Schoeller Textil AG, a Swiss textile manufacturer and Osmotex AG, a Swiss-Norwegian start-up dedicated to developing solutions for electro osmosis for moisture management, have signed a production agreement for HYDRO_BOT, a new revolutionizing technology for moisture management. Under the agreement, Schoeller, the production partner for the HYDRO_BOT panels, will market the technology to its clients and enable Osmotex to support new clients’ projects.
“It is our speciality to bring highly-functional fabrics, knits and innovative textile technologies to market. With HYDRO_BOT we enable a totally new functionality to be brought into garments. Now we are step closer to the new reality smart textile performance,” says Siegfried Winkelbeiner, CEO of Schoeller Textil AG.
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KJUS, a leading innovator in ski-, golf- and lifestyle wear will be the first leading brand to take HYDRO_BOT to market in selected skiwear products planned for the 2018-19 season.
“World-class testing of HYDRO_BOT is crucial, and we are pleased with the results to date. The agreement with Schoeller now also finally secures our quality production, and we are soon ready to provide samples for the demo jackets for 2018/19 season,” says Trond Heldal, Director of R&D and Operations at Osmotex and the lead researcher on the decade-long research and development effort.
