Designer window covering
July 11th, 2022
Serge Ferrari’s Soltis® Touch is a designer shade fabric that delivers long-term durability and performance. Serge Ferrari’s Soltis® Touch is a designer shade fabric that delivers a unique aesthetic, ease of fabrication and long-term durability and performance. The fabric is phthalate-free, GreenGuard certified for indoor air quality, recyclable and fire-retardant with applications for hospitality, office, […]
Navis to sell Texon to Coats Group
July 7th, 2022
Navis Capital Partners (“Navis”), has agreed to sell its stake in Torque Group International Fortune (“Texon”) to Coats Group plc (“Coats”), the thread manufacturer, for US$237m. Texon is a leading manufacturer of high performance, sustainable materials for footwear, accessories, and functional apparel.Rodney Muse, Managing Partner, Navis Capital, notes, “When we invested in Texon in 2016, […]
Quality Thread & Notions celebrates 100 years
July 6th, 2022
Quality Thread & Notions announces its 100th year anniversary as a thread and notions supplier. Quality Thread & Notions began as a supplier of sewing thread to the apparel industry in 1922. In the 1990’s, the company shifted its focus to the industrial market due to declining opportunities in the U.S. apparel market. Over the […]
Finer deniers for recycled acrylic fiber
July 5th, 2022
Thai Acrylic Fibre Co. Ltd has expanded its new Regel™ recycled acrylic fiber product range to include finer deniers. Thai Acrylic Fibre Co. Ltd has expanded its new Regel™ recycled acrylic fiber product range to include finer deniers–1.5 and 2.5, in addition to 3.0 deniers, which are available now for developing lightweight fabrics and product […]
Highlander Partners announces sale of QTI Fibers
July 5th, 2022
Highlander Partners, L.P. ("Highlander"), a Dallas-based private investment firm, today announced the sale of its portfolio company QTI Fibers ("QTI" or "the Company") to Norwest Equity Partners ("NEP"). QTI is a US-based vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of a range of stylish, highly technical fibers and fabrics for high-end consumer and industrial applications. QTI, with […]
Russell Mims receives Steve Epps Lifetime Service Award from STA
July 1st, 2022
Russell Mims, who spent his 41-year career in the textile industry, was awarded the highest award conferred by the Southern Textile Association (STA), the Steve Epps Lifetime Service Award. The Steve Epps Lifetime Service Award honors members who have been a member of association for 20 years or more, are retiring or have retired, served […]
Alternative leather from cows?
July 1st, 2022
A relieved-looking cow, realizing she won’t be turned into a belt or wallet. Photo: William Warby We’ve seen all kinds of alternative leather products made from such things as mycelium, pineapple leaves, coconuts, apple waste and more. But how about an “alternative” leather product that isn’t really an alternative? It sounds odd, but VitroLabs Inc., […]
Observations on the SOI
July 1st, 2022
This issue features our 2022 State of the Industry Report. As the introduction to that story notes, the worldwide textile industry is clearly on a rebound after two years of uncertainty. That is also true of Specialty Fabrics Review readers, as well as readers of Marine Fabricator, InTents and Geosythetics, from whom we gathered the […]
Color by nanocrystal
July 1st, 2022
Using nanocrystals extracted from wood, Lavoine and her collaborators can print iridescent designs on clothing items. Photo: North Carolina State University. Colorful fabrics are beautiful, but creating them is one of the world’s largest sources of water pollution. Textile mills have been known to dump residual dyes and hazardous chemicals into canals, streams and rivers. […]
Weaving in Wi-Fi
July 1st, 2022
Doenja Oogjes is seen testing the conductive weaving on the textile Wi-Fi antenna project. For most of us technology becomes part of our day almost from the moment we wake up. At the Simon Fraser University School of Interactive Art and Technology (SIAT), researchers are weaving “threads” of Wi-Fi into fabric as a way of […]