Highly complex and sensitive electronic equipment has to be manufactured with the utmost care as static discharge can easily cause damage to a component during assembly. That is why all personnel involved in the assembly of electronic components for the automotive industry at Bosch Electronique France wear garments made from Klopman’s Telestat.

Telestat has an embedded conductive filament that gives superior resistance to abrasion thus retaining the fabric’s exceptional surface resistivity and charge decay performance.

Specifically developed for the electronics industry, Klopman Telestat is a fabric with quite exceptional anti-static performance.

The garments were wash/wear tested in close collaboration with Bosch and proved conclusively that even after repeated high temperature industrial laundering Telestat maintained its anti-staticity, durability and wearer comfort and that it easily met Bosch’s high performance standards. And, importantly from the wearers point of view, the light weight poly/cotton blend also offered a high degree of breathability giving exceptional comfort in wear.

Faced with the problem of garment staining, shampoo and hair colouring manufacturer Kosmepol – the Polish subsidiary of L’Oreal – enlisted the help of a leading industrial laundry.

By making changes in the processing cycles and using different wash chemicals, together with different fabric qualities, the laundry was able to provide the answer.

The best results were achieved by Klopman’s Indestructible in Super White – its superior whiteness and brightness performed consistently throughout the trials, as did the integrity of the fabric.

Klopman’s EN 100015-1 accredited Vektron 4003 anti-static barrier fabric is used extensively by one of the UK’s major clean room rental laundries.

Not only is Vektron 4003 used for the garments worn by the staff working in the rental laundry’s own processing clean rooms, it is also used for more than 100,000 garments supplied through their comprehensive clean room garment management service. (A service which is used by a number of companies in the electronics, biotechnology, aerospace and defence, pharmaceutical, optical and medical industries.)

Vektron 4003 has been chosen for several reasons, including its outstanding performance in terms of barrier efficiency and filament integrity which are so crucial to maintaining the purity of such highly critical environments.

It has also been chosen because of its exceptional durability, launderability and wearer comfort and optimum moisture and air permeability characteristics.

The Vektron range of barrier fabrics has been specifically developed to meet the high specification requirements of clean area and clean room operations.

Among the many prestigious applications is that of Vektron 3005, which is worn in the Class 100 and Class 1,000 clean rooms of Becton Dickinson in France.

A global organisation involved in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and surgical and diagnostic equipment and systems, Becton Dickinson specialises in the manufacture of syringes and pre-filled products for the international market.

Vektron 3005 was chosen for several reasons, including its superior barrier efficiency and electrostatic charge decay performance, as well as its moisture and air permeability characteristics which give improved levels of comfort, particularly during long periods of wear.