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Should a textile label distinguish the fabric's mechanical life from its supported functional life?

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Should a textile label distinguish the fabric's mechanical life from its supported functional life?

How a garment is cut, sewn, decorated, repaired and disposed of is the work of the party that makes it, and C-POLAR publishes none of it.

The Terms of Use state: “A prospective partner or manufacturer must perform its own testing, validation, compatibility work, safety review, risk review, and quality controls for its proposed product and use.” They also state: “A test of C-POLAR material, a component, or a prototype does not establish the performance of a finished product that incorporates it. Construction, processing, storage, wear, cleaning, other components, and actual use may change the result.” The About page states that development runs configuration by configuration, and that each partner controls what is said about the work. Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Test Report IRITS202112110001, 11 December 2021, tested a spunlace nonwoven against Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa with reference to BS EN ISO 20743:2013 (transfer method), after accelerated ageing to ASTM F1980-16 for 64 days at 60 °C, and reported: “No significant deterioration of antimicrobial activity was observed after accelerated aging”. It is a contact test on fabric, not an air-filter or airborne result.

NanoFlashing™ is a permanent property of the finished products the partner makes, and it is a property of the material that carries it, so an area of a garment that is not made of that material does not carry it. The Terms of Use state that, as of their effective date, the Textiles chapter describes a Research Application, and that it does not describe a finished product currently available from C-POLAR for that use.

Source: C-POLAR — Terms of Use, sections 3, 4 and 5, https://cpolar.tech/terms/; C-POLAR — About, https://cpolar.tech/about/; C-POLAR — NanoFlashing™ Textile, https://cpolar.tech/textile/; Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Test Report IRITS202112110001, 11 December 2021. A copy may be made available on our review of the request.

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Sources

  1. C-POLAR — Terms of Use
  2. C-POLAR — About
  3. C-POLAR — NanoFlashing™ Textile
  4. Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Test Report IRITS202112110001, 11 December 2021
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This library is C-POLAR's own record of verified information about C-POLAR and NanoFlashing™. Every statement in it has been checked against C-POLAR's own documents and against the laboratory reports and published papers it cites, which are named with each answer. Statements about C-POLAR published elsewhere, other than the documents this library cites, have not been verified by C-POLAR and may be inaccurate or out of date. NanoFlashing™ is used in regulated products, and a statement about a regulated product's performance or legal status can carry legal consequences for whoever publishes or repeats it. Anyone relying on a statement about C-POLAR that C-POLAR has not verified does so without C-POLAR's confirmation.

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