Weaving and Coating In 1984, as part of the process to vertically integrate the manufacturing of ballistic spall liners and the U.S. Army's PASGT Helmet, Sioux Manufacturing... Corporation (SMC) installed weaving and prepregging equipment to process ballistic aramid fibers. In the years since then, SMC has woven over 6.4 million linear yards of aramid fiber... for ballistic applications around the world. Weaving SMC's modern facility has the capability of weaving high-performance fabrics such as DuPont's Kevlar and Teijin Ltd.'s Twaron...

Woven Material With its ability to weave in excess of one million yards of fabric per year, Sioux Manufacturing Corporation (SMC) has a number of woven fabrics available...

of the material used in the spall liners is first woven and prepregged in SMC's weaving division. The material is then molded into panels, cut into parts, drilled, hardware attached...

capabilities have evolved over the years to include weaving, prepregging, autoclave molding, compression molding, water jet cutting, metal and composite material machining, metal...

, Spectra Shield, Twaron, and E-Glass. Along with weaving and prepregging Kevlar, SMC molds and machines all of the various materials to a customer's specifications. SMC also has...