Performance Materials
Technology-Enhancing Benefits for Land, Sea, Air & Space Applications
A new era of advanced performance materials solutions is emerging—and Solesis is at the forefront of helping you transform the future of global connectivity, sustainable energy, and advanced technologies that impact human life.
With decades of material science expertise, formulation knowledge, and application experience, Solesis helps innovators build solutions engineered for durability, precision, and long-term performance across demanding environments.
Engineering Materials to Withstand Tough Environments
You need performance materials that are reliable, scalable, and tailored to your mission-specific requirements. By anticipating and designing for the complex environmental, mechanical, and thermal conditions your innovations face—across land, sea, air, and space—Solesis helps you create high-performance polymers, textiles, and composite materials that are engineered to endure.
From durability, flexibility, and chemical resistance to compactibility, hydrolytic stability, and openings per inch (OPI), Solesis pairs the right polymers and composite materials with the right manufacturing techniques to help you meet the world’s most demanding performance standards.
How Solesis Makes a Material Difference
Every performance application demands something different. Solesis draws on decades of experience in textile and polymer engineering to custom design and develop materials that meet exact performance specifications—balancing form, function, and manufacturability to deliver results that last.
Solving Your Toughest Challenges with Performance Material Innovations
Innovation in performance materials is accelerating—and Solesis advances with you. Our engineers work closely with your team to develop tunable, high-performance materials that offer optimized flexibility, durability, and environmental stability.
Move from idea to implementation efficiently so you can enable global mobility, connectivity, and security across industries more quickly.
Polymers
When using specialized polymer and processing techniques, high-performance polymers can be engineered to exhibit specific properties—such as durability, flexibility, and strength—making them indispensable for performance materials applications such as:
- Coatings and films
- Moldings and encapsulations
- Bags, bladders, and membranes
- Sleeves and sheaths
- Solutions and ahesives
Challenges Polymers Solve
- 3D dimensionality
- Aesthetics (e.g., color, opacity, touch)
- Anti-static
- Biocompatibility
- Chemical resistance
- Collapsibility
- Compactibility
- Durability
- Electrical integration
- Flexibility and flex-fatigue resistance
- Gas barrier properties
- High surface area
- Hydrolytic stability
- Layering
- Lightweight
- Low creep
- Low profile
- Low temperature resistance
- Lubricity/coefficient of friction (CoF)
- Opacity
- Reinforcement
- Sealing
- Sealability
- Seamlessness
- Smaller profiles
- Smoothness
- Softness
- Strength
- Stretchability
- Stretch resist
- Stickiness
- Support
- Surface finish
- Thickness
- Tissue regeneration
- Uniformity
- Weldability
Types of Materials Used in Polymer Processing at Solesis
- Polyurethanes (TPU)
- Silicones
- Thermoplastic elastomers (TPE)
- Polyamides (Pebax®, Nylons)
- Polyesters (Hytrel®, Arnitel®)
- Ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) / olefins
- Polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
- Fluoropolymers (PVDF)
- Polyethylenes (PE)
Textiles
Selecting the proper performance textile and forming technology is fundamental to creating optimized solutions that meet the unique mechanical needs of each material application. By fine-tuning specific properties—such as thickness, density, porosity, and compactibility—with a precise manufacturing process, innovators can tailor textiles to meet demanding requirements, making them critical for applications such as:
- Space travel, exploration, and habitation with space suit fabrics and tethers for securing components on spacecraft and satellites
- Air, oil, and gas separation with coalescer fabrics
Challenges Textiles Solve
- 3D dimensionality
- Absorption (e.g., light, EMI, RF, radar, thermal)
- Aesthetics (e.g., color, touch)
- Compactibility
- Conformability
- Covering/protection (e.g., cushioning)
- Flexibility
- High density
- High surface area
- Lightweight
- Load bearing
- Low creep
- Low profile
- Openings per inch (10, 20, 30, and 40 OPI)
- Permeability
- Porosity
- Low profile
- Low stretch
- Permeability
- Sealing
- Stability
- Strength
- Reflectivity
- Resilience
- Reinforcement
- Shielding (e.g., electromagnetic interference, thermal shielding)
- Softness
- Stabilization
- Strength
- Stretch resist
- Stretchability
- Support
- Tensile strength
- Thickness
Types of Materials Used in Textile Processing at Solesis
- Polyester
- Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)
- Polyether ether ketone (PEEK)
- Polyglycolide (PGA)
- Poly(L-lactide) (PLLA)
- Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)
- Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)
- Polypropylene (PP)
- Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE)
- Resorbables
Metals & Alloys
We produce knit gold-plated molybdenum wire mesh to facilitate satellite communication. This lightweight, unfurlable material enables the compaction and expansion of large and small satellite antenna reflectors, making it vital for applications such as:
- Satellite communication at low-earth, medium-earth, geosynchronous, and lunar orbits
- Other performance material applications across advanced engineering environments
Challenges Textiles Solve
- Absorption (e.g., light, EMI, RF, radar, thermal)
- Collapsibility
- Compactability
- Durability
- Lightweight
- Openings per inch (10, 20, 30, and 40 OPI)
- Reflectivity
- Shielding (e.g., electromagnetic interference, thermal shielding)
- Strength
- Unfurlability
Types of Materials Used in Textile Processing at Solesis
- Molybdenum
- Alloys
- Metals
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Let’s Push the Boundaries of Performance Materials—Together
At Solesis, we’re ready to partner with you, combining fresh thinking and proven expertise in high-performance textiles and polymers to help you realize your next breakthrough in innovation, durability, and engineering excellence.