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Teijin creates new material for sportswear

19/12/2023
Teijin creates new material for sportswear
Japan’s Teijin Frontier has developed a high performing fabric for sportswear that it says combines the texture and functionality of polyester and nylon.

Microft MX is made from highly-deformed cross-section multifilament yarn, which is a uniform mixture of single filaments of polyester and nylon, using a unique spinning technology.

The raw yarn has a gently V-shaped highly-deformed cross-section, which provides bulkiness and a spun-like soft texture. Uniformly mixing polyester and nylon on the surface and in the structure of the woven fabric produces a combination of desirable features from both materials, such as the abrasion resistance and colour development capabilities of nylon, and the water absorption, quick-drying properties and shape stability of polyester, it added.

Teijin Frontier will begin promoting Microft MX fabric for the 2025 spring and summer outdoor clothing and sportswear collections. Applications will then be expanded to include functional clothing of innerwear and fashion clothing, with the aim of selling 500,000m per year by 2026.

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