Klaus Holz Confirmed As Trevira CEO

BOBINGEN, Germany — May 2, 2016 — Trevira opts for continuity, in personnel as well. The owners of the polyester specialist and CEO Klaus Holz have concluded an early agreement to continue working together. Due to run out at the end of 2016, the CEO contract has now already been extended until the end of 2019.

Holz joined Trevira in 2001 as Head of Human Resources, a position he held until the end of 2010. At the start of 2011 he took over the function of managing director and played an instrumental part in preparing the change to the current owners of the company: Indorama Ventures PCL and Sinterama S.p.A.. He has been sole CEO of Trevira GmbH since June 2013.

Five years have now passed since the change in ownership and this period has witnessed the development of close and confident cooperation with the majority owners Indorama Ventures and the sister companies. This is evident also in joint appearances at trade fairs such as Techtextil in Frankfurt or currently at IDEA in Boston. For Indorama Ventures Trevira constitutes a long-term investment.

Mr. Uday Gill, president of the fibres and yarns division of Indorama Ventures said, “I am very pleased to have Klaus Holz continue as CEO who has done very well to shape Trevira GmbH and will continue to lead the company on the next phase of its journey. As a leading and internationally recognised trademark in the polyester business, Trevira has been an important part of IVL’s high value-added business with its specialties an important and strategic addition to our product portfolio. We aim to grow the Trevira trademark further and continue the expansion of its global business“.

Posted May 2, 2016

Source: Trevira GmbH

Grand Forest Taps Simparel To Streamline Manufacturing And Distribution Operations       

NEW YORK CITY — May 2, 2016 — Simparel Inc. has announced that protective apparel manufacturer and distributor Grand Forest Inc. will soon begin implementation of the integrated Simparel® ERP and Simparel® SFC Shop Floor Control (SFC) solution at its Summerville, S.S., headquarters. The 31-year old company expects that replacing its legacy business system with the all-in-one solution will provide the visibility and control it needs to grow and sustain both its U.S.-based manufacturing and imported products distribution components of its business.

According to Grand Forest President Carrie Bovender, “We are a small company that strives to always do things in the most proactive and efficient way possible. We need to stay up to date with technology in order to maintain our commitment to domestic manufacturing and provide our customers with the best quality and service. When we recognized that our current system could no longer meet our needs, we started searching for an ERP that could support our continued growth. After evaluating eight different systems, we found in Simparel the flexibility we need in the import/distribution side of our business, as well as a fully integrated SFC solution that can drive greater efficiency and transparency in our manufacturing operations. This unique balance of capabilities, along with the fact that their system is built specifically for the apparel and sewn products industry, made Simparel our best-fit solution.”

Grand Forest plans to leverage the real-time shop floor control and incentive payroll management capabilities in Simparel SFC to increase the efficiency of its production workflow and payroll processes. The flexible order management and fulfillment capabilities built into the Simparel ERP and Warehouse Management (WMS) modules are expected to improve inventory management tasks and improve speed and accuracy of retail customer deliveries.

Posted May 2, 2016

Source: Simparel, Inc.

Prompt Side Purchases EFI VUTEk FabriVU Printer

FREMONT, Calif. — April 28, 2016 — Kent, England-based theatrical industry supplier Prompt Side Theatrical Drapery is the first to invest in the new EFI™ VUTEk® FabriVU® 340 soft signage printer. Already a satisfied user of a VUTEk GS3250LX Pro LED printer, the theatrical drapery producer was seeking a way to add polyesters and other fabrics to its portfolio, something that would increase its versatility for interior and exterior stage and event projects.

After seeing the high-end polyester imaging capabilities possible with the new VUTEk FabriVU printer line during its debut at the recent Fespa Digital tradeshow in Amsterdam, Prompt Side executives didn’t hesitate to order the new fabric graphics printer. Managing Director Peter Baker said of the purchase: “I am delighted to be at the vanguard of theatrical digital print. This is an exciting time for Prompt Side as we expand our range of products and massively increase the creative opportunities available to designers.”

With the recent purchase of the fabric graphics printer, Prompt Side will extend the types of scenery, backdrops and drapery it produces for a vast range of applications. The company will be able to work with lightweight, polyester-based materials that offer environmental and logistical benefits, including easy delivery and installation. The team at Prompt Side also appreciate that the VUTEk FabriVU printer offers excellent print durability. Plus, with its 2,400 dots per inch (dpi) maximum resolution, it produces photo-quality, vivid images with highly saturated colors and powerful blacks.

In addition to printing, Prompt Side offers a full creative service to its clients, including project management, installation and repairs and maintenance if required. Over the past 25 years, the company has developed a legendary reputation for producing drapery and printed sets for theatres, opera houses and television studios with backdrops, ceilings and floors, as well as unusual cloth-based items.

Sustainable benefits in LED inkjet and aqueous dispersed dye-sub
Prompt Side first increased its digital print production capabilities in 2015 with its initial VUTEk printer purchase, a 3.2-meter EFI VUTEk LED hybrid roll/flatbed model that uses energy-efficient, “cool cure” LED technology. The printer delivers high-quality results on an extended range of substrates, including those that cannot withstand the heat of other drying or curing processes. EFI’s LED inkjet platform also is very energy efficient compared to UV or latex imaging process, as it uses up to 82-percent less energy, according to research conducted by Fogra.

After witnessing continued growth in digital print with its first VUTEk printer, company executives realized that they could further advance their textile imaging operations with a productive, cost-effective industrial solution offering high image quality. Prompt Side’s requirement for superior imaging and reliability made the new, 3.4-meter wide VUTEk FabriVU model the ideal choice. The printer uses environmentally friendly, aqueous, dispersed dye-sublimation inks. It also is highly efficient in its ink and water usage, thanks to an ink recovery system that can reduce ink costs by up to 15 percent.

Prompt Side’s newest tech investment prints at speeds up to 464 square meters per hour and features four-level grayscale printing with 4- to 72-picoliter drop sizes. The printer, which also is available in a 1.8-meter version, was developed by EFI Reggiani — an Italy-based global leader in aqueous textile print technology that EFI acquired in 2015.

Along with the new printer installation, Prompt Side has established a streamlined production workflow with an EFI Fiery® proServer platform that provides a common interface for the company to drive jobs on its two VUTEk products. The latest-version proServer installed at Prompt Side helps ensure superior color management, plus it simplifies the process of applying correct imaging settings based on the type of job being printed. The company’s new Fiery system also offers extremely efficient processing, RIPing VUTEk print jobs up to 60-percent faster than previous proServer versions.

“Prompt Side now has a bigger competitive advantage, with a new, powerful and sustainable platform to address growing demand for fabric graphics,” said Paul Cripps, EFI’s regional vice president of sales. “Peter Baker and his team will capture new opportunities as the first users of this advanced printer, and that serves as a great example of how businesses can follow the real momentum in the market by taking digital graphic display printing to a new level of innovation.”

Posted May 2, 2016

Source: EFI

Supplier Innovation Of The Year, Top 10 Supplier Awards For George C. Moore Co.

Westerly, R.I. — April 27, 2016 — George C. Moore Co. has been selected by Fruit of the Loom Inc. for the 2015 Supplier Innovation of the Year award and also as a Top 10 Supplier. The narrow elastic fabric mill takes strategic supply chain innovation seriously and has been proactively implementing various initiatives to promote and strengthen the value they bring to their customers.

“Innovating is a challenge that is clearly beyond the resources and capabilities of any individual company,” said Andrew Dreher, division president, George C. Moore Co. “For which being able to effectively engage the resources and capabilities of our mill with our customer’s apparel manufacturing operations is definitely an opportunity to leverage resources and enables a greater capability to customize and meet customer needs more rapidly.”

“We are honored that Fruit of the Loom Inc. values our initiatives and that our associates are constantly contributing to helping them achieve their own goals,” said Dana Barlow, CEO, The Moore Company. “We understand that much of what makes a company successful lies beyond its own boundaries for which we are focusing on helping our customers tap the resources within our mill as if they were their own.”

The textile mill, founded in 1909, understands that innovation is critical not only for their competitive advantage but also for their customers. “Our goal is to develop a sense of mutual understanding with them so our resources and know how can benefit and allow our customers to achieve their strategic innovation objectives” said Dreher.

The elastic manufacturer is constantly challenged and focused on developing and strengthening their own supply chain which is considered to be strategically valuable and allows them to meet customer needs. “Our customers are focused on what they do best and our job is to provide complementary products that go from woven elastic, knit elastic, rigid webbing and value added services that allow our customers to keep up with the ever changing demands and lifestyles of their final customers” said Dreher.

Besides servicing underwear and intimate apparel markets, George C. Moore Company also supplies printed, Jacquard and knit narrow elastic for athletic compression, men’s and women’s slacks, performance apparel, dancewear, swimwear, orthopedic & medical, industrial and safety markets. Their value added services include cutting and looping, fabricated waistbands, silicone applications, technical finishes, permanent fire resistance, among other value added services.

Posted May 2, 2016

Source: George C. Moore

Madeira Offers New Color Card For Its Fire Resistant Fire Fighter Embroidery Thread

Laconia, N.H.  — April 29, 2016 — In recent months, Madeira has produced a new color card, representing its popular flame resistant embroidery thread, Fire Fighter. The color card features windings of all 24 available colors of this 100-percent aramid embroidery thread. With the expanding attention paid to safety standards driving its sales, the manufacturer of this fire resistant embroidery thread recently made all colors available in 2,734 yard cones, as well as 1,000 yard Mini Snap Cones (MSCs). Fourteen of the most popular of Fire Fighter’s 24 colors are stocked in the U.S. in both cones and MSCs. The remaining 10 are readily available in MSCs, with cones available by special order.

With fire resistant embroidery thread of interest to industries such as fire and safety, motor sports, aeronautics, transportation, public buildings, as well as children’s and infant’s wear, Madeira’s Fire Fighter is available in 24 colors ranging from bright electric orange and fire engine red to soft pastels of pink and blue. Its 100-percent aramid construction contains Nomex® fibers from DuPont®.

“We listened to our customers in the contract field who cater to sectors known for safety measures, like energy and transportation, and sports like car racing,” said Madeira USA President Shirley Clark. “And as they became more and more regulated for safety, Madeira was able to respond by supplying our fire resistant Fire Fighter embroidery thread in larger put-ups. By not having to change spools as often, customers are spared the down time and production becomes more efficient.”

Fire Fighter has a high resistance to heat and releases much less toxic vapors compared to flame resistant threads made of polyester. The result is that Madeira’s Fire Fighter embroidery thread is the first choice for those whose main emphasis is on safety. While having earned the international Oeko-tex certificate for not containing harmful substances, Fire Fighter has also earned ISO 6941 and ISO 15025 in the U.S., as well as other international standards in the global market.

The new Fire Fighter color card, Item #100-95 sells for $5.00 and is available on Madeira’s website. It also contains laundering instructions for items that are embroidered with Fire Fighter thread.

Posted May 2, 2016

Source: Madeira USA

108-Year-Old Minnesota Knitting Announces Future Ownership Plans

MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — April 29, 2016 — Harold “Bunny” Kuller, owner and Chairman of the Board of Minnesota Knitting Mills Inc. (MKM), announced long-term ownership plans for his family’s Minnesota-based knit manufacturing company.

Wade R. Kytola, currently a vice president and member of the Board of Directors, will become an increasing stakeholder of MKM. “Wade has been with us thirty years starting in plant management and now heading our sales operations,” said Kuller.

“His overall understanding of knit manufacturing surpasses that of the great majority serving in this market.

“In addition to Wade, we have a strong Board and leadership team with Pat Hickey, president, and Diane Rogers, CFO. I believe this team has the wherewithal to keep MKM well positioned for decades to come,” said Kuller.

MKM knit products can be found worldwide as component parts of high quality apparel, medical devices, professional sport uniforms, military garments, hunting accessories and a variety of applications in the areas of fore resistant, cut-proof and antimicrobial arenas. MKM is exploring opportunities for establishing its own unique brand of knit apparel.

Posted April 29, 2016

Source:Minnesota Knitting Mills, Inc.

 

Aurora Specialty Textiles Group To Showcase Wide Width Coating And New North American Textile Plant

YORKVILLE, Ill. — April 28, 2016 — Aurora Specialty Textiles Group, Inc. (ASTG), a global leader in the coating and finishing of both wovens and nonwovens, will showcase the company’s new ultra-wide width — greater than 130 inches — coating and finishing capabilities at IDEA16 Boston.

Claudia Maloy, an account manager for Aurora, will be available to discuss the company’s R&D capabilities as well as its new state-of-the-art, North American manufacturing operations. She can be reached by phone at 201-962-3094.

The media and public are invited to visit Booth 1230 to learn more. IDEA16 Boston, which is sponsored by INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, will take place at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, May 3-5.

Aurora is sharing Booth 1230 with sister companies Kleen Test Products and Majilite. All are subsidiaries of Meridian Industries Inc., and offer a broad range of capabilities and products.

Aurora Specialty Textiles Group serves a wide variety of nonwovens manufacturers, including those in the healthcare, home furnishings, bedding, construction and geotextiles industries. ASTG’s coatings and finishes add value to durable nonwovens by enhancing product appearance and performance.

The company’s new state-of-the-art technologies and R&D expertise, combined with the many sustainability components of the company’s new North American manufacturing plant, make Aurora the ideal supply chain partner for nonwovens manufacturers looking for a competitive edge in today’s dynamic marketplace.

Posted April 28, 2016

Source: Aurora Specialty Textiles Group Inc. 

Picanol To Present Rapier & Airjet Innovations At ITM Istanbul

IEPER, Belgium — April 28, 2016 — The ITM 2016 fair will be held at the TÜYAP Fair Convention and Congress Center in Istanbul from June 1-4, 2016. Picanol will be exhibiting in Hall 2, Booth 218, and will be displaying one air-jet and two rapier weaving machines. The OptiMax-i and the TerryMax-i machines will be presented for the first time in Turkey. In order to ensure it places maximum emphasis on its weaving machines’ capacities, Picanol’s new machines will be displayed in a brand new booth design at the ITM fair.

OptiMax-i
Picanol has an outstanding track record with regard to the production of high-tech rapier machines. “In 1975, more than forty years ago, we launched our very first weaving machine with a rapier insertion. Since then, we have installed over 90,000 rapier machines throughout the world” explained Johan Verstraete, vice president, Sales, Marketing & Services at Picanol. “With industrial speeds of up to 750 rpm, the new OptiMax-i is now unquestionably the fastest industrial produced rapier weaving machine in the world. Highlights of the new rapier include the increased performance, redesigned and even more rigid construction, new applications, intelligent energy efficiency, improved ergonomics and user-friendliness. The OptiMax-i is available in reed widths ranging from 190 to 540 centimeters. Furthermore, thanks to its optimized rapier drives, it remains the fastest rapier machine on the market with the Guided Gripper system (GC) and through its Free Flight system (FF) it is also the most versatile one”. The Guided Positive Gripper (GPG) system has been developed for dedicated technical fabrics. Meanwhile, additional features that have been developed to respond to an ever increasing demand for versatility include, among other things, the Electronic Filling Tensioner (EFT), the SmartEye filling detector and the SmartCut filling cutter.

TerryMax-i and TERRYplus Summum
The ITM fair will also see Picanol presenting its new TerryMax-i rapier, which has been developed for terry cloth production. The direct electronic drive of the cloth fell mechanism guarantees a perfect pile formation and enables weavers to not only program the pile height loop by loop, but also to program the pre beat-up distance of every single filling yarn, which in turn enables endless design possibilities. Special features include OptiSpeed, pile height monitoring and needle roller control. Besides the TerryMax-i, Picanol also has an airjet for terry production: the TERRYplus Summum weaving machine. This means that Picanol is the only provider on the market offering both airjet and rapier terry machines.

OMNIplus Summum
The OMNIplus Summum is Picanol’s latest generation in airjet weaving machines. It succeeds in combining the latest available technology with over thirty years of experience in airjet weaving. By introducing state-of-the-art technology in hardware and software, the OMNIplus Summum offers the latest next upgrade to meet new market demands in terms of quality, performance and energy consumption.

Built on the new BlueBox platform, the OMNIplus Summum is packed with new features that enhance weaving performance and enable Picanol to continue to add further improvements in the future. The OMNIplus Summum is equipped with fully electronic pressure regulators, a separate built-in air tank for each weaving channel and a unique triple air tank configuration for the relay nozzles. This improves the user-friendliness and flexibility of the machine and significantly reduces energy consumption.

Let’s grow together
“Picanol offers the best mix of machines and services that enable weavers to create almost every type of fabric imaginable. In line with our marketing campaign ‘Let’s grow together’ (for more info see www.letsgrowtogether.be) everyone at Picanol endeavors to ensure that our machines have a higher performance, are more energy efficient, more versatile, more user- friendly and easy to set. This means that we can continue to demonstrate that we are the technology leader for both airjet and rapier weaving machines” explained Johan Verstraete.

Picanol is delighted to be able to invite you to take a virtual walk through its ITM Istanbul booth thanks to a new interactive app. You can navigate the entire Picanol booth from the palm of your hand and you will be able to browse the complete list of machines, sort by product type or view our list of features all at once. Picanol’s new virtual booth will make it feel like you are right on the show exhibition with views and videos of the machines and the ability to contact Picanol. It is a great way to explore new weaving technology! The below link enables you to download a brand new app (iOS, Android and Windows) that will let you discover the Picanol booth: www.letsgrowtogether.be/en/picanol-trade-fair-app.

Picanol weaving machines represent a synthesis of technological know-how and experience that has been built up over eighty years and has resulted in more than 350,000 machines being produced. Picanol is proud to confirm that it currently has more than 175,000 weaving machines running in some 2,600 weaving mills across the world.

WEAVING MACHINES ON DISPLAY AT THE PICANOL BOOTH: 

  • OptiMax-i (4 – R – 190), fancy denim
    
  • TerryMax-i (8 – R – 260), terry
    
  • OMNIplus Summum (6 – R – 190), shirting

Posted April 28, 2016

Source: Picanol

April 2016: Textile Activity At A Glance

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Volkert, Inc. Announces The Formation Of Volkert Global

MOBILE, Ala. — April 26, 2016 — Volkert Inc. — a full-service, multi-discipline engineering services firm with a long and successful history of providing support for public and private infrastructure clients in the United States — is pleased to announce that it has formed a new entity, Volkert Global. Volkert Global will serve as an independent international affiliate for Volkert, Inc. and will further extend Volkert’s ability to reach and serve their growing international client base.

Volkert Global has named Jerry Stump, current Volkert Inc. COO, as its president and CEO to lead the organization from its new headquarters located in the Metro Nashville, Tenn., area. Perry Hand, President and CEO, Volkert Inc., said: “Jerry has done an exceptional job as COO of Volkert, Inc. and will continue in this role, as well as lead this exciting new venture of Volkert Global. We are very excited for the future of Volkert, Inc. and Volkert Global, and know that Jerry is committed to our continued success and growth both in our own back yard and around the world.”

Volkert’s most recent global activity is working with one of its strategic design partners on a critical infrastructure development in Panama. A new Metro Link Transit System will serve Panama City as well as growing areas throughout the region.

Posted April 26, 2016

Source: Volkert, Inc.

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