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We are the world market leader in coated technical textiles and technical apparel, protecting people and their belongings.
Sioen produces technical apparel for many different markets where people work in circumstances where safety, comfort and protection are major issues. Examples are: firefighters clothing, chainsaw protection, floatation suits, bullet proof vests, protection against electrical flash overs, …
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Clothing solution provider
Sioen has built up a strong constituency in the various parts of the protective apparel (firefighting, rescue services, police, forestry, marine, …), develops professional clothing (all weather, high visibility, multinorm and food & cold storage) and leisure clothing.
Always and everywhere
More than 2 800 people are working around the clock to secure your safety. 8 plants all over the world and central headquarters in Belgium, make us an excellent partner to customers worldwide.
Because our products are so technical, we have extensive testing equipment in our laboratories. R&D is directed from the research and development center at our main office. Our production plants are state-of-the-art and the people who work there have many years of experience.
Part of the Sioen Industries Group
Sioen Apparel is one of the three divisions of Sioen Industries (founded in 1960). Apart from Sioen Apparel, there are two other divisions: Sioen Coating, world leader in coated technical textiles and Sioen Chemicals, specialised in fine chemicals.
Always the garments you need
Our dedicated team is always at your service to find the garments that fit your particular needs. No matter for which working condition or which industry or service you are in.
Select the type of protection you need:
Professional protective clothing — all weather, high visibility, multi norm, food and cold storage
SIP Protection — Forestry clothing
Vidal Protection — Firefighters clothing
Mullion — Floatation suits and life jackets
SAT — Stab, slash and bullet proof garments
Baleno — Outdoor leisure wear, hunting and fishing garments
SIOEN NV Fabriekstraat 23 Ardooie 8850 Belgium
Ter Molst
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Our Company
Vertically-integrated weaving mill Ter Molst is specialized in designing, manufacturing and distributing interior textiles for upholstery and curtains. By housing design, yarn production, fabric production and finishing under the same roof, Ter Molst offers fabrics that have been tested on premium quality from the start.
Being global is one of the core values at Ter Molst. Our Belgian headquarters and divisions in North Carolina, USA and Coimbatore, India are fully equipped to meet the latest local market trends, while also radiating a universal character.
Together with our sales offices in China (GTA Hangzhou) and Poland (GTA Polska), and our worldwide network of agents and sales representatives, we aim to be at your service – anytime, anywhere.
Hand-drawn designs with a signature mark
Home interiors are trend-sensitive, and the fabrics used for upholstery and curtains play a big role in these trends. Outstanding design is one of our main assets. Our in-house design teams in Belgium, the USA and India breathe creativity and spark their imagination by visiting trend shows and browsing the web and interior magazines. They infuse this dynamic inspiration into all Ter Molst collections, both commercial and residential.
Our designers have accumulated years of experience in their field and specialize in creating designs and compositions for textural solids and jacquards. Our teams work closely together to add a signature touch to all our fabrics, creating the unique Ter Molst look and feel for the several collections we launch each year.
Custom-made designs are welcome endeavors at Ter Molst, as we highly value collaboration and flexibility. We create personalized fabrics by cultivating close partnerships between sales and R&D teams, and our clients.
Good for you, safe for our planet
Sustainability, high quality and an excellent performance are key when producing our upholstery and drapery fabrics. Our dedicated QA & QC departments rigorously test all Ter Molst fabrics, to guarantee that we meet and exceed the following international standards:
Color fastness
Martindale Abrasion
Wyzenbeek Abrasion (USA only)
Pilling
Brush Pill (USA only)
Tensile strength
Seam slippage
Tear strength
Fire retardancy
Call117 FR (USA only)
Independent accredited laboratories test all new developments once a year. Our high standards translate in the certificates we carry. At Ter Molst, we certify that all fabrics are completely free from harmful substances, verified by our Oeko-Tex, Class II accreditation. Our fabrics are skin friendly and harmless to humans, animals, and the environment.
Oeko-Tex Label Belgium – Oeko-Tex Label USA – Oeko-Tex Label India
History
From farm to world in 67 years
1953: Foundation Ter Molst
Belgian weaving mill Ter Molst, Old Flemish for ‘on the farm’, was established in 1953 in an old flax farm in Oostrozebeke.
Founder Remi Vanacker set up his first weaving loom in one of the farm’s former flax sheds and called upon his three daughters to start production. From 1953 until 1962, Ter Molst only produced drapery fabrics, just for the Belgian market.
2016: Global production
Ter Molst brought its proven business model to the USA and India in 2016, partnering with its sister company Global Textile Alliance. Ter Molst set up state-of-the-art machinery to deliver the same high-quality fabrics as in our Belgian headquarters, maximizing the benefits of GTA’s warping departments, extrusion plants, and finishing departments.
Experienced in-house American and Indian textile design teams were employed to work closely together with the Belgian branch, resulting in several fabric collections a year.
Today: Part of Love Home Fabrics
Today, Ter Molst is a fully-integrated mill that operates and sells in more than 100 countries. Since 2017, the company has been part of the global group Love Home Fabrics.
This label joins eleven interior textile brands worldwide and employs 1.500 experienced people to ensure:
Guaranteed quality for every price range
Contemporary fabrics that can be adjusted to your liking
An easy one-stop shopping experience for all your home fabrics
Systainability
At Ter Molst, we value a sustainable and circular economy. These are not just words. We Act on them. By sourcing sustainable raw materials and implementing a green production process, Ter Molst is taking the eco-friendly route.
Act for Home Textiles
As we are a part of the Act for Home Textiles program by Love Home Fabrics, we focus on producing sustainably. We provide high-quality products that are created in environmental-friendly conditions. We do this by:
- reducing our energy use,
- having a full-circle water use and water purification stations,
- banning harmful substances,
- and waste recycling.
Besides our sustainable production process, Ter Molst invests heavily in developing fabrics made from eco-friendly yarns. We are transparent about the composition of our fabrics and do this by introducing an eco-score and eco-passport for each fabric. The eco-score and corresponding passport show what percentage of the yarns is eco-friendly and which sustainable yarns are used in the fabric.
Let us introduce you to the eco-friendly yarns we use.
Raw materials
Harmolan PP
Harmolan PP is yarn that we made in-house in Belgium. It is an upcycled yarn made from residual oil components and the most durable man-made fiber available on the market. We use this yarn in all our Vivalife fabrics. During the production process, no water or chemicals are used.
Harmolan PP is the only fiber in the world that’s lighter than water, but the feel of it remains comfortable and cozy. The yarn creates a fabric that has a high wear resistance, is easy to clean and resistant to chemicals, molds and bacteria.
Linen
Linen is a strong and natural fiber made from the flax plant. The older it gets, the stronger and more beautiful it becomes. Flax is a renewable source, one that is fast growing, requires no chemicals and has a minimal impact on the planet. Across its lifecycle, a linen shirt uses 6.4 liters of water compared to 2700 liters for a cotton shirt. Our Linen Life collection features all fabrics with natural fiber blends and brings a natural and authentic feel into your home.
Wool
Wool is a natural and renewable material that is locally sourced and harmless to the environment. The woolen yarns we use are left undyed, which makes them completely biodegradable.
BCI Cotton
Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) focuses on developing and maintaining sustainable farming practices that are beneficial to the environment, the quality and durability of cotton and the communities of cotton farmers. The goal is to help the cotton industry survive and thrive by introducing them to better soil health and water management, lowering greenhouse gas emissions and improving climate resilience. It serves as a quality label to help farmers make the cotton production process and products more sustainable and thus reducing the environmental footprint of cotton farming.
GRS polyester
GRS is an international product standard that sets requirements for third-party certification of recycled content. It indicates that the recycled polyester we use is made from post-consumer recycled PET bottles, produced in good working conditions, and that harmful environmental and chemical impacts are minimized.
Lenzing EcoVero
Because of the sustainable wood source of Lenzing EcoVero, this eco-responsible viscose yarn has a much lower environmental impact than generic viscose yarns. The water impact and CO2 emissions are also 50% lower compared to regular viscose.
Certifications
In addition, Ter Molst obtained several certificates in recent years.
By being Oeko-Tex certified, we guarantee fabrics that are skin-friendly and harmless to humans, animals and the environment. Moreover, our production facility was granted the highest score (level 3) on the STeP by Oeko-Tex certification.
STeP by Oeko-Tex is a highly valued and independent certification system for the textile industry and is rewarded after a thorough audit. Our high score guarantees we produce in an eco-friendly way, provide socially responsible working conditions and an optimum health and safety environment.
Our products also meet the REACH requirements of the European Community Regulation on safeguarding human health and the environment.
Grote Molstenstraat 21 Wielsbeke 8710 Belgium
Masureel
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GROUP MASURAL PROCESSING NV
ABOUT MASUREEL
Masureel was incorporated in 1920 and has developed into a leading textile finishing company. Our permanent investment and diversification efforts have enabled us to offer a comprehensive range of finishing activities.
DEVELOPMENT
The yarn division processes over 300 tonnes of yarn per month. In recent years, we’ve increasingly been using the experience and knowledge that we’ve gained to purchase, distribute and finish customer-oriented yarns.
We continuously develop and source new yarns, supported by our in-depth knowledge of materials as well as treatment and finishing processes and by our professional expertise and experience.
We wish to create long-term partnerships with our customers, for which we develop future-oriented solutions.
Our long-term future is also ensured by our recent investments: a water extraction plant enabling us to fully control our process water, our own water purification plant and a fully automated yarn dyeing plant.
SUSTAINABILITY AND ECOLOGY
Textile and chemistry usually have a somewhat less sustainable image. We decided to make a difference here as well. Sustainability and ecology are an integrated part of our production process and deserve our permanent attention.
They are a major part of our capital-intensive activities. To be able to meet the most ambitious environmental standards, we’ve located our dyeing and finishing operations next to the Leie river.
We invested in our own ecological water production unit and in a water purification plant. This allows us to use water from the Leie as process water. After the production process, the water is again purified. In this way, we don’t need to use groundwater and can reduce our ecological footprint. Furthermore, we aim in all our processes at maximum energy recovery.
We have been awarded both the REACH and Oeko-tex label.
Today, our group has 4 divisions
Masureel yarns
The yarn division processes over 300 tonnes of yarn per month. Our yarn dyeing plant is one of the most modern in Europe.
Verlimas
Dyeing and finishing of fabrics, specialised in linen.
Flocart
Expert in coating and flocking textiles: next to offering contract work, Flocart also has expertise in blackout curtain fabrics, sun protection and wall covering.
Basaltex
Trading of basalt roving and yarns but, above all, introduction of our own semi-finished basalt products (fabrics, NCF, non-woven & pre-impregnated threads) on the European composites, technical textiles and reinforcement market.
SERVICES
Group Masureel Breeding http://www.masureel-group.com is one of the largest yarn dyers in Europe. The company strives to offer its customers a total package in which it wishes to optimally combine its knowledge in the field of sourcing yarns with its knowledge in the field of concept development. We want to become a reference in the market even more than is already the case today.
With regard to the sourcing of yarns, the company has extensive knowledge of the range and production process of yarns. It can put together innovative chains according to which it wishes to create an alternative yarn in a smooth manner. She strives to implant this knowledge deeply into her organization. We want to be a technology partner for our customers, a partner that succeeds in bringing new yarn concepts to the market in an efficient way. The company employs about 65 employees and is part of the Fin-Col group, whose sister companies are Verlimas NV, Flocart NV and Basaltex NV.
CUSTOMISED WEAVING BEAMS
Masureel is specialised in customised weaving beams, sheared sectionally. We can make weaving beams up to 3.40 m wide. We have a large creel with over 1000 positions to efficiently shear series.
In combination with our modern dye-works, Masureel offers a comprehensive package when making and sectionally warped weaving beams: yarn, dyeing and sectional shearing. For smaller lengths, your yarn can be wound onto a larger number of bobbins on SSM. You’ll receive a weaving beam according to your own wishes: yarn, colour, number of threads and yarn pattern.
We have comprehensive expertise in textured polyester: in ecru, yarn- or mass-dyed upon demand, in thread-by-thread colour combinations or according to a yarn pattern chosen by the customer.
We make weaving beams for our own yarn but also as contractor for our customers.
Zuidstraat 18 Wevelgem 8560 Belgium
FIBR
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OUR MISSION
MEET FIBR. THE FAIRCHAIN ALPACA SWEATER. SOFT ON YOUR SKIN AS EASY ON YOUR CONSCIENCE. FIBR BRINGS RADICALLY COMFORTABLE BASICS, YOU ARE PROUD TO WEAR.
The fashion industry has some of the most complex and unfair supply chains in the world. FIBR believes that creating transparency is a first step towards fairness. Today, only 7% of fashion brands know where their materials come from.
Some room for change, if you ask us.
THE FIBR SUPPLY CHAIN
FIBR IS FAIRCHAIN KNITWEAR: FAIRNESS TO THE NEXT LEVEL, ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE VALUE CHAIN.
Fairchain knitwear takes it a step further, rethinking the entire value chain from the source of the raw materials right to your closet.
FIBR connects three strong local players in PERU, all doing their part to make the Peruvian alpaca sector more fair. By connecting these dots, we managed to set up our own value chain and bring you a product of which we know exactly who made it, where it has been and of which we can be sure that everyone is treated well.
OUR PRINCIPLES
QUALITY IS WHERE IT STARTS
We bring you a timeless sweater made from 100% alpaca fibre, a natural fibre which is praised for its robustness and warmness. This sweater is made to last! And if not, a repair kit will teach you all the tricks.
TRANSPARENCY TO THE BONE
Discover where your money goes to, and all the steps your FIBR sweater has been through. No need to hide our imperfections. We rather would like to share them with you and show where improvement is still needed.
EVERY SWEATER COUNTS
We know that we won’t change the world (although we would love to). But we do know that big changes are made by many small steps.
Leading by example, we tell the clothing industry to dive into their supply chains and show more ambition. We are convinced the fashion sector needs small disruptive ideas to evolve and innovate. Every sweater sold means that another person is inspired by our story. Which is something huge!
PRE-ORDER
AT FIBR WE WORK WITH A PRE-ORDER SYSTEM. THIS MEANS THAT WE ONLY START PRODUCTION AFTER A MINIMAL AMOUNT OF PIECES IS ORDERED. TO CONTRIBUTE TO YEARROUND WORK STABILITY FOR THE KNITTERS, PRODUCTION IS IN LOW SEASON, FROM FEBRUARY UNTIL EARLY APRIL.
Tarbotstraat 10 Ghent 9000 Belgium
Utexbel
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UTEXBEL – the belief in European Textiles for the future !
Our passion leads towards our “raison d’être” : YOU
Founded in 1929 in Ronse, Belgium, UTEXBEL is a vertically integrated textile group, leader in the public tenders, industrial protective workwear fabrics, casual wear and technical textiles.
With pride and professionalism, UTEXBEL offers the best yarns and fabrics to cater for all needs, respecting the environment and the well-being of both the workers and the end-users. Within all its decisions, UTEXBEL seeks a constant improvement of health, safety, quality, efficiency and care for the environment.
THE UTEXBEL MISSION
UTEXBEL develops, produces and commercialises yarns and fabrics with multiple high level functionalities according to the customers’s specifications, which contribute to its own satisfaction and to the end user’s security, health and comfort. The group leads several cooperative projects with key partners in the fields of sustainable development, quality and logistics.
Jean-François Gribomont
PASSION – PROCESS – PROGRESS
Quality guarantee is at the centre of our daily preoccupations. Our products are valued by discerning customers, worldwide. An irreproachable quality , permanent improvement and a high level of customer service are the key elements in all our activities.
KEY FIGURES
8000 tons of spun yarns produced yearly
13 millions meters of fabric produced yearly
5% of the turnover invested in R&D
20% of all yearly investments have a social or environmental character
Cesar Snoecklaan Avenue César Snoeck 30 Ronse 9600 Belgium
Rue de Ninove 90 Ronse 9600 Belgium
Resortecs
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Resortecs (REGENERATION BV) represents the technology, method, and commitment to achieving full circularity in the textile and fashion industries. Today, only 1% of textiles are effectively recycled. Therefore, Resortecs’ mission is clear: make recycling easy and actionable for fashion brands, recyclers and all supply chain partners through innovative design-for-disassembly technology.
Fernand Demetskaai 23 Quai Fernand Demets, Brussels 1070 Belgium
Jos Vanneste
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A company with tradition tells the “secrets of linen”
N.V. JOS VANNESTE S.A. is located in Kortrijk neighbourhood, the historical world center of the flax industry. The family business is currently run by the 4th generation of Vanneste, Alex, who also intends to be a “linen expert”. The company’s worldwide renowned cottonised flax fibers and flax tops used for blending with other fibers, it’s intensive sourcing and trading of Long Flax fibers and the sells of 100% linen yarns are the results of its optimism, dynamism and know-how.
Jos Vanneste Nv stands for
Tradition, focused on the future.
A priviliged location in the world center of linen.
Continuous research, improvement & creativity with flax fibers.
Production, trading & distribution of Flax fibers and Linen yarn selling.
Just In Time deliveries in all parts of the world through a professional team of buyers and logistics team.
A wide network of well trained representatives in all textile centers.
Peter Pauwel Rubensstraat 3 Harelbeke 8530 Belgium
Flocart
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A WORLDWIDE LEADER IN REFINING TEXTILES
The Flocart touch of perfection always shines through in its textiles and fabrics. Add to this a true commitment to serve the customer with high responsiveness and speed of delivery, and a flexibility to exceed the customer requirements, and you have a good idea of the Flocart DNA.
World presence
From the North to the South, from the East to the West, you’ll find our qualities all over the world.
Flocart Strenghts
- Top quality products
- Innovation
- Service
- Environment
- Worldwide precense
- Creative products
History
1920 weaving mill in Hulste, Flanders
1935 yarn dying operation
1990 integration of a fully integrated piece dying mill into the group
1994 brand new automated yarn dying plant. That same year an acquisition of a large coating division
1999 Integration of Flocart black out fabrics into the Masureel Group
2002 Flocart starts with production of blinds
2003 Flocart acquires a small wallpaper company
2005 Flocart integrates upholstery commission coating in its facilities
2012 Flocart installs wide width coating & flocking unit
Today Flocart is one of the most important European textile coating companies
Zuidstraat 18 Wevelgem 8560 BELGIUM
Spinnerij van Veurne
Spinnerij van VeurneSint-Idesbaldusstraat 37 Veurne 8630 Belgium
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History
From Ancient Greece …
Greek myth tells the tragic tale of proud Niobe, the Queen of Thebes, who suffered the wrath of the gods when she boasted the beauty of her six sons and six daughters to the jealous Titaness Leto. Queen Niobe lost her children and was transformed into a weeping rock, perched high on Mount Sipylus in the heart of Anatolia.
Since that fateful day, Niobe’s tears have streamed down the snow-capped mountain as waterfalls and rivers and transformed the valley below. The face of the grieving mother, famously carved from the mountaintop, can still be seen today.
… to a forward-looking company in Belgium, today!
NYOBE NV’s success story began in Kruishoutem in 1976 under the name BEAULIEU NYLON NV. Ever since, the story of Niobe has lived on in our company, which transforms a snow-white fountainhead into virgin polymer tears, and then spins these teardrops into white PA6 BCF yarns that will animate untold applications in downstream businesses worldwide.
Working as one, threading together a common vision on quality and innovation, let’s weave the magic of metamorphosis.
The Vision of NYOBE
To aim for Olympian success with our nylon 6 Polymer & nylon 6 BCF Yarn.
The Mission of NYOBE
To produce & market nylon 6 polymer & nylon 6 BCF Yarn in a consistent,
customer-friendly and passionate manner.
Groene Dreef 5 Kruishoutem 9770 Belgium