Special colours need special skills
04/05/2018
Managing director, Céline Cugerone, has explained to sportstextiles.com that the task of matching a customer’s colour requests goes beyond Pantone references when it comes to reflective fabrics. She said that it is entirely possible for fabric manufacturers to fulfil a customer’s requirement in terms of matching a Pantone colour but for fabric endowed with reflective technology to look wrong to the human eye.
But she said the team at the JRC factory in Chiuduno, near Bergamo in northern Italy, has developed the ability to adjust fabric colour to compensate for the effect of its reflective technology.
The cycling brand has availed itself of this expertise to use JRC Reflex technology in two special colours in cycling clothing and even in cycling shoes. To reflect the brand’s devotion to major cycling events, the two special colours are yellow and pink, chosen in honour of the most important jerseys riders wear in the Tour de France and in the Giro d’Italia.
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