Miami-based Vertical Textiles a full-package producer with knitting, dyeing and finishing
operations in Miami and cutting and sewing operations in Hispaniola has partnered with Caribbean
Apparel Manufacturing S.A. a cut-and-sew facility in Haiti to offer full-package apparel production
as a result of the recently enacted Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity Through Partnership For
Encouragement Act (HOPE) trade preference program.

As a result, Vertical Textiles will finish fabrics made from imported inputs at its Miami
facility, and send them to Haiti for final assembly. The company expects the partnership and
resulting new supply chain to reduce costs by 30 percent, which will ultimately enable Vertical
Textiles to offer its customers greater speed-to-market value.

May 22, 2007

Champion Thread Co. (CTC), an industrial sewing thread supplier based in Gastonia, N.C., has
entered into an agreement with Story Brook, N.Y.-based Applied DNA Sciences Inc. (APDN) a DNA-based
security solutions provider whereby CTC will become the exclusive reseller of APDNs SigNature DNA
Markers in CTC’s global markets. The companies will work together to develop, market and distribute
Signature DNA-marked products to the textile industry.

Signature DNA technology involves using DNA segments from botanical sources, rearranging them
into unique encrypted sequences and then implementing one or more layers of anti-counterfeiting
techniques. Signature DNA marker detection devices and polymerase chain reaction kits enable
customers to quickly complete on-site verification of branded textile products.

Champion Thread will exclusively resell Applied DNA
Sciences SigNature™ DNA markers in the company’s global markets.

Signature DNA thread will aid retailers, accessory and clothing manufacturers and governments
authenticate thread, yarn and fabric at any stage in the supply chain, according to APDN. The
effectiveness of the markers in authenticating sewing thread has been independently verified by
Idaho National Laboratories.

“With this OEM relationship in place, we are now better able to service the
anti-counterfeiting needs of textile and luxury brand owners,” said James A. Hayward, Ph.D., CEO,
APDN. “This is one more indication of the many ways in which Signature DNA can be utilized to
authenticate a wide variety of products and provides entrinto another important market where
counterfeiting continues to grow.”

May 22, 2007

Effective June 1, 2007, Jürg Rupp will join Textile Industries Media Group (TIMG), publisher of

Textile World
,
Textiles Panamericanos and

Textile World Asia
magazines, as Executive Editor.

Jürg Rupp, a graduate of the Swiss Textile School, Zurich with more than 30 years experience in
textiles, textile media, corporate communications and global business issues will strengthen TIMG
textile media products worldwide.

“Jürg Rupp brings a unique perspective to the textile publications, e-newsletters and websites,”
said Jim Borneman, TIMG Publisher. “His experience and interest in the textile supply chain, his
knowledge of the industrys leaders and particularly his understanding of technical textiles will
serve to improve the editorial content and better serve our readers around the world.”

Jürg Rupp will be based in Switzerland, where he will have easy access to major machinery
manufacturers, industry suppliers and textile manufacturers.

“It is time for me to write a new chapter in my life,” said Rupp. “I have had the privilege of
working with some of the finest organizations in textiles. Now I will return to textile journalism
in a time when TIMG is focused on expanding textile media options globally.”

Textile World
,
Textiles Panamericanos and

Textile World Asia
magazines are members of Timg, a division of Atlantabased Billian Publishing, Inc.

May 22, 2007

Nanocomp Technologies Inc., Concord, N.H., has produced new nonwoven sheet and yarn textiles
from long, continuous carbon nanotubes, with the expectation of using them in such applications as
body armor, structural composites, energy storage and electronics thermal management.

According to Nanocomp, the new textiles are 100 times stronger than steel and one-third the
weight of aluminum; and efficiently conduct electricity and heat, exhibiting a much faster and more
resilient electrical charge capability than batteries. In addition, the long carbon nanotubes,
which range in length from hundreds of microns to millimeters and have a high degree of purity,
make the materials more functional in end-use applications than the powder-like short carbon
nanotubes, measuring tens of microns in length, that have been available commercially up to
now.

“One of the key limitations of nanotubes to date, except in some of the more sophisticated
electronics applications, is that they’ve been much too short to take advantage of all the
properties that nanotubes showcase,” said Peter L. Antoinette, cofounder, president and CEO,
Nanocomp. “We’re taking a textiles approach to this nanotechnology material rather than a powder
approach. Our aim is to create a 21st-century textile with the kind of functionality you see in
high-strength or high-conductivity materials. It expands the horizons of what textiles
traditionally have been.”

Potential applications include: lightweight body armor with improved performance owing to the
nanotube materials being used along with carbon fibers and aramids; air, land and marine vehicles
with improved fuel economy; wiring systems and antennas; and ultra capacitors for energy storage
from wind and solar and other intermittent energy sources, and to mitigate the effects of demand
spikes in the power grid.

Antoinette said the company is presently making small amounts of the materials for trials and
research. The US Army Natick Soldier Center, Natick, Mass., is assisting with funding for
development and production of materials for ballistics testing of body armor; and the US Navy
Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Va., is providing funding for materials development and
production for both body armor and advanced composites.

The company also is developing prototype automated equipment for commercial-scale production of
the yarns and nonwoven sheets.

“We’re developing machinery using off-the-shelf products for certain elements such as gas
control and alarm systems, but the harvesting and downstream treatments are all our own machine
design,” Antoinette said. “There will be other elements — for example, when one is making yarn that
will be adaptations of centuries-old technology,” he added, describing the nanotubes as a
“slippery, tiny staple — not a filament material.”

May 15, 2007

Effective June 1, or as contracts allow, The Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich., will raise prices of
its acrylic acid and esters (acrylates) worldwide, and of its oxygenated solvents products in North
America.

The increases are as follows for glacial acrylic acid, butyl acrylate, ethyl acrylate, methyl
acrylate and 2-ethylhexyl acrylate: 5 cents per pound in North America; US$120 per metric ton in
Asia Pacific, Middle East/Africa and Latin America; and 90 euros per metric ton in Europe.

List and off-list price increases for oxygenated solvents vary from 3 cents to 5 cents per
pound, depending on the product.

May 15, 2007

Minneapolis-based uniform supplier G&K Services Inc. has introduced antimicrobial-charged
garments and towels that feature Spartanburg-based Milliken & Company’s BioSmart antimicrobial
technology that binds chlorine to fabric surfaces. The new products are part of G&Ks ProSura
Food Safety Solutions program, developed to reduce cross-contamination in the food industry, and
are targeted to grocers, food processors and restaurants.

According to G&K, independent testing of the technology has shown that BioSmart fabrics
laundered with chlorine bleach according to care instructions kill 99.9 percent of common bacteria
and viruses including staphylococcus aureus, hepatitis A, e-coli and salmonella cholerasuis and the
chlorine on the fabric will continue to kill these microbes after laundering. The fabrics also do
not irritate the skin and have passed the ISO skin sensitivity and skin irritation tests, the
company reports.

“BioSmart is both durable and effective for the life of most garments,” said Travis Greer,
senior business development technologist, Workwear Fabrics, Milliken. “The fabric technology
literally recharges after every washing so it is always functioning at full strength, thus
providing a longer shelf life and optimizing value for the food service industry, laundries and
consumers alike.”

May 15, 2007

Hanesbrands Inc., Winston-Salem, N.C., has announced plans to shut down three sewing and
assembly facilities in Itabo, Dominican Republic, and consolidate those operations into
state-of-the-art, lower-cost fabric production facilities it has built in the Central
America/Dominican Republic region. Production at the three plants will cease by September,
resulting in the loss of approximately 1,400 jobs.

“We are fully engaged in our global supply chain strategy of doing business around the world in
lower-cost countries,” said Gerald Evans, executive vice president and chief global supply chain
officer. “We continually review how to remain most competitive in every country and region around
the world in which we operate, particularly as we begin to add operations in Asia to balance our
supply chain in the Western Hemisphere. A key opportunity for us is to operate fewer facilities
that are larger in order to most effectively utilize our assets.”

The company also operates six additional sewing and intimate apparel assembly facilities, as
well as the new Dos Rios textile manufacturing plant, in the Dominican Republic.

May 8, 2007

Effective June 1, 2007, The Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich., will raise prices in North America
for its TERGITOL nonylphenol ethoxylate surfactants and its CARBOWAX and CARBOWAX SENtrY
polyethylene and methoxypolyethylene glycols by 3 cents per pound. The company cited strong demand
and continuing high raw material costs as reasons for the increases.

May 8, 2007