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
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
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
Dawson Buys Rufflette Group; Crew Joins to Lead Expansion
Manchester, UK – Rufflette Ltd., founded in 1882, is still manufacturing in the Manchester area under the new ownership of Phil Dawson, MD.Dawson bought the company and the Rufflette brand in December 2012 and Matthew Crew, a well known UK… Read more.March 24, 2014
Zhejiang Shengli Starts Up Business in 20 Square Meter Retail Shop in 1999, Now Weaves Nearly Five Million Meters
FRANKFURT—Zhejiang Shengli Textile Co., Ltd., a specialist in decorative fabrics in Haining Zhejiang, province in China began weaving clothing fabrics in 1999. The company is now a highly focused jacquard weaving mill. “When I was 18… 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
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
