BALTIMORE, Maryland — Rockland Mills is adding an important dimension to its blackout lining program with a 400 sku ‘Americana’ decorative blackout range at MoOD.

“I see a respect for USA made product I’ve never seen before,” said Stan Fradin, president of Rockland, the makers of Roc-lon®. “We have some major buyers of Roc-lon in China who purchase several hundred thousand yards at top prices from us,” he said. “This means they cannot get reliable suppliers in their local market of alternative product.” Stan Fradin

The new program will be offered on a flax colored ground which can be overprinted. These new designs will be shown for the first time. “This is our future. We’re not changing course; we’re adding a new dimension to our regular line of 100% blackout linings. We’re now a double resource going forward. We’re differentiating our product so copying by someone else is impossible. Our product is 100% coated with 100% blackout the result.”

Fradin said the new dimension of printed, decorative blackout requires engineering of the polyester yarn, construction of the basecloth and applying the acrylic foam in the correct way. This is a totally different chemistry.   F&FI