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A Quick Guide to Training Your Textile Laboratory Team

In the textiles industry, external circumstances are ever-changing. These can involve changes to standards, legislation changes, new innovation and technology, issues with the environment and politics - to name some.

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AirPro

Air Permeability Tester

AirPro is a consistent and accurate Air Permeability tester, used to test the resistance of the flow of air through woven, knitted and nonwoven textile materials. It is supplied with TestWise software, making it intuitive and easy to use.

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DynaWash

Garment and printed fabric durability tester with TestWise Touch™

Garment and printed fabric durability tester with TestWise Touch™ - perfect for high-volume wash testing laboratories.

Laundering and fastness

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Fundamentals of Light Fastness testing: Your questions answered [Part 1]

We answered all the questions from our webinar about light fastness testing; blue wools, fading units, thermometers, standards and more. This is Part 1.

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Applications Insight: Dry Rate Testing

In our latest application insight, we’re focusing on Dry Rate Testing. What’s covered:

Textile Testing: The Essentials

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A simple guide to microplastics and test methods to measure microfibre release in textiles

This article looks at microplastics and microfibres, where they come from, the University of Leeds and The Microfibre Consortium test method, ISO 4484-1 and the action fashions brands are taking.

Textile Testing: The Essentials

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Tear testing: Your questions answered

We've taken all the questions from our Tear Testing webinar and answered them in this blog post. It covers tear testing on a CRE tester and elmendorf.

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There are many benefits of getting your testing instruments serviced, including:

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Most testing instruments are performing physically repetitive or consistent motions as their function, and there is no way to tell how little or how often these pieces of equipment will be used in a laboratory environment for.

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The R&D lab has two James Heal DynaWash instruments which have been used since 2017. More recently Gore added two James Heal AquAbrasion wet abrasion testers to broaden the lab’s capabilities.

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Product focus: DynaWash durability tester

DynaWash is James Heal's premier tester for garment and printed fabric durability, designed to support sustainability goals with reduced water and energy usage.

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Establishing TruRain as the definitive Bundesmann tester The most significant aspect of any new instrument development at James Heal, is to put the 'user' at the heart of design.

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Head of Research Laboratories, Professor, and Senior Researcher Dr.

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Test Instrument Servicing

Take advantage of preventative maintenance by having your instrument serviced by James Heal engineers.

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I started working at James Heal in 2005 as a textile technologist, with 30 years of experience behind me in the same sorts of businesses that our customers work in.

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Microfibre measurement using James Heal GyroWash for fibre fragmentation testing

James Heal recently teamed up with The Microfibre Consortium (TMC) to hold the first public demonstration of a test method for fibre fragmentation from fabric.

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Who uses our support? Laboratory Managers, Technologists and Operators rely on James Heal's expert support to increase efficiency and minimise downtime.

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Turkey - Aygenteks

Aygenteks is a family run company which was founded in 1973 by Metin Cenap Aygen and is a provider of laboratory test instruments for the Turkish textile market.

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PPT Group Germany

James Heal is a brand sold directly in Germany through PPT Group subsidiary PPT GmbH & Co. KG, based in Mönchengladbach and Freiburg.

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[Essentials] Blue Wool standards - How to use

Blue Wools are used for light fastness and weathering testing, this article covers types, fading times, correlation with sunlight and proper storage.

Test Materials, Textile Testing: The Essentials

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[Essentials] A simple guide to using Multifibre

This blog explains what Multifibre is, what it is used for and how to determine test results with multifibre.

Test Materials, Textile Testing: The Essentials

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Before joining zwissTEX as Lab Manager in 2010; we meet as he is about to celebrate 15 years with the company, Vincenzo worked in the development of smart textiles for three years after finishing university.

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Combining engineering excellence with a culture of innovation, James Heal provide elegant product solutions for accurate and reliable materials testing.