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Tyre Cord Fabric is a type of industrial fabric made using High Tenacity Synthetic Yarn Cord in the warp and has a negligible density of weft just to hold the warps together. Tyre cord fabric provides the tyre with its fundamental properties such as shape, load carrying capacity, abrasion resistance etc7. Earlier polyester tyre cords were popular but were gradually replaced by nylon tyre cord fabric. Nylon tyre cord provides reinforcement for all types of tyres. Nylon tyre cord (NTC) is made from high tenacity continuous filament yarn by twisting and plying. The major criteria for acceptance of any material in the tyre are its tensile strength, dimensional stability, durability, thermal stability, hysteresis and adhesion. However, with the emergence of radial tyres, even nylon tyre cord fabrics face only modest prospects in the coming future. Polyester tyre cord is used to a very small extent and the bulk of it is imported rather than produced domestically.

Nylon 6 grey and dipped tyre cord fabrics having high strength, fatigue resistance, impact resistance, high adhesion characteristics, are mainly used as reinforcements of bias tyres. The tyre cords are generally available with the fabric characteristics of 930dtex, 1400dtex, 1870dtex, 2100dtex. The critical specifications drive the characteristics such as Breaking strength, elongation, adhesion, ply twists and hot-air shrinkage.