LZR Racer Swimsuit

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Date Added

14 August 2008

Company

Speedo

Country of Origin

USA

Categories

Health and Fitness

Subcategories

Clothing
Sporting Goods

Others Say

"Fashion and performance apparel fabrics weaver Mectex, the first company to produce stretch woven fabrics, developed the fabric exclusively for Speedo, which was seeking a fabric that would improve on the performance of the sharkskin-like fabric of its Fastskin® knit racing suits introduced in 2000. The new fabric, LZR Pulse™, is a nylon microfiber/elastane two-way-stretch woven fabric that is extremely lightweight and quick-drying, and provides the compression needed to streamline the swimmer for more efficient performance while also providing good flexibility for ease of movement. “By using that very fine microfiber in a very high-density weave, we were able to create that kind of compression,” said Stuart A. Isaac, senior vice president, team sales and marketing, for Los Angeles-based Speedo North America. Mectex applied an exclusive water-repellent and other treatments using its newly developed Plasmaterial™ technology, an eco-friendly nanotechnology using the energy of cold plasma and no chemicals or water to permanently modify the fabric surface. Isaac said the treatments reduce water absorption to only 2 percent of fabric weight, as opposed to 50 percent absorption in the Fastskin fabric."

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LZR Racer Swimsuit

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