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Bally Ribbon Mills (BRM), a company that designs, develops and manufactures specialized engineered woven fabrics, announces the availability of advanced webbing solutions utilizing Kevlar® EXO™, an aramid fiber platform engineered for demanding performance and protection. The new Kevlar EXO offerings expand BRM’s portfolio of high-performance tapes and webbings for mission-critical applications in defense, aerospace and industrial safety markets.
Kevlar EXO is designed for ballistic applications to deliver comfort, flexibility, and wearability, maintaining high strength, low weight, cut resistance and thermal performance expected from aramid-based protective materials. BRM’s engineering team translates these material advantages into narrow fabrics and webbings that can be integrated into seam reinforcements, harnesses, and high tensile load applications.
By combining Kevlar EXO with BRM’s custom weave designs, customers can achieve superior strength, low elongations at a lighter weight. The tenacity of the new webbings are engineered to be 40-50 percent stronger than legacy Kevlar webbings. They also exhibit 15-40 percent weight savings at the same tenacity targets.
BRM collaborates closely with OEMs and program teams to optimize Kevlar EXO-based webbings for specific end uses, including color matching, custom widths, specific weave designs, and targeted performance properties. From prototyping through full-scale production, BRM supports consistent, repeatable performance for domestic and international customers in highly regulated markets.