Supima Gets Own Show
Luxury cotton growers will launch a new biannual trade show highlighting pima cotton this January in New York.
The Supima Premium Fabric Show is organized by Supima, the promotional organization for American growers of luxury pima cotton.
The Jan. 23–25 show will be held at Gotham Hall in the heart of New York’s fashion district and will target better designers, brands and retailers.
The Supima show will run concurrently with other fabric trade shows, including Premiegrave;re Vision Preview, the Turkish Fashion Fabrics Exhibition and The Kingpins.
So far the show has lined up several United States exhibitors, including Greensboro, N.C.–based Cone Denim, Los Angeles–- based textile companies Design Knit and Shara-Tex, and Jefferson, Ga.–based Buhler Quality Yarns Corp. (the U.S. subsidiary of Hermann Buhler AG of Switzerland).
Other exhibitors include Hong Kong–based Bondex, Central Textiles and Fountain Set; India-based Ashima; Arsan Tekstil from Turkey; Peru-based Creditex; and Montreal-based Tricots Liesse.
More information is available at www.supima.com. —Alison A. Nieder
Tuscarora Adds Supima Yarns
Tuscarora Yarns Inc. has added heather and meacute;lange yarns in 100 percent Supima cotton.
The pima cotton ring-spun yarns are available in a range of colors. The company’s color matching can also reproduce custom colors in 24 hours, and the company has a miniature manufacturing center to spin yarn and knit samples for color-matching purposes.
The Mt. Pleasant, N.C.–based spinning mill just added equipment to expand its ring-spun production and plans to further extend its facilities with the addition of Zinser ring frames.
For more information, visit www.tuscarorayarns.com.
Tag-It Opens Shenzen Office
Woodland Hills, Calif.–based Tag-It Pacific Inc., makers of Talon brand zippers, opened a showroom and office in Shenzen, China, to help service the company’s customers producing in Southern China.
The new offices are part of Tag-It’s expansion efforts. Future plans for the 26- year-old company include office openings in Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
For more information, visit www.tagitpacific.com. —A.A.N.
Invista Picks Up Nylon 6 Business
Invista––the maker of Lycra, Tactel, and other branded fibers––has signed a deal to acquire a wholly foreign-owned business that manufactures nylon 6 filament from Morristown, N.J.–based Honeywell Specialty Materials.
The business, based in China, includes a plant in Shanghai, which produces white dyeable and solution-dyed nylon 6 bulked continuous filament, as well as processing equipment for heathered, twisted and heatset yarns.
The deal will help the fiber company’s Invista Interiors business provide locally made bulk continuous filament to its customers manufacturing carpets in the region.
The Shanghai manufacturing facility will join 12 others in Asia owned by Invista, including plants in Singapore, Taiwan and China.
—A.A.N.
