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Don't Call It a Liner! The New Base Glove From Point6
Steamboat Springs, CO (December 10, 2020) - Point6, the family-owned manufacturer of superior merino wool socks, base layers and accessories has introduced the Base Glove, a seamless, fast-drying glove for all your cool and cold weather fun. By now, everyone knows that products made with merino wool keep you drier than any synthetic fiber. But using merino in a glove, which needs more structural nylon than a hat or a sock, is a challenge for a product designer.
Toray, fleece, plastic, microshed, Polartec, pollution, fibers, microplastic, pilling, "microplastic pollution"
Karuishi is a knit textile from Toray that represents the most significant improvement to date in the fleece fabric category. To create Karuishi, Toray developed a unique knitting construction that creates a high-volume, two-layer structure, resulting in a higher loft without increasing weight. This knitting method allows Toray to use variations of yarns on the face and back, creating fabrics with different performance characteristics without using glues or laminates.
Ed Viesturs Joins Forces With Point6 As Brand Ambassador
Steamboat Springs, CO (September 30, 2020) - Point6, the family-owned manufacturer of superior merino wool socks, base layers and accessories, has joined with America's foremost high-altitude mountaineer, Ed Viesturs, who will be working with Point6 as a Brand Ambassador. "Ed has been a fan and user of Point6 socks and base layers for some time and stopped by the booth at OR", says Point6 owner and co-founder, Peter Duke. "We had a great conversation and we're happy to be working with him".
Toray Introduces Ecodear - An Environmentally Friendly, High Value-Added New Nylon
Toray Industries, Inc. has developed a new, more sustainable nylon that represents a major step forward in the company's Sustainability Vision and makes it possible to create bio-based versions of proven Toray technologies like Entrant® and Dermizax®. Ecodear Nylon is 60% bio-based, developed with sebacic acid generated from Castor beans. The resulting fiber, initially available in 10, 20 and 50 denier versions, can be spun in the same process as conventional nylon.
Lighter, Stronger, Faster - PATH Projects Teams With Toray To Build The Next-Gen Running Short
Since its debut in 2010, Toray's Airtastic fabric has become a standout for use in high-end, lightweight jackets, like the Arc'teryx Atom line and Patagonia's Nano-Air series. Airtastic is now offered in weights from 20d down to 5d, all of which can be used with different coatings to deliver light, breathable, downproof and stretchable performance, used in everything from insulated pieces to windshirts. PATH Projects has used a variety of Toray fabrics since going live in summer 2017.
Toray's Nylon Primeflex Now Available Worldwide
Tokyo, Japan, May 28, 2020 – Toray Industries, Inc., has announced a supply chain breakthrough that will make its Nylon Primeflex fabric available to the worldwide market. Since its introduction five years ago, Nylon Primeflex has been an under-the-radar favorite for certain Toray customers in the Japanese market. Small yarn capacity meant low production quantities, so available inventory was quickly purchased.
Toray's New Kudos XT Sets New Standards For DWR Durability
Toray Industries, Inc. has announced Kudos XT, a delivering higher levels of durability for both abrasion and machine washing. The breakdown of DWR treatment and subsequent "wetting out" of a garment's outer layer has been a top consumer complaint since the advent of waterproof/breathable fabrics. DWR treatments improved over time, but consumers objected to the new levels of toxicity, culminating with C8 DWR, which has been banned in many markets. Toray has solved both problems with Kudos XT.
Toray Hosts Testing Of New Marmot Everest Suit Design
Toray’s Fibers & Textiles Research Laboratories recently partnered with Marmot to test a revolutionary new 8000m meter suit, built for the altitudes and demanding conditions of the Himalayas. The Marmot and Toray teams, including Everest veteran Roxy Vogel, traveled to Seta, Japan, home of Toray's Technorama GIII facility, the textile industry’s most advanced laboratory for reproducing climates from around the world, to put the suit through its paces in two days of testing.
Toray Debuts A PET-Recycled Version Of Its Primeflex Stretch Fabric Series
Tokyo, Japan, January 24, 2020 – Toray Industries, Inc., today announced a new iteration of its highly successful Primeflex™ series of flexible stretch fabric - Primeflex PET-recycled type. Available in spring/summer 2021, the new, Primeflex PET-recycled type is made with , meeting the sportswear consumer's demand for sustainability without compromising stretch.
Toray To Showcase 40 years Of Entrant® Development at OR Show
When Toray launched Entrant in 1980, waterproof/breathable fabric treatments were narrowly-focused on specific performance attributes demanded by professional outdoor athletes. As they often do, Toray spotted an opportunity to broaden the market. Working with top outdoor and snowsports brands like Burton and Patagonia, Toray introduced Entrant and led the evolution of waterproof/breathable fabrics that achieve the optimal balance between functionality and comfort.
Toray Reunites With Patagonia To Launch New Torrentshell 3L Line
When Patagonia's revamped Torrentshell 3L line of waterproof/breathable jackets debuts at retail in Spring 2020, the industry will see not just a new benchmark in durable rain protection, but also the resumption of a long-standing partnership between Toray and Patagonia. Throughout the 90s, Patagonia was one of the largest volume customers for Toray's waterproof/breathable Entrant technology, marketed and sold by Patagonia under their H2No Performance Standard.
TORAY DEVELOPS NEXT LEVEL OF PET-RECYCLED FIBER
Toray Industries, Inc., has announced new developments in fiber production technologies to launch its capability to use recycled PET bottles. Toray's goal is the creation of a closed loop economy, offering high-value-added fiber derived from PET bottles, thereby serving a shared interest among bottle collectors, manufacturers, and consumers in protecting the environment.
Point6 Welcomes John Huston To Ambassador Team
Point 6, manufacturers of best socks and baselayers for you and the planet, are happy to welcome renowned polar explorer John Huston to their team of Ambassadors. A veteran of the first American unsupported expedition to the North Pole, John has completed expeditions to the South Pole, in Greenland, and to Canada’s Ellesmere Island.
Toray's New Nylon Can Help The Outdoor Industry's Toxicity Problem
Toray Industries, Inc. announced that using a proprietary composite spinning technology called NANODESIGN®, Toray Industries has created a new nylon textile, one that delivers high water repellency despite using a DWR treatment with a lower environmental cost. The textile’s structure has microscopic slits running lengthwise on the yarn. Water repelling treatments fill these slits below the outside diameter of the yarn, also making the treatment more abrasion-resistant.
Toray Launches Technorama GIII Weather Simulation Chamber
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When Air Zermatt's Not Flying, They're Riding A Benno Boost E
The Air Zermatt rescue team is legendary, making over 1700 rescues a year, using specially-equipped rescue helicopters to pull stranded mountaineers off the Matterhorn and surrounding peaks in the Swiss Alps. The pilots of Air Zermatt have chosen Benno Bikes to build a special edition Benno Boost E, our most capable electric utility bike, with trademarked Etility™ Design.
Toray Targets Athleisure Market With Newest Primeflex
Toray has added a new, innovative iteration to its PRIMEFLEX family of stretch textiles. By employing "Nanodesign" to control the cross-sectional shape of the composite fiber, Toray has succeeded in creating a microfiber PRIMEFLEX polyester. The result is a thin core-sheath structure and a fine composite yarn with a single filament count of 0.8 denier or less.
POINT6 ANNOUNCES TWO NEW SALES REPS
June 20, 2018 - Point6, the Steamboat, CO-based, family-owned manufacturer of premium merino wool socks, has appointed two new representatives to manage sales and retailer relations in key territories. Point6 founders and merino wool innovators, Peter and Patty Duke, introduced merino wool to the outdoor industry over 20 years ago. Today, Point6 provides outdoor enthusiasts with the best wool socks on the market.
Q Drink Healthy Reaches 100 Store Milestone
Q Drink Healthy, the all-natural quercetin-based sport drink mix is now available at over 100 independent health food and co-op retailers across the US - from Idaho to Maine. The 100th store milestone partnership is with Berry’s Natural Food Market in Youngstown, Ohio. The owners of Berry’s, like Q Drink Healthy, believe that natural ingredients are key to living your best life.
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