Testfabrics Inc. 2001 AOCS

	Welcome to Minneapolis! Once again, Testfabrics, Inc. is pleased to be able to be here at the annual AOCS Conference and Exhibition and to meet and discuss your textile needs for detergency and related applications. In our booth are Tom Klaas, Technical Director and Shawn Meeks, Laboratory Manager. Shawn is responsible for the production of our soil test cloths, providing custom dyeing services, our quality assurance programs and trouble shooting activities in our laboratory. We have updated Testfabrics, Inc. catalogs as well as current literature from CFT and EMPA for you to take along with some samples of new products. Discounts-Discounts-Discounts We are pleased to advise our clients that Testfabrics, Inc. has applied an across the board 15% discount for the soil test cloth products from EMPA, CFT and ‘wfk’. We will maintain this policy as long as the current exchange rates for the strong US Dollar prevail. New EMPA Products In the EMPA brochure you will be pleased to see some new additions to their offering of their standard soil test cloths that so many of you have used over the years. New EMPA products include: EMPA 120, a soil consisting of fat, quartz and iron oxide, made in conjunction with TNO, the Dutch technical research group; EMPA 102 Multistain Monitors, Make-Up on both Cotton (EMPA 143) and Poly/Cotton (EMPA 144) and Lipstick on both Cotton (EMPA 141) and Poly-Cotton (EMPA142) and EMPA 164 Grass on cotton. Samples available on request. There are also several dyed fabrics for color transfer tests. New Packaging Services from Testfabrics, Inc. We are glad to offer vacuum packaging of pre-cut test specimens of any of our soil test cloth products. We use oxygen barrier film bags and insert ‘Ageless’ oxygen absorbing packets to further reduce the possible oxidation of soil test cloths packaged in this manner. Our bags can accommodate approx. 50-100 specimens 3” x 4.5” (a common size for detergency testing). New Potential Stain for Detergency: Green Ketchup On Spun Nylon Any of you with small children have probably been confronted with the new green ketchup available on the market. Children seem to like it a lot. (ie: the "Happy Meal crowd") We thought it might make a good stain and have made available a limited number of 10 piece sample paks of hand applied green ketchup on our style #361, spun nylon 66 woven fabric. Nylon sports apparel and active-wear are often a common part of any family’s wardrobe and the chance for getting a green ketchup stain on these garments is highly probable. These samples are packaged in the new vacuum sealed format with an 'Ageless' packet to absorb and reduce the remaining oxygen in the package. We look forward to hearing feedback from you about its value in detergency testing. If you need some other stains applied in this manner, please let us know. Used peanut frying oil on cotton soil cloth We began producing ‘Used Dirty Motor Oil’ soil cloths on our printing machine several years ago and have now begun to expand our oily soils offering using the same procedures. The engraved roller transfers a well-defined amount of the thinner oily soil media to the substrate without actually saturating the fabrics so much as to make them too soaked to be of any value. Using a hand brush for prototype application of soil media to the roller instead of the full production roller brush gives us great flexibility in this effort. Making more volume would eventually require the purchase of an individual roller brush applicator per soil media to insure against contamination of one media to another. Polyester film backs the substrate to block front to back soil transfer. We have produced a used peanut frying oil cotton soil test cloth in this manner and there is a definitive color to assist in evaluating removal interpretation. Samples are available at the booth or on request. Other oily soils of this nature are possible to apply in this manner and we could add some oil soluble dyes to some of the colorless oils to provide some visual removal determination. We would sincerely appreciate your input as to what problem oily soil media you would like us to try. If you have some suggestions, or have some potential candidates you would like to submit for custom soiling, please let us know. This may also be a viable means of producing some malodor test materials. Please let us know if you have some knowledge of appropriate media for such a product. Alternative Blood Stains to Pigs Blood We have been requested to offer some blood stains on fabric using alternative sources of blood. Most of the common blood stain soil test cloths use pigs blood, but for religious reasons, several of our international clients would prefer not to handle these fabrics. We now have access to both sheep blood and beef blood for soil test cloth production. If you are interested, please let us know. Don’t forget The Basics! We provide soiled and unsoiled textile test materials, both in pre-cut specimens and as full width materials you can cut yourselves. We also sell very nice hand cutting tools and a complete kit with an Olfa rotary cutter, a mat and a guide for making uniform cuts. We produce cotton terry washcloths for softener evaluations. We cut and sew textiles daily into any number of products. We can provide known history dyed and undyed fabrics, cut and sewn into actual garments for field-testing panels etc. We also provide lab application services of custom stains, textile finishes and dyes. New Agent for Brazil We are very excited to advise our clients in Brazil that Testfabrics, Inc. has established a new sales agency relationship with the following firm for our business activities in Brazil: Texcontrol Rua Fortaleza, 160 Bela Vista Sao Paolo CEP 01325-010-SP Brazil Phone: 55 11 287 2666 55 11 289 7446 Fax: 55 11 251 5936 eMail: texcontrol@uol.com.br Web: www.texcontrol.com.br Agent Search Goes On We have been searching for appropriate agents for Brazil and other South American markets. If you are interested or know of an appropriate group in your region that might fit our needs to service our customers, please let us know. We prefer groups with a textile industry presence or background capable of dealing with our various end users.