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The ISPO Textrends judges have selected YKK's DynaPel™ water-repellent zipper as the Best Product in the accessories category. The competition, held twice a year in conjunction with the ISPO trade show, recognizes the most innovative performance textiles, components, and apparel.

Designed to be compatible with garment recycling systems, the DynaPel™ zipper uses GTT’s EMPEL® technology instead of the standard PU film to achieve its water repellency. The lack of a PU film helps remove one of the barriers of textile-to-textile recycling of performance apparel by eliminating the urethane material, which presents challenges to garment recycling processes.

Conventional chemical and mechanical garment recycling systems cannot process the polyurethane film commonly used on water-repellent zippers, necessitating the removal of zippers from garments before recycling.  This additional processing step often deters recyclers from accepting garments with PU zippers, resulting in unnecessary waste.

EMPEL® technology uses advanced green chemistry devoid of PFAS and a specialized manufacturing process that allows the chemistry to penetrate the yarn and encapsulate it with a water-repellent layer through molecular cross-linking. The molecular cross-linking creates an extremely durable layer that is highly resistant to abrasion and invisible to the eye.

Twice a year ISPO recognizes innovative fibers, fabrics and components that are used to manufacture sports apparel. Two innovations from Hologenix have scored wins in the ISPO Textrends Fall/Winter 2025/2026 Awards: CELLIANT® with REPREVE® Nylon, introduced with textile solutions provider UNIFI®, makers of REPREVE®, and CELLIANT® Print. They were both Selections in the Fibers & Insulations Category.

CELLIANT with REPREVE Nylon
CELLIANT with REPREVE Nylon consists of CELLIANT infrared (IR) technology embedded into REPREVE. REPREVE creates high-quality fibers made from 100% recycled materials, including post-consumer plastic bottles and preconsumer waste. CELLIANT with REPREVE Nylon is strong and durable with great stretch and a silky hand. It is ideal for underwear, stockings, tights/leggings, socks, seamless knits, baselayers and many other categories. With CELLIANT’s ability to convert body heat into infrared energy, improving local circulation and cellular oxygenation, it also provides performance for outdoor/sportswear, outerwear, swimwear among other categories. This is the second carrier type for CELLIANT with REPREVE, as it was introduced in polyester last fall and won three awards.

CELLIANT Print
CELLIANT Print makes the natural blend of IR-generating bioceramic minerals more widely available from Hologenix as a printed coating, expanding the uses of the technology. Traditionally, CELLIANT has been embedded directly into fibers, yarns and fabrics. However, for its print applications, CELLIANT fine mineral powder can be adhered to many different fabric types as a topical coating, making CELLIANT Print a versatile and cost-effective solution. Key CELLIANT partners, such as Under Armour with their UA RUSH™ line, and KT Tape with its PRO Oxygen™ kinesiology tape utilize CELLIANT Print. Safe and CELLIANT® Print CELLIANT® with REPREVE® Nylon durable, CELLIANT Print has undergone mechanical testing for wash tests and can be confirmed to last the useful life of the product, for 50+ washes.

CELLIANT® with REPREVE®, introduced by Hologenix with global textile solutions provider UNIFI®, makers of REPREVE®, has been awarded a Top 5 Selection in the Accelerated Eco category of the Spring/Summer ISPO Textrends 2025 Awards.

Last fall CELLIANT with REPREVE was also awarded a Selection in the Fibers & Insulation Category of the ISPO Textrends Fall/Winter 2024/2025. In addition, in the spring the fiber was shortlisted in the Drapers Sustainable Fashion 2023 Awards in the Sustainable Textile Innovation category.

Twice a year, ISPO recognizes innovative fibers, fabrics and components that are used to manufacture sports apparel. Both companies are excited that this innovation, whereby CELLIANT infrared (IR) technology is embedded into REPREVE, a brand of recycled fiber, has achieved these honors. CELLIANT with REPREVE is a performance fiber made from recycled materials that have been enhanced with IR technology to provide wellness benefits to the consumer.  

CELLIANT is a natural blend of IR-generating bioceramic minerals, which, when embedded into textiles, allows them to convert body heat into infrared energy, returning it to the body and temporarily increasing local circulation and cellular oxygenation. This aids in muscle recovery, increases endurance, and improves overall performance in healthy individuals, among other benefits.
 
REPREVE recycled performance fiber consists of high-quality fibers made from 100% recycled materials, including post-consumer plastic bottles and pre-consumer waste. It is also certified and traceable with UNIFI’s U TRUST® verification and FiberPrint™ technology, which provide assurance that the product comes from recycled materials. Compared to virgin fiber, REPREVE helps to offset the use of petroleum, conserving water and energy and emitting fewer greenhouse gasses.

This award marks the third year in a row that Hologenix has had its CELLIANT technology recognized in the ISPO Textrends Awards. CELLIANT in pure white was a Top Ten Winner in 2022. The prior year, CELLIANT Viscose was a Selection Winner as well. 

• ITM der TU Dresden – als Ihr Forschungspartner im Bereich der virtuellen Produktentwicklung bei ISPO München präsent
• ISPO Munich Online 2021 – die weltgrößte Fachmesse für Sport vom 01. bis 05. Februar 2021

Die Professur für Montagetechnik für textile Produkte am ITM präsentiert zum ersten Mal auf der ISPO Munich Online 2021– ihre Möglichkeiten im Bereich der virtuellen Produktentwicklung. Neben der Materialkennwertermittlung, anforderungsgerechten Aufbereitung und digitalem Datentransfer werden Kompetenzen in der 3D/4D-Körperformerfassung mittels Scannen, in der Animation der Daten zur 3D-Produktentwicklung von Funktionskleidung sowie Simulationen zur Visualisierung des Komforts und des Gebrauchs vorgestellt. Mit der Umsetzung erfolgreicher nationaler und internationaler interdisziplinärer Forschungsvorhaben nimmt die Professur für Montagetechnik für textile Produkte am ITM eine weltweit führende Spitzenposition im Bereich der virtuellen Produktentwicklung ein.

Die Wissenschaftler:innen der Professur für Montagetechnik für textile Produkte haben sich aktiv bei der Vorbereitung und Umsetzung zur digitalen Darstellung der Materialproben für das ISPO Textrends Forum engagiert. Hierfür wurden Materialkennwerte der für den ISPO Textrends Award prämierten Stoffe für die 3D Passformsimulation in Vidya (Assyst/Vizoo) bestimmt und mittels einer an der Professur entwickelten speziellen Software "Material Analyzer" automatisch ausgewertet und entsprechend der Anforderungen digital aufbereitet. Diese Software ist neben weiterer hochmoderner CAE-Infrastruktur, wie z. B. der vor kurzem installierte 4D Scanner Move4D, unerlässlich für die weltweite Stärkung und den Ausbau der Spitzenposition in den Bereichen Digitalisierung und virtuelle Produktentwicklung von Bekleidung für Hightech-Anwendungen. Die Wissenschaftler: innen der Professur blicken mit ihren langjährigen Erfahrungen voller Zuversicht auf neue Forschungskooperationen auf diesem erfolgversprechenden  Forschungsgebiet.

Das gesamte Projekt für die ISPO 2021 wurde durch die Firma FOURSOURCE Group GmbH koordiniert, die die Charakterisierung und 3D Visualisierung der prämierten Materialien den Besuchern auf der ISPO 2021 als Pilotprojekt zur Verfügung stellt.