What’s Elastic Cord?
What’s Elastic Cord? What are the types of elastic cord?
Round Elastic Cord is produced by braided machine, with raw material called latex made up of rubber in strings like polypropylene, polyester, and cotton.
There are yarns made of polyp and polyester in the braided sector. Polypropylene, also known as pp string and polyp string, is assumed as the lightest and most convenient string. Polip yarn has Hygenic features to prevent allergic reactions.
The polyester string is made of polyester fiber, entirely artificially and chemically. By having high flexibility, polyester strings are affected by moisture at low levels.
Polip strings keep moisture, water, dirt, and stain out caused by sweating and similar effects due to their breathable feature. Furthermore, it is more favorable than other strings due to its renewable, recyclable, and eco-friendly features. Polip strings are durable and flexible; however, being acetone causes the problem of static electricity.
What are the elastic cord widths?
We produce Round Elastic Cord in our facilities from 1mm to 10 mm in width, as in black, white, and colored strings from our wide color pallet demanded by customers depending on the types of yarn.
We, as Tekiş Lastik family, have braided elastic cords in our stock as well, ready for instant production in 1,5mm and 3mm width, with 20 different types of colored polyester. In addition, we have black and white polyester and polypropylene types of elastic cords in our stores. Besides solid colors, we also manufacture lurex, spotted and striped types of elastic cords.
We sell our stocked products in wholesales from factory and retail sales on our outlet store and e-commerce site.
Elastic cords are used primarily in textile, including sportswear, footwear, bags, accessories, haberdashery, bijouterie, and industries of print, medical, furniture, etc. To expand, it is used for shrinking the back and leg parts of sweatpants in the sportswear area. In textile areas, it is for shrinking the hoodies and buttons on women’s wear. In footwear sector, it is forming shoelaces. In addition, elastic cords are used for crafting accessories and in such hobbies, making it profitable for the haberdashery industry.
Tekiş Lastik, elastic cord is the primary material for our belt production. Our belts are so comfortable, unique, durable, long- usage makes them the best compared to other belts in the market. Moreover, being without holes make our belts suitable for any weight changes.
The usage areas of the elastic cord are pretty massive, and it is also used in the production of fastening buckles and similar goods. We produce and provide high-quality elastic cords for Bigouteres, in other words, accessories selling stores. We are cautious about the flexibility level and material ratio of components decided by our customers. Our company policy insists of;
-Producing the most suitable qualities of elastic cords for usage areas by our expert production team
-Using the word class standard, high technology machinery
-Innovative perspective on production techniques
-Improving and updating our products
As Tekiş Lastik, we provide standard quality and manufactured elastic cords to our clients from different sectors. While we supply our demanded qualified services, our production team also works on ARGE projects. We make designs of elastic cords on ARGE tests to ensure ordered width, flexibility, and circular form. Along with designs for quality standards, we create product IDs with specific stock codes. These stock codes contain the product’s type, width, color, material ratio, flexibility, and component measures. Stock codes are uploaded to our database, which is an accessible system at any time. Even our customers demand elastic cords of the same quality after months; we directly provide them due to our system’s technical product info.
Our Customer Services take the orders and directly forward them to Production Planning Department to start the process. Production Planning Department makes the list of needed raw materials depending on the amount of order and type of elastic cord regarding the Product’s ID. Continuously, The Sales Department gets the needed raw materials for the order according to lists. Raw materials are taken into Quality Control test, then taken to use in production in the factory.
We wrap our round elastic from 2meter to 500meters in different wrapping types- standard cardboard, mini card, and bobbin. Moreover, putting directly to packages without wrapping and carboards and mini cards with special prints due to clients demands are also our services.
When the wrapping process ends, we make gelatinization, also known as the shrink process, on special machines to avoid staining and scattering. When the packaging process ends, product labels are attached to products depending on stock codes from our system by using barcode devices.
The products attached with barcodes are packaged due to a standard number of boxes. Next, the company name, product name, product cıde, and the number of packages are printed by barcode devices and attached. Hence, when all the process ends, the boxes of elastic cords are moved in a specific order from Packaging Department to other stores in the factory for delivery by shipments to customers. The shipment and Warehouse Department make final checks and prepare invoices for packages. In the last step, the packages are delivered to customers.
Elastic Cords are produced in tres machines consisting of tools called muppets. To summarize working principles of Elastic machine are;
Tres machine braids the elastic by synchronized movements of tools-muppets. During the braiding process, the latex is stable and placed in the center of muppets. The yarns are attached to muppets and braided by circular motions of bobbins on muppets. Elastic cords are used with suitable muppets due to widths. The widths of muppets are 8, 12, 16, and 24. Our standard productions are elastic cords 1,5 mm in width on 8 muppets, 3 mm cotton elastic cords on 12 muppets, 3mm polyester, and pp elastic cords are produced on 16 muppets. Additionally, we produce from 1mm to 10 mm in width due to customer demands.
Before the braiding process, yarns are wrapped to suitable bobbins on tres machines working with the cycle principle. After the wrapping process, the threads are put onto the muppets of the device. Following that, quality control tests are made, the gear settings are done depending on the product’s technical characteristics to be produced. The production starts after detailed and meticulous steps. Depending on the range of deadlines (order delivery time) given by the Production Planning Department, the ordered products are taken for wrapping due to customer demands in Packaging Department.