“It is not difficult to meet the TreviraCS standard, but it takes a long time to get delivery of the yarn and also a long time to receive approval for the fabric sample. This prevents Babei from offering TreviraCS to our customers. The hospitality business is a time sensitive business and fast delivery is a key; so most of the time, we move to non branded FR yarn for projects.”

Babei is a major silk mill in China that can make any of its designs in polyester for contract applications according to Wang. Babei is also the Coach Bag fabric supplier and does quality control check for Coach at three different times during the manufacturing process, Wang points out. Yak Wang