UniFirst Achieves Additional Hygienically Clean Certifications

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — January 25, 2019 — Three more UniFirst laundries earned the Hygienically Clean Food Safety certification during the final quarter of 2018. UniFirst Corp. now has more than 40 facilities that have reached this milestone. UniFirst facilities recently certified include: Taylor, Mich., Albany, N.Y. and Sumter, S.C. Its Charlotte, N.C., location also qualified for renewal of its Food Safety certification for another three years.

These achievements reflects UniFirst’s commitment to best-management practices (BMPs) in laundering as verified by third-party on-site inspection and their capability to produce hygienically clean textiles as quantified by ongoing microbial testing. The certification confirms a laundry’s dedication to compliance and processing garments and other textile products using BMPs as described in its quality-assurance documentation, the focal point for TRSA inspectors’ evaluation of critical control points that minimize risk.

This process eliminates subjectivity by focusing on outcomes and results that verify textiles cleaned in these facilities meet appropriate hygienically clean standards and BMPs for servicing animal processing, dairies, fruit/vegetable, bakeries, grain, and other food-and-beverage industry segments.

States with Hygienically Clean Food Safety certified UniFirst laundries (one each except where noted) now include Calif. (three); Colo.; Conn.; Fla. (four); Ga. (two); Mass.; Md. (two); Maine; Mich., N.C. (five); N.H. (two); N.J.; Nev.; N.Y. (two); Ohio; Okla; Pa.; S.C. (two); Texas (five); Utah; Va.; Wash.; and Wis. Canadian provinces represented are Alberta (two) and British Columbia.

“More and more, we’re seeing our customers in food-related industries looking for third-party validation that our specialized Product Protection Process and our Hygienically Clean standards are consistent with HACCP and GFSI guidelines,” said Adam Soreff, director of marketing and communications at UniFirst Corp., Wilmington, Mass. “Working with a Hygienically Clean Food Safety certified laundry helps reassure them that their managed uniform program is working in concert with their own food-safety protocols to help them ensure food safety for consumers.”

The Hygienically Clean Food Safety protocol examines a laundry’s Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) practices, including its techniques for:

  • Conducting hazard analysis;
  • Determining CCPs, monitoring their control, correcting them if not under control;
  • Validating and verifying HACCP system effectiveness; and
  • Documenting and recordkeeping to show ongoing conformance.

Inspection and reinspection verify laundry practices including washing procedures (detergent formulas, temperature, disinfectant, pH, extraction), drying, garment inspection and transportation. Each certified laundry plant’s operational flowchart is evaluated, ensuring these procedures (as well as pickup, unloading and sorting of soiled items and sorting of clean laundry) are mapped. Employees’ use of personal protective equipment is documented.

Inspectors also evaluate practices relevant to handling and processing textile products used in food manufacturing/processing establishments for adherence to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) directives.

Posted January 25, 2019

Source: TRSA

Oerlikon Manmade Fibers Segment Becomes ADAMOS Network Partner

REMSCHEID, Germany — January 25, 2019 — The Oerlikon Manmade Fibers segment has been a member of ADAMOS, an alliance of machine and systems construction sector companies, since the beginning of 2019. With this move, the company is ramping up its digital strategy, creating the right framework for implementing its concrete Industrie 4.0 solutions.

Membership in the ADAMOS partner network is a further step on the company’s journey to becoming a digital solutions provider: ADAMOS was established as a strategic alliance for the future issues of ‘Industrie 4.0’ and ‘Industrial Internet of Things’ (IIoT) for market leaders in the machine and systems construction sector. The bundled know-how from machine construction, production and information technology is designed to help the Oerlikon Manmade Fibers segment develop digital solutions with the support of the ADAMOS IIoT platform, promote new business models and establish a specific standard for the textiles industry.

On the path to becoming a digital yarn factory

Even at the ITMA Asia in the fall of last year, the Oerlikon segment with its Oerlikon Barmag and Oerlikon Neumag brands was able to convince customers with its digital products. AIM4DTY – Artificially Intelligent Manufacturing for DTY – for example, is a digital system that is trained by means of artificial intelligence so that it continually optimizes the running production process. Faults and deviations are identified more swiftly, enabling operators to initiate targeted troubleshooting measures.

At last year’s OpenStack Summit in Berlin, Germany, CEO Georg Stausberg presented a further digital Oerlikon Manmade Fibers innovation: with ‘Data Center in a Box’, the segment is offering its customers a new high-performance, flexible and above all secure IT infrastructure. The compact computing center works on the basis of the open OpenStack operating system, which enables virtual computing in a secure private cloud environment. “We are working on a whole range of digital solutions that will offer our customers very concrete added value”, commented Georg Stausberg.

Posted January 25, 2019

Source: Oerlikon

Stäubli Enjoys Success At Domotex 2019

PFÄFFIKON, Switzerland — January 25, 2019 — Stäubli, with its product line Schönherr carpet systems, participated in this year’s Domotex in Hanover. The welcoming booth in Hall 6 underlined the proximity of the company to its customers and allowed to present latest carpet samples woven on ALPHA 500 carpet weaving systems. “Our existing and prospective customers were keen on discovering innovative weaving structures that can be realized on our machines. At the same time, the flexibility and versatility of our weaving systems for most economic weaving operations were appreciated. Alpha 500 weavers are ready for future trends in carpet production” said Fritz Legler, the new sales and marketing manager of the product line Schönherr.

Outdoor carpets and versatile rugs with fascinating designs based on exclusive and innovating binding technologies gave visitors an overview on the vast possibilities offered by Stäubli. Creating unique designer rugs economically on the 5.3m wide ALPHA 500 UNIVERSAL or entering into new carpet business fields with economically produced wall to wall carpets, in flat, pile or loop style, everything is possible when opting for the ALPHA Series.

The new MAGIC WEFT EFFECT Duo for vintage carpets was one of the highlights. This new binding technology offers even more flexibility for carpet designers in the creation of realistically “used-looking areas” on vintage rugs.

Domotex 2019 has been a great opportunity to show the strength of Stäubli to existing and prospective customers — many high level talks with decision makers were held during the exhibition. Relationships were rekindled — the new management team of Stäubli`s Schönherr Carpet Weaving System is building confidence in the market. A successful participation in this year`s Domotex is a clear sign for many future opportunities. “We very much thank our customers for their confidence and trust in us” summarized Legler.

Posted January 25, 2019

Source: Stäubli

Labmak Buys Second Tau 330 RSC After Brands Demand More Durst Quality Of Advanced Digital Printing And Production Technologies

BRIXEN, Italy— January 25, 2019 — Durst, manufacturer of advanced digital printing and production technologies, has announced that The Label Makers has invested in a second Tau 330 RSC single-pass label press after a spike in demand from converters and brand owners for Durst’s UV inkjet digital technology.

The Durst Tau 330 RSC production machines, which was installed in January, brings another leap in quality and a 60-percent uplift in production capacity for The Label Makers, known as Labmak, in Bradford, England, which successfully completed beta testing of the world’s first machine in late autumn.

“Yet again it’s unbelievable photographic quality,” said David Webster, Managing Director of Labmak, which has invested around 2.5 million pounds in Durst technology over the past six years. “We need flexibility, continuity and industrial scale production to meet our demanding customer requirements. The Durst Tau 330 RSC provides all this and more, printing at 78 linear meters/min (245ft./min).

“Customer requirements are changing constantly. In this market label delivery dates now typically get changed hourly, not even on a daily basis, so we have to have flexibility of printing on either machine or even transferring work from flexo. Durst Workflow software enables us to manipulate files press side, so jobs can be tweaked immediately without sending the file back to the studio, which could easily take up to 20 minutes. Any changes are now done in five minutes — it’s a major time-saver.”

Webster added: “The print quality is phenomenal. We do now have supermarket chains who are requesting the jobs be printed inkjet rather than flexo because of the vibrancy of the colors, the screen effect of the inks and the perfect print registration. This second Tau 330 RSC investment gives us the opportunity to take on more clients and better service our existing customers. Previously we were mainly using the Durst Tau presses for the personal care markets. Now, with new capabilities, we are producing everything from food labels through to high quality wines and spirits on the Durst Tau 330  RSC.”

Helmuth Munter, segment manager, Durst Label & Packaging Printing, said: “The Label Makers in the UK is a shining example of our ‘Configure Your Future’ theme and what can be achieved with Durst technology. The Tau RSC can handle a huge range of substrates for a broad range of application options. First launched at Labelexpo 2017, the Durst Tau 330 RSC is now installed at more than 25 locations across Europe. This is leading-edge, game-changing technology with highest printing speeds, which is available at economic cost on a global scale for a broad range of customers, including small and medium-sized label converters.”

Durst’s Tau 330 RSC press features 330 mm (13 in.) print width combined with leading edge print speed of up to 78 linear meters/min (245 ft./min) at 1200 x 1200 dpi printing resolutions. The press achieves a production capacity of 1,485 m² per hour, and thanks to its 8 color stations (CMYK+W+OVG) with new designed high pigmented inks it delivers outstanding, flexo look-like print quality with close to 95 percent pantone color gamut coverage.

Posted January 25, 2019

Source: Durst

IVL Receives Global Recognitions For Sustainability Development Lowering Impact On Climate Change

BANGKOK, Thailand — January 25, 2019 — Indorama Ventures Public Co. Ltd. (IVL), a global chemical producer, is aware that climate change is one of the most compelling risks that the world is facing today, and is fully committed to finding pathways to develop effective low-carbon strategies that alleviate climate change. With this tremendous effort to achieve its aspiration of being a world-class chemical company making great products for society, growth resting on positive environmental and social continuity as well as ethical performance on economic have been IVL’s priorities. Its geographical diversification, with strong cooperation of every operating site in 31 countries in 2018 has now been once again recognized by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).

The CDP is a global organization that recognizes the efforts companies put into preventing dangerous climate change and environmental damage. It aims to make environmental reporting and risk management a business norm, and drive disclosure, insight and action towards a sustainable economy. The CDP is one of the most recognizable ratings on a global level and has been widely accepted amongst top international companies.

For the performance in 2018, a majority of peer companies from the Materials sector and the Chemicals industry successfully achieved this notable CDP rating at Awareness Level, or a score of C. Against peers, IVL was benchmarked and recognized as having reached the CDP Management Level at a score of B. This highlights the company’s successfully implemented actions, policies and strategies to address the environmental issues in the past year.

Besides this, IVL was recognized by achieving the highest score among companies in the SET50 and GICS100 on Bloomberg ESG assessment.

All these achievements reflect the company’s excellent performance in taking further steps to effectively reduce emissions, indicating more advanced environmental stewardship. IVL has developed a policy and strategic framework within which to take action and reduce negative climate change impacts. IVL’s sustainability performance is meant to support the COP21 agreement to combat climate change and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future.

Posted January 25, 2019

Source: Indorama Ventures

Nominees For The OUTLOOK™ India Innovation Award Announced

BRUSSELS/NEW DELHI, India — January 25, 2019 — EDANA, an international association serving the nonwovens and related industries, and Business Co-ordination House India (BCH) announced today the nominees for the OULOOK™ India Innovation Award. This Award competition is organized within the framework of OULOOK™ India conference to be held on February 12-13, 2019, in New Delhi.

The OUTLOOK India Award honors innovative products and services designed in, or specifically intended for, the Indian market. Companies can nominate either a nonwoven or nonwoven-based product, raw material, component or service for the personal care and hygiene sectors, which has been developed, designed, manufactured and/or is on sale in India.

The nominees are:

  • Dynamic Absorbent Core (DAC) from Fibriltex Pvt. Ltd.
    • The DAC is an innovative well-structured inner core for the absorbent hygiene product which directly replaces the use of fluff pulp and SAP and strives to deliver a better performing combination of materials at a lower cost.
  • SWACHH from Saral Design Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
    • SWACHH is a fully automatic patented machine technology that produces affordable, ultrathin sanitary napkins at a decentralized set-up.
  • Full-Care™ 6210 from H.B. Fuller
    • An adhesive solution designed to deliver sanitary articles that exceed consumer performance expectations whilst meeting total-cost-in use targets to enhance producers’ profitability. Developed to respond to two challenges, induced by the subcontinent climatic conditions and wearing of pads for extended period of times, the pads must have good fixation to undergarments whatever the weather but then must be easy to remove without leaving residues.

Those shortlisted companies will be given time to present their innovation to delegates during the conference. The winning companies will be selected by the audience and announced during the walking dinner party.

OUTLOOK India is a must-attend event for innovative companies based or with an interest in India, it is connecting companies within the nonwoven personal care and hygiene products across the region.

Posted January 25, 2019

Source: EDANA

Creative Ticking Hires Tim Witherell As Executive Vice President

GASTONIA, N.C.  — January 24, 2019 — Creative Ticking, a Beverly Knits company headquartered in Gastonia, N.C., has named Tim Witherell to the position of executive vice president. Witherell will be responsible for managing the Creative Ticking business as well as managing sales, design, and product development.

“Creative Ticking has an outstanding team of engineers, technicians, and designers as well as the most unique knitting and finishing capabilities in the industry,” Witherell said. “I am looking forward to the new possibilities that lie ahead of us.”

Witherell has spent the past six years with Hickory Springs Manufacturing, focusing most of his time in sales management for the bedding market segment. At Hickory Springs Manufacturing, he served as regional director of sales – bedding, and director of sales – bedding. Most recently, Witherell was senior director of business development. Prior to Hickory Springs, Witherell worked with Nomaco for more than 10 years serving as national accounts manager in the home furnishings business unit.

“Tim brings exceptional experience and capabilities from many years in the industry to our Creative Ticking team,” said Ron Sytz, president and owner of Beverly Knits and Creative Ticking. “With Tim’s management capabilities, knowledge in product development and intellectual property, and sales experience, we feel that he is a great addition to our team at Creative Ticking.”

Posted January 24, 2019

Source: Creative Ticking/Creative Fabric Services — a division of Beverly Knits Inc.

Reed Exhibitions Announces Launch Of Functional Fabric Fair Powered By PERFORMANCE DAYS® – October 22-23, 2019, In Portland, Oregon

PORTLAND, Ore. — January 24, 2019 — In partnership with PERFORMANCE DAYS®, the prominent functional fabrics fair produced by Design & Development GmbH Textile Consult (Germany), Reed Exhibitions announces the launch of a West Coast U.S. Functional Fabric Fair powered by Performance Days. The new sourcing event, featuring products and technologies to kick off the winter 2021 season, is scheduled for October 22-23, 2019, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland.

Concept III Textiles, a prominent developer and marketer of better performance textiles, will collaborate with Reed Exhibitions and Design & Development GmbH Textile Consult on the launch event.

“Following the successful launch of the U.S. Functional Fabric Fair powered by Performance Days this past July, we are pleased to address a market void for a curated sourcing platform for outdoor and activewear functional fabric and accessories in the fall on the West Coast,” said Steve McCullough of Reed Exhibitions. “The biannual Performance Days Functional Fabric Fair in Germany is the gold standard of the industry and we are especially pleased to organize this second U.S. event in cooperation, maximizing their breadth of proven expertise to deliver a fair where tomorrow’s outdoor textile trends are on display today.”

“Having just celebrated our 10th anniversary in Munich this past year and experiencing tremendous industry response with a 50-percent growth in visitors and exhibitors, we are pleased to bring this same standard of business in our commitment to the U.S.-based events,” commented Marco Weichert, general manager of Design & Development GmbH Textile Consult. “The timing, the caliber of programming and exhibits, and the collaboration with Reed Exhibitions and Concept III, promises to deliver a remarkable sourcing event for the outdoor and activewear market.”

The Functional Fabric Fair powered by Performance Days on the West Coast will include curated exhibits, workshops, industry presentations, professional networking and matchmaking programs. Textile manufacturers, suppliers and service providers will present their performance materials and technical textiles for the winter 2021 season. Industry guests to attend the fair include designers, product managers, purchasing agents and textile decision makers representing sports and outdoor activewear and functional wear manufacturers.

Posted January 24, 2019

Source: Reed Exhibitions

Men’s Custom Clothing Brand J.Hilburn Announced Simon Kneen as Chief Creative Officer

DALLAS — January 24, 2019 — J.Hilburn today announces design leader Simon Kneen has joined the company as chief creative officer. This newly created role will ensure creative vision across all customer touch-points from collection design, styling, and showroom presentations to retail stores.

Kneen previously lent his design vision to two leading iconic brands in the United States. First, he served as creative design director for the Retail Brand Alliance setting the direction for Brooks Brothers and Adrienne Vittadini. Then he was recruited as executive vice president of design and creative director for Banana Republic, the GAP owned brand where he remained for six years leaving in 2013 marking an era of successful designer collaborations with brands such as MadMen, L’Wren Scott and Narciso Rodriguez, to name a few. Kneen’s early work in Europe included luxury designer brands, and he was head designer for the French pret-a-porter house, Balmain in the late 1990s.

“Simon is an innovative and experienced leader of men’s design and is a perfect fit for our disruptive brand,” said J.Hilburn CEO Andy Janowski. “I am excited to have his creative vision and leadership as we build the future of custom-made total lifestyle fashion.”

Kneen joins the already heavy-hitting leadership team consisting of CEO Andy Janowski (former COO of Burberry and CEO of Smythson), COO Joe Dixon (former CEO of Size Stream and senior vice president of Brooks Brothers), and newly promoted James Burgess as vice president of Stylist development.

“I’m thrilled to be joining the leadership at J.Hilburn with their modern approach to servicing the customer through one-on-one tailoring experts,” explained Kneen. “I look forward to building a strong collection point-of-view across the various price points, using my extensive knowledge of Italian fabrics and tailoring.”

J.Hilburn started with one mission: to guarantee fit and eliminate unnecessary markups in menswear.  Led by an expansive network of nearly 2,000 expert Stylists across all 50 states and a mix of online and retail sales, these leadership changes continue to position the brand for strong future growth.

“I was attracted to J.Hilburn’s unique direct-to-consumer business model that provides a very high-quality and customized product at a much more accessible price point,” continued Kneen. “This marries to one of my own philosophies around design that everyone should be able to wear beautiful pieces without breaking the bank and that can be worn well beyond one season.”

Kneen also will continue in his role as creative director of his own brand Grey New York Grey New England, a luxury accessories collection exclusively made in Italy.

Posted January 24, 2019

Source: J.Hilburn

Unifi Introduces New Sustainable Offerings At 2019 Outdoor Retailer Snow Show

GREENSBORO, N.C. — January 24, 2019 — Continuing its commitment to sustainable innovation, Unifi Inc., global textile solutions provider and one of the world’s leading innovators in manufacturing synthetic and recycled performance fibers, will launch three new product offerings at Outdoor Retailer Snow Show 2019.  Focused on consumer demands for recycled products, Unifi is introducing TruFlexx™ sustainable, engineered stretch fiber made with REPREVE®, TruClean™ chemical-free anti-static fiber, and Repreve nylon staple fiber.

“Our customers continue to ask for fibers and technologies that will not only help them meet their sustainability goals, but also provide superior performance,” said Jay Hertwig, group vice president of global branded sales for Unifi. “At Unifi, we continue to develop solutions that help our customers make a difference.”

TruFlexx engineered stretch fiber is a breakthrough 100-percent polyester, sustainable stretch option that eliminates the need for spandex. When spandex is knit into a fabric, it greatly limits recyclability of the fabric after its useful life. TruFlexx engineered stretch can replace spandex in the 5 to 10 percent content range for comfort-stretch knits, creating the possibility of a 100-percent closed-loop recyclable polyester fabric. It is engineered for stretch and recovery, providing shape retention with less compression while also improving moisture management.

Static is a significant issue for apparel and home textiles, as it makes black and white jeans look dirty and faded, and creates a cleaning problem for pet hair. TruClean anti-static fiber is a chemical-free option and permanently inhibits static and cling, repelling pet hair, lint and other small particles to keep fabrics looking newer. TruClean anti-static is a sustainable option available with Repreve recycled fiber, and applications include apparel, pet bedding, upholstery, curtains and automotive.

Unifi is also launching Repreve nylon staple fiber, a new, more eco-friendly option for spun yarns. Repreve recycled nylon staple fiber can be used to improve the hand feel and strength of fabrics, add a natural heather effect, or a cooling effect. Nylon is lightweight, durable, moisture wicking, and resists pilling and abrasion; desirable characteristics that can easily be blended into a more sustainable yarn using Repreve nylon staple fiber.

“We believe that true innovation starts in the fiber, and our goal is to provide even more options to inspire our customers to innovate at the fiber level to achieve sustainable, high-performing products,” said Richard Gerstein, Unifi’s executive vice president of global branded premium value-added products and chief marketing and innovation officer. “True innovation happens when we collaborate with our brand and textile partners to create unique performance technologies that are embedded in the fiber, and we are excited to share these exciting new products at Outdoor Retailer Snow Show.”

Posted January 24, 2019

Source: Unifi Inc.

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