Hohenstein Institute contributes to testing of functional and comfortable fabrics demanded by such sectors as security personnel, sports wear and health. Hohenstein offers solutions to the personnel working in the field of security, in particular. Employees who have to wear uniform have difficulty in terms of restriction of physical movements and hygiene. These problems of hygiene and comfort are eliminated by Hohenstein with the experiments and studies conducted on the fabrics. In addition to police and security personnel, the firm also offers solutions to those working under highly harmful UV lights with high technology textiles.
Textile For Ultraviolet Protection
Sun protection is defined as an important title for the integrated clothes. While textile fibers contain titanium dioxide which is also found in the sun protection creams, they also provide protection against harmful lights. Tests conducted in line with quality standards and international measurement values yield important results in protection. It is produced considering the sunlight reflection observed in Melbourne, Australia which has the highest radiation level of the world. Beside to the sun effect, lotus effect of the nature is a recent matter of dispute. Dirts on the leaves of this plant are easily cleaned when washed with water. Thus, researchers accelerated their relevant studies and carried out a project based on the lotus plant. The fibers are prevented from dirt through special nano particles.
Comfortable and Usable Textile Products
Functionalisation of textile materials has been a recent matter of dispute in the last years, in particular. Although this issue gained importance for the military uniforms at the beginning, now, the production of technologies eliminating or reducing the effects of radiation is disputed. Materials produced with light-sensitive special dyes yielded positive results in the uniforms of policemen and soldiers for whom being camouflaged is one of the most important issues. In Bönnigheim, scientists coming from Hohenstein Institute and ITCF Denkerdorf also emphasized that they would find effective solutions in terms of sweating management in the future with absorbant materials on the basis of research results. They will provide maximum support in the fields where people exert an excessive amount of effort.
In the places where the traffic is intense, day visibility becomes prominent. In this respect, the health of pedestrians is also taken into consideration. Products made out of reflective materials yield success at dawn and in the dark times. Here, car lights are used as the basic source of reflection. Hohenstein Spectroscopic test is of key importance in reflecting or absorbing the light and heat, UV protection, impulse and infrared absorbtion in the textile malterials.
Textile Also Influences Personal Skills
Science has been investigating the relationship between physical characteristics of people and their clothes for a long time now. Today, standard laboratory tests are used objectively to evaluate the textile materials, clothes and clothing systems in terms of physiological comfort. What is important here is to adjust the humidity rate in the human body and to eliminate the harmful effects on the skin. In especially sports wear, physiological comfort is even more important. Sweating disturbing the physiological balance of the body or increase in the body humidity can cause a loss of concentration. However, the use of such quality fabrics contributes to the success of sporters.
According to the research conducted by Hohenstein Institute, mental impacts of clothes on the individual are also examined. Subjects are asked to wear different clothes and to fulfill certain tasks. After this process, mental activities of the participants are re-tested. At the end of the study, it was determined that those wearing high quality fabrics under adverse environmental conditions had more positive expressions both physically and mentally in comparison to the people wearing clothes produced from low quality fabrics. In the tests, the focus point was to determine the lowest error rate. With its new test system, Hohenstein provides practical solutions for producing compatible clothes in the fields of health service, civil defence, military wear and sports wear.
