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Grip with unmatched quality – SNT-Group trusts original VELCRO® Brand, and so should you
All hook-and-loop fasteners are not created equal. While the word has become synonymous with all self-fasteners, only one can be original. SNT-Group is a Premium Distributor for VELCRO® Brand and VELCRO® Brand ALFATEX® in Finland and the Baltics. There is a reason why the most demanding applications trust only the original.
Invented in Switzerland 1941, VELCRO® Brand products can be found almost anywhere. In clothing, obviously, but it can just as well make trade fair stands easy to dismantle and reassemble or hold interior panels in place on vehicles.
“A good example is a base for sanding pads we manufacture for Mirka,” says Matti Auvinen, Operative Director at SNT-Group. “We use glue-backed VELCRO® Brand fastener and punch it into a desired shape.”
For extreme conditions
When the circumstances call for extreme reliability, such as defense or aviation use, there is no substitute for VELCRO® Brand products.
“There are several extra requirements in defense use,” Auvinen says. “To prevent the edges from fraying it must be sewn to specified width instead of cutting, the thread must be stronger, the material is more fire and chemical-resistant polyamide 6.6, NIR protection against night vision and so on”, Auvinen lists.
The fastener quality is taken very seriously in aviation textiles as well. “At SNT-Group, we manufacture seat covers for Finnair and others” Auvinen remarks. “It’s in their design data to exclusively use fire-retardant VELCRO® Brand products for attaching.”
Quality matters
What separates VELCRO® Brand products from generic hook-and-loop fasteners from the Far East? According to Matti Auvinen, their quality is a far cry from the original.
“Generic fasteners are often made with mixed PA and PE, with far inferior separation strengths – they really can’t be compared,” he says. “Those who demand quality will ask for the real thing.”
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From skies to workwear, from seat covers to jet inlet covers – wherever technical textile expertise is needed, SNT-Group is there. Uncompromized quality and optimizing expertise combined with style and manufacturing licences for demanding uses makes our textiles ambassadors of Finnish quality in every application.
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