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Aitex certifies the comfort of textiles
13/05/2011
May 16, 2011
In an increasingly demanding consumer Aitex has launched a certificate of comfort that the Institute can quantify and classify the comfort offered by the tissues and clothing to the user. This certificate is intended for articles of bedding, mattresses, indoor and outdoor clothes against the cold, against the rain, high mountain, baby clothes, bed warm clothing and sportswear, though it can be extended to any fabric or garment.
Depending on the final use of the article and the user which go for, Aitex held protocols of test by which quantify the comfort offered by the article the user both as objectively as subjective. Depending on the results obtained in such trials, gets the value of total comfort; classifying the article good, very good or excellent depending on the comfort that this offers to the user.
Aitex has launched this certification because of his wide experience in the research of the garments and fabrics. To do so Aitex has complete infrastructure that allows you to perform tests to ensure protection against the cold, rain or wind conditions to be met by the garments and fabrics, as well as being more comfortable for the user.
Through the tunnel of wind, for example, we cannot predict the comfort offering clothing to the user in extreme weather situations of - 30 ° C and + 60 ° C with gusts of wind of up to 40 km/h. The size of the installation also allows investigations with people making exercises inside and wearing apparel outside work (armed forces) or for the practice of sport, and may in this case as well predict comfort of a more realistic.
The Institute has a tower of rain that recreates a situation of intense rain to test resistance to rain. Through this trial we can quantify the comfort offered the garment to the user in situations of rain and bad weather.
The comfort certificate released by Aitex assessed and classified in an objective manner the comfort of a textile product, not only because it will present the best of the physiological characteristics for the user, but because in addition and in some cases, you can predict what is the best of situations to make use of the samei.e., in that conditions the user will be more comfortable, more comfortable with this article.
