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The following was seen in the British on line publication Sports Insight magazine. I have reprinted only a small section of the article.

“HeiQ Smart Temp is an intelligent thermoregulation technology. Cooling is activated by rising body temperature and deactivated once cooling is complete.

HeiQ Smart Temp keeps the wearer cooler, dryer and more comfortable.

Christian von Uthmann, HeiQ’s Chief Sales Officer, said: “HeiQ and BUFF have a shared vision of quality and reliability in our products. With the new CoolNet UV+ fabric, we are pleased that our HeiQ Smart Temp technology will allow the consumer to Stay Dry and Feel Cool.”

Having read the article I researched what HeiQ Smart Temp does.

“HeiQ Smart Temp is a textile treatment that changes passive textiles to textiles with a dynamic response to temperature changes. HeiQ Smart Temp uses the heat of your body to activate cooling – HeiQ Smart Temp keeps you cool and comfortable when it is most needed.”

This heiq company located in Switzerland is as disingenuous as any company can be. They are claiming their chemical a liquid when applied to fabrics has intelligence. It is intelligent enough to have “intelligent thermoregulation technology” so it must be intelligent. If a liquid chemical can be intelligent imagine how intelligent the oceans must be.

The representative for heiq located in Colorado, their US offices are located in Concord N.C. sent me two t-shirts to test. They were made from polyester knit and they worked as I expected. Even though the material was coated I guess with the “smart temp” chemical I was not treated to this cooling effect. So I gave them to one of my employees.

Is it possible the geniuses in the employ of heiq do not know or understand that the process for cooling the body is when the body sweats?

When you are actively exercising your body heat increases naturally and now your body heat actually causes the intelligent chemical to deactivate the cooling process once you are cool. How this process differs from what naturally takes place is a mystery. Do they not understand when you cease the aggressive activity your body automatically reduces its heat production so your body automatically cools regardless of any chemical applied to the fabric of the garment you are wearing. The chemical has no effect on the process however the chemical may very well leach into your skin if your sweat activates the chemical as happens frequently and cause physical problems. As for keeping you dryer and comfortable, how does it do that? BLANK!

The coolnet material is a mesh so it really does not need the chemical additive even if it did what heiq claimed to not stop the sweat from getting away from your skin surface. What we have here is one company lying and a second company swearing to it.

I find it disheartening to read so much nonsense of what is going on in the textile industry. The desire to make what are referred to as “smart” fabrics has spurned a sub-industry within the textile industry. Colleges and universities are being given grants to develop and test these materials and thus far not a one has been shown to do what they at the colleges and universities would like it to do. There is reality and there is non-reality and these professors (?) who run these departments function in the world of non-reality and no matter how many ways you demonstrate that what they would like to accomplish cannot be accomplished they say we will make it work. All they want is the funding to continue doing their work which is going nowhere!!!

Those running these programs will never succeed and will retire and turn the program over to an underling who will continue spouting the need for development in order to secure more funding. It is a vicious cycle of failure which these colleges and universities are accustoming too.

I think the greater majority of companies in the textile industry are only fixated on the bottom line and have no interest in the reality of producing products that actually work for the intended purpose.

This heiq company probably has one chemical with a variety of names representing a variety of purposes. Just like gore having one film with a variety of names. The disingenuousness in the textile industry is rampant.

A perfect example has to do with the water repellent treatments applied to fabrics. I have noted that the water repellent treatments classified as “durable water repellent” or just “dwr” were not dwr as they basically are washed away from rain exposure so I have not ordered any fabrics with a dwr treatment for at least 15 years and have reported that I use pure finish fabrics and they have all done very well regardless of the weather. I save maybe $0.15 per yard by foregoing the dwr additive so my customers also pay a little less for my products.

Maybe consumers will at some point ask the retailer if there are chemicals applied to the fabrics used to make the garments and if so not buy them.

All I know at this moment in time I have very happy customers who buy because I do not use chemically treated fabrics. By the way even the fire retardant fabric I use is not chemically treated because it is Nomex a non-flammable nylon from DuPont.

Oh yes heiq makes a truly amazing chemical for a multitude of purposes.