All Posts by Carson Stanwood.
A Match Made in Steamboat – Point6 To Sponsor SBT GRVL
Steamboat Springs, CO (March 24, 2021) – Point6, the family-owned manufacturer of superior merino wool socks, base layers and accessories will join the incredible Steamboat Gravel event in 2021 as an official sponsor. The event, scheduled for the…
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Federal Appeals Court Finds For Cocona Labs In Patent Infringement Case vs. The North Face
(WASHINGTON DC) On Thursday, March 4, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the validity of key claims of a patent asserted by Cocona Labs in patent infringement cases brought against VF…
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Don’t Call It a Liner! The New Base Glove From Point6
Steamboat Springs, CO – 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…
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Toray’s Innovative Karuishi Represents the Evolution Of Fleece
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…
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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®…
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Toray’s Nylon Primeflex Now Available Worldwide
Tokyo, Japan, June 4, 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…
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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…
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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…
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Toray’s New Nylon Textile Offers Improvements In Water Repellency and Durability With a Lower Environmental Burden
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…
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Toray Launches Technorama GIII Weather Simulation Chamber
Toray’s Fibers & Textiles Research Laboratories, in Seta, Japan is the home of the company’s new Technorama GIII facility, the textile industry’s most advanced laboratory for reproducing climates from around the world. Previous Technorama iterations…
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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…
Toray Targets Athleisure Market With Newest Primeflex
Friday, April 12, 2019 — 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…
