Product Feature: ProDry Dry Rate Tester
Product feature ProDry dry rate tester. Suitable for testing to AATCC Test Method 201 Drying Rate of Fabrics.
A Quick Guide to Training Your Textile Laboratory Team
In the textiles industry, external circumstances are ever-changing.
Product Feature: TruRain Rain Water Repellency Tester
Product feature James Heal Bundesmann tester TruRain, an artificial rain shower or water repellency tester.
Take a look around James Heal
Take an inside look at James Heal in our video set in and around our headquarters in Halifax, UK. It provides a great insight into the company, our brand and the team who deliver the products and services we offer.
Standard Body Membership - Why is it important?
Standards are at the core of everything we do; our instruments, consumables and calibration service all facilitate testing to a range of international standards.
The Lab Manager's Guide to Performance Testing
A guide to performance testing for technical textiles including athleisure, activewear, outerwear and protective workwear. Key trends, how to test and which standards are used.
Product focus: DynaWash durability tester
DynaWash is James Heal's premier tester for garment and printed fabric durability, designed to support sustainability goals with reduced water and energy usage.
AquAbrasion: Assessing the true impact of the outdoors on outdoor wear
The AquAbrasion is an accurate and repeatable way of conducting wet abrasion testing, which we have proven to be a crucial and often detrimental step in establishing the durability of outdoor wear.
Our Upcoming 2019 Textile Exhibitions
James Heal will be presenting at the Saigon Textile & Garment Event, TechTextil and ITMA exhbition's over the coming months
9 things to consider when developing a Wet Testing Laboratory
Our technical specialists give advice on how to construct a best-practice wet testing laboratory for textile testing, including water requirements.
Titan Jaws: Accurately test the safety of children's clothing
Discover how James Heal instrumets make conforming to children's clothing manufacture standards straightforward with our range of Titan fixtures
[Checklist] 12 Steps to constructing a conditioned textile testing laboratory
Our technical specialists give advice on how to construct a best-practice Conditioned Laboratory for textile testing, good planning and design is critical.
Expert Q&A: Durability testing in the age of fast fashion and diverse performance
In this Expert Q&A, we spent some time in the James Heal lab, speaking with Technical Specialist, Peter Goodwin.
Expert Q&A: Why you should invest in a high quality testing laboratory
We put our technical expert Peter Goodwin under the spotlight to gain his perspective on developing a high quality testing laboratory, in order to sh
Textiles Testing Essentials: Flammability
Flammability tester from James Heal, FlexiBurn is a vertical multi-purpose Flammability Tester for testing ease of ignition and the flame spread properties of a variety of textile materials
Case Study: Helping Argentine fashion brand compete on a global scale
With the goal of maintaining a global quality standard to compete in one of the most demanding markets, Argentine fashion company Rapsodia,
Light Fastness Testing: a simple guide
Light Fastness Testing - which is gauging a material's reaction to light - is probably one of the most important areas of colour fastness testing.
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