Milliken & Company announces carbon-neutral flooring portfolio

November 16, 2021  |  Company News, News

Global manufacturer Milliken & Company has announced a new milestone in its ongoing sustainability journey. All Milliken carpet, luxury vinyl tile and entryway tile products around the globe are now carbon neutral, offsetting carbon emissions in raw materials and manufacturing carbon footprint (…
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Columbia Sportswear appoints Burns

October 29, 2021  |  Company News, News

Columbia Sportswear Co. has promoted Andrew Burns to vice president, Strategic Planning and Investor Relations. Burns has been at Columbia Sportswear for more than three years leading the Investor Relations program. In his new role, he will take on leading strategic planning and initiative managemen…
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Avantus divests composites business to focus on expansion into C-Class components

October 28, 2021  |  Company News, News

Avantus Aerospace is continuing its transformation into a ‘pure-play’ C-Class parts manufacturer, having recently completed the divestiture of its non-core composites business line. Two U.S.-based structural composites companies, Performance Plastics in San Diego, Calif., and Angeles Composite T…
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NILT joins The Ocean Foundation’s Blue Resilience Initiative

October 26, 2021  |  Company News, News

NILIT, a global leader in high-quality Nylon 6.6 for apparel and owner of the SENSIL sustainable brand, has teamed up with The Ocean Foundation’s Blue Resilience Initiative to reestablish and safeguard essential ocean meadows and other coastal habitats. These marine grasslands, which are being dam…
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Rainier Industries announces new CEO, partners with LMF Capital

October 11, 2021  |  Company News, News

Rainier Industries has announced the promotion of Chris Inverso to CEO. Scott Campbell, Rainier’s long-time CEO, will continue as an owner and board member. Inverso, who started with Rainier in 2014, was promoted to general manager earlier in the year in a planned step to his transition to CEO. He…
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Camel Expeditionary awarded contract with the Defense Logistics Agency

September 27, 2021  |  Company News, News

Camel Expeditionary, a manufacturer of military tent products, was recently awarded a new five-year, $50 million contract with the Defense Logistics Agency. Under the contract, Camel will produce light maintenance enclosure (LME) structures, primarily for use by the United States Army. The tents are…
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Point of Rental forms cloud engineering team

September 22, 2021  |  Company News, News

Point of Rental is expanding its focus on providing scalable, secure and reliable cloud hosting by creating a cloud engineering division, headed by Collin Pike, the company’s new chief architect of cloud engineering. Point of Rental currently uses several different types of cloud hosting. Movi…
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TVF launches online resource center

September 21, 2021  |  Company News, News

TVF Inc. has launched its TVF Resource Center, a source for accurate information and education for all things fabric. The resource center, found at resourcecenter.tvfinc.com, contains fabric knowledge, textile tips, instructional guides and other helpful content designed to educate and inspire. “T…
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Glen Raven donates to NC State Wilson College of Textiles’ scholarship program

September 15, 2021  |  Company News, News

Glen Raven Inc., a global textile company based near Burlington, N.C., recently donated $250,000 to the NC State Wilson College of Textiles to support the college’s Textile Pioneer Scholarship Program as well as the Dean’s Textile Innovation Fund. The first needs-based scholarship program at t…
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Gaffin named Point of Rental’s Director of Development

September 10, 2021  |  Company News, News

Matt Gaffin has been named Point of Rental’s Director of Development. Gaffin is one of the original members of Point of Rental’s Essentials team, and helped to build what was then called Point of Rental Cloud. In 2019, he was named the leader of the company’s mobile development team and helped…
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