Fall - InsideOutdoor Magazine

the CORDURA brand portfolio has a full
line of fabrics for apparel. We’re excited
to showcase ‘the softer side of durability’
and demonstrate with our wide
variety of fabric offerings that you don’t
have to sacrifice comfort for long-lasting
performance.”
Ideally suited for inner layer, nextto-skin
garments, such as t-shirts and
baselayers, and for outer layer shells,
the comprehensive CORDURA Apparel
Fabric Collection will offer customers
a vast array of performance driven,
versatile and trend-conscious styling
options, says the company. All these
options include the built-in durability of
CORDURA fabric to seamlessly transfer
these products from day to night and
from the trail to the dinner table.
TENCEL Goes
Seamless
Lenzing, the developers of
TENCEL, understand that a
fiber’s performance features,
the design of the fabric and
the garment construction
all are equally critical for
comfortable performance wear
that meets the demands of the
outdoor market. To provide additional
support to its customers,
Lenzing applied its fiber
and fabric expertise to create
seamless textiles that maximize
these combined factors.
TENCEL imparts highly
desirable benefits to sports textiles.
Its moisture management properties are
inherent and made possible by submicroscopic
canals between the individual
fibrils that regulate the rapid absorption
and release of moisture.
A versatile companion to other
performance fibers, TENCEL not only
contributes moisture management
functionality to a wide variety of sports
blends, but its skin-friendly properties
result in frictionless fabrics that
don’t irritate skin or inhibit movement.
TENCEL Seamless Technology
construction methodology produces
functional, smooth garments without
chafing or constraining seams. TENCEL
seamless garments can be designed for
sport-specific uses, said the company.
Yarn blends can be tailored for physical
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conditions and garments can be created
with the required dimensions and
specifications for the particular activity.
TENCEL is a sustainable fiber manufactured
from wood.
Sierra Designs
Adopts Insotect’s
Insulation System
Insotect Ltd. announced that the
company’s Insotect Flow insulation system
has been adopted by Sierra Designs
for use in its new ultra-light Cloud 15
sleeping bag. According to the company,
Sierra Designs’ adoption of the technology
into the Cloud 15, which is poised to
be one of the lightest 15-degree bags on
the market, reflects Insotect’s growing
presence as a “staple feature” within
high-end sleeping bags.
The Insotect Flow sleeping
bag construction combines
the presence of vertical thermal
channels (VTCs) with
Insotect’s proprietary Flow-
Gates. By utilizing vertical
channels instead of horizontal
ones, the number of total
channels is decreased and
thus overall material weight is
reduced, says the company.
The vertical orientation
helps facilitate heat distribution
more readily from head
to toe, which is an advantage
over traditional sideto-side
horizontal channels.
The FlowGates are placed
along the vertical thermal channels
to hold the down insulation in place,
minimizing down-shifting.
“We are extremely pleased to be working
with Sierra Designs on a bag of this
caliber,” said Irvin Vale Akopov, Insotect
brand manager. “Insotect Flow provides
an exciting opportunity for both companies
to collaborate on bringing a great
product like the Cloud 15 to market.”
Insotect’s insulation systems and
technologies have been adopted by
other leading industry brands such as
Marmot, EMS, Big Agnes and Montbell,
among others.
Unifi Closes Loop
on Fabric Waste
Each year millions of pounds of
textile manufacturing scraps end up in
landfills. Unifi is doing its part to give
these fabrics a second chance with its
Repreve Textile Takeback Program.
Initially launched with partner Polartec,
The Textile Takeback Program is a
first-of-its-kind recycling program that
recycles various polyester-based fabrics,
including supply chain waste and postconsumer
fabrics that have reached their
end of life. This waste is collected and
recycled back into a new Repreve product
offering, the Repreve Takeback fiber.
“The industry continues to focus
on ways to reduce textile fabric waste
throughout the supply chain, however,
as a bi-product of manufacturing, waste
is still created,” said Roger Berrier, president
and COO for Unifi. “The Textile
Takeback Program provides the industry
with a responsible and sustainable outlet