Ripstop Polyester (RS)

... remains as best choice if you want to use your tent for trekking `holidays or when camping in bad weather. It is the lightest fabric and it dries very fast. In combination with the excellent ventilation of our Polyester Ripstop tents it performs very well taking the lower price of this material into account.
Bad weather and trekking. Best space to weight ratio.

Technical Cotton (TC)

... was introduced in 2004. The tremendous success of the TC tents made room for the new lightweight cotton series. TC fabric is a mixture of cotton and polyester and combines the best out of both worlds. Tents made of TC fabric have a better UV resistance than Polyester Ripstop tents. They also have a better climate inside the tent compared to Ripstop Polyester tents. TC tents have been PU coated and are not breathable, but as a result of the coating they perform better in heavy and wet weather conditions than cotton tents.
Moderate temperatures, with rain and sun.

Light Weight Cotton (LWC)

... was introduced to Eureka!'s range of tents in 2006. Between all modern (often superlite) pure synthetic tent fabrics cotton has that nostalgic feeling. If you look beneath the surface you may find a few good arguments for this material. It all depends how you will use your tent.
Cotton swells if it gets wet and seals up in that way. Besides cotton also has a high UV resistance. That means if you move your basis to the south and the tent will be prone to strong sunlight, you may benefit from the advantages of cotton.
Also, cotton tents have a better inside climate than tents made out of synthetic fabrics. Cotton is 100% breathable. The price is higher than comparable products in TC or polyester,
Warm temperatures, sunny conditions not much rain. Best space to weight ratio.

Uncoated Technical Cotton (UTC)

…Uncoated technical cotton, a new material in Eureka!’s collection. Equally breathable as lightweight cotton but heavier in weight, which makes these tents suitable for long-term camping on the same site.
Excellent in high temperatures and for long-term camping, lesssuitable for trips under bad weather conditions.

Tent Pole Production Technology
Seamless Extrusion	Sheet Welding
Though costly, Eureka! tents only use the best aluminium tent poles with Seamless Extrusion technology, manufactured by the world best tent pole supplier. This technology insures uniform microstructure of aluminium, which lays foundation of the strong construction of our tents. We DO NOT use Sheet Welding manufacturing method, because its weakness is a big problem (bending disturbs microstructure, therefore weakens aluminium poles). It is however widely used in producing lower value tent poles because it is a very efficient and economical process.
Tent Pole Types
Press - Fit poles Conventional tent poles used to use either glue or crimping for fixing joint / ferrule into the main tube. However, both glue and crimping cause failure sometimes for many different reasons. In order to make sure the joint and the main tube are securely fixed without occasional failure, 'press-fit' method is used. Though it's a difficult method in manufacturing, our supplier successfully manages total +/- 0.01 tolerance of the male and female tolerance for production.
Combination poles These poles allow different diameter poles to be used without creating stress-riser. This is the most strength - cost effective way of building a strong large family tent. In selecting different diameter poles to be used, the 'bending stiffness and maximum moment before yielding start' of the poles are carefully calculated and tested.
Featherlite The first and the original Featherlite series. In order to get the right balance between a main tube and a joint, one end had to be swaged just as much to maintain proper bending stiffness and expand the other end to fit the swaged end in.
Featherlite SL Featherlite SL is the latest family of Featherlite series. It combines features of original Featherlite, Featherlite SL and a combination pole. Featherlite SL enables RC- Reverse Combi - technology to be applied without creating a weak joint.
	bending test