Flag and flag testing grounds as the basis for innovation

Constant wind with an average speed of 19 km/h throughout the year offers the optimal conditions for comprehensible and meaningful tests of substrates, printing inks and various assemblies.
In addition, the external conditions (wind strength and solar radiation) are constantly documented by measurements.

Over the last two decades, this has resulted in around 100 field reports on the durability of various fabrics, printing inks and assemblies. These experiences were finally bundled in the development of POWERFLAG and led to this unique product.

The unique selling points of POWERFLAG are

• At least twice the durability in outdoor use compared to the usual flag material, a knitted fabric with a basis weight of 110 g.
• Lightfastness in the 6 - 7 range (on a scale of 0 - 8), a value that has never been achieved before in digital printing. This is achieved through the use of so-called "high-energy" digital printing inks.
• We achieve 100% print through, even in the lightest shades, by printing on both sides of the textiles in a single operation.
• Extremely brilliant and deep color

Why a test area and not laboratory tests?

Laboratory tests attempt to recreate the conditions of nature on a small scale as closely as possible and have the advantage that they are always absolutely identical. This means that the individual tests are exactly comparable with each other. However, we have found at all levels of technology that although laboratory tests always provide good indications, the results in "real life" are always different. And so nature, with sunlight of various intensities, drizzle to heavy rain, light breezes to storms, provides a much wider range of influencing variables than a laboratory can offer. Admittedly, you need much more time for a test in the wild than in the laboratory. It often takes 1.5 to 2 years before we have a result. Nevertheless, a result that takes all facets of the weather into account is more meaningful.

Observable changes

Basically, we primarily check how quickly a test flag breaks down. We evaluate this quite simply according to a predefined scheme in degrees of destruction from 0 - 10. Since the beginning of the recordings, these evaluations have been incorporated into a durability diagram that shows the course of the destruction of a flag, as well as fastness values for dyes from the various production types over the course of a calendar year. All this is the basis for being able to recommend the right FAHNENGÄRTNER product for your application.

The basis for these results is an average wind speed of 19 km/h over the entire calendar year and the hoisting of the flags from wind force 7 (approx. 60 km/h).