Ozer Ozbarut Starts New E-commerce Business; Leaves Oz-Is, Family Trimming Business
ISTANBUL—Ozer Ozbarut, one of the founders of Oz-Is Trimland here, has left the company to start a new business outside of the textiles industry.Although he will continue to own a minority interest in the Trimland business, he will have no… Read more.March 31, 2014
Jacob 'Jack' Hurwitz, Original Fabric Pioneer, Passes at 94
GAITHERSBURG, MD--Jacob "Jack" Hurwitz of Rockville, the founder of Jack Hurwitz Inc. in 1952 with his wife Ruth, passed away at the age of 94 on February 11, 2014.Hurwitz Inc. was one of the original fabric jobber companies which still exists… Read more.March 27, 2014
Former Imatex Execs Open MODE Business Expect Weaving in Italy, Convert Elsewhere
BULCIAGO, Italy — Pietro Bertarini and Marco Guggi, former Imatex General Manager and Export Manager respectively for many years, have started operations under the name MODE with a third, as yet unidentified third Italian partner who owns… Read more.March 24, 2014
Manufacturers Push Premier Print Business Up 30 Per Cent
SHERMAN, MS — Premier Prints is riding a wave of increased demand for wet prints by every segment of the fabrics industry according to Zeke Hodges, one of the three brothers who started the business in 1991. The company is adding 22,000 square… Read more.March 24, 2014
Riban Named Brooks GM
LOS ANGELES, California—Eran Riban, 37, has been named General Manager of Brooks Fabrics, the commercial division of Ribenks Inc., a converter and importer of upholstery fabrics to the U.S. furniture trade.Brooks specializes in designing and… Read more.March 24, 2014
Pattern Club Offers Virtual Sampling, Cuts Production Time, Sampling Cost
KREFELD, FDR—‘Pattern Club’ has found a niche in the marketplace as one of the first independent pre-loom service bureaus producing virtual samples of jacquard and dobby upholstery fabrics and any other type of woven textile.The system… Read more.March 24, 2014
Haufe Retires; Fradin Follows Him!
FRANKFURT—Rockland Mills Inc. hosted a retirement dinner for Henner Haufe at Gasthof Steinernes Haus January 7.After 59 years in the textiles industry, Haufe, founder of Creative Furnishing Fabrics in Sulzburg, Germany says… Read more.March 24, 2014
Rockland Mills Expands Factory, Testing, Innovation
BALTIMORE, Maryland—Rockland Mills, Inc., the makers of Roc-Lon® drapery lining is undergoing a major expansion from 250,000 to 300,000 square feet in Bamberg, S.C. to accommodate its wide width, 140 inch ranges of blackout drapery linings.As… Read more.March 24, 2014
