McKeon joins Enduratex

Enduratex has hired Jim McKeon as Territory Sale Manager, a newly created position in the company. He will manage the Enduratex contract business in the Northeast, Eastern Canada and strategic accounts in the Midwest and along the East Coast. McKeon comes to Enduratex with more than 15 years of experience in the coated fabrics industry. Prior [...]

By |2021-07-06T11:45:08-05:00July 6, 2021|

Tidal Vision announces facility opening and partnership with Leigh Fibers

Tidal Vision has announced a new partnership with Leigh Fibers and the opening of a new production facility in Wellford, S.C. These steps will help to ensure the textile industry has access to sustainable bio-based tex​tile treatments that displace millions of pounds of chemical treatments used in the textile industry. The opening of Tidal Vision’s [...]

By |2021-07-01T10:17:41-05:00July 2, 2021|

Pulcra Chemicals acquires Devan

Pulcra Chemicals, a specialty chemicals company headquartered in Geretsried, Germany, has acquired Devan. Known for its antimicrobial range BI-OME, Devan recently introduced a wide range of bio-based textile finishes and has a long standing in thermoregulation and flame retardants. Devan has offices in the U.K., Portugal, the U.S. and has a team based in Shanghai. [...]

By |2021-07-01T09:53:59-05:00July 1, 2021|

Beaver Paper Group installs largest robotic arm in U.S.

Beaver Paper Group, a manufacturer of sublimation media and cut and sew papers, has added one of the largest, state-of-the-art robotic arm and precision perforator to its newly remodeled production division. The Dalmec Robotic Arm Manipulator will allow operators to pick up and move large-scale paper rolls with minimal effort and maximum safety. The Dalmec [...]

By |2021-06-29T08:44:27-05:00June 30, 2021|

Standard Textile and Küçükçalık announce joint venture

Standard Textile Co. Inc. and Küçükçalık have entered into a joint venture agreement. The agreement brings together the specialized expertise and knowledge of two leading textile manufacturing companies to expand their product portfolio and accelerate growth in the healthcare, hospitality and consumer markets. Küçükçalık is a global textile manufacturing company with key operations in Turkey [...]

By |2021-06-29T08:27:10-05:00June 29, 2021|

Saunders joins Champion Thread Company

Champion Thread Company (CTC), a producer and marketer of industrial sewing threads, engineered yarns and other textile and sewn products accessories, has hired John Saunders as its manufacturing manager. Leveraging decades of industry experience and knowledge, Saunders, a third-generation thread and yarn expert, will participate in and provide guidance to all CTC product and manufacturing [...]

By |2021-06-29T08:32:03-05:00June 28, 2021|

Polartec produces innovation timeline

Polartec®, a creator of innovative and sustainable textile solutions, has announced the launch of its innovation timeline as part of Polartec’s Peaking Since ‘91 campaign. The timeline begins with the 1981 invention of PolarFleece, highlights the 1991 founding of the Polartec brand and continues through to present day.  Hosted on Polartec.com and available for publications [...]

By |2021-06-29T08:44:57-05:00June 25, 2021|

PFEIFER Structures launches new website

Starting this month, fabritecstructures.com officially becomes pfeifer-structures.com, the new website for the global PFEIFER Structures brand. The change of website is an important milestone of FabriTec’s incorporation into PFEIFER Structures, the global partner for innovative lightweight structures. Previous visitors of the fabritecstructures.com website will find pfeifer-structures.com has a familiar interface with key additions that include [...]

By |2021-06-29T08:46:03-05:00June 24, 2021|

Bostik strengthens its global specialty hot melt solutions platform

Bostik, a global adhesive leader in the construction, consumer and industrial markets, is aiming to increase its share of the global thermobonding and durable goods market following the expansion of its specialty hot meltsproduct offering. Following the completion of the acquisition of Prochimir and Fixatti, Bostik is redefining high performance technical hot melts by launching [...]

By |2021-06-29T08:47:05-05:00June 24, 2021|

Marcaccio joins Fil-Tec

John Marcaccio has joined Fil-Tec Inc. as Director of Business Development for the company’s Berry Compliant Program.Marcaccio has a broad range of management experience in product development and design, manufacturing, operations, and sales and marketing. With more than 21 years of experience in manufacturing Berry Amendment Compliant products for the government, he will lead Fil-Tec’s [...]

By |2021-06-29T08:47:29-05:00June 23, 2021|
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