Quality Thread & Notions celebrates 100 years

July 6, 2022  |  Company News, News

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 opport…
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Highlander Partners announces sale of QTI Fibers

July 5, 2022  |  Company News, News

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…
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Russell Mims receives Steve Epps Lifetime Service Award from STA

July 1, 2022  |  Company News, News

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 mor…
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Infinited Fiber Company picks site for textile fiber factory

June 29, 2022  |  Company News

Fashion and textile technology company Infinited Fiber Company plans to build a commercial-scale factory to produce regenerated textile fiber for the world’s leading apparel companies at the site of renewable materials company Stora Enso’s closed Veitsiluoto paper mill in Kemi, a Finnish city on…
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Careismatic Brands appoints Sidharth Lakhani as COO

June 28, 2022  |  Company News, News

Careismatic Brands, a manufacturer of medical apparel, announced today the appointment of Sidharth Lakhani to Chief Operating Officer (COO). The appointment of Lakhani marks another step forward for Careismatic Brands, as the company continues to evolve its business through building their executive …
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DNA traceability, isotopic testing as evidence under UFLPA

June 23, 2022  |  Company News, News

Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (the “Company) has been increasing its engagement with all stakeholders in anticipation of the June 21, 2022, effective date of the “rebuttable presumption” standard under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) signed into law on December 23, 2021. Under the …
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Milliken and Lenzing partner for protective textile sustainability

June 15, 2022  |  Company News, News

Westex: A Milliken Brand, a global manufacturer of flame-resistant and arc-rated (FR/AR) textiles, and Lenzing, supplier of wood-based specialty fibers through its brand TENCEL™, announce a new partnership aimed at enhancing sustainability efforts within the protective apparel industry. This colla…
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Supima partners with TextileGenesis to improve traceability

June 14, 2022  |  Company News, News

TextileGenesis and Supima announce a strategic partnership to establish the new industry benchmark platform for authenticating cotton. The Supima blockchain platform powered by TextileGenesis™ will digitally connect Supima’s comprehensive supply chain from the growers to the brand/retailers. Int…
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e3 Sustainable Cotton program celebrates record enrollment

June 13, 2022  |  Company News, News

BASF’s e3 Sustainable Cotton program, the first transparent and traceable cotton supply chain, has announced unprecedented growth. More than 900 growers enrolled in the program by registering cotton bales from their 2021 growing season, a 25% increase in enrollment from the previous year. “We ar…
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Mannington Commercial announces products 105% carbon offset

June 8, 2022  |  Company News, News

Mannington Commercial announced that new and refreshed products launched in 2022 across its carpet, luxury vinyl tile (LVT), rubber and resilient sheet lines will be 105% carbon offset. This means customers will have the assurance of knowing the products they specify will be carbon negative, or carb…
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