Sherbrooke, Canada-based yarn spinner FilSpec Inc. is now offering Thermo°Cool® staple yarn to the American market through an exclusive cooperation with Thermo°Cool technology developer and polyester fiber manufacturer Advansa BV, the Netherlands. The yarns are targeted to performance sportswear as well as everyday comfort applications.

Thermo°Cool's Duoregulation® technology combines hollow core fiber and channeled cross sections to offer both thermobuffering and evaporative cooling benefits as needed to maintain wearer comfort through varying levels of activity.

FilSpec is spinning the yarn at its manufacturing facilities in Sherbrooke and Ellerbe, N.C.

July/August 2012