Silicone Tube · Fluid Route
Couched fluid line
Continuous silicone tube couched in a tight serpentine and stitched flat to the carrier — a textile-integrated fluid or pneumatic line for soft actuators and wearable cooling.
Tube & EL-Wire Cording
FLUIDSTITCH-9
Stitched-down tubes, EL wire, fluidic and pneumatic routes — the technical-textile workhorse.
A nine-needle flat head paired with a single PD (taping) head, configured for couching continuous tube and cord under engineered stitch paths. The platform does Tailored Tube Placement — routing silicone tubing, EL wire, and other tube-like structures and stitching them down — turning embroidery into a fluidic and technical-textile assembly process.
Overview
The FLUIDSTITCH-9 turns embroidery into a fluidic and technical-textile assembly process for silicone tubing, EL wire, pneumatic routes, agricultural tube, and other tube-like structures.
Why this machine
Drop a silicone tube under the PD head, route a serpentine, and you have a textile-integrated fluid line. Swap to EL wire and you have a glowing display. Run agricultural drip tube or air line and you have a soft pneumatic harness. One machine, one workflow, the entire technical-textile stack.
Capabilities
- Couches silicone, TPU, and PU tubing up to 15 mm OD without crimping the lumen
- Tailored Tube Placement for fluid, air, and EL-wire routes
- Pneumatic and hydraulic lines — soft actuators, thermal management, wearable cooling
- EL wire and tube-like structures stitched down for lighting and display
- Agricultural and technical routing — drip lines, microfluidic channels, lab-on-textile
- Combined fluidic + electrical routing on the same workpiece
Ideal for
Soft robotics labs, microfluidics groups, wearable cooling / heating startups, agricultural-textile developers, and prosthetics R&D.
Specifications
- Configuration
- 9 needles × 1 flat head + 1 taping (PD) head
- Functions
- Flat • Cording • Taping (fluidic) • Sequin • Laser
- Embroidery area
- 650 × 1200 mm
- Maximum speed
- 1,200 spm
- Couching capacity
- Tubing up to 15 mm OD
- Control
- 12" colour touchscreen LCD
- Power
- Standard 120 V — quiet operation
- Machine size
- 2,470 × 1,630 × 1,600 mm
- Net weight
- 650 kg
The Process · Tailored Tube Placement
How TTP works
A guiding nozzle lays continuous tube 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 tube only where the route demands it, without crimping the lumen.
What the platform makes
Tailored Tube Placement for technical textiles
Tailored Tube Placement lays continuous tube exactly along a programmed path and stitches it down to a fabric substrate — no clamps, no manual routing. The FLUIDSTITCH-9 routes silicone tubing, EL wire and other tube-like structures, embedding fluid lines, air channels and lit cord directly into the textile for fluid transport, air transport, agricultural and other technical uses.
Technical Tube · Agricultural
Tube routing on mesh
Tubing laid in parallel U-turn rows on an open mesh carrier — the basis for irrigation, drip and air-transport panels stitched for agricultural and technical use.
Couching Detail · Lumen Intact
Stitched tube detail
A close look at the zigzag couching stitch anchoring clear tube to fabric — firm fixation along the route with the lumen left fully open for flow.
EL Wire · Lit Textile
EL-wire display
Electroluminescent wire couched in flowing multicolour paths — showing how TTP stitches tube-like structures into a flexible, illuminated technical textile.
One machine, the entire technical-textile stack. Couch silicone, TPU and PU tubing up to 15 mm OD, route EL wire and other tube-like structures, and combine fluidic with electrical routing on the same workpiece — fluid lines, air channels, agricultural tube and lit cord, 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.