Diatex

What they make

According to their website, Diatex is a French manufacturer, active for 35 years, based near Lyon with a factory in the Drôme department, operating across two sites in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region totaling 11,000 m² and employing around a hundred people. Its business is organized into four divisions. The Light Aircraft division supplies aircraft covering fabrics and coating products, including a nitrocellulose-based coating for gluing, tensioning and waterproofing fabric onto wood, metal or composite structures, alongside application training. The Composites division offers vacuum moulding and vacuum infusion/infujection processing, kitting, custom reusable silicone tooling, FOD management, traceability and anti-counterfeiting solutions, and equipment maintenance. The Advanced Textiles division develops bespoke technical fabrics cut to specification, including a fabric with permanent virucidal properties, while the Agrotextiles division produces protection nets and custom agricultural textiles. Weaving is done on new-generation looms, including very-wide looms up to 5.40 m. The company exports to 58 countries, citing Airbus, Boeing and Zodiac among its clients, and is certified EN9100 (since 2006), ISO 9001, and OEKO-TEX Standard 100 (since 2012).

• Weaving and finishing of technical textiles on new-generation looms, including very-wide looms up to 5.40 m
• Aircraft covering fabrics and coating products, such as a nitrocellulose-based coating for gluing, tensioning and waterproofing fabric on wood, metal or composite structures, plus related training courses
• Vacuum moulding and vacuum infusion/infujection processing for composite parts
• Kitting of pre-cut composite material sets, custom reusable silicone tooling, FOD (foreign object debris) management, traceability/anti-counterfeiting solutions and equipment maintenance for composites customers
• Bespoke technical textiles manufactured and cut to customer specification, including fabrics developed with permanent virucidal properties
• Protection nets and custom agricultural textiles (agrotextiles)

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