The Hohenstein Institute makes up an internationally recognised research and service centre. Companies and businesses all along the textile chain, and in numerous other associated areas too, benefit from the skills of the Hohenstein experts in research, development, testing, consultancy, certification and all types of training.

At the Hohenstein Institute, a team of highly-qualified and committed staff work in modern, well-equipped laboratories for future improvements in textile products and services.

At the same time, manufacturers, retailers, importers, and exporters from all over the world have the quality and properties of their products tested and evaluated by the Hohenstein specialists. Proven quality, which these businesses find, pays for itself in increased sales and reduced numbers of complaints.

A unique feature of the work at the Hohenstein Institute is the close co-operation between utterly different fields of research, thus enabling an interdisciplinary approach to solutions specific to the textile branch.

With its innovative research and accredited testing, the Hohenstein Institutes makes a highly regarded contribution to the whole textile and clothing industry. To this day, the Hohenstein experts are still continuously expanding the industry´s expertise with fundamental findings and using their interdisciplinary skills to open up ever more new acivities and areas of application. Current areas of work include, for example:

• Clothing physiology (quantitative measurement and evaluation of the comfort of textiles and clothing)
• Development and testing of functionalised textiles
• Development and testing of medical and hospital textiles
• Textile hygiene and textile health protection
• Colour measurement whiteness assessment
• Commercial textile care and textile leasing
• Textile personal protective equipment (PPE)
• Conducting and evaluating sizing surveys
• Comparative tests (consumer goods testing)
• Material and quality testing