Innovation and service are embedded in the DNA of UCMTF’s members. They are long term technology & sustainability partners of their customers. Most of them are small or medium-sized companies, even if international groups are also part of. Specialty equipment which can be custom made are part of the range of solutions offered by them. They are future-oriented developing solutions for hemp textile and/or reaching greener processes, such as natural dyeing.

ITM  2024 is a great opportunity to meet in person, at the highest level, to find and offer the best solutions. Of course, there are some main trends: sustainability, raw materials, energy and water savings, recycling, digitalization, cloud computing, artificial Intelligence, cost efficiency etc. Another main trend for UCMTF members is act as a local partner wherever the customers are located.

UCMTF’s MEMBERS WHO WILL WELCOME YOU AT ITM 2024

AESA Monitoring systems allowing remote control and energy optimization

AESA Air Engineering, worldwide specialist of the air conditioning for textile factory, is entering full speed the new digital world, offering the latest generations of monitoring systems allowing remote control and energy optimization.

Automation from the room condition to the waste collection, waste separation, and conditioning, Flexicontrol for optimized power consumption adjusted to required conditions. Monitoring allowing preventive maintenance through predictive analysis and alarm system, AESA focuses on predefine pattern for optimizing the room control system and anticipation of the room fluctuation and optimizing consumption through inverter drive system.

DOLLFUS & MULLER Meets New Dyers and Finishers

Dollfus & Muller is constantly improving the compacting felts for knit finishing with major evolutions in order to serve better the dyeing houses. It brings a special care to the fabrics thanks to its smoothest surface, has an excellent guiding and the best compacting rate.

Dollfus & Muller sanforizing palmer felts are ideal for Denim producers.  Furthermore, Dollfus & Muller manufactures durable printing dryer belt qualities. These printing dryer belts are the most durable ones specially designed for pigment printing of bed sheeting. They offer exclusive open mesh belts specially designed for the production of fine fabrics, scarves, flags. These belts have special non marking surfaces which can avoid the particles on the back side. Dollfus & Muller has the widest range of printing dryer belts and the strongest dryer belts. Dollfus & Muller manufactures also transfer printing felts. These felts are resistant against the heat and dyestuffs insuring a perfect transfer of colorants on the fabrics.

SUPERBA KR1 Knotting Module will generate Great Interest

To meet all its demands, Superba is offering a wide range of machines and new textile processes. Already the leader in heat-setting with saturated steam under pressure thanks to their well-known TVP3, Superba is offering a new automation solution for bobbins handling & packing with the KR1 knotting system. As human operators are increasingly difficult to recruit, and jobs are changing, it enables to automate all bobbin knotting stages throughout the production.

In addition, labeling and palletizing were offered; the customers were attracted by the combination with quality control options and data management. It enables Superba to diversify in new markets such as Tire Cord, Polyester DTY, Artificial Turf, Technical Textiles and more…On top of that, one of the current satisfactions is the enthusiasm generated by the automation system, and especially with the KR1 knotting module. As human operators are increasingly difficult to recruit, and jobs are changing, it enables to automate all bobbin knotting stages throughout the production. In addition, labeling and palletizing were offered; the customers were attracted by the combination with quality control options and data management. It enables Superba to diversify in new markets such as Tire Cord, Polyester DTY, Artificial Turf, Technical Textiles and more…

Posted: May 13, 2024

Source: UCMTF – Union des Constructeurs de Machines Textiles Français

Jeff Crisco was named president of Asheboro Elastic Corp. (AEC Narrow Fabrics), Asheboro, N.C. He will work closely with current CEO Charles Adams until he retires at the end of the year to ensure a smooth leadership transition.

Dr. Andreas Raps has been named CEO and Marco Altherr CFO of Germany-based Freudenberg Performance Materials, effective January 1, 2024.

Wes Fisher, director of Government Affairs with the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry (INDA), Cary, N.C., was named a 2023 Top Lobbyist by the National Institute for Lob-bying and Ethics (NILE).

PrimaLoft Inc., Latham, N.Y., has appointed Anne Cavassa president.

The French Textile Machinery Association (UCMTF), Paris, named Mireille Jautzy secretary general. She replaced Christian Guinet who retired.

Delos Custom Rugs & Carpet, Calhoun, Ga., recently hired Lacey Stinnett as director of design and Tina Johnson as business development manager.

Paris-based Chargeurs PCC has promoted Giorgio Marcarino to worldwide chief commercial officer. Francisco Ros has moved into the role of general manager, EMEA, vacated by Marcarino. In addition, the company has hired Luca Faccioli as chief information officer and Bertrand Venault as chief people officer.

Home Furnishings International, Gaffney, S.C. has added Bally Faudar as senior vice president and Erin Gallagher-Brinskele as vice president, Kitchen Textiles. Both hires report to Amy Bell, executive vice president and chief merchandising officer.

Gap Inc. veteran Shawn Curran has joined Baltimore-based Under Armour as chief supply chain officer. He reports to President and CEO Stephanie Linnartz.

South Korea-based Hyosung recently appointed Laura Nilo U.S. marketing manager, West Coast; and Christiane Rauch was named senior consultant, Northern Europe–Hyosung Spandex.

Minette Bellingan was named COO of Germany-based C&A Europe.

November/December 2023

Hugues Schellenberg, the president, would like to underline, “it is a great opportunity for us to welcome Mireille. She will bring a new approach regards her experience in several industries, on an international level, a great part of her experience has been on top positions, take part to and piloting strategies and significant projects. We chose her for bringing new ideas and the transition with Christian Guinet has been smooth and positive as they had been working together from July this year.

Hugues Schellenberg added it was a significant period while working with Christian Guinet. He had to face the COVID crisis and the particular situation over fairs and international trips. He joined one of our members in 1982 and has been President of our Promotion Committee organizing our road shows, seminars and National pavilions in many fairs and managed our relations with the Textile Press. He took the position of Secretary General in 2019. All our contacts know and appreciate him.

“I am quite sure, they will welcome Mireille who shares the same values than the French Machinery members. She will be a great asset to our members which are exporting, all over the world, most of their machines and services.”

For more information about French Machinery, please visit www.ucmtf.fr

Posted: November 7, 2023

Source: UCMTF – The French Textile Machinery Association

The Crypton Companies®, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., named Brian Burke vice president of product development for Abercrombie Textiles, Mooresboro, N.C.

Germany-based International Federation of Knitting Technologists (IFKT) has expanded its activities into Mexico and appointed Hitesh Kumar Sharma president of the IFKT national section in Mexico, in addition to his existing sections of North America and Canada.

Greg Hall has joined HanesBrands, Winston-Salem, N.C., as chief consumer officer. In addition, HanesBrands announced the retirement of Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Joia M. Johnson. She plans to retire May 2021.

The International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF), Zurich, elected its board members for the 2020-2022 term during its recent hybrid annual conference. Ruizhe Sun, China National Textile and Apparel Council president, was elected ITMF president. K.V. Srinivasan, India, and Juan Parès, Spain, were elected ITMF vice presidents. Earnesto Maurer, Switzerland, was elected treasurer; and Loek de Vries, The Netherlands; Michelle Tjokrosaputro, Indonesia; and Mohammad Kassem, Egypt, were reelected to the board. New board members elected are Mustafa Denizer, Turkey; Uday Gill, Thailand/Indonesia; Salman Ispahani, Bangladesh; Suchita Jain Oswal, India; Taejin Kang, Korea Rep.; and Yingxin Xu, China. Rafael Cervone, Brazil; John Cheh, Hong Kong; Andrew Macdonald, Brazil; and Muharrem Kayhan, Turkey; were co-opted as board members. In addition, Kihak Sung, Korea Representative, was elected Honorary Life Member of the Federation in recognition of his outstanding contribution to ITMF as vice president from 2016-2018 and president of ITMF from 2018-2020.

Textile Exchange, Lubbock, Texas, has named La Rhea Pepper CEO and Claire Bergkamp COO.

The founder and chairman of Fi-Tech Inc., C.L. “Lee” Bassett, recently passed away at the age of 82. Opened in 1972 and based in Richmond, Va., the company grew from a small manufacturers representative firm for the man-made fibers industry into an advanced supplier of polymer, man-made fiber, nonwoven, textile, converting, perforating and tobacco technologies. Bassett retired from the company in 2012 leaving his two sons, Jeffrey and Todd, to run the company as managing directors. His daughter, Julie, serves on the company’s board of directors.

Jason Johnson was promoted to technical sales and business development director at Allertex of America Ltd., Cornelius, N.C.

Dalton, Ga.-based Shaw Industries Group Inc. has promoted 25-year company veteran Kellie Bellew to vice president of global sustainability.

New York City-based Calvin Klein Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of PVH Corp., named Jessica Lomax executive vice president, global head of design.

Vancouver, British Columbia-based lululemon athletica inc. recently named Meghan Frank CFO. She is the company’s first female CFO. Lululemon also appointed Loop Capital Markets President Kourtney Gibson to its board of directors.

Amsterdam-based Tommy Hilfiger, a PVH Corp. company, has appointed Avery Baker president and chief brand officer.

Dollfus-Muller CEO Hugues Schellenberg was recently elected president of the French
Textile Machinery Manufacturers Association (UCMTF), Paris. He replaces Bruno Ameline who retired.

The American Floorcovering Alliance (AFA), Dalton, Ga., named a new board of directors at its 41st annual membership meeting. Piedmont Carpets’ Paul Yacobucci stepped down as president and is replaced by John Karr, ProdTek. Yacobucci will serve as vice president. Jim Shaheen, Shaheen Carpets, will continue to serve as secretary/treasurer. Charlie Armitage, Sellers of US; Mark Krueger, Nichols, Cauley & Associates; and Rex Jones, Essex, will continue to serve on the board. AFA also added two new board members: Eric Ruppert, Engineered Floors; and William Thornton, Tarkett Sports.

Asheesh Saksena has joined the senior leadership team at Gap Inc., San Francisco, as chief growth officer. Sandra Stangl has joined the company as president and CEO of Banana Republic.

November/December 2020

PARIS — September 28, 2020 — The French Textile Equipment manufacturers’ Association, well known as UCMTF, as elected a new president following the retirement of Bruno Ameline who chaired the association since 2004.

Hugues Schellenberg who has been on the board for 10 years, has been unanimously elected to succeed Ameline. He is the CEO of Dollfus-Muller of Heimsbrunn in the French province of Alsace.

An engineer, Schellenberg got an MBA from Montpellier University in Southern France.

As president of UCMTF, Schellenberg will represent the French association on the board of Cematex, the owner of ITMAs.

After his election, Schellenberg initiated a standing ovation to thank Bruno Ameline for his outstanding job during his 4 terms of tenure, over 16 years. He stated: “It is a great honor but a stressing responsibility to become the UCMTF President in such the uncertain environment our companies have to face worldwide due to the Covid pandemic. For the long run, I am very positive thanks to our state-of-the- art equipments, our services which are up to the best standards, our teams which are so professionals and motivated but right now our business is on a bumpy road”

As CEO of Dollfus-Muller, Schellenberg spends at least half of his time with customers that he visits worldwide. This is how he keeps a firsthand contact and a deep connection with the needs of the market in order to both manage his company on a day to day basis and design its long term strategy.

In addition to UCMTF, Schellenberg is very active in many national, regional and national associations, including the chairmanship of a trade association to improve the employment of underprivileged workers.

Posted September 28, 2020

Source: UCMTF – French Textile Equipment

The French exhibitors, which are waiting to welcome them, belong to French Textile Machinery Manufacturers’ Association (UCMTF), the trade association whose new Secretary General, Christian Guinet, has a very good personal knowledge and understanding of the Turkish textile and carpeting industries.

Of course, the recent global turmoil due to the coronavirus has slowed many projects but as Christian Guinet stated: “Market changes are what our industry is about, it is quicker and quicker whatever the day-to-day issues. Then, our members have to be closer and closer partners for their customers in order to interact with them, understand their needs, focus their R&D to find solutions, offer state-of-the-art equipment and the best service to every customer. “

He added: “French textile equipment manufacturers are R&D and service geeks. As they are SME’s run by entrepreneurs just as their Turkish customers, it is very easy for them to understand each other very well and to go beyond usual business relationships”.

France is the sixth major textile equipment exporters worldwide. The French companies are particularly strong in long fiber spinning, yarn twisting and control — including technical yarns — space-dyeing, heat setting for carpet yarns, carpet systems, dyeing and finishing, felts and belts for finishing processes, nonwovens, air conditioning of textile plants and recycling processes of textile materials. The total annual consolidated turnover is about 1 billion Euros.

For many years, the French have been very active on the Turkish market. In Gaziantep, they were the first ones to organize a national pavilion, it was back in 1995. In Izmir and Gaziantep, they have organized road shows. Next on the agenda is ITM.

NSC fibre to yarn: Hall 3 Booth 315E

NSC fibre to yarn continues to develop Tow to Top lines with the model S200 of stretch breaker followed by the new model of Defelter rebreaker D5GC40 and the GC40 chain gill. As finisher m/c, the FMV41/42 vertical rubbing frame takes place.

Recently, NSC fibre to yarn has installed semi-worsted lines with SW35 carding m/c card (2.5 m or 3.5 m wide), manufactured by N. Schlumberger followed by preparation lines consisting of chain gills model GC 40 and finishers m/c model FMV41/42.

“NSC fibre to yarn” offers to modernize recycling lines for acrylic fibers or blended fibers by introducing its well-known combing machine ERA between card and gills drafting. The contribution of the combing machine ERA is economically essential according to 4 points of view:

• production: 1 ton per day in 3 deniers. (3 shifts);
• cleanliness: 25% of neps less compared with PB family m/c;
• energy consummation: equipment with economic saving: Use of energy efficient motors; and
• reduced consumption of spare parts owing to a new design of kinematics.

NSC fibre to yarn remains continuously at the disposal of its Turkish customers. To offer the best service, an organization of spare parts has been set up with the BILGE/Automation company and Samoteks, the agent for Turkey, is well known by all customers.

NSC fibre to yarn will be on the booth of his agent SAMOTEKS.

SUPERBA: 3 Booth 215A

Superba, member of VANDEWIELE family of companies, will present their latest developments for the carpet industry.

Active on the Turkish market since the early nineteen’s, Superba is the leader in heat-setting and space-dyeing for carpet yarn, with a total of more than 300 lines sold in Turkey. Being close to their customers has always been the force of Superba, with the strong support of their agent SAMOTEKS-Makina in Istanbul and a large inventory of spare-parts managed by their exclusive distributor, BILGE-Otomasyon located in Gaziantep.

Yarn used in carpet is becoming thinner and thinner, new types of fibers are used, new extrusion methods are applied to create new types of yarn. This permanent evolution requires adapted processes, more efficient and connected machines to allow the development of products with new, customized properties.

To meet all these demands, Superba is offering a wide range of machines and processes.

Already the leader in heat-setting with saturated steam under pressure thanks to their well-known TVP3, Superba is now offering their hot-air heat-setting solution with the DHS3 line.

This triple-layer heat-setting process provides an unequaled level of evenness and a highly homogenous fixation characteristic to the yarn, as well as stain resistance or enhanced bulk. The DHS3 line offers a high energy saving process in a reduced floor-space.

To complete their range, Superba is also introducing their new B403 automatic winder. expanding its area of application beyond the carpet yarn field, the B403 marks a real technological breakthrough with its individual spindle motorization drive; it enables a constant tension winding process, an accurate bobbin length measuring as well as a unique quality control for each yarn position. The winder can be connected through cloud computing to the VANDEWIELE “Texconnect” supervision system to comply with the Factory 4.0 concept.

Finally, with the BXE extrusion line from VANDEWIELE, the MF400 texturizing machine and the MCD3 space-dyeing machine as complementary processes before heat-setting, with Superba lines, the carpet industry gets all the necessary equipment to produce innovative yarn types, allowing manufacturers to make the highest quality carpets at the most economic prices.

HANNECARD ROLLIN Brand: Hall 14 Booth 1422

With more than 120 years of experience, Hannecard is one of Europe’s leading suppliers of industrial roller coverings in rubber, polyurethane, composite and carbide to various sectors. Hannecard also offers a wide range of other services, from roller maintenance to roller repair and roller optimization. To the textile finishing industry, Hannecard SAS supplies, under the Rollin brand:

• rubber belts for compressive shrinking machines:  Sanfor, Comfit, Bonzai;
• rubber coverings for the cylinders of textile finishing machines’ padders, from sizing to visiting;
• anti-sticking rubber coverings for coating lines;
• metal rollers for Tubetex machines; and
• roll covering tape.

Hannecard solutions apply to all textiles: knitted, woven — technical textiles and non-woven, from the preparation to the finishing process, including special anti-sticking coverings for fabrics coating.

Hannecard services include:

technical visits at the mills to enhance the efficiency of the technical cylinders (e.g. squeezing rate), the lifetime of the rubber coatings, the shrinking rate of the shrinking machines, complete maintenance operations of the S-rolls, and the supply of complete steel base cylinders (standard or anti-flexion).

Among the textile finishing industry, Rollin supplies innovative solutions which accelerate the performance in a sustainable way.

Hannecard / Rollin will be on the stand of their Turkish partner KURTARAN LASTIK.

PETIT SPARE PARTS: Hall 3   Booth  317A

Petit Spare Parts holds the exclusive worldwide trade of the original spare parts for all ICBT fine count machines. Its technical staff received their training from the historical manufacturer, now gone. They not only sell parts from catalogues, but provide solutions, whatever the equipment, whatever the location.

With more than 20,000 spare parts references in stock, at carefully studied and negotiated prices, as well as all the necessary drawings for the realization of parts conforming to those of original. No copies or forgeries!

Built on their experience in covering, twisting and texturizing as well as their export skills, Petit Spare Parts, a company of the PETIT SA group, specialized since 1946 in the trade of accessories for all textile machines, all brands combined, can thus meet all customers’ requests, at national and international levels, for the maintenance of the textile mills equipments: diagnosis, repair, dismantling, remantling.

Petit Spare Parts is a company that combines historical know-how and worldwide logistics expertise to support their customers on their way to success.

DOLLFUS & MULLER: Hall 12 booth 1219B

More than 200 years old, Dollfus & Muller is a leading manufacturer of endless felts and dryer belts especially for the textile finishing and tanneries.

Dynajet is a sales department of Dollfus & Muller specialized in fabrics for ink jet printers and wide widths fabrics for theaters and events.

Dollfus & Muller manufactures endless felts and dryer belts for the textile finishing and nonwovens factories:

• compacting felts for knit finishing;
• sanforizing felts for denim and woven fabrics finishing;
• printing dryer belts for textile printing;
• sublimation blankets for transfer printing;
• decatizing felts for wool finishing;
• dryer belts for thermo-bonding ovens; and
• tensionless dryer belts for knit finishing.

Dollfus & Muller improves the compacting felt for knit finishing with major evolutions. The compacting felt quality brings a special care to the fabrics thanks to its smoothest surface, has an excellent guiding and the best compacting rate in relations with its new exclusive compacting felt design.

The Dollfus & Muller sanforizing palmer felts are ideal for denim producers.

Furthermore, Dollfus & Muller manufacture durable printing dryer belt qualities. These print dryer belts are the most durable printing dryer belt specially designed for pigment printing of bed sheeting. Dollfus & Muller has its exclusive print open mesh belt specially designed for the production of fine fabrics, scarves, flags. These belts have special non marking surfaces which can avoid as well the particles on the back side. Dollfus & Muller has the widest range of printing dryer belts and the strongest dryer belts.

Since 2013, M. Ali Ҫetin is the agent for compacting felts in Turkey. Since then the customers have recognized Dollfus & Muller’s felts were giving better shrinkage control and life. The price uniformity and fairness was also introduced.

AESA Air Engineering: Hall 3 booth 311B

AESA is a worldwide leader in air engineering for all textile production processes of natural fibers, man-made fibers and filaments in their different stages: spinning, knitting, weaving, hosiery, different types of nonwovens and fiber productions, as well as dyeing and finishing.

AESA supplies air conditioning and waste collection systems for the textile industry as well as for various other processes.

Targeting a higher energy and environmental efficiency customers are using AESA know-how and experience in design and implementation of air conditioning plants for a lighter environmental footprint with general production benefits and cost savings.

The trend is continuing towards implementation of fully inverter-controlled systems in spinning and weaving factories, allowing optimized adjustment of energy consumption to the actual needs.

Also the well-known WEAVE DIRECT systems offer substantial reductions in power consumption combined with accurate process condition on the weaving looms thanks to a dedicated supply air ducting system with diffusers above each looms.

The user-friendly and accurate DIGIVENT control and monitoring system is communicating in interactive screen functions and is allowing a wide usage of recorded data for analysis, statistics and housekeeping.

These continuous steps fields for more than fifty years worldwide.

Posted April 3, 2020

Source: UCMTF — French Textile Equipment

Dalton, Ga.-based Shaw Industries Group Inc. reports its Adairsville, Ga., carpet tile manufacturing and recycling facility has achieved the USGBC’s LEED Silver designation.

TenCate Protective Fabrics, Union City, Ga., reports its family of products for the Fire Service market now is OEKO-TEX® Standard 100 certified.

Duvaltex, Québec, Canada, has migrated its True, Victor and Teknit brands to the Duvaltex name. Its Guilford of Maine brand will remain independent.

Biobased Xorel, a textile sourced from sugar cane developed by New York City-based Carnegie Fabrics LLC, is the first textile product to achieve Living Product Challenge Certification.

The Paris-based French Textile Equipment Manufacturers’ Association (UCMTF) has introduced a new modernized logo, which features the blue, red and white colors of
the French Flag.

The Industrial Fabrics Association international (IFAI), Roseville, Minn., is taking entries for the 2020 Student Design Competition. Students may submit entries in advanced textiles or fabric structures categories before May 15, 2020. A first-place winner in each category will be awarded a prize pack valued at more than $6,000, which includes a trip to IFAI Expo 2020, the 100th anniversary of the show. Visit ifai.com/student-design-challenge for more information.

Germany-based Hohenstein Institute has developed a new method using dynamic image analysis for quantifying microfiber shedding from textiles. The research, published in an article by lead researcher Jasmin Haap, took four years. The resulting analytical method quantifies fiber count, length, diameter and shape; and can also offer insight on cellulosic and non-cellulosic fibers. Such analysis now is available exclusively through Hohenstein.

The QuickFree® zipper engineered by Japan-based YKK Group was recognized in the “Personal” category of the 2019 GOOD DESIGN® Awards presented by The Chicago Athenaeum. The zipper features improved operability and a unique release function aimed to promote a sense of independence, accomplishment and security in small children.

The Felix Schoeller Group, Germany, is celebrating its 125th anniversary. Today, the family-owned company employs approximately 3,600 employees at 12 facilities where it produces specialty papers including digital printing papers and décor papers.

Americhem, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, has released its 2021 Color Trends. The palette, based on a theme of “Self Care,” features four color stories — Adventures That Spark You, It’s The Little Things, Treat Yourself and Hitting The Reset Button. To access the full color trends presentation, contact an Americhem representative at Americhem.com/
contact.

AKAS Tex, Bensalem, Pa., now is a licensed provider of Cotton Incorporated’s TransDRY finishing technology. The patented high-tech application manages moisture in natural fabrics to wick it away from the body.

Messe Frankfurt Hong Kong has announced three textile fairs scheduled to take place March 11-12, 2020, at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai, will be postponed because of the Novel Coronavirus outbreak. The impacted fairs are Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics – Spring Edition, Yarn Expo Spring, and Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles – Spring Edition.

January/February 2020

“Our Maisons are proud of their traditions and state of the art technologies, our new logo has been designed to show both” stated Christian Guinet, the new UCMTF secretary general since September.

In fact the traditional planisphere has been changed by a new one which seems to be made of textile ribbons; the blue, white, red colors are those of the French flag.

The new logo will be seen in the main international textile machinery fairs and in the textile magazines as France is the sixth textile machinery exporter with world leaders in such fields as long fiber spinning (wool, acrylic …), yarn twisting and control (including technical yarns), space-dyeing, heat setting for carpet yarns, carpet systems, dyeing and finishing, felts and belts for finishing processes, nonwovens, air conditioning of textile plants and recycling processes of textile materials. More information on these companies and on UCMTF’s activities can be found on www.ucmtf.com

Posted February 4, 2020

Source: The French Textile Equipment Manufacturers’ Association, UCMTF

Stony Brook, N.Y.-based Applied DNA Sciences Inc. has appointed Scott L. Anchin to its board of directors.

Greg Harwell was named group president for Albany Engineered Composites, Rochester, N.H.

Jeffrey W. Smith has joined American Silk Mills, High Point, N.C., as director of sales.

Bill Carstarphen, president and CEO of McAdenville, N.C.-based Pharr, was presented with the Spirit of the Carolinas Award and The Order of the Long Leaf Pine from the state of North Carolina during the recent Gaston Regional Chamber of Commerce’s 17th annual Salute to Business & Manufacturing.

Olivier Vermeersch was named president and CEO of CTT Group, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec.

Effective January 13, 2020, John Donahoe is the new president and CEO of Beaverton, Ore.-based Nike Inc. Current Chairman, CEO and President Mark Parker will become executive chairman, continuing his leadership of the board of directors.

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc., Ann Arbor, Mich., has added company COO John Rice to its board of directors.

Under Armour’s President and COO Patrik Frisk has been named CEO of the company effective January 1, 2020. Kevin Plank, the Baltimore-based company’s founder, chairman and current CEO will become executive chairman and brand chief.

Christian Guinet is the new secretary general of the Paris-based French Textile Machinery Manufacturers’ Association (UCMTF). He replaces Evelyne Cholet who has retired.

Lance Marram was named senior vice president, Global Service, of TPI Composites Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz.

Bruce Goldman has joined St. Louis-based knitter Evolution St. Louis as director of operations.

November/December 2019

Bruno Ameline, UCMTF president, stated: “it is a great opportunity for us to welcome Christian. He fits all our requirements — a textile engineer, he joined one of our members in 1982, a great part of his experience has been as export manager in charge of the sales financing and credit insurance. We know each other very well as, within our organization, he has been president of our Promotion Committee. In that position, he organized, with Evelyne Cholet, our road shows, seminars and National pavilions in many fairs and managed our relations with the textile press.

“The transition with Evelyne Cholet has been extremely smooth as they had been working together for many years.

“The only sad thing is that we will miss Evelyne,” Ameline said. “She joined our association in 1985 to organize ITMA 1987 and then stayed with us for 34 years. All our contacts know and appreciate her. I am quite sure they will welcome Christian who shares the same values than Evelyne. He will be a great asset to our 35 members which are exporting, all over the world, most of their machines and services worth more than a billion dollars annually.”

Posted October 15, 2019

Source: UCMTF