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ITA Announces New Member Exhibitors for Summer Showtime 2018
May 30,
2018 by Jane Chero in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry
Celebrating the 57th textile market, Summer Showtime 2018 is set for June 3-6 and will include fourteen new member exhibitors.
The companies, which are based throughout the world, represent the growing variety of goods that define the home furnishings industry.
The newest member include:
Alendal – a converter and distributor of home fabrics, contract fabric, drapery hardware, and lining.
Convergence LLC – a textile design studio that delivers textile know-how for jacquard and dobby wovens, prints, velvets, wall coverings, and flooring.
E.T.G. Texstil San. Ve Tic Ltd. Sti. – an upholstery fabric and home textiles company featuring ready-made, tapestry fabric and wall tapestry.
Fiama Textiles LLC — a mill direct residential business, with two 60 year-old mills, based in Brazil and Chile, a warehouse in Greensboro, NC and a design office in New York. Mills are vertical and have: weaving; dyeing; conventional and digital printing; and finishing capabilities.
Harounian Rugs International – a rug member working with long time industry textile expert Wesley Mancini to create hand made, hand loom, hand tufted and machine made carpets.
High Rock Fabrics – a supplier of a wide range of upholstery fabrics to the U.S. furniture industry.
Intrenze Leather – specializes mainly in supplying high-end Buffalo, Cow and Split Quality upholstery leathers for contract, residential, hospitality, and designer markets with a unique look. Finishes include: pull up/wax/ hand-antiqued / hand wipes; aged vintage leathers; and decorative prints.
Reflex Data Systems Limited – producers of Mertex software for textiles that focuses purely on the management, movement, cost and control of everything relating to fabric, from handling cut lengths, to contract fabrics, wallpaper and trimmings through to fabric coating and fire retardants.
Suzhou Mary Do Textile Co. Ltd – producers of upholstery fabric, linen looking, nylon and poly mixed series, suede, peached. The company also provides finish for those fabrics such as bonded, embroidered, printed, and embossed.
Tayo Originals – an American designed Chinese produced upholstery fabric.
Torcetex Industria E Comercio Ltd – Torcetex brings yarns and fabrics from natural straw to the whole international market. The products are environmentally friendly and produced with a high level of exigency, aiming at the maximum quality of each piece. In addition to over 1000 models of straws between wefts and colors, there is even the possibility of dyeing and aging.
Tuntex Incorporated —a vertical textile manufacturer of micro fiber fabrics for the furniture industry.
Ultrafabrics—The Ultrafabrics family of fabrics includes 31 collections over four brand families: Ultraleather, Brisa, Ultratech and UfZ.
Wesley Mancini, Ltd— an independent design studio designing continuous collections for Valdese Weavers (indoor upholstery and drapery) and Al Fresco Functional Fabrics (outdoor upholstery). The company also designs prints, trimmings, drapery hardware and rugs.
Formed in 1990 to advance the textile industries through the promotion of education, networking and collaboration year-round, ITA hosts the bi-annual ITA Showtime Market and directs the ITA Educational Foundation. The non-profit, member-driven organization is based in High Point, North Carolina and is supported by leading companies across the industry.
For more information, visit http://internationaltextilealliance.org/showtime/.