More productivity through wearing comfort?

In addition to the technical properties – retention capacity and abrasion resistance – wearing comfort is one of the most important characteristics of a cleanroom garment system. Employee acceptance stands and falls with wearing comfort. For this reason, Dastex has for many years attached great importance to the fact that wearing comfort properties are taken into account in new and further developments.

In addition to standard tests on water vapour transmission resistance (R_et), the majority of the cleanroom garments produced by Dastex have been/are successfully certified in terms of "breathability". Dastex also attaches great importance to the "feel" of the textiles used. Here it is to be emphasized that it is extremely important for our company to understand cleanroom garments as a system, specifically the "interaction" of cleanroom suitable underwear and undergarments and the corresponding cleanroom garments.

In an extensive study (Wearing Comfort Comparison Study) with the Hohenstein Textile Testing Institute (HTTI), different combinations of cleanroom garments and undergarments were examined with regard to a holistic view of wearing comfort properties. One component was also the direct comparison with ordinary (private) cotton clothing (as undergarment). By means of this study it can be proven without doubt that modern functional cleanroom suitable undergarments (made of synthetic fibres) clearly outperform cotton undergarments in terms of wearing comfort. In addition, there are the cleanroom-relevant advantages of an undergarment made of synthetic fibres with a significantly (> 50%) lower risk of contamination from persons in controlled areas (Study Cleanroom undergarments).

Another important study carried out by Dastex in cooperation with the Hohenstein Textile Testing Institute shows that the investment in good to very good wearing comfort in cleanroom garment systems can also be financially worthwhile for the company concerned. In the course of these studies, it was found that employees/test persons with cleanroom garments, that they considered to be more comfortable, made fewer mistakes than those with garments that were considered to be less comfortable to wear (can be read in the trade journal ReinRaumTechnik, GIT Verlag 2012, No. 1).