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BIOTEX GAME Play with our technology and enjoy your game. Wear BIOTEX experience to challenge your limits. Live the power of your body energy, experience BIOTEX dry effect and increase your performance with unique comfort. We play with you.
BIOTEX HISTORY BIOTEX technology is based on polypropylene properties and uses exclusive manufacturing processes. Giulio Natta, an italian researcher, discovers polypropylene in 1954. Thanks to this finding, he wins the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1963. This is the event that brings Antonio Visani to create and establish a new idea of high performing underwear. Antonio Visani is an Italian businessman who has been working in knitwear field since 1967. He is
one of the first men to deeply understand the polypropylene potentiality and he designs his first functional underwear collection in 1990: BIOTEX was born! It is an instant success and BIOTEX brand becomes the synonymous of a new underwear philosophy: you can wear energy, comfort, protection and performance as a second skin.
You and Biotex are a team.
There is a BIOTEX product for everyone: a team is a match of unique champions and exclusive performance which run for a common goal.
BIOTEX TECHINCAL DICTIONARY A B C D E
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A ANTIBACTERIAL
BIOTEX high performing underwear is extremely resistant to mold, mould and moth. Moreover, due to the chemical nature of polypropylene, it is non-allergenic. BIOTEX underwear is ideal for everyone, included all persons who have sensitive skin.
ATTITUDE
BIOTEX is synonymous of a new sport attitude: empowered body energy for a proactive strong approach that challenges your limits with maximum comfort anywhere and in any weather condition.
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B BALANCE
Thanks to BIOTEX technology, you can balance your body temperature with the outside temperature. Your heat balance is guaranteed and your performing body energy optimized.
BREATHABILITY
BIOTEX products, thanks to polypropylene and it exclusive manufacturing, ensure perspiration. They don’t absorb sweat and as a consequence they keep your body incredible dry and comfortable.
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C CYCLING
Since its born, BIOTEX heart has been riding a bike on a road, up to a hill or a dirt mountain with innovation, fitting and comfort on the skin. The underwear collection has been enhanced with a line of exclusive accessories designed for the most demanding cyclist.
COMPRESSION
You can find a selection of BIOTEX gradable compression items. Gradable compression supports your sport performance during training, competition and recovery. It cleverly reduces the muscle pulsation according to the different body zone. Gradable compression, moreover, increases the oxygen bringing in to muscles and helps your recovery. Matched with exclusive BIOTEX manufacturing of polypropylene, it guarantees your body temperature balance and dry effect.
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D DYNAMIC
BIOTEX underwear follows all your moves and supports your effort as it is dynamic: it fits your body muscles. Never-ending research is a key world for BIOTEX whose performing underwear challenges the future.
DRY
BIOTEX products don’t absorb sweat thanks to the water-repellant property of polypropylene. Your body is complete dry and warm it is cold, dry and cool when it is hot.
DAILY
Can you imagine an unconventional daily life? try and choose a new lifestyle comfort and body health: wear your BIOTEX “second skin”.
DYE
BIOTEX uses dyes tested to be non-allergic as approved by official test of harmful and toxic substances.
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E EXCELLENCE
BIOTEX obsession: excellence
ECO-FRIENDLY
Polypropylene yarn and BIOTEX manufacturing processes are eco-friendly. They don’t cause nor chemical neither heat pollution. They don’t produce waste water. Moreover, waste materials can be always recycled.
ENJOY
Enjoy your BIOTEX experience with a new idea of “second skin”. Have you ever felt like this before?
EASY
BIOTEX products can be easily washed: washing machine – low temperature. Dry fast (don’t use dry machine). Don’t iron.
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F FIGURE
BIOTEX has a complete collection suitable for each figure. You can choose among different products with different wearability according to your personal feeling and need.
FUNCTIONAL
BIOTEX underwear is functional as it is capable of serving the purpose for which it was created: it protects the body with a new performing “skin� that keeps the balance of temperatures and generate a dry effect.
FREE
Feel free in all your movements and sport performance with BIOTEX perspiring underwear as it wears your body as a second skin and it perfectly fits your body.
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G GENUINE
Genuine means authentic, honestly felt or experienced. And this is one of BIOTEX mission: let you live sport performance with authentic passion, energy and power.
GOLF
When you play golf you nique. You need strong That is the reason why to be painless. Forget enjoy the freedom of a sport mind.
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need to control body movements and to think about techpower of mind. you can’t be uncomfortable or restricted. Your body has sweat, warm or cold. BIOTEX takes care about this. Just microclimate on the skin and test the performance of a
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H HANDMADE
BIOTEX products are designed and produced following the handmade Italian tradition. Every item is unique: it is cut, sewed up and worked by hands with a masterly experience. All BIOTEX team can touch our manufacturing process.
HEALTHY
BIOTEX underwear is ideal for sensitive skin as it doesn’t cause allergy and/or reddening. It is resistant to mould and bacterium. Our materials, polypropylene included, are chemically inert: they don’t react to chemical agents generated by sweat.
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I INNOVATION
BIOTEX develops a new innovative idea of underwear. It overcomes the technical, quality and functional limits of its products because we want your body experience the best comfort and the best performing energy.
IDEAL
BIOTEX underwear is ideal and perfect for everyone, for daily life and work, for all sports.
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L LIGHT
Polypropylene is the lightest yarn: Its specific weight is lighter than the one of water. For this reason, every BIOTEX product guarantees movement freedom, comfort and a “second skin” feeling.
LIFE
If you choose BIOTEX, you choose to follow a philosophy of life. As we look for fabrics that guarantee the body wellness, wearing our underwear is the conscious research of a healthy way of life.
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M MADE IN ITALY
Thanks to BIOTEX, made in Italy style wears sport performance. Our products, infact, can match innovative technology with exclusive and precious abilities. Each BIOTEX product is unique and expresses all the values in which the company believes, above all the excellence of made in Italy handmade.
MUSCLE
BIOTEX underwear is able to offer differed support to body muscle in every weather condition and physical effort. Muscle is steady and fast. Pulsation is reduced.
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BIOTEX underwear: No drops of sweat on your skin; no waste of energy; no body stress; no sudden change in temperature.
NO - ODOR
No-odor effect is guaranteed because of BIOTEX polypropylene that doesn’t absorb sweat.
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O OUTDOOR
Nowadays, outdoor is a common word. It refers to a series of sport activities that takes place in the open air. Not only. Outdoor is also a philosophy of life that keeps you into contact with nature and brings you to challenge your limits and your body border lines: rocks and mountains, sky and air, water and sea. From parachuting to climbing, no matter if you want to face nature, BIOTEX underwear is ideal for each effort and weather condition.
OVERCOME
BIOTEX underwear overcomes the uncomfortable feeling you live on your skin when you play sports or you are under extreme weather conditions.
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P PERFORMANCE
Each sport performance both in its progress and in its outcome. Every result puts together single performance organized with excellence. And if there is excellence, there is also BIOTEX that guarantees 100% of available performing energy.
PROTECTION
Our body produces sweat to keep body temperature steady around 37째. If the outside temperature is different from body temperature, we waste energy to fight the disease. Catch -22 situation is generated and it can cause illness. On the contrary, BIOTEX underwear enables a virtuous circle that protects your body as your natural temperature is kept under control.
PUNCH
If you have punch; if you push yourself behind your limits and face every challenge with competitive spirit and bravery; if you follow your dreams with determination, you can choose only BIOTEX underwear.
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Q QUALITY
Quality is guaranteed by BIOTEX. Yarns are selected with great care, manufacturing processes are managed step by step and quality control is one of our essential values.
QUOTE
Our sportsmen and women enjoy BIOTEX products so much that they write their opinion on our blog: www.biotex.it Moreover, we count a lot of quotations of champions from all over around the world that test and use BIOTEX.
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R RESEARCH
BIOTEX is synonymous of continuous research because innovation has no limits for us.
RESISTANT
Thanks to the polypropylene yarn and BIOTEX exclusive manufacturing, our products are resistant to wear and tear. They are color and dimension solid, dirty resistant and of long duration.
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S SATISFACTION
You will be fully satisfied with BIOTEX Products.
SMART
BIOTEX collection is smart because It offers a product for each sport performance and technical/physical need but also for each season, temperature and weather condition,
SPORT
BIOTEX was born for sports and it is perfect for every sport you want to play.
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T TECHNOLOGY
Technology is the making, modification, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems, methods of organization, in order to solve a problem, improve a preexisting solution to a problem, achieve a goal or perform a specific function. Technologies significantly affect human as well as other animal species’ ability to control and adapt to their natural environments. The word technology comes from Greek technología; from téchne, meaning «art, skill, craft», and logía, meaning «study of-». BIOTEX means technology at all.
TEMPERATURE CONTROL
The thermal Insulation of a yarn depends on the air quantity among all fibers and on thermal transmission coefficient of the yarn itself. BIOTEX underwear, thanks to the exclusive manufacturing of polypropylene yarn, which has the lowest thermal transmission coefficient, helps your body to keep your natural and ideal microclimate.
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U UNIQUE
Your BIOTEX underwear is a unique product, because you are unique, you have a unique body and muscle form. And it is unique your reaction to the outside temperature, your performance and energy. And we respect you.
UP-TO-DATE
Our team is always up-to-date to satisfy the high tech sports request, the changing needs of body and the most demanding performance.
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Each BIOTEX product expresses all the values in which we believe: innovation, quality, Italian passion, tradition, technology, uniqueness, excellence.
VIGOR
Vigor means physical or mental strength, energy or force. The capacity for natural growth and strong feeling such as enthusiasm or intensity. Vigor means BIOTEX.
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W WARRANTY
We are sure of our products value, of our quality standards and our innovative technology.
WELLNESS
BIOTEX guarantees comfort and wellness in every physical and weather condition thanks to the “second skin� effect. Our products are ideal both for sport and everyday life.
WEARABILITY
BIOTEX collection includes products with different wearability: low, mid, high. Every personal request can be satisfied.
WORK
Are you spending your daily work life outdoor, in a site or indoor? No matter at all for Biotex. We are ready to support you with a sense of well-being that lasts for all the day. We are not afraid of stress and hard work. Just think about success, career or performance. Let Biotex take care about the rest. What are you going to wear today?
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Z ZEST
BIOTEX products add zest to your sport effort as they help you in keeping your natural body energy available to push your limits. There is no waste energy to fight unbalance in and out temperatures and sweat.
ZONE
Our body is made up by different areas. Every zone reacts differently to physical effort and imbalance between body and weather temperature. BIOTEX knows it and makes its products taking into consideration every single peculiarity of body zone.
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BIOLUX
100% Polypropylene
CHANNELED MICRO-NET PROPERTIES • Maximum perspiration • Even body temperature • Dry Effect • Maximum lightness • Nonallergenic • NOdor • Maximum comfort • Wearability: Mid IDEAL FOR • You, who are looking for both a high-tech and classic product, with unmistakable Biotex style • All sports • You as daily underwear
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POWER
100% Polypropylene
CLASSIC NET PROPERTIES • Dry Effect even if the weather conditions are extreme • Even body temperature • Maximum lightness • Nonallergenic • NOdor • Maximum comfort • Wearability:Low IDEAL FOR • You, who are a cyclist looking for a classic product. • Outdoor sports and activities • You, who play sports and look for a light and high transpiring products
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POWERFLEX BIELASTIC NET
86% Polypropylene 9% Polyamide 5% Elastane
PROPERTIES • Super flexibility and strength for high performance • Canaliazed perspiration • Even body temperature • Maximum lightness • Seamless • Ladderproof, impossibile to tear • Wearability: High IDEAL FOR • You, who play sports and look for innovation, performance and style • Ideal as outwear for Running and Gym
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BIOFLEX LIGHT
LIGHT ELASTIC MULTI-WEAVE
86% Polypropylene 9% Polyamide 5% Elastane
PROPERTIES • Stretch Fabric • Emphasized musculature • Differed zones of elasticity • Maximum comfort • Transpiring • Dry Effect • Wearability: high IDEAL FOR • You, who play sports and look for a versatile product perfect both as underwear and outwear • You, who look for a high performing and innovative product • You who love running • Warm seasons
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BIOFLEX MEDIUM ELASTIC MULTI-WEAVE
86% Polypropylene 9% Polyamide 5% Elastane
PROPERTIES • Stretch Fabric • Emphasized musculature • Differed zones of elasticity • Maximum comfort • Transpiring • Dry Effect • Wearability: high IDEAL FOR • You, who play sports and look for a versatile product perfect both as underwear and outwear • You, who look for a high performing and innovative product • You who love running • For all seasons
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BIOFLEX VINTAGE ELASTIC MULTI-WEAVE
80% Polypropylene 15% Polyamide 5% Elastane
PROPERTIES • Ideal for each weather condition and situation • Multifunctional: ideal both as underwear and outwear • Transpiring • Dry Effect • Differed zones of elasticity • Wearability: high IDEAL FOR • You, who play underwear and • You, who play • You, who ride
sports and look for a versatile product perfect both as outwear sport and look for style a bike thanks to the back pocket
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BIOFLEX WARM
THERMAL ELASTIC MULTI-WEAVE
80% Polypropylene 15% Polyamide 5% Elastane
PROPERTIES • Keep body warm when it is cold • Emphasized musculature • Multifunctiona: ideal both as underwear and outwear • Transpiring • Dry Effect • Differed zones of elasticity • Wearability: high IDEAL FOR • Winter sports • You, who play sports even if it is cold • You, who play sports and look for a versatile product both as underwear and outwear
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TECHNOTRANS
THERMAL DOUBLE LAYER PROPERTIES • Fabric that creates air insulator pad: • To avoid that hot is on your skin • To avoid that cold is on your skin • Even body temperature • Dry Effect • Nonallergenic • NOdor • Maximum comfort • Wearability: low IDEAL FOR • Winter sports even if it is really cold • Fall, Winter and Spring • You as daily underwear
60% Polyproylene 40% Cotton
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WINDBIOTEX TRANSPIRING WINDPROOF
72% Polypropylene 15% Polyurethane 13% Polyester
PROPERTIES • High Performing product • Windproof • Water resistant • Transpiring • Even body temperature • Maximum comfort • Wearability: Mid IDEAL FOR • You, who play sports and look for a high tech product that protects you from wind and rain but keeps all BIOTEX properties • Fall, Winter, Spring
COLLECTION
CHARACTERISTICS OF BIOTEX FABRICS
BIOLUX POWER POWERFLEX BIOFLEX LIGHT BIOFLEX MEDIUM BIOFLEX VINTAGE BIOFLEX WARM TECHNOTRANS WINDBIOTEX ACCESSORIES ACCESSORIES WARM ACCESSORIES LIGHT
CHANNELED MICRO-NET CLASSIC NET BIELASTIC NET LIGHT ELASTIC MULTI-WEAVE ELASTIC MULTI-WEAVE ELASTIC MULTI-WEAVE THERMAL ELASTIC MULTI-WEAVE THERMAL DOUBLE LAYER TRANSPIRING WINDPROOF FOR ALL SEASONS DRY, WARM AND PROTECTED DRY, COOL AND PROTECTED
MOISTURE MANAGEMENT
BREATHABLE
EXTREMELY LIGHT
ELASTICITY (BI-STRECH)
LADDERPROOF
WINDPROOF
WARMTH
FIT Fit in your body Flat seam MID
No tight fitting Flat seam LOW
Form fitting Seamless HIGH
Form fitting Seamless HIGH
Close fitting Seamless HIGH
Close fitting Seamless HIGH
Compression fitting Seamless HIGH
No tight fitting 2 item in 1 shirt LOW
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No tight fitting For protection layers on less then 2 mm
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