Albany International Corporation

Louis Jay Jandris

Dhruv Agarwal

Manish Jain

David S Rougvie

Hayward Bradford Arthur

Described herein are component compositions comprising a blend of a polymer resin together with silica glass beads. In certain embodiments, the components demonstrate improved abrasion resistance as do the industrial fabrics produced that comprise at least one component of the instant disclosure.

Compositions and methods for improved abrasion resistance of polymeric components

A papermaking fabric having a top layer and a bottom layer of interwoven machine direction (MD) yarns and cross-machine direction (CD) yarns bound together with warp binder yarns. At least some of the CD yarns are made of a material which generates a strong contractive force when returned to room temperature after heat-setting (annealing under MD tension). These CD yarns are positioned such that the strong contractive force offsets tension forces generated when the fabric is placed under load and which typically result in an edge curl. An exemplary material for these CD yarns is polybutylene terephthalate (PBT).

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Louis Jay Jandris