West-Vlaanderen, Belgium —TissatDeslee Interior Fabrics has discontinued operations.

Deslee took over Tissat April 19 and  stopped production of curtain and drapery fabrics.

Deslee previously discontinued production of upholstery fabrics several months ago but continues to produce mattress ticking fabrics. Thirty people were fired as part of the change.

Four years ago Deslee took over Tissage Versari and 18 months ago took over Tissat and then formed the curtain product group.  

Tissat International was a well known producer of upholstery and curtain fabrics. Besides its own production unit, the company also imported fabrics from the Far East.

Deslee Interior is the division of decoration fabrics belonging to the world wide group of DesleeClama. DesleeClama is one of the world players in woven and knitted mattress fabrics with production  in Belgium, Romania, Indonesia, US, Brazil and South Africa!

The  company  operated under the name of TissatDeslee Interior Fabrics. Both companies, Tissat and DesleeClama will had 50% shares in the  company.

Rik Buyse was responsible for daily management. Henk Dedecker of Deslee Interior was responsible for decoration fabrics while Nico Depoorter (Tissat) was responsible for upholstery fabrics. Plans of these three managers are not known at this time.