Concordia's core competency is converting synthetic fibers into engineered yarns used in the manufacture of technical fabrics.   These processes include twisting, texturing, winding, commingling, heat setting, and several proprietary techniques. Concordia has expanded these capabilities to include the production of specialty braided and knit fabrics, and recently added new technology to produce non-woven scaffolds for medical applications.

It is not uncommon for Concordia to design and build its own machinery for a particular application.   This has helped customers realize competitive advantages and tremendous cost savings.

Concordia's customers come from industries as varied as:

•  Bio-engineering

•  Aerospace

•  Automotive

•  Home Furnishings

•  Environmental Sciences

•  Consumer Products

Concordia looks at its product structure as having three main categories: Technical Yarns and Threads; Advanced Composites; and Medical Applications.  

Technical Yarns and Threads is the largest category.   A direct descendent from Concordia's early work with silk before the World War II , Concordia developed expertise in handling the various synthetic continuous filament yarns as they were invented during the 20 th century.

In the late 1980's and early 1990's this work led to the development of several patents focused on a new process called commingling.   Concordia developed the ability to combine two different yarns together at the filament level without adding twist or disorienting the filaments of either yarn.   By combining carbon fibers with thermoplastic fibers Concordia developed a means of producing advanced thermoplastic composites by the simple addition of heat and pressure alone.

Recently, Concordia has been sought out to help develop medical fabrics out of very fine and delicate proprietary filaments developed by various prime medical device manufacturers.   Concordia designed and built new machinery to handle these filaments along with a clean room in which to process them.