Algemene Expands to Keep Pace With Demand For Upper End
Belgian Mill Plans to Reduce Delivery Time and Add Flexibility to Manufacturing Operations Ledegem, Belgium — Algemene is expanding its manufacturing base here in order to reduce long waits for its heavyweight woven chenilles and jacquards… Read more.December 12, 2000
Post-Leaderman Rockland Diversifies, Introduces New Products
Baltimore Md. — Rockland Industries Inc. is capitalizing on its experience in manufacturing multi-layer coatings to develop new products for diversified niche markets. At the same time, the company is making efforts to fine-tune its burgeoning… Read more.December 12, 2000
Soft Switches Could Soon Be Built Into Home Furnishings
West Yorkshire (UK) — Imagine: Light switches embedded in curtains, carpets or other home furnishings. Rugs that control the playing of music. A television remote control sewn into the upholstery fabric on the arm of a sofa. These are… Read more.December 12, 2000
E-Color Develops Method For 'True-Color' Delivery
Software program enables products to appear accurately for online customers SAN FRANCISCO – When setting up shop online, textile companies have come face to face with a glaring limitation: the Internet's failure to convey the feel of… Read more.December 12, 2000
Adriaans Sells Art
Vieuxville, Belgium — Just after Decosit in October, approximately 90 people attended the second in-home art exhibition of the Dutch painter and textile designer Harry Adriaans in the Erdennen area of Belgium on the Rue du Soleil (route… Read more.December 12, 2000
Intohome to Remain in Birmingham
Birmingham (UK) - The U.K. soft furnishings show Intohome will remain at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham in 2001. The decision follows speculation that the event would shift either to ExCel, the new conference/exhibition center… Read more.December 12, 2000
Messe Frankfurt Rethinks Plans to Open Heimtextil to Public
Frankfurt, Germany — Compromise and yet more compromise appears likely over Messe Frankfurt's plans to open Heimtextil to the public. At a meeting in May 2000, the mainly German members of the show's Exhibitor Advisory Council favored… Read more.December 12, 2000
JAB Opens Emirates Showroom
Sharjah (UAE) – JAB has opened a 1,663-foot showroom in Sharjah, U.A.E. in order to benefit from the Middle East's burgeoning tourism industry. "Due to the fact that tourism became an important revenue source in the Emirates, a lot of… Read more.December 12, 2000
