GENDORF, Germany — FR Safety Yarns GmbH & Co. has created a new trademarked market FR fiber called DIOLEN®SAFE that is expected to compete for market share with Trevira® CS.  

In fact, FR Safety Yarns consultant Ted K. van der Linden said that part of the strategy is to take advantage of the constant turnover of Trevira management these last few years as the company was repeatedly shopped on the market and eventually sold to several different owners.

“DIOLEN®SAFE is an inherently flame retardant with optimized yarn properties for hospitality and transport.” Van der Linden said. “DIOLEN is available in filament and staple fiber yarns in numerous yarn counts and yarn constructions.” Ted K. van der Linden

FR Safety Yarns said more than 30 international clients have already started to work with DIOLEN®SAFE yarns. These include Backhausen Interior Textiles GmbH of Austria. Backhausen plans to launch an exclusive DIOLEN®SAFE collection at Heimtextil 2012.  It is conceived as a modern contemporary collection with around 40 sku’s and is geared to the residential and contract business.

More than 30 international customers expect to produce fabric samples with the new DIOLEN®SAFE yarns, the company said. This includes Backhausen interior textiles GmbH, Witteck-Design Weberei GmbH, Kobleder GmbH & Co. KG from Austria and the German specialist for sophisticated textile surfaces, SR Webatex GmbH.

Backhausen will show its new DIOLEN®SAFE collections at Heimtextil 2012 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.  

Company officials said that FR Safety Yarns GmbH & Co. KG offers a one stop, full service package to the manufacturers of high quality home textiles using FR polyester yarns. “International B2B customers receive extensive expert advice: from product to specialty development, comprehensive technical support and flammability standard tests and certificates for all FR fabrics submitted to licensing via marketing cooperation initiatives. DIOLEN®SAFE is committed to ecological efficiency principles and strives towards product and process optimization that has minimal environmental impact. First steps towards a Cradle to Cradle® certificate for FR Safety Yarns, “ an  FR Safety spokesman said

The partners behind the FR Safety Yarns GmbH & Co. KG and the trademark DIOLEN®SAFE are TWD Fibers GmbH and Lauffenmühle GmbH.

The fully integrated textile company TWD has its production headquarters in Deggendorf.  Since 1959, TWD has been a part of the Daun & Cie Group. The company has approximately 800 employees and generates a turnover of around 110 million €. 

With more than 5,000 tons dyeing bobbins capacity per year TWD Fibrers GmbH is one of the biggest and most powerful yarn dyeing mills of its kind in Europe.

Lauffenmühle is a medium-sized company with 300 employees with spinning, weaving and finishing facilities and a turnover of 48 million € is generated. 

The export percentage is 40 percent. The company produces ring-spun and core-spun, air-spun and twisted yarns in various qualities and is bluesign® standard certified.

Daun & Cie AG with headquarters in Lower Saxony is one of the biggest textile groups in Germany with a share of sales in technical textiles of more than 50 per cent. Member of the Daun & Cie Group are TWD Fibers GmbH and Lauffenmühle GmbH & Co. KG as well as numerous further enterprises from textile production and finishing, industrial subcontracting as well as supply of services and textile retailing.

In total the Daun Group accounts for around 12,000 employees, the turnover amounts to 1.25 billion €.  F&FI