Thermoball: the 'alternative to feather for The North Face

The North Face is a new concept of totally synthetic padding for the down jacket, made in collaboration with Primaloft, able to ensure a greater heat with a footprint even more & ugrave; content. Here's to you Thermoball.

Tuesday 23 December 2014 2 minutes reading time

The synthetic yarns are great alternatives to feather, both in terms of space is made of water-repellent: for l & rsquo; winter 2014/15 The North Face offers jackets for men and women in a new synthetic material, which makes them suitable for many conditions and weather useful in all cases in which serves a light layer with PI & ugrave; excellent thermal insulation. Thermoball ensure technicians, protects, compresses and has the same tactile characteristics of down, but offers greater resistance & rsquo; water, adapting better to the & rsquo; & agrave humidity ;. Moreover, thanks to the reduced overall dimensions, most of the jackets cos & Igrave; made & egrave; able to compress and fold completely in their pocket. But how does Thermoball? The surface of & rsquo; & egrave internal insulation; studied in order to create the & ldquo; pockets d & rsquo; & rdquo air; between a filament and l & rsquo; another to keep the heat of & rsquo; air warmed by the body. Thermoball fails to deliver, they tell us, the same heat of 600 feathers d & rsquo; goose, with the same comprimibilit & agrave; and the total water repellency. Jackets cos & Igrave; will be made available on the market in different versions and colors, with and without hood, and also in sleeveless.

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