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Sensura - A Fiber for the Senses
 

 






A Fiber for the Senses

 

  • Feels soft and luxurious
  • Conducts moisture away from the skin
  • Resists shrinking, fading, and wrinkling
  • Easy-care and durable
Modern Technology Combined with Good Old-Fashioned Comfort for a Fiber That's Better Than Natural... Better Than Anything
And You Can Tell By Just One Touch!
 

 

Created by the innovation and imagination of Wellman. Sensura® is a fiber that feels like nothing has ever felt before. It possesses many of the desired characteristics for today's lifestyle, which makes it the right product for our time:

  • Sensual and soft.
  • Resilient and durable.
  • Naturally comfortable.
  • Extremely luxurious.
  • Dyes deeper.
  • Holds color much longer.
  • Provides amazing stability throughout the life of the garment.
  • Kind to skin, and gentle on the environment.

Sensura starts out softer, which differentiates it from natural fibers and today's synthetics. It needs lower heat for dyeing and finishing, so there's no stiffening of the fibers in the process.


The result is an inherently soft, drapable fabric. It takes less dyestuff, less energy, and less water in the production. Sensura is the first synthetic fiber that has the feel of the real.

You can feel the difference!! Sensura was given a higher softness rating than combed cotton and multiple staple length polyester in both expert and general panel hand-rating tests. It has a gentle, soothing-on-the-skin feel that's perfect for everything from casual sportswear to childrenswear to hosiery to eveningwear.

As soft as it is, it's strong on performance. Sensura dries measurably faster than cotton, and it's up to speed with extreme high-tech fibers, too. It moves perspiration through the microclimate between skin and clothing, transporting it to the surface where it evaporates. So skin never gets clammy, and never gets chilled. It's ideal for active sports, Sunday sports, and weekend wear.

Sensura is the best of everything: for your sense of comfort, your sense of performance, and your sense of style.

Co-polymer Technology:

Sensura is a co-polymer of polyester, which utilizes a patented advancement that embraces a new and innovative body of chemistry for producing synthetic fibers.

Wellman’s exceptional family of next generation fibers, developed from this technology (i.e. ComFortrel XP®, Sensura®, ComFortrel Plus®, and Spunnaire®) are made into fabrics that have a gentle hand, are easy to dye, have an inherent moisture transport ability, excellent abrasion resistance, dimensional stability, exceptional color-fastness, and are atmospherically dyeable. Wellman’s long-term goal is to create other variants within the boundaries of the patent that will qualify as new generic fibers.

Utilizing unique, patented co-polymer designs, Wellman can now provide the hosiery industry with fibers that provide new aesthetic and performance properties for socks.

Sensura® Qualities for Apparel and Hosiery:

  • Great color fastness and retention
  • Lower shrinkage, better fit and shape retention
  • Better moisture management
  • Superior breathability
  • Fast drying
  • Soft, luxurious feel
For more information about Sensura®  

WELLMAN, INC.
THE FIBER DIVISION

Sensura® is a registered trademark of Wellman, Inc.
©2003 Wellman, Inc.