New process results in Polartec fleece with reduced fibre shedding
Performance materials developer Polartec has announced a new type of fleece that sheds fewer fibre fragments.
Shed Less Fleece is the result of a process that combines yarn construction, knitting, chemistry, and manufacturing techniques to reduce fragment shedding during washing by an average of 85%.
During the process, the lofted fibres that give fleece its soft hand are engineered to give them the ability to resist breaking and rubbing off during home laundering, while maintaining the material’s softness and lightweight, breathable, and warm attributes.
The first fabric to which the company has applied this new technology is the 200 Series fleece, an up-to-date version of the original PolarFleece, launched in 1981, and, in 1993, the first performance fleece knit from yarn made from recycled plastic bottles.
