Design award for Schoeller’s coldblack
Schoeller has been announced as the winner of the Swiss Textile Design Award 2009 for its coldblack sun protection, developed in collaboration with Clariant International. It is the third prize the company has received for its coldblack technology within the last year.
The eight-member international jury selected six winners in different categories from more than 300 entries.
“Coldblack represents a practically invisible but enormously useful design achievement,” said juror Daniel Zehntner, “one that deserves to be known and recognised in the highest degree. The twofold protective function of this innovative high-tech textile treatment is a technical masterstroke with extensive practical relevance in the fields of design and preventive healthcare”.
The technology reduces the absorption of solar rays so that dark textiles, in particular, heat up significantly less when exposed to sunlight. The technology also protects the wearer from damaging UV rays.
