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Performance testing:

The new wicking standard

  • When: Wednesday,16th July, 2025
  • Time:  6PM-7PM (UK time)
  • Cost: Free to attend (Registration required)
  • Where: Virtual - GoToWebinar

As of May 2025, there is now a brand new published wicking test standard, the 'AATCC TM217 Liquid Moisture Management: Vertical and Horizontal Wicking - Image Analysis', developed in conjunction with the James Heal team. This webinar will detail this full journey from testing to the final publication.

Moisture management is critical for user comfort and safety, to ensure that garments effectively dispel moisture, and return to a dry state.

In this webinar, we will detail why an effective and current moisture management testing system is beneficial for many reasons, when discussing the performance wear produced in todays climate.

We will be joined in this session by guest speaker Colin Whittaker, who is chair of the AATCC Moisture Management Committee, and also Business Development Manager here at James Heal, to discuss the process of this new method and eventual standard getting published.

Course outline

  • Overview of moisture management
  • Traditional mechanisms of wicking and drying
  • New AATCC TM217-2025 Test Method
        (with guest speaker Colin Whittaker)
  • Moisture management testing with WickView
  • Considerations

Who should attend?

Technical and quality professionals, designers, managers, and engineers working in:
  • Technical textiles
  • Sportswear and outdoor wear textiles
  • Apparel product development

Our webinars provide detailed insights with experienced knowledge of textiles testing.

They are ideal for anyone new to this area of testing, as well as for industry professionals.

Seth Seagraves
Technical Marketing Executive
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