It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

James Heal

Microfibre Pollution / Fragmentation Test

6 November 2023

2 minutes

Over 40 delegates to the Textile Exchange conference embarked on a field trip to King's College London, where they were shown the TMC Test Method in action by PhD student Alice Hazlehurst. The TMC Test Method utilises James Heal’s Gyrowash to assist in measuring microfibres released from simulated domestic laundering.

First Public Demonstration of Fibre Fragmentation Test Held in UK

The Microfibre Consortium (TMC) along with specialist test instrument manufacturer James Heal conducted the first public demonstration of a test method for fibre fragmentation from fabric.

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