CHT Group invests in the objective assessment of textile surfaces

(CONNECT) The Textile Solutions division of the CHT Group specializes in improving the quality, functionality, appearance and purity of textiles and their manufacturing processes. One of the priorities of this business area is the progressive digitalization of the textile industry, as the specialty chemicals group, represented in Switzerland by CHT Switzerland AG from Oberriet in the canton of St.Gallen, writes in a press release. In order to drive the future digitalization of the haptic assessment of textiles, nonwovens, paper and leather, CHT has turned to a technology developed by the Leipzig-based firm emtec Electronic GmbH.

In specific terms, CHT has invested in emtec’s TSA Tactile Sensation Analyzer. The testing device facilitates the objective quality assessment of the softness and hand feel of textiles. The usual assessment approach used up to now has involved manual testing, which is subjective and requires a great deal of experience and knowledge, as CHT writes in the press release. From the company’s perspective, an assessment that is not subject to cultural and subjective influences represents “an important step towards digitization in communication between individual business partners” for the global textile industry. When comparing manual evaluations with the assessments offered by the new device, CHT has already evidenced “good correlation of the measured values ​​on different textiles”. ce/hs