■ Prolongs the new appearance and life span of your textile products by reducing abrasion related damage such as fuzzing and pilling

■ Innovative “bridging” effect of adhesive polymer structures reinforces fabric yarn

■ Significant improvement of anti-pilling and abra- sion resistance performance with minimal impact on fabric handle and comfort

■ Exceptional efficiency and durability (100% performance up to 50 washings depending on fiber type)

■ Compliant with EU REACH, US TSCA, CA DSL, AU AICS, CN IECSC, KR KECL, TW TCSI, ZDHC and most RSL regulations, bluesign approved and OEKO-TEX conform ■ Improved sewability■ Applicable to all fiber types (especially useful for spun yarns, natural/synthetic blends)

What does it do?Just like how tree roots protect against soil erosion, the novel polymer structures in HeiQ No Fuzz reinforce fabric yarns and substantially reduce pilling and fuzzing. Keeping the textile surface looking newer for longer, HeiQ No Fuzz helps to extend the useful lifecycle of textile products and increases perceived product quali-ty, environmental compatibility and brand value.

What is it for?HeiQ No Fuzz is designed for fabrics prone to visible pilling, such as spun yarns and synthetic and natural yarn blend knit fabrics.

Wear your favorite clothes for longer Increased abrasion resistance and reduced fuzz and pill formation

Visible defects lower brand quality perception and reduce the useful lifecycle of fabrics

Visible pills on the surface of textile products affect their visual appearance and comfort, which leads to a negative perception of product and brand qual-ity – particularly if the defects occur shortly after purchase. This can cause products to be discarded prematurely due to unsightly appearance, reducing the useful product lifecycle and increas-ing the environmental impact.

Textiles face many mechanical challenges

■ Internal contact (e.g. rubbing be- tween fibers and yarns within the fabric structure)■ External contact with various surfaces (e.g. skin, other fabrics, hard surfaces)

Abrasion is a mechanical motion that leads to rubbing and wear fatigue of fabric structures. Pilling and fuzzing is the abrasion process of forming visible surface defects consisting of entangled fiber clusters (‘pills’).

HeiQ No Fuzz provides targeted fabric reinforcement HeiQ No Fuzz uses adhesive polymer structures to provide targeted rein-forcement of fabric yarns. The adhesive action of the polymer structures builds bridges between yarns and constituent fibers. This localized reinforcing effect inhibits pill formation and growth and the abrasive removal of staple fibers.

The HeiQ No Fuzz product family enables control of where the reinforce-ment action occurs – e.g. distributed homogeneously throughout the yarn structure or localized to the external surface of yarns. This tailoring of the

reinforcing action provides a high level of flexibility to balance improved resilience towards pilling and abrasion while giving a lower level of mechanical handle impact.

HeiQ offers the following pilling and abrasion resistance test methods for your textiles:

■ Pilling resistance (Pill box; ISO 12945-1)■ Pilling resistance (Martindale; ISO 12945-2)■ Abrasion resistance (Martindale; ISO 12947)■ Handle impact assessment (AATCC EP5-2011)■ Modified and additional test methods are available to suit different appli- cations

HeiQ No FuzzNewer for longer

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Striking the right balance with HeiQ No Fuzz

The central challenge of achieving improved resilience towards fuzzing, pilling and abrasion effects in general, is in striking the right balance between improv-ing the physical resilience of the fabric while minimizing negative impact on desirable handle and comfort properties. The innovation effort towards HeiQ No Fuzz was motivated by the need to reimagine how to achieve this balance.

Conventional finishing treatment technologies such as polyurethane binders and silicic acids generally require high dosing levels that can give severe impact on handle properties. In contrast, HeiQ No Fuzz is based on innovative adhesive polymer structures that give targeted, localized and non-homogeneous rein-forcement inside yarns and/or on the outer surface of yarns. This flexibility to give targeted reinforcement means that HeiQ No Fuzz offers unparalleled flexi-bility in balancing the level of mechanical reinforcement against fuzzing, pilling and abrasion without compromising on handle and comfort.

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Textile treated with HeiQ No Fuzz

Untreated textile showing visible abrasion related damage

Schematic illustration of the visual impact associated with pilling damage