The International OEKO-TEX Association will offer a free webinar on February 6 at 12:00 Noon EST to review the recently announced 2013 updates to the OEKO-TEX Standard 100, particularly as they apply to U.S. textile products manufacturers, ...
The hotel sector, health care system and food industry generate huge amounts of linen every day which is becoming increasingly expensive to treat and care for due rising energy costs. Therefore manufacturers of commercial washing machines ...
Tags: Hohenstein, Greying, Linen, Sustainable Process
MASCOT launches a comprehensive workwear range suitable for craftsmen and industry. The new two-tone workwear is available in 8 color combinations, 14 product variants and different fabric qualities providing countless opportunities for ...
Tags: MASCOT, workwear, two-tone, Oeko-Tex certified
Within the framework of the research project (AiF-Nr. 17377 N), scientists at the Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim are aiming to optimise functionality and comfort of sportswear for wheelchair users. Project leader Anke Klepser ...
Tags: AiF-Nr.17377 N, sports wheelchair, clothing technology, clothing cuts
The pleasant, warm temperatures attract all types of sports people to go outside. Cyclists, joggers, hikers and inline-skaters all spend their leisure time in the open air. Therefore it is important to choose the right clothing. ...
Tags: modern sports textiles, heat-physiologically optimised clothing
For work in cold stores,on steel works,a building site or in a laboratory,people depend on perfectly fitting gloves.They protect people's hands,their most important tools,from dangers in their daily working life. Therefore the Hohenstein ...
Tags: Hohenstein, Gloves, protect
Texolotol,the new OEKO-TEX mascot,set out on its journey around the world from the German certification centre in Frankfurt in November.The first stop was at the Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim in Swabia. In the coming months it ...
In response to the ongoing challenging market situation in the photovoltaic sector, Meyer Burger Technology Ltd. is further expanding its current consolidation and optimisation programme. Since the beginning of 2012, the company has ...
In addition to modern sportswear, the market is increasingly demanding functional undergarments for the fashion and business sectors. However, for this application textiles with special properties are required which clearly differentiate ...
Tags: ZIM-Project, fibre substrates, textile
Women with plus-size figures made a start two years ago – now it is time for men with large standard clothing sizes to have extensive measurements taken so the data can be scientifically evaluated in the framework of a research ...
Tags: Germany, Apparel, Hohenstein Institute
We have all been in situations where we wanted to close our ears to unpleasant background noise,e.g.when partying neighbours at the camp site or the flapping of the tent walls kept us from sleeping.Every hunter knows how upsetting it is ...
Tags: noise, textile, sports and leisure clothing, Hohenstein