Napapijri first to show interest in great balls of fibre
23/01/2017
Called the comfortemp fiberball padding, the new material is made from individual, interconnected, balls of fibre. Freudenberg has said that, while padding from small, individual fibre balls has been available for some time now, it has so far not been possible to produce an interconnected padding from the individual balls. “That is completely new,” the company’s head of marketing, Benoit Cugnet, recently told the organisers of the ISPO exhibition.
He said the product’s insulation properties are 50% to 80% better than those of conventional paddings, while the thermal retention is comparable with down’s. “As the padding is comprised of many little fibre balls, many small cushions of air develop in the material,” he explained. “This leads to a high degree of breathability as well as of thermal insulation.”
Mr Cugnet also said that jackets and trousers with the new padding will need little or no quilting, giving clothing designers and manufacturers greater freedom.
Napapijri will be the first brand to present a garment that uses the new Freudenberg product. It will have a new lightweight parka on display at ISPO in Munich (February 5-8).
A long-standing Freudenberg customer, Napapijri, part of the VF Group, had shown great interest in small fibre ball padding. It has used loose fibre balls in its products and has been looking for a solution to increase the performance of its parkas and winter jackets.
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