How the start-up wants to make clothes better

Textile with GRDXKN print

The printed properties reduce abrasion and improve ventilation, among other things.

(Photo: GRDXKN)

Munich When Bastian Müller saw the many mass falls at the Tour de France that year, the Munich founder felt confirmed once again. “Cyclists are far too little protected by clothing,” he says. A new technology he has developed is supposed to help change that.

His start-up GRDXKN, pronounced “Gridskin”, has developed a printing technology with which textiles can be given additional technical properties afterwards. The futuristic-looking structures not only protect cyclists and motorcyclists from abrasion if, for example, they fall on the asphalt. According to Müller, the clothing passed the so-called Darmstadt test at 100 kilometers per hour.

Among other things, it is – similar to the surface of a golf ball, for example – particularly aerodynamic. The structure also enables a good exchange of air in the textile. The possible uses are therefore great. “There is no clothing that is comparable,” says Müller.

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