Textiles Ile de France Closes, Goes Bankrupt
HALLUIN, FR—Gratry Lorthiois at the age of 231 years, and parent company Textiles Ile de France have declared bankruptcy as of December 1, 2011.Creditors have been given until December 28 to make their claims to the bankruptcy administrator.Anton… Read more.December 13, 2011
Kowalczyk Named Robert Allen Group CEO; replaces J. Cordover
New York, New York — Philip H. Kowalczyk will join The Robert Allen Group as president and CEO, and as a member of the Board as of November 1. Jeff Cordover, formerly CEO, will become the non-executive chairman of the board of the company.… Read more.December 11, 2011
Ragolle Adds Contract Line
WAREGEM, Belgium —Ragolle, a major weaver of residential fabrics, is integrating a complete line of contract fabrics to its collection with the absorption of ITM designs, a Belgian contract mill acquired in September. The contract lines will… Read more.December 11, 2011
Euroart Beijing Delivers High End Western Fabric Brands To Hungry, Rich, Chinese Designers, Clients
SHANGHAI, PRC — After 12 years in business, Euroart Beijing Company owner Ricky Lu is looking at a $20 million business as he leads China into higher end American and European fabrics with no let-up in demand for his imported residential lines. … Read more.December 2, 2011
Letter to the Editor
It was very nice to see you again at MoOD, but unfortunately we had not enough time to talk to you about our future plans that we already started to realize. Our company Metridis, as you know, is since 1927 in Greece and we are already… Read more.December 2, 2011
Large Marketplace Emerges in China for Home Furnishings
SHANGHAI, China — Shanghai now well established as the world’s factory that produces and supplies home textiles for global markets, is now being targeted as a large market place for furnishings. China is likely to have over 600 million… Read more.December 2, 2011
Velvet Gives Flock Fabrics New Life, Increased Sales Microfibres, Spectro Coating Benefit With Diverse End Use Markets
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina — As the demand for velvet increases at the expense of leather and chenille fabrics in the furniture industry, Microfibres and Spectro in Leominster, MA., two of the last surviving flock producers in the U.S.… Read more.December 2, 2011
Veteran Nunnally Heads Up Duro Decorative Import Business
FALL RIVER, Massachusetts — Duro Industries, a wet print and pigment textile printer, has thrown its hat into the upholstery ring with a line of imported Chinese made fabrics with proprietary designs to be shown at Showtime. Jack… Read more.December 2, 2011
