Navis Global, formerly known as Tube-Tex -- a Lexington, N.C.-based designer and producer of textile finishing equipment -- reports that Honduras-based apparel manufacturer Bay Island Sportswear Inc. and its knitting and dyeing facility Simtex International recently purchased a Pak Nit II SP Compactor. The purchase marks the 200th Navis Global machine shipped to Honduras; and the first compactor and fifth TubeTex machine installed by Bay Island.

In making the decision to buy the machine from Navis Global/TubeTex, Bay Island cited its good experience with prior TubeTex equipment and the availability of a local service center and parts warehouse in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Navis Global has installed tubular pads, relax dryers, nappers, open-width compactors, pin tenters and more than 130 compactors at various companies throughout Honduras.

November/December 2009