Copper Wire · Heating Element
Couched heating element
Continuous copper wire couched in a tight spiral meander — a programmable resistive heater stitched straight into fabric for car-seat heaters, deicers and heated apparel.
Wire & Smart-Textile Cording
CONDUCTRA-9
Embroidered wires, sensors, heating elements — the smart-textile workhorse.
A nine-needle flat head paired with a single PD (taping) head, configured for couching continuous wire, CNT thread, and conductive cord under engineered stitch paths. The platform does Tailored Wire Placement — routing heating wire, sensor wire, and smart textiles and stitching them down — turning embroidery into an electrical assembly process.
Overview
The CONDUCTRA-9 turns embroidery into an electrical assembly process for heating elements, sensor routing, CNT-thread antennas, and smart-textile structures.
Why this machine
Drop a 28 AWG copper wire under flat stitch, route a meander, and you have a heated panel. Swap to CNT thread and you have an antenna. Add a piezoresistive thread and you have a pressure sensor. One machine, one workflow, the entire smart-textile stack.
Capabilities
- Couches 20–42 AWG copper wire and 16 μm CNT thread
- Electrical envelope: 3 V – 55 V, 1 mA – 15 A
- Heating elements — car seat heaters, deicers, heated jackets
- Sensor wire stitching and smart-textile routing
- Integrated laser cutter for trimmed-edge encapsulated conductors
- Three-bead sequin head for hybrid decoration + function
Ideal for
Heated-apparel makers, smart-textile startups, e-textile research groups, and deicing / heated-surface developers.
Specifications
- Configuration
- 9 needles × 1 flat head + 1 taping (PD) head
- Functions
- Flat • Cording • Taping • Three-bead twin sequin • Laser cutting
- Embroidery area
- 650 × 1200 mm
- Maximum speed
- 1,200 spm
- Control
- 12" colour touchscreen LCD
- Special equipment
- Three-bead twin sequin device, laser cutting device
- Power
- Standard 120 V — quiet operation
- Machine size
- 2,470 × 1,630 × 1,600 mm
- Net weight
- 650 kg
The Process · Tailored Wire Placement
How TWP works
A guiding nozzle lays continuous wire onto a moving base fabric while a needle couches it down with a zigzag lockstitch. The embroidery frame moves in X and Y so the head follows any programmed path — placing conductor only where the circuit demands it.
What the platform makes
Tailored Wire Placement for smart textiles
Tailored Wire Placement lays continuous wire exactly along a programmed path and stitches it down to a fabric substrate — no soldered traces, no rigid board. The CONDUCTRA-9 routes heating wire, sensor wire, CNT thread and conductive cord, embedding heating elements, sensors and antennas directly into the textile.
Thermal Imaging · Heat Proof
Heated panel under FLIR
A thermal camera shows even heat across a couched-wire panel — proof the embroidered circuit warms uniformly with no cold spots or runaway hot wires.
Sensor Wire · Smart Textile
Sensor-wire routing
Fine conductive wire couched in dense, repeatable rows — the basis for capacitive and resistive sensing grids stitched directly into a flexible textile.
E-Textile · Integrated Assembly
Smart-textile demonstrator
Embroidered conductive panels integrated with molded fixtures — showing how TWP turns a length of fabric into a finished, wired electrical assembly.
One machine, the entire smart-textile stack. Couch 20–42 AWG copper wire and 16 μm CNT thread, work within a 3–55 V, 1 mA–15 A electrical envelope, and trim encapsulated conductors with the integrated laser cutter — heating elements, sensors and antennas, all stitched on a single platform.
Sampling
Bring your spec — we'll stitch a sample on this platform at our showroom.
Pricing
Contact for current pricing and availability.