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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 ...read more
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 in a higher loft without ...read more
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% ...read more
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 ...read more
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 ...read more
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, ...read more
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 , ...read more
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 ...read more
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. ...read more
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 ...read more
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 ...read more
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 ...read more
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 were focused on functional ...read more
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 ...read more
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 ...read more