With the globalisation of the textile and plastics processing industry, it is becoming increasingly difficult and complex to control the production flow and to know exactly what products (chemicals) have been used.
Colour fastness is an important demand and refers to the resistance of colour to fade or bleed of a dyed or printed textile materials to various types of influences including water, light, rubbing, washing, perspiration, etc. to which they are normally exposed during textile manufacturing and in daily use.
Technical and high performance fibres are used to achieve a very high level of cut resistance. In order to take account of continuous innovation and material development, the test procedures for assessing the mechanical resistance of protective gloves have been adapted.
The impact protection on the back of the hand of protective gloves is tested according to EN 388:2016 that includes an impact resistance test in accordance with clause 6.9 of EN 13594.
