Second Stop Of IPC E-Textiles 2021 Virtual World Lands In Philadelphia On October 27

BANNOCKBURN, Ill. — October 11, 2021 — The second stop on IPC’s E-Textiles 2021 Virtual World Tour will be Philadelphia on October 27, 2021. The IPC E-Textiles 2021 Virtual World Tour is a series of educational events bringing the latest e-textiles technologies and virtual demonstrations from innovators around the world — all at no cost to registrants.

Attendees of the October 27 stop on the tour will gain unique insights into the Soft Systems Design Kit (SSDK) under development at Drexel University’s Center for Functional Fabrics. Their SSDK is a set of tools and guidance seeking to bring design methodologies from the semiconductor industry into the e-textiles space to speed product development and de-risk projects. Drexel’s speakers will provide a detailed view into their SSDK as well as a proof of concept demonstration.

Drexel will also provide virtual demonstrations of the Center for Functional Fabrics, providing a unique opportunity for the global e-textiles industry to gain access to one of the leading e-textiles centers in North America. Registrants who are not able to attend the live event will receive on-demand access to the presentations and demonstration recording following the event.

Remaining dates on the IPC E-Textiles 2021 Virtual World Tour include Germany on November 17, and Japan on December 1. Registration includes automatic access to the remaining events and on-demand recordings for all events, including the September 2 event hosted by Taiwan Textile Research Institute.

For more information or to register, visit: www.ipc.org/ipc-e-textiles-2021-virtual-world-tour.

Posted October 12, 2021

Source: IPC®

Avery Dennison Advances Launch Of Digital Care Label in Partnership With UpWest And Recircled

GLENDALE, Calif. — October 11, 2021 — Avery Dennison today announced its partnership with lifestyle brand UpWest, and ReCircled, an apparel and footwear recycling and reuse focused organization. This collaboration demonstrates Avery Dennison’s Digital Care Label solution, showing how it can be used in an upcycling context and provide a retail/brand experience.

According to current legislation, all garments sold must have a physical care and content label to communicate product information, such as washing instructions and material composition. Avery Dennison’s Digital Care Label offers this information through a digital experience that showcases to consumers the sustainability story around the garment’s origins and where they can dispose of it.

Lifestyle brand UpWest is continually seeking ways to benefit the planet. As part of this mission, it began exploring how upcycling could extend the life of products, particularly its existing sweater inventory. In partnership with ReCircled’s team of re-imagineers, a collection of upcycled chenille items was developed; cozy winter blankets, dog-sweaters and mittens; launching online in October.

UpWest and ReCircled enlisted Avery Dennison to provide the digital triggers and data connectivity essential to complete the circularity loop.

Consumers will have the opportunity to scan the QR code at purchase with Avery Dennison’s “Digital Hang Tags” and post purchase via Avery Dennison’s “Digital Care Label.” Helping engage consumers, the QR code on these tags and labels is able to be scanned, taking shoppers on a journey: the digital experience outlines the item’s story, provides guidance on garment care, and allows them to engage closely with the UpWest brand.

Consumers today are unsure what to do with garments at the end of life, because brands lack an easy-on garment way of educating them. Currently many consumers remove the physical care label, while brands underutilize it. This increases the risk of the garment ending up in landfill rather than being resold, upcycled or recycled. In contrast, Avery Dennison’s new Digital Care Label helps advance the circular economy as recyclers and upcyclers can be confident of composition and resellers will be able to check authenticity.

Sarah Swenson, global senior sustainability manager, Avery Dennison RBIS, said: “This pilot provides a great way for consumers to engage sustainably with these comfort-focused lines. UpWest and ReCircled have created an enticing narrative that will allow customers to feel positive about making eco-friendly choices.”

Rob Smith, director production and sourcing, UpWest, said: “We wanted to combine both upcycling and new ways to interact with our consumers. Avery Dennison provides a holistic solution that allows us to pique consumers’ interest, and is a game changer in terms of giving us another route to share our story and our purpose.”

Scott Kuhlman, CEO of ReCircled, commented: “This collaboration is championing the digital technology that will truly support the circular economy in practical terms. As well as providing the end-to-end data visibility, Avery Dennison has extensive knowledge of the supply chain, and can track and collate item and materials data from the purchase experience right through the circular journey to re-use.”

This partnership is the second in a series of innovation-based collaborations that support Avery Dennison’s 2030 sustainability goals. Ambercycle, Avery Dennison’s first partner for its Digital Care Label, is an end-of-life textile recycler which creates garments from polyester destined for landfill. The collaboration saw intelligent care labels being attached to Ambercycle’s garments, with a QR code linked to an app. The app is powered by Avery Dennison’s new atma.io connected product cloud.

These collaborations showcase Avery Dennison’s ability to provide a total solution — a physical trigger to a digital experience, data management, and applications for brands, consumers, and the wider apparel industry to utilize.

Posted October 12, 2021

Source: Avery Dennison

Messe Frankfurt Restructures Its Textile Business Unit With Personnel Changes For The Texpertise Network

FRANKFURT, Germany — October 12, 2021 — With its Texpertise Network, Messe Frankfurt leads the world market in events for apparel fabrics, fashion, home textiles, technical textiles and textile processing. Now, there have been a number of personnel changes in the business unit, a division of Messe Frankfurt that includes the Frankfurt Fashion Week and is headed by Olaf Schmidt, vice president, Textiles & Textile Technologies.

The Frankfurt Fashion Week has been enriching Messe Frankfurt’s portfolio of textile events since the announcement in May 2020. Due to the pandemic, the first edition in July 2021 was held digitally as the FFW Studio. The event was organised by Frankfurt Fashion Week Director Dr Hendrik Müller-Giegler, who took over this position in June 2021 from Ricarda Quehl, who is currently on maternity leave. With managerial and international marketing experience in the media and entertainment industry, Hendrik Müller-Giegler, joined Messe Frankfurt as Marketing Communications Director in the Entertainment, Media & Creative Industries Business Unit in 2018.

A major role in the development of the Frankfurt Fashion Week has also been played by Claudia Franz, who has extensive experience of the international fashion and textile sector and has been with Messe Frankfurt as Director of Brand Management, Interior & Contract Textiles and Apparel Fabrics & Fashion, since 2019. She is currently involved in the launch of the new quality mainstream fashion fair, Val:ue, and a supplementary downstream event, Apparel Sourcing in Fashion, both of which will be held in association with the Frankfurt Fashion Week.

Two other changes have been made following the resignation of Thimo Schwenzfeier who leaves the company at his own request on October 31, 2021, to take up new professional challenges.

He is followed in the position of Neonyt Show Director by Bettina Bär who has worked for Messe Frankfurt in a variety of positions in the consumer-goods fairs division since 2012, most recently as Tendence Show Director. In this connection she was, inter alia, jointly responsible for the Ethical Style Guide, in which ecologically oriented exhibitors of the Tendence trade fair were specially labelled and promoted after having been selected by an expert jury. Additionally, Bettina Bär has been appointed co-director of the new fashion fair, Val:ue, which makes its debut during the Frankfurt Fashion Week in January 2022 and is set to be the corner stone of the quality and mainstream fashion segment.

The Marketing Communication Department has been headed by Ivonne Seifert since October 1, 2021. Accordingly, she is now in charge of marketing communication for the leading international trade fairs, Heimtextil, Techtextil and Texprocess, and the Neonyt and Val:ue fashion fairs, as well as the communication activities for the international Texpertise Network. Ivonne Seifert joined Messe Frankfurt 10 years ago and has held a variety of positions in marketing. She has extensive marketing expertise in both the B2B and B2C fields.

All report to Olaf Schmidt who is responsible for the Texpertise Network at Messe Frankfurt. With a portfolio of around 60 international textile fairs, Messe Frankfurt offers many trade fairs in the textile sector. In 2019, the last year before the pandemic, more than 23,000 exhibitors and over 600,000 visitors took part in events organized by Messe Frankfurt around the globe. The spectrum of fairs covers the whole value chain of the textile industry.

Posted October 12, 2021

Source: Messe Frankfurt

Polartec, Browzwear Launch First True-To-Life 3D Performance Fabrics

ANDOVER, Mass. — October 12, 2021 — Polartec®, a Milliken & Company brand, and premium creator of innovative and sustainable textile solutions, announces a new partnership with Browzwear, a pioneer of 3D digital solutions for the fashion industry. A first for the brand, users will now be able to digitally design and create with Polartec’s performance fabric range. The fabric library will be available in the VStitcher 2021.2 Edition on October 12 with subsequent rollouts of new fabric technologies in future upgrades.

The cornerstone of Polartec is innovation, adaptation, and always looking into the future to find solutions that work better. The new partnership will allow designers using Browzwear to preview and design with Polartec fabric technologies in a digital way that will provide advanced information and allow the user to accurately visualize the fabric’s texture, drape, and movement in true-to-life 3D. In addition to the high-degree of accuracy that eliminates the need for garment samples, Browzwear’s true-to-life 3D renderings can be leveraged in the sales process, enabling data-driven manufacturing and reducing overproduction. As the world increasingly shifts to digital, Polartec looks to empower its customers, ensuring they have the tools necessary to continue to efficiently design in the modern era.

A leader in the digital apparel revolution, Browzwear’s pioneering 3D solutions for apparel design, development and merchandising are the key to a successful digital product lifecycle. Trusted by more than 650 organizations, such as Polartec customers Patagonia, Nike, Adidas, Burton and VF Corp., Browzwear accelerates collection development, opening limitless opportunities to create iterations of styles.

For Polartec, the partnership with Browzwear is part of its ever-growing Eco-Engineering™ initiatives and ongoing dedication to creating environmentally-friendly products, which has been at the heart of the brand for decades. From inventing the process of turning post-consumer plastic into performance fabrics to leading the use of recycled content across all categories, and leading the way in circularity, performance innovation with sustainable science is the driving force of the brand.

The first rollout will feature fourteen different Polartec fabrics in unique color palettes ranging from next-to-skin technologies Polartec Delta™, Polartec Power Wool™, and Polartec Power Grid™, to insulation technologies such as Polartec 200 series fleece, Polartec Alpha®, Polartec High Loft™, Polartec Thermal Pro®, and Polartec Power Air™. Polartec NeoShell® rounds out the collection with weather protection. These U3M files of Polartec fabric technologies will be available to download on Polartec.comfor use on other digital design platforms as well.

“Empowering people with our performance fabrics has long been a driving focus of Polartec,” said David Karstad, Polartec vice president of marketing and creative director. “Browzwear not only improves the efficiency and sustainability of using Polartec fabrics, 3D platforms enable designers to realize the potential of their creativity and fuel our industry.”

“We are elated to partner with Polartec, a company that shares our commitment to driving innovation for a more sustainable industry,” said Sean Lane, vice president of Partnerships and Solutions, Browzwear. “We look forward to working together to catalyze large-scale, positive change to reduce inefficiencies that impact businesses and the environment.”

Posted October 12, 2021

Source: Polartec

Returning Face-to-Face, Texworld And Apparel Sourcing New York City Open Visitor Registration

ATLANTA — October 12, 2021 — Texworld New York City and Apparel Sourcing New York City, the East Coast’s largest textile sourcing event, announced registration for its winter 2022 edition is now open. Returning to face-to-face, the influential event will be held January 25-27, 2022, in the Jacob Javits Convention Center.

Although the shows will open to a fully in-person event, after a successful summer premiere, the Sourcing Showroom will return as well and be incorporated into show floor exhibits to enable global suppliers’ products to be physically represented in the US marketplace, for those still facing travel restrictions.

“Each year, Texworld New York City and Apparel Sourcing New York City provide a diverse offering of material innovations, new trends and resources. We look forward to returning to New York City in-person with an expanded show agenda and even more networking opportunities for visitors to take advantage of,” said Jennifer Bacon, show director, Fashion & Apparel, Messe Frankfurt, Inc.

Texworld and Apparel Sourcing New York City bring together textile innovators, industry leading organizations and brand thought-leaders to deliver a robust offering of networking and educational opportunities. Providing a stage for the industry to explore high quality fabrics, trims and accessories, together the two events feature over 30+ product categories and host hundreds of international exhibiting companies, historically representing Turkey, Italy, Taiwan, Korea, China and Pakistan to name a few.  This enables both visitors and exhibitors alike to gain exposure to new opportunities and outlets to grow their businesses.

In addition, attendees will also find the most cutting edge information on trends.  For one day only, Texworld New York City will feature a special Trend Presentation and Tour at the Trend Showcase with Kai Chow, Creative Director at TOBE/The Doneger Group.

A key element to the show, the Winter 2022 educational program features the Lenzing Seminar Series and Textile Talks, both led by an impressive group of speakers covering trend forecasts, industry insights, supply chain policy and transparency, circularity and market intelligence over the course of three day event.

Posted October 12, 2021

Source: Messe Frankfurt/Texworld

 

 

 

Levi’s® 501®: An Icon Designed For Circularity

SAN FRANCISCO — October 12, 2021 — In early 2022, Levi’s® will launch a version of its most iconic product, the 501® Original, made with organic cotton and post-consumer recycled denim, and designed to itself be recyclable. As part of our ongoing partnership with Swedish company Renewcell, this speaks to both the enduring nature of the 501 and the brand’s commitment to moving towards more circular products and practices.

This launch builds on last year’s release of a collaboration between Renewcell and our Wellthread™ line on the 502™ for men and High Loose for women using the same materials, which was named a “World Changing Idea” by Fast Company. In each case, we are using a mix of Renewcell’s pioneering Circulose® fiber, a sustainably sourced viscose made in part from recycled denim, and organic cotton.

“Last year’s Wellthread collaboration with Renewcell showed that this could be done, that we could find man-made cellulosic fiber made with recycled denim that was strong enough and durable enough to meet our quality standards. That hadn’t been possible before with mechanically recycled denim,” said Paul Dillinger, vice president of Design Innovation.

“Now we’re taking that innovation and applying it to what could rightly be called the most iconic garment in all of apparel, the 501, which shows how serious we are about moving in the direction of circularity. Not only will our circular 501 jeans be designed to stand the test of time, just as they always have been, but they’ll also be able to find a second, third or fourth life as new garments.”

Making these jeans with recycled denim content blended with certified organic cotton means the garment uses far fewer natural resources and fewer chemicals to produce. Reducing the environmental impacts of our materials is part of our broader strategy for resource conservation across the life cycles of our products and is an important part of our Buy Better, Wear Longer message and campaign.

“In our ongoing research and development, we strive to improve our design practices and conserve environmental resources every way we can,” said Una Murphy, Levi’s director of Design Innovation. “By incorporating sustainable innovation, we learn what’s possible and work towards solving some of our biggest challenges.”

Our use of renewable and recyclable materials — like Circulose and certified organic cotton — is an important part of a broader holistic approach to circularity. Each and every material component going into our circular 501 jeans was developed and selected to align with a strict single-fiber strategy that enables efficient recycling at the end of the jean’s useful life.

By replacing those parts of the garment that would normally be made from synthetic fibers — like polyester pocketing, threads, labels, and interfacing — with 100-percent cotton alternatives, we’ve removed pollutive elements that would otherwise disrupt the cotton recovery process. The result is a new jean made from old jeans that’s designed with the potential to be re-made into new jeans — again and again.

“We are still early stages in apparel’s move towards real circularity, which is so necessary given how consumptive and wasteful this industry can be,” Dillinger said. “By producing our signature jean, the 501, with recycled content and in a way that makes them recyclable, we’re hoping to show ourselves and the industry that it really can be done, and that we can deliver more sustainable product that saves resources, still looks great, and meets the highest quality standards.”

Why Is This Important?

Fashion needs a better, more circular model.

Cotton, though a natural material, has its challenges: more farming of conventional cotton means usurping more water, land, and natural resources. As demand for clothes continues to rise in the coming years, how do we meet that demand without inflicting harm on ecosystems around the world? In 2015, for example, the fashion industry consumed 53 million tons of virgin fibers; 26 percent, or one-fourth, was cotton fibers alone and 73 percent of these fibers ultimately ended up in a landfill or were burned. As a denim brand, dependent on cotton, this is troubling.

We’re committed to finding new and better ways to reduce our impact through circular design and production practices. Since 2015, we’ve used our Levi’s WELLTHREAD collection as a laboratory to test and validate new approaches to applied circularity for the fashion industry. In July 2021, we joined the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Jeans Redesign Project with a commitment to grow our circular product portfolio. The circular 501 is our first product that comports with EMF’s Jeans Redesign Guidelines.

Circulose’s Origins

Swedish startup Renewcell has been working on a solution to recycle textile waste since 2012. A year and a half ago, they opened a recycling plant outside of Stockholm which can produce up to 4,500 tons of Circulose, a fashion raw material made from textile waste, every year. That’s enough to make more than 20 million T-shirts. After a successful Nasdaq IPO in November 2020, the company is now building a second plant more than ten times the size of its existing one.

Part of an emerging group of innovators in the fashion industry focused on recycling that’s eco-friendly, effective, and scalable, Renewcell was started by professors and material scientists at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 2012. The company spent five years developing the technology used to break down any cellulose-based fabric, either pre-consumer waste (i.e. cuttings from factories, excess fabric) or post-consumer waste (i.e. already worn or damaged clothing).

While there are existing mechanical recycling facilities that break down natural materials such as cotton, the resulting fibers are weak and not durable, having to be blended with synthetic fibers to make them stronger, deeming them non-recyclable. The polymer recycling process developed by Renewcell makes it possible to manufacture fabric that competes with the best non-recycled materials used in the industry today.

The process does use water, chemicals, and energy, but the chemicals in Renewcell’s recycling process are recovered and reused as well, and the plant runs on renewable energy itself. The water used is a fraction of what’s needed to grow conventional and organic cotton, and after internal treatment it’s clean enough to be released directly into the nearby Lake Vänern. Operating in Sweden, under the guidance of EU laws on textile manufacturing, even the incoming waste materials have to meet strict safety criteria.

Posted October 12, 2021

Source: Levi’s

EFI Reggiani TERRA Silver Makes Debut At Fespa Global Print Expo 2021 For A Short, Smart And Green Process

AMSTERDAM — October 12, 2021 — The new, industrial, entry-level EFI™ Reggiani TERRASilver textile printer from Electronics For Imaging Inc. (EFI) is making its debut at the Fespa Global Print Expo 2021 tradeshow, October 12-15, at RAI Amsterdam. The EFI Reggiani TERRA Silver uses unique TERRA pigment ink for high-quality, highly sustainable direct-to-textile printing without steaming or washing.

“This is one of the first trade shows to return after the pandemic, and we are very excited to again meet customers in person and showcase an innovative offering that delivers superior printing results while using less time, water and energy,” said EFI Reggiani Vice President and General Manager Adele Genoni. “We are introducing this advanced EFI Reggiani TERRA Silver solution to the many print service providers at Fespa, presenting them with an ideal path to enter the industrial textile segment with a short, smart and green production process.”

The new-version TERRA Silver printer is part of EFI’s complete TERRA line-up of pigment ink printer solutions. It is a 180-cm wide printer that can print up to 190 sqm per hour with eight dual-channel printheads. The printer also features:

  • A new recirculating ink system for superior reliability and minimum maintenance;
  • Several printing modes to ensure maximum flexibility in terms of design capability;
  • New, real-time image processing that eliminates time spent in image pre-calculations;
  • A user friendly, intuitive interface; and
  • A more-efficient polymerisation process that takes place as printed textile goes through the printer’s on-board dryer.

In Fespa stand 1-G71, attendees can see the EFI Reggiani TERRA Silver print smoothly and precisely on knitted and woven fabrics. The printer’s quality is evident in its high-uniformity printing modes, and it delivers numerous features that enhance the production process, including an accurate WYSIWYG interface and flexible queue management.

EFI Reggiani is also a leading developer of textile inks. The EFI Reggiani TERRA pigment inks used on the Silver model deliver excellent wet and dry fastness properties and remarkable sharpness in detail. Designed to leverage EFI Reggiani digital printers’ market-proven industrial performance capabilities, these eco-friendly, water-based inks provide an extraordinary level of print durability and yield longer print head life with reduced maintenance costs. The high-performance digital pigment inks also use an innovative binder technology for fast, sustainable, and cost-competitive industrial textile printing on the widest range of fabrics. Users also gain superior print definition and color intensity.

This year, EFI Reggiani celebrates 75 years of heritage and innovation in the textile world. Always committed to deliver to the market new cutting-edge technologies, EFI Reggiani has world-class products offering boosted uptime and reliability, high performance throughput, and remarkable printing uniformity and accuracy — all while helping customers increase the sustainability of their textile manufacturing activities. Green EFI Reggiani processes give users fast, complete and sustainable solutions across a broad range of textile applications.

In this 75th anniversary year, EFI Reggiani has also launched several other ground-breaking solutions, such as EFI Reggiani HYPER, the fastest scanning digital printer on the market, and the EFI Reggiani BLAZE, an industrial entry-level, easy-to-use printer designed to give new textile companies the opportunity to adopt digital inkjet production with a compact solution to blaze a successful path into the industry.

Posted October 12, 2021

Source: EFI Reggiani

Icebreaker®, Spinnova Develop Circular SPINNOVA®-Merino Wool Products

JYVÄSKYLÄ, Finland — October 12, 2021 — The sustainable textile material company Spinnova and VF brand Icebreaker® proudly announce they are developing circular midlayer products with next-generation blends of merino wool and the highly sustainable SPINNOVA® fiber that can be recycled again and again.

The Icebreaker and Spinnova journey originates from a shared vision of believing that nature has the solutions: Icebreaker was founded to provide nature-based alternatives for synthetics, while Spinnova’s technology is inspired by nature; how spiders weave their web.

Spinnova and Icebreaker have begun their joint sustainability journey by entering a product development agreement on SPINNOVA-merino wool midlayer materials that will have a minimal environmental footprint and high performance. The blend Spinnova and Icebreaker are now piloting for midlayer products is sustainable and comfortable, and also fully circular. After consumer use, the developed yarn is intended to be separated and reused, with the ambition to get one step closer to circularity and lowering the products’ impact on the environment.

Icebreaker is an industry sustainability pioneer with ambitious sustainability goals including abandoning the use of plastic fibers by 2023. In 2020, already 91 percent of Icebreaker’s materials were merino or plant-based. This partnership is a great match between Icebreaker’s high sustainability standards and Spinnova’s innovation that aims to transform the way textiles are made globally.

“Nature is our hero, and our source of inspiration — we were excited to learn about Spinnova’s approach to fibre spinning that mimics nature’s own processes. In addition to this shared source of inspiration, the potential to recycle SPINNOVA into a new fiber again and again makes this disruptively circular. This partnership enables our strategy in developing circular business models and drive forward sustainable design,” said Alistair Smith, director of Global Product Design at icebreaker.

The sustainable and fully circular SPINNOVA fiber is made without harmful chemicals. SPINNOVA fiber uses 99.5-percent less water and produces nearly 64.5-percent less carbon dioxide emissions than cotton production cradle to gate. Thanks to the mechanical process Spinnova uses to harness its raw material, wood pulp, the fibres can simply be remade mechanically, again without harmful chemicals or quality loss. SPINNOVA fiber also has strong insulation properties, and will be a great companion for merino wool.

As Spinnova’s wood-based fiber is produced in a simple and clean process without chemical dissolving unlike man-made cellulosic fibres, SPINNOVA fiber is defined as one of the few representatives of a new “Other plant-based fibers” class according to the Textile Exchange’s Preferred Fibrers and Materials Report 2020.

“We’re very proud of this collaboration, and excited to keep experimenting how SPINNOVA can fight climate change as both a sustainable new material and a disruptively circular new material that can be remade over and over again,” commented Spinnova’s CEO and co-founder Janne Poranen.

The partners in this collaboration are developing a completely novel material that has not been seen before. This bold and adventurous collaboration demonstrates how Icebreaker is in the frontline of sustainable development and part of a wider movement of textile industry players developing new circular and sustainable alternatives. For instance, Spinnova recently announced partnering with The North Face®, which is also a VF Corp. company like Icebreaker.

Spinnova is building its first commercial factory in Finland to meet the growing demand for sustainable materials from global textile brands. The factory producing SPINNOVA fiber is expected to be completed at the end of 2022, for the joint venture that Spinnova has with its strategic partner Suzano, the world’s largest cellulose producer. Spinnova’s long term business targets include reaching 1 million metric tons of annual SPINNOVA fiber production capacity in the next 10-12 years.

Posted October 12, 2021

Source: Spinnova

Herculite Products Promotes Two Employees To New Roles

Marco Angelone (left) and Paul Flaherty

EMIGSVILLE, Pa. — October 12, 2021 —  Herculite Products Inc., a manufacturer of high-performance and custom fabrics, is pleased to announce that Paul Flaherty and Marco Angelone have received leadership promotions.

Paul Flaherty is being promoted the newly created position of chief strategy officer. In this new role, Flaherty will be responsible for the development and implementation of the company’s long range strategic initiatives. Flaherty is a CPA who earned his bachelor’s degree from Duquesne University and his master’s degree from Mount St Mary’s University. He has been with Herculite for 10 years serving as the CFO. Prior to coming to Herculite, he served as the CFO of several local companies.

Marco Angelone is being promoted to the role of CFO to fill Flaherty’s vacancy. Angelone is a CPA who earned his bachelor’s degree from Kutztown University. He has been with Herculite for two years in his role as controller. Prior to coming to Herculite, he spent six years at RKL as the Audit Manager.

Both positions will report to President and CEO Peter McKernan. Angelone and Flaherty will continue to provide leadership and strategic vision to Herculite as we continue to invest and expand our operations and capabilities to better serve our customer-partners.

Posted October 12, 2021

Source: Herculite

Mannington Commercial Introduces Amtico Active Lines Collection

CALHOUN, Ga. — October 12, 2021 — Mannington Commercial introduces the Amtico Active Lines Collection, an easy-to-customize LVT flooring solution that helps bring a sense of flow to busy spaces.

Lines are a fundamental element of art, created by connecting two points, and they are the starting place for most artistic creation. There are many types of lines: thick, thin, horizontal, vertical, zigzag, diagonal, curved and spiral. The Amtico Active Lines Collection is an exploration of the line and its expressive qualities and was designed to create variety in pattern, scale and color play.

“Commercial designers can create inspiring, purposeful designs with the flexible interplay of grids and linear patterns that are part of the Active Lines Collection,” said Roby Isaac, Mannington Commercial’s Vice President of Commercial Design. “The neutral tones and customizable digitally printed accent colors make it easy to meet the design needs of any room in any space.”

The Amtico Active Lines Collection makes it simple to customize flooring, delivering design flexibility with 112 possible running line combinations of styles, base colors and accent colors, all of which can be mixed or used independently for a completely tailored floor. Because the accent colors are digitally printed, designers can also create a fully custom accent color that perfectly matches a project’s branding or palette.

The collection is available in two sizes — 18” x 18” or 6” x 36” — and four styles. Grid is the smallest scale pattern with a subtle color shift. Bend is an organic linear pattern that weaves accent colors along the design in a quiet way. Crisscross is the heaviest pattern visually, incorporating color in a bold way. Shift is the largest scale of the four patterns which in accent colorways delivers high energy.

In addition, the Amtico Active Lines Collection features a 40 mil wear layer and Quantum Guard Elite®, Mannington Commercial’s industry-leading performance technology.

Posted October 12, 2021

Source: Mannington

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