Outlast Technologies, the baton in temperature acclimation technology, announces Kenyon Consumer Products, an Outlast® licensee, has developed a blaze retardant (FR) T-shirt with temperature control. The T-shirt, now commercially available, combines blaze retardant modacrylic cilia and Outlast® viscose cilia with temperature acclimation properties. The aftereffect is a soft, comfortable, blaze retardant T-shirt that provides temperature and damp management.
Due to the physically ambitious environments in the military, the new Kenyon T-shirt with Outlast® technology was accurately advised to accommodate important aegis and diaphoresis abridgement backdrop for the soldier’s best comfort. Laboratory tests appearance the Outlast® shirt helps abate diaphoresis by 30%, compared to agnate shirts fabricated of modacrylic cilia (see graphs at end of release). It aswell passes ASTM D 6413-99 “Standard Test Method for Flame Resistance of Textiles (Vertical Test).”
“We are absolutely aflame that this blaze retardant shirt is now commercially available,” says Andy Curtis, buyer of Kenyon Consumer Products. “Adding Outlast® viscose to the shirt has resulted in a artefact that has bifold the abundance – soft, comfortable, easy-to-wear bolt with temperature adjustment so the wearer sweats less. There absolutely isn’t annihilation abroad like it on the market.”
Kenyon supplied analysis samples to its aggressive barter and Curtis says the antecedent acknowledgment has been acutely positive. Traditional baselayer shirts beat beneath aggressive accessory were fabricated from either cotton, which offers few blaze retardant backdrop and no temperature control, or polyester, bent to be an unacceptable solution. The aftereffect is a sweat-drenched shirt beneath hot and abundant accessory that offers no flame-retardant protection. Flame retardant shirts are beneath comfortable, and accommodate no diaphoresis reduction. This new T-shirt with Outlast® technology offers the allowances of all three options – blaze retardant properties, temperature adjustment technology and bendable texture.
“This shirt is able-bodied ill-fitted for aggressive action situations to enhance the soldiers’ achievement by abbreviation sweat,” says Mike Henshaw, administrator of operations at Outlast Technologies. “The Outlast® viscose with temperature acclimation technology keeps derma temperature acknowledgment which helps abatement damp in balmy environments area aggressive cadre are generally stationed.”
HOW OUTLAST® TECHNOLOGY WORKS
Outlast® temperature acclimation technology decidedly helps in advancement a acknowledgment and added abiding derma temperature by absorbing, autumn and absolution balance anatomy heat. Outlast® temperature acclimation technology decreases damp as able-bodied as minimizes the ascent of derma temperature.
The Kenyon blaze retardant T-shirt with Outlast® viscose will be accessible in cottony weight and average weight. The average weight shirt has a added absorption of Outlast® viscose than in the cottony weight shirt to access the temperature acclimation allowances which in about-face abate the aggregate of diaphoresis produced by the wearer. The aftereffect is an access in comfort.
ABOUT KENYON CONSUMER PRODUCTS
For over 25 years, Kenyon has been committed to accouterment alfresco enthusiasts the accomplished above articles on the market. Our barter ambit from hunters, skiers, backpackers, aggressive workers, architecture workers, and all others who adventurous the acrimony of Mother Nature’s algid weather. Kenyon Consumer Products thermals accept been active on arctic expeditions as able-bodied as the amplitude shuttle. To acquisition out more, amuse alarm 800.537.0024 or Elliot Wilk, sales, at 401-792-3704, x109.
ABOUT OUTLAST TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Outlast Technologies, Inc., a abreast captivated U.S. corporation, is the common baton in developing phase-change abstracts and applications. As an avant-garde technology company, Outlast has launched temperature-regulating technology in apparel, footwear, bedding, packaging and labels, and accessories. Originally developed for NASA, Outlast® fibers, fabrics and coatings accommodate patented microencapsulated phase-change abstracts alleged ThermoculesTM, which absorb, store, and absolution heat, accouterment added abundance for consumers. For added information, amuse appointment www.outlast.com.
CONTACTS: Annie Coghill 303.832.2700, ext.202 / annie@ameliecompany.com
Heather Manuel 303.381.2106 / hlistoe@outlast.com
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