are expected to meet social and building design challenges by offering energy savings, improved comfort in soundproofing, thermal and visual terms and sustainable aesthetic added value, and by complying with the new environmental requirements. Through its innovations, Serge Ferrari has been focusing on improving the sustainability of its technical fabrics to meet architectural concerns, following an ongoing environment-friendly approach.”

In order to reduce energy use, Serge Ferrari has developed the LowE process, achieved through the calibrated application of a high-performance treatment on its textile, which will act as a thermal barrier to significantly reduce heat re-emission.

The LowE process, which boosts the solutions provided by its flexible membranes, can be attuned to ensure the textile maintains a level of translucency.

This apart, the company has demonstrated its future-focused approach when it developed its Texyloop recycling unit in 2008. This technology provides specifiers and construction professionals and end-users with a global solution to give a second life to used membranes by recycling. This ensures that its products have a minimal environmental impact, as is demonstrated by the environmental life cycle analysis (LCA) which is systematically performed on all of its products.
The Serge Ferrari Group is currently present in 80 countries as an industry leader, especially in the field of textile architecture. It is also involved in a host of other fields.

It will be exhibiting in Hall One, Stand B26 at The Big 5 show.