International Home Textile Magazine – March’17
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PROFILE<br />
Lenzing<br />
redefines<br />
softness in<br />
textiles<br />
Without<br />
softness<br />
there is no<br />
comfort<br />
Softness is the key to comfortable textiles. With<br />
Lenzing Modal®, MicroModal® and MicroModal® AIR fibers,<br />
softness can be obtained in textiles in a completely<br />
natural way. The higher the share of MicroModal® or<br />
MicroModal® AIR in the textile, the softer and suppler<br />
it becomes. Using a variety of different test methods,<br />
Lenzing has set a new standard, which gives new definition<br />
to softness and shows how Lenzing Modal® fibers can<br />
change a textile’s degree of softness. This test method<br />
combines the well-known ring method with a new technology<br />
specially developed for textiles with Lenzing <strong>–</strong> the TSA<br />
method (Tissue Softness Analyzer).<br />
Measurable softness<br />
Softness is the key to comfortable textiles. And this is<br />
something the user has to be able to experience, both<br />
when deciding to buy a textile and when using it. Judging<br />
softness is an individual, dynamic process that results<br />
from the interplay between textiles and the skin. To depict<br />
this complex sensory interaction in an objective way,<br />
scientists are working on physical methods to measure<br />
softness.<br />
March 2017
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