Dr Jan Beringer promoted as Director of Hohensteiner Institutes

20 Sep '06

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The new Director of the Textile Services & Innovations Department at the Hohenstein Institutes with immediate effect is Dr. Jan Beringer, who has already been working at the Bönnigheim Research and Testing Institute since July 2003, as Head of the Competence Centre for Intelligent Textiles.

On his promotion, the textile chemist therefore takes over responsibility for the second largest Hohenstein department, with about 40 employees.

The department focuses on textile care, textile leasing, nanotechnology, intelligent textiles, textile UV protection and textile finishing, colour and whiteness measurement.

In his previous position at Hohenstein, Jan Beringer dealt among other things with the surface modification of textiles by textile finishing procedures involving textile chemistry and nanotechnology, the modification of textile fibres, the development of technical textiles and performance evaluation of functionalised textile products before their market launch.

One successful example of the way the Competence Centre for Intelligent Textiles has continuously expanded on the basis of innovative solutions is the quality label for nanotechnology which the Hohenstein Institutes have been offering since October 2005.

Jan Beringer, together with other research institutions, succeeded in developing a definition of the term nanotechnology which could be applied to textiles, and for the first time allowed an objective assessment to be made as to whether stain protection treatments which were advertised as depending on the use of nanostructures did in fact do so.

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