SENFA Decoprint Simplifies Textile Printing

ALSACE, France — January 10, 2017 — SENFA, the France-based Technical Textiles division of the Chargeurs Group, is helping graphics businesses diversify into textiles without having to immediately invest in new equipment. With its range of Decoprint textile solutions for sign and display applications, SENFA enables print businesses to use their existing UV, latex, and even solvent, printers to create textile graphics.

The textile revolution has begun, but the up-front investment in textile-specific hardware is not always an option for those print businesses that have already recently invested in ultraviolet (UV) or latex technology. The good news is that SENFA enables those companies to try out the market without such initial investment.

“We have recently come across plenty of printing companies who are interested in the textiles arena, but feel that they don’t have the knowledge or experience to enter this market,” explains Blaise Humphries, the SENFA-Decoprint business unit manager. “We explain to them that it’s a lot easier than they think.

“Initially, they don’t need to invest in new dedicated textile printing machines. They can print onto practically the whole Decoprint range with their existing UV, latex or even solvent printers. Whilst it’s true that there is a learning curve involved — in as much as finishing involves sewing rather than welding and laminating — the initial investment is minimal and with the development of Silicon Edge Graphics (SEG), sewing and stitching has become much more accessible.”

Many of the businesses that SENFA supplies enter the textiles market with their existing hardware and then invest in dedicated sublimation machines as experience and confidence grows.

“It is no accident that textiles will be the next big thing,” continues Humphries. “Textiles are PVC-free and are therefore much less damaging for the environment than vinyls or banners. They are much lighter, so cheaper to transport, and easier to install. Perhaps, most importantly, they simply look better than prints on plastic!”

Posted January 10, 2017

Source: SENFA

Polartec Announces the Launch of MtnLogic

LAWRENCE, Mass. — January 10, 2017 — Polartec announces the launch of MtnLogic, a top-of-the-mountain apparel brand built in collaboration with world class alpine climbers and guides. After years of working with outside brands, Peter Whittaker and the guides at RMI Expeditions recognized that, despite the vast selection of quality gear available, they still found themselves searching for the perfect alpine workwear. So they decided to work with Polartec to make their own.

Traditionally, the development of technical gear is driven by merchant demand, price, trends, and subject to superficial testing. MtnLogic starts with an actual need. An intimate understanding of how gear needs to function in the field drives the design process.

As a textile solutions provider and development partner, Polartec worked with Whittaker and the guides at RMI Expeditions to develop a full range of apparel solutions. The result of the unique and rigorous guide-driven process is a pure expression of alpine workwear: the very best tools built to the specifications of mountain professionals.

“The partnership with Polartec is a natural one,” said Peter Whittaker, MtnLogic founder. “To build the best workwear, we needed the best materials. The innovation and engineering from Polartec aligns with our solutions-based approach.”

“What sets this process apart is the combination of best-in-class fabrics from Polartec and a design process where need dictates product,” said Gary Smith, Polartec CEO. “MtnLogic was developed by guides to first solve their apparel problems, with commercial considerations secondary. It shows how a product-first approach with Polartec can enable the most authentic product creation.”

“Typically, the process starts with a merchant-driven approach,” added Whittaker. “Our process begins with ‘What do we need? How do we solve the problems that we encounter up high?’ We weren’t worried about spreadsheets or trends. We set out to build the best gear possible for our needs. For mountain guides. For climbers. The result is a pure expression of alpine workwear: the very best tools built to the specification of mountain professionals.”

The MtnLogic collection containing 19 styles developed by more than 60 RMI guides during a 12-month development timeline testing over 7,000 pieces of apparel through over 1.2 million vertical feet of climbing will be unveiled at the Polartec booth (#32093) at the 2017 Outdoor Retailer Winter Show. The MtnLogic collection will become available to consumers April 15, 2017, on MtnLogic.com as well as at Whittaker Mountaineering at the base of Mt. Rainier.

Posted January 10, 2017

Source: Polartec

American Roller Co. Launches New Website

UNION GROVE, Wis. — January 10, 2017 — American Roller Company is pleased to announce the launch of a newly designed, mobile friendly, website at www.americanroller.com. The site improves ease of navigation and provides richer content on American Roller capabilities. Through our expanded products, services, and solution searches, we are sharing the many ways we help increase our customers’ productivity. Included with this release is a new user-friendly request for quote process and video libraries that provide insight on our capabilities.

The site also integrates the company brands of Plasma Coatings and CREW, demonstrating the industry leading depth of capabilities associated with roller core fabrication, coverings, and coatings.

“American Roller is the premium, full-service roller company in the world, and this website demonstrates that breadth of capability,” said Dan Cahalane, President. “With core fabrication and a full line of rubber, urethane, and hard-facing coatings in-house, we are the only roller solution company positioned to offer our customer’s the best consultative solutions to improve productivity.”

Posted January 10, 2017

Source: American Roller Co.

Südwolle Group Positions Itself For Future Growth With New Appointments

SCHWAIG, Germany — January 10, 2017 — Südwolle GmbH & Co. KG, an important pillar of the European activities of Südwolle Group — a producer of worsted yarn in pure wool and wool blends — is strengthening its management. Effective from January 1, 2017, Robert Seibold has been appointed managing director Finance while Stéphane Thouvay has been named managing director Product Management & Innovation. Along with Seibold and Thouvay the Management Board of Südwolle GmbH & Co. KG will continue to include Manfred Heinrich (Technology & Production) and Hans-Georg von Schuh (Distribution/Sales).

Seibold, a graduate in business management and a recognized financial expert, has been working for Südwolle Group in various positions in the finance department since 1998. Initially he was Assistant to the Head of Finance and Accounting. In 2003, he was promoted and became department head within Südwolle Group as director finance before he was handed the power of procuration in 2012. From 2013, Seibold has been acting as director Finance & Business Organization with responsibility for of processes and the ERP system.

Thouvay, a native Frenchman, has extensive experience in the textile industry in which he has been working since 1997. Before joining Südwolle Group in May 2009 as director with responsibility for the segment weaving yarns, he was acting in various leadership positions at DyStar GmbH, a globally active supplier for the textile and leather industries. Most recently he acted as Global Business Unit Manager Textile Services in Frankfurt. He is a graduate of French university Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Industries Textiles and holds a degree in Business Management of the private university Damelin in Cape Town, South Africa.

Extension of Südwolle Group’s Management via promotion of long-standing managers
The appointment of long-standing managers to the management board of Südwolle GmbH & Co. KG is in line with the company’s successful evolution from a supplier to a strategic partner of its customers and the course of expansion over the past years. In his new position as Head of Finance at Südwolle GmbH & Co. KG, Seibold will report to Jacques van den Burg, CFO of the parent company ERWO Holding AG. Last year already, Jacques van den Burg had replaced Hans Münch as CFO of ERWO, who had retired as scheduled at the end of 2016. Thouvay will report as managing director of the newly created management segment Product Management & Innovation to ERWO board member Hans-Georg von Schuh.

In order to ensure that its key shareholdings, Südwolle Group and Hoftex Group AG, will continue to realize existing growth opportunities in the global textiles market, the strategic and operating management responsibilities within ERWO Holding AG have been redistributed amongst the existing board members. In this context, Klaus Steger will leave the management board of Südwolle GmbH & Co. KG to focus on the strategic leadership of ERWO Holding AG and its two main activities, Südwolle Group and Hoftex Group AG. In addition, Klaus Steger will continue to serve as executive board member of Hoftex Group AG and retain his responsibilities for overall HR, organization and procurement at Südwolle Group.

The shares in ERWO Holding AG will continue to be fully owned by the Steger family, which will retain its operating involvement in the group of companies, with Tom Steger continuing to act as Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Klaus Steger as Chief Executive of ERWO Holding AG and Hoftex Group AG.

Klaus Steger, Chief Executive of ERWO Holding AG, said: “By strengthening our management with the appointment of Robert Seibold and Stéphane Thouvay to the management board of Südwolle GmbH & Co. KG, we are consistently continuing our successful course of expansion of the past years. In this context and following our recent 50th anniversary, we put emphasis on continuity by placing our trust in long-standing and experienced managers, who have extensively proven their professional and leadership competencies. In addition, the family endorses its entrepreneurial commitment by focusing on strategic impulses and their consistent implemention going forward. Our declared goal is to remain a valued strategic partner for our customers, by distinguishing ourselves through innovation power, reliability, and highest product quality.”

Posted January 10, 2017

Source: Südwolle Group

India-Based Denim Producer Takes Nation’s First Monforts Eco Line

MONCHENGLADBACH, Germany — January 10, 2017 — India-based denim producer Arvind has installed the nation’s first Monforts Eco Line for faster production, major savings in energy, and greater flexibility in design and innovation.

The first Monforts Eco Line denim finishing range in India has been installed at the Ahmedabad mill of India’s largest producer of denim, Arvind Ltd.

The installation has been made to increase production, reduce energy usage, and respond more quickly to customer requests for specified designs and finishes.

Monforts Area Sales Director for Southeast Asia, Hans Gerhard Wroblowski, said that Arvind’s early investment in this new technology gives the company at least a year lead ahead of the competition from other Indian mills.

The Eco Line, which can handle fabric widths of 1800 millimeters and operate at high speeds of up to 80 meters/minute, is operating alongside four Montex foam finishing stenters, which are also able to handle this same width of material.

Arvind is rated in the top three denim producers in the world, and sees further export potential.

Aamir Akhtar, chief executive officer of Arvind Lifestyle Fabrics’ Denim division, said that in India the denim industry is growing at a compound annual growth rate of 13 to 15 percent.

Arvind’s own export-domestic output is around 50:50, but some of the domestic production is worked up into garments and exported, so distorting the figure: taking that factor into account, Akhtar believes that the export proportion is closer to 60 percent.

Arvind had been founded in 1931 as a maker of traditional Indian clothing, but in 1984 modernised and brought denim into the domestic market, thus starting the jeans revolution in India.

Today it retails its own brands like Flying Machine, Newport and Excalibur, and licensed international brands like Arrow, Lee, Wrangler and Tommy Hilfiger, through its nationwide retail network.

Akhtar confirmed that Arvind stays ahead of its competition through a policy of design and innovation.

“We have our own major R&D facility, and we eat, think, sleep, and breathe design.

“For all this, we need the best in technology. Having been a Monforts user from the earliest days, we had no hesitation in investing in the new Eco Line.

“Not only does this make us even more responsive to customer needs and demands, and more creative in our design and production, there is also the very great energy saving advantage and tight control over emissions.”

The Eco Line was manufactured in Monforts production facility ‘MONTEX’ in Austria and installed by Monforts’ representive in India, ATE Enterprises Private Ltd.

C V Babu, ATE’s General Manager for Sales at the company’s Ahmedabad office, said “The Eco Line system reduces energy losses and energy use, increases thermal transfer and keeps the drying energy on the textile material longer, so that it can be used very efficiently.

“As a result, energy savings of up to 50 % can be achieved. Exhaust air energy can also be reduced to a minimum, which has a positive effect on the emission load into the atmosphere,” he said.

Arvind’s current annual denim capacity is 110 million meters, with prominent products including ring denim, indigo voiles, organic denim, bi-stretch denim and fair trade certified denim.

This is apart from regular light, medium and heavyweight denims. They come in various shades of indigo, sulphur, yarn-dyes, in 100 percent cotton and various blends.

“Denim is a great lifestyle product,” said Akhtar, who himself habitually wears denim to the office. “It is also tremendously versatile. We are very, very upbeat about our global future.”

Posted January 10, 2017

Source: Monforts

CORDURA® Brand Kicks Off Year-Long Roadshow Celebrating A Half Century Of Innovation And Decades Of Durability

WICHITA, Kan. — January 9, 2017 — INVISTA’s CORDURA® brand is celebrating five decades of continuous advancements that have helped shape the world of military, workwear and outdoor products. In honor of its 50th year, the brand is launching an array of new fiber and fabric innovations, exciting end-use applications, on-trend collaborations, a “50 for 50” global roadshow and is featuring stories of the past and present from supply chain partners and brand customers.

“This very special year is going to be one for the books as we unveil our most groundbreaking innovations and collaborations,” said Cindy McNaull, global Cordura brand and marketing director. “Since commercialization of the fabric in 1967, the Cordura brand has worked hand-in-hand with its mill and supply chain partners to break molds and blaze new trails — with all signs, roads and paths leading to a next generation of durable solutions. And 2017 may be the best year yet.”

The brand kicks-off its celebration in early January 2017 with:

New Fiber Technologies. The Cordura brand has pushed its legacy T420 nylon 6,6 staple fiber to the next level of tenacity. The new state-of-the-art, patent-pending Invista T420HT fiber is the highest tenacity nylon 6,6 staple fiber Invista has ever produced. This military-grade fiber technology is super strong and exceptionally durable, offering a new dimension of lightweight comfort and protection for extreme environments. Already adopted for use in combat uniforms by a major international military, multiple wear trials with fabrics made with Invista T420HT are underway, including extensive testing by the US military.  Dickies® is the first commercial customer to use fabrics made with this new innovation and will launch its Dickies PRO™ with Cordura military-grade fiber technology collection in Fall 2017.

New Fabric Technologies. Carefully crafted blends of natural fibers and nylon 6,6 in fabrics like Cordura Denims and Cordura Combat Wool™, are driving soft-comfort performance materials of the future. Blends of cotton, TENCEL® and wool with Cordura Denim technology create durable, long-lasting and cross-functional fabrics with next generation technical benefits including moisture management, thermal regulation, and more. Collaborations with Cone Denim on a first of its kind Cordura Selvage Denim and with Artistic Milliners on new Cordura Combat Wool Denim blends usher in new technical denims of the future.

New Collaborations. Special collaborations will reflect on the past and reinvent the future. In the early 1990s, Invista’s Cordura brand and Woolrich, America’s Original Outdoor Clothing Company®, collaborated to create Wool-Dura™, a specialty blend of iconic Woolrich wool and nylon 6,6 Cordura fabric used in hunting apparel. Now, the two are back together for the 50th anniversary of the Cordura brand with a newly reimagined Wool-Dura collection of fabric and garments that take inspiration from its hunting-centric predecessor while adding a modern, cross-functional twist for today’s urban consumer. Spun and woven in Woolrich’s 187 year old mill, the Wool-Dura collection mixes the legendary durability of Cordura fiber with the natural Woolrich wool qualities of warmth, comfort and softness to create a new contemporary classic.

50th Anniversary Capsule Collections. Inspired by icons of the 1960s — like pilots, astronauts, superheroes and more with a modern spin and space age flair — the new Cordura + Struktur Studio + Artistic Milliners ‘X Venture Collexion’, features state-of-the art Cordura Denim technologies engineered by Artistic Milliners, Pakistan. The future of innovation is collaboration in this exciting retro-futuristic range of garments made with Cordura Combat Wool Denim and Cordura Denim Tencel blends featuring specialist Schoeller® ‘c_change’ and ‘cerasphere’ coating technologies.

The 50th Anniversary Roadshow kicks off at Winter Outdoor Retailer 2017 in Salt Lake City, then heads to SHOT Show in Las Vegas, Munich Fabric Starts Blue Zone, ISPO Munich in Germany, IDEX in Abu Dhabi, Techtextil in Frankfurt, Germany and more. Follow along on social media with hashtag #CORDURA50.

Posted January 9, 2017

Source: Invista

Vietnam Is The Latest Global Expansion For Unifi’s REPREVE®

GREENSBORO, N.C. — January 9, 2017 — Unifi Inc. continues to expand its global footprint of REPREVE® recycled fiber by entering into Vietnam with support from Century Synthetic Fiber Corp., now a licensed manufacturer of Repreve. Century Corp. will manufacture, sell and distribute Repreve filament yarn within Vietnam, and Unifi Textiles (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. (UTSC) — Unifi’s subsidiary in China — will manage sales and distribution of Repreve filament yarn exported from Vietnam. This collaboration will open distribution channels for Repreve in a key apparel-producing region, helping to fulfill increasing demand and shorten lead times to the Company’s customer base.

Headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Century Synthetic Fiber Corp. is one of the largest polyester yarn manufacturers in Vietnam. Century Corp. was established more than 15 years ago and continues to invest in its operations and expand capacity today.

“Vietnam has been a region of focus for brands and retailers over the past few years,” said Tom Caudle, president of Unifi. “The growth in the region cannot be ignored, with exports of approximately $27 billion of apparel and textiles in 2015, and expectations to grow to $30 billion in 2016. Within the past 18 months, we’ve grown distribution of REPREVE to include Turkey, Taiwan, Sri Lanka and now, Vietnam.”

Jay Hertwig, vice president of global brand sales, marketing and product development for Unifi, added, “This is a strategic position in growing the global supply chain for Repreve and will allow us to expand into other Premium Value Added (PVA) products in the near future. A presence in Vietnam will enable Unifi to meet sourcing requests and increasing demand from our customers wherever they choose to do business.”

Posted January 9, 2017

Source: Unifi

New Euratex President Klaus Huneke Presents His Ambitious Program

BRUSSELS — January 9, 2017 — EURATEX welcomes Klaus Huneke as its President taking the office in January 2017 for a two-year term. Huneke, succeeds Sege Piolat who headed EURATEX during the last two years, pointed out: “Serge Piolat achieved impressive results in strengthening the voice of the European textile and clothing industry. To further enhance our industry my intention is to focus on few strategic priorities such as better communication towards policymakers and stakeholders on the excellence of our innovation and sustainability, enhancing EU competitiveness and greater participation of companies in innovation.”

Huneke has an extensive international experience in the textile industry. He made a remarkable career at Heimbach, a large technical textiles producer in Germany. Having started his path as an engineer in the petrochemical industry, in ‘90s he joined Heimbach where he was a CEO until his retirement. Huneke has been engaged in numerous actions aimed to advance German industry, especially been the vice-president of the German textile employer’s association since April 2000. Huneke has also been actively involved in representation of textile and clothing industry at the European level, acting as a Board Member since 2013 and vice-president Treasurer of EURATEX since 2015.

He is intimately convinced that “the textile and clothing industry need more and better Europe to maintain its competitiveness ahead of the world competitors. It will be our task to make clear to EU policymakers the value of maintaining strong, innovative and competitive textile and clothing value chains in Europe. I hope under my Presidency to convince to have greater coherence among policies and to favour targeted and efficient support more in line with textile and clothing companies’ needs and capabilities.”

Huneke is persuaded that working in coherence and as a team with the entire membership along the strategic priorities of the industry, namely trade, innovation and sustainability would bring better results. This should encourage textile and clothing SME’s to be more active in world markets and in showing their innovation to the policymakers and their customers thanks to the work carried out in good intelligence with the European Confederation.

Huneke firmly believes that the EU textile and clothing companies should use more the opportunities offered by Euratex, the European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing and their networks in terms of innovation and tools developed to help SMEs to improve their competitiveness. Euratex will keep doing its utmost to increase companies’ access to the European programmes by trying to simplifying as much as possible the access to such opportunities and by supporting regional initiatives having a European-scale such as RegioTex to increase the offer of European textile and clothing systems-solutions to the market.

The EU textile and apparel companies produce top quality products and innovative goods thanks to their advanced know-how and the respect of the EU stringent sustainability rules. This is recognised by the growing share of exports outside of the EU-28 markets and Mr Huneke adding: “Did you know that the €44,5 billion EU textile and clothing exports do represent in 2015 the equivalent of 300 Airbus A350 at the typically discounted market prices while we produce only 35 of A350 on a yearly basis? This is the type of communication that can help improving the image of the industry to firstly attract young workers in our industry to increase the value of our products and secondly should encourage policymakers to strive for an international level playing field for the EU textile and clothing products. We will communicate more about the European products’ excellence and responsiveness to social challenges.”

Posted January 9, 2017

Source: Euratex

New Air-Lay Line Coming In April 2017 To Bouckaert Industrial Textiles

WOONSOCKET, R.I. — January 6, 2017 — Bouckaert Industrial Textiles (BIT) — a roll goods producer of diverse nonwovens to the thermal and acoustical insulation, equestrian, automotive, specialty filtration, vibration dampening, green-roof and industrial markets — announced today that it has acquiring a new, 3.4-meter-wide, air-lay line from Laroche S.A. and TechnoPlants S.r.l. The line is due to be delivered starting in January and be online in the beginning of the second quarter of 2017 making material primarily for the thermal and acoustical insulation markets with additional capacity being geared towards specialty filtration and conveyor belting.

At over $3 million, projected to manufacture 8 to 10 million lbs of material per year, and adding 15 new specialized manufacturing jobs, this is the largest such purchase in Bouckaert’s 28 year history. When asked “Why now?” for such a purchase BIT’s President, Max Brickle (also president of the parent company The Brickle Group), said: “We originally looked into bringing on this capacity due to our current client’s growing business and requests for material we could not supply with our current lines. It was this desire to support our client’s needs that really made the decision.”

Bouckaert has confirmed that their new line’s capacity has already drawn a lot of attention from various industries and companies. Many of these companies are looking to leverage Bouckaert’s extensive record on capability and quality control with its geographical position in the U.S. northeast, allowing them to reduce shipping costs while increasing the quality and consistency of their products.

When asked “What’s next for Bouckaert after getting this line up and running?” Brickle just smiled and said: “The future. Give us a call if you want to discuss it.”

Posted January 6, 2017

Source: Bouckaert Industrial Textiles (BIT)

AmeriPride Promotes Andrew Steiner To Senior Vice President Of Canadian Operations

MINNEAPOLIS — January 5, 2017 — AmeriPride Services, a leading textile rental services and supply company in North America, today announced the appointment of Andrew Steiner to Senior Vice President of Canadian Operations, effective January 1, 2017. The fourth-generation family owner will have fiscal and operational oversight over the company’s entire Canadian operations, including 35 production facilities and service centers across Canada.

Steiner has been with AmeriPride since 2001 in various marketing, sales, service and technology roles, most recently as Vice President of Marketing and Customer Operations where he was responsible for online and traditional marketing, customer experience, product management and digital strategy. Over the past decade he has supervised many high-profile projects for the company, including fleet upgrades and its alternative fuel vehicle initiative, as well as several industry-leading digital advancements.

“Andrew has been a transformational leader in the company and is a trusted member of my executive leadership team,” said Bill Evans, President and CEO of AmeriPride. “He has played a key role in shaping the strategic direction of our organization and has been a strong advocate for change in the company and the industry. As a family owner, he also feels a great personal responsibility to protect the family legacy that was established generations before him.”

Andrew Steiner’s great-grandfather Frank founded the company in 1889 and his grandfather George and father Robin were both involved the company. Prior to joining the company in 2001, Andrew was the founder and owner of Blue Link Innovations, Inc. He has an MBA from the University of Chicago-Booth School of Management and a BSE degree from Princeton University.

“Andrew has a deep understanding of the industry and extensive formal business education, and he has been able to apply this knowledge to benefit our US and Canadian operations,” said Evans. “I trust his judgment and counsel on a wide range of operational and management issues, and I am very confident in his abilities.”

Steiner is replacing Naiem Nairouz, who retired at the end of the year after 36 years of service to the company.

Posted January 5, 2017

Source: AmeriPride Services

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