GEMTEX SRL
![<p><strong>Visibility Add-On</strong></p>
<p>All reflective elements that support the idea of visibility and are not made of cloth. This includes items like labels, patches, piping, tapes, cords, zippers, and zipper pullers. The reflective elements can be cut out, tailored, pressed, or printed.</p> Visibility Add-On](/files/performancedays/content/performance-codes/icon_Visibility_add-ons.png)
![<p><strong>Transfers</strong></p>
<p>All print products for clothing, bags, and shoes – transfer printing with the feel of textiles or applied to textile surfaces. These are high quality, fine print transfer printing techniques or 3-D prints on fabric.</p> Transfers](/files/performancedays/content/performance-codes/icon_Transfers.png)
![<p><strong>Trims</strong></p>
<p>Small detail accessories on clothing, backpacks, bags, and shoes such as buttons, pressure snaps, strings, stoppers, zipper pullers, eyelets, rivets, and rubber strips. However, not for accessories that belong to one of the categories: zippers, tapes, labels, and transfers.</p> Trims](/files/performancedays/content/performance-codes/icon_Trims.png)
![<p><strong>Tapes</strong></p>
<p>All elastic or non-elastic fabric tapes that in the context of manufacturing of textiles or accessories, are glued, bonded or sealed. Selected applications include: As a design element in sealing seams or in waistbands of snow guards or bike pants.</p> Tapes](/files/performancedays/content/performance-codes/icon_Tapes.png)
![<p><strong>Finishes · Treatments<br /></strong></p>
<p>Producer of chemical finishes and treatments which add functions such as wicking properties, UV cut, anti-bacterial/odor or anti-viral management, a soft touch, etc. to materials. The properties are added into to the yarn or washed into the fabric.</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p> Finishes · Treatments](/files/performancedays/content/performance-codes/icon_FINISHES_·_TREATMENTS.png)
![<p><strong>Printable</strong></p>
<p>Printable carrier fabrics. The printing method is dependent on the respective base material. Various print methods include digital, transfer, and roll pressure.</p> Printable](/files/performancedays/content/performance-codes/icon_prints_fancy.png)
![<p><span>Products that ensure better visibility at dusk or darkness. Appropriate for use in workwear clothing or various kinds of sport, either as reflectors (passive reflection), active emitters that emit pre-absorbed light (glow-in-the-dark), or even high-vis(ible) colors as per DIN-ISO-20471 for workwear purposes.</span></p> Reflective / High Visible](/files/performancedays/content/performance-codes/icon_reflective_high_visibility.png)
![<p><strong>Stretch</strong></p>
<p>Fabrics that are elastic because of their fiber inserts and/or fabric structure. This category is further sub-divided in two or four way stretch (bi- and multi-stretch).</p> Stretch](/files/performancedays/content/performance-codes/icon_stretch.png)
![<p><strong>Waterproof & Breathable</strong></p>
<p>Fabrics and agents for the production of waterproof clothing. The term waterproof implies coated or laminated materials, which can achieve the minimum water column requirements (in mm). Whether a fabric is classified as waterproof depends on the relevant standard. In Europe, the standard is EN-ISO-811, which specifies a minimum value of 1500 mm. The Japanese JIS method demands the attainment of a minimum value of 3000 mm. The height of the water column is application dependent, so higher values are sometimes necessary.</p>
<p>A functional fabric should provide good breathability. This is expressed by the MVTR. The value is given in g/m²/24h – the higher the value, the better the breathability.</p> Waterproof & Breathable](/files/performancedays/content/performance-codes/icon_waterproof_breathable.png)
![<p><strong>Safety, Health & Durability</strong></p>
<p>Safety clothing for hazardous activities or for professions where special protection is required. Depending on the application area, it must comply with the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) categories or show compliance with multiple standards. Also to be used for mountaineering and other application areas with extremely high standards.</p> Safety, Health & Durability](/files/performancedays/content/performance-codes/icon_WORKWEAR_&_HEAVY_DUTY.png)
![<p><strong>Flame Retardant<br /></strong></p>
<p>Heat and flame protection: Flame retardant fabrics for clothing or accessories for use in work clothes and protective garments, for example, road and building construction, or blast furnaces, or firefighting. This feature can be found in fabrics for the base, mid, or outer layer. Based on area of application, the materials are expected to meet one or more of the following standards:</p>
<ul>
<li>EN ISO 11612 – Protective clothing – for protection against heat and flames</li>
<li>EN ISO 11611 – Protective clothing ­ for welding and related processes</li>
<li>EN 61482-1-2 – Protective clothing ­ for protection against the thermal hazards of an arc welder (Class 1 electric arcs).</li>
</ul>
<p> </p> Flame Retardant](/files/performancedays/content/performance-codes/icon_FLAME_RETARDANT.png)
![<p><strong>Recycled</strong></p>
<p>Materials, fabrics, fibers, and yarns that are recycled. The raw materials, natural materials, and synthetic materials come from either post-consumer-waste like PET bottles, or from post-industrial-waste such as paper manufacturing, and are then reworked either chemically or mechanically.</p> Recycled](/files/performancedays/content/performance-codes/icon_RECYCLED.png)
![<p><strong>CO2 reduced<br /></strong></p>
<p><span>A code dedicated to materials that have reduced CO2 emissions during production.</span></p> CO2 Reduced](/files/performancedays/content/performance-codes/icon_CO2_reduced.png)
![<p><strong>Natural Fibers</strong></p>
<p>Materials, fabrics, fibers, and yarns that consist 100% out of natural materials like wool, cotton, hemp, coconut, linen, bamboo, sisal, kapok.</p> Natural Fibers](/files/performancedays/content/performance-codes/icon_Natural_Fibers.png)
![<p><strong>Circular product</strong></p>
<p>The life-cycle of a product starts with its concept or design, and is followed by production, sales, use (with or without maintenance to make it more durable / longer in use)... Somewhere along the life cycle of the products, it loses its value for the user and ends up as waste (on an official disposal site or in nature). If the product remains unused, it is called a ‘lose end’ whereas the end can also be a new beginning if the loop is closed. To compost, biodegrade and recycle a material, there are different ways to keep it in use and thereby extend the life-cycle/loop. </p>
<p>In addition to the close loop principle, "Cradle-to-Cradle" is a specific term used to describe clothing in a cycle. Instead of afterwards considering the options of how the material can be recycled at the end of its use, the best composition of the material is considered in advance in order to return it to the closed loop. The materials are thus spared of any unnecessary recycling processes.</p> Circular product](/files/performancedays/content/performance-codes/icon_Circular_product.png)
![<p><span lang="EN-US">Upcycling of pre-consumer cotton scraps from garment production contributes to circular economy.</span></p> Textile Waste](/files/performancedays/content/performance-codes/icon_Textile_Waste.png)
GEMTEX is an Italian company that has been manufacturing elastic ribbons for clothing since 1934.
Our production is 100% Made in Italy and can satisfy the most varied sectors in the clothing industry: ACTIVEWEAR, SPORTSWEAR, OUTDOOR (CYCLING WEAR, ATHLETICS), CASUAL, UNDERWEAR, WORKWEAR, SKI AND MOTO EYEWEAR.
Our production includes:
• ELASTIC RIBBONS AND JACQUARD ELASTIC RIBBONS
• ELASTIC BRAID RIBBONS
• CROCHET ELASTIC RIBBONS
• ELASTIC CORD
We can personalize your elastic with:
• JACQUARD WRITINGS/LOGOS
• THERMOPRINTS
• SUBLIMATION PRINTS
• SILK-SCREEN PRINTS
• SILICONE PATTERNS/LOGOS
• ANTI-SLIP RUBBER PATTERNS
The continuous search for innovative materials allows us to offer to our clients technical solutions that are always in step with the times and customized to their specific needs.
VIA MARCONI 4
24040 SUISIO
Italy
The content of this website is prepared with great care. Nonetheless, there is no guarantee or warranty of accurateness, completeness or timeliness of the information provided. Design & Development GmbH Textile Consult disclaims any and all liability to this end.