Versaperm, the world leader in measurement of vapour permeability and other instruments, testing service and consultancy leader, has developed a system for ISO fabric testing that significantly reduces testing time down to as little as thirty minutes for many fabrics.

The system has been designed to be used for both product development and quality control of fabrics and garments. It is ideally suited to textiles that need to permit the passage of water vapour — breathable — but strongly resist both water droplets and wind.

Following the successful $200 billion market for active wear, demand for new high performance textiles puts textile producers under considerable stress to introduce even more smarter fabrics. A drawback is that ISO fabric testing can take several weeks to make even a single permeability measurement which adds a huge time lag into the process.

Versaperm says that its latest range of equipment can test several fabrics at exactly the same time and to an accuracy in the Parts Per Million (PPM) to Parts Per Billion ranges. Further, unlike ISO standard systems, Versaperm’s equipment can also measure vapour permeability of multiple gasses such as oxygen and water vapour through the same sample at the same time.