TSG饰面增强了织物的感觉和功能。
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w使用针织，编织或非编织工艺生产的纤维，织物通常沿着供应链移动，以染色，印刷和/或完成。染色和打印为未经处理的织物增添了色彩和图案，将其转变为当今最受欢迎的色调或醒目的设计。
Finishing — through either mechanical or wet processing methods — adds further value to a fabric by imparting enhancements that can improve the look, feel, functionality and performance of a fabric. Finishes can impart properties such as brightness, softness, embossed patterning, wrinkle resistance, shrinkage control, soil and water repellency, moisture management, flame resistance or abrasion resistance, among other properties.
总部位于北卡罗来纳州的Hickory TSG Finishing LLC是一家具有前瞻性的饰面公司的一个例子。
成立于1901年在巴尔的摩,马里兰州,雅各布·Levy as “Levy’s International Water Shrinking and Drying,” the privately-held company is now run by fifth-generation descendants. The business first thrived on preshrinking, shrinking and softening wool fabrics under the motto “We expand from shrinking.” In the 1920s, Levy opened a facility in Philadelphia to be closer to New England’s growing textile business.
After World War II, the company developed a process for foaming latex backings used in vinyl seat covers. This launched TSG into the upholstery fabrics market and led the company down to High Point, N.C., a hub for U.S. furniture manufacturing. Today, TSG’s finishing plants still operate out of Hickory with additional locations in East Conover, N.C., as well as executive office space in Pennsylvania.
while finishing wool fabrics for military dress uniforms has been an important part of the company’s business for the past 118 years, TSG’s current mission is to expand its finishing capabilities and offerings.
室内装饰品（包括用于家具和墙壁的织布织物，用于住宅和合同市场），现在约占公司业务的60％。其余活动的大部分活动都集中在TSG首席执行官Brian Rosenstein术语“工业产品”中，其中包括过滤材料，医疗产品，汽车，工艺品，土工鞋，服装，服装和各种其他技术产品。
The company offers a broad range of finishing services including coating, fabric impregnation, mechanical finishing, toll coating, engraving, material handling, as well as warehousing and distribution. Coating and impregnation finishing provides antimicrobial, flame resistance, water and stain protection, among other treatments. “Being able to protect a fabric from both water- and oil-based stains is huge across multiple markets,” Rosenstein said. “In addition to upholstery, it’s also big in medical right now. Essential to producing medical nonwovens is providing a fabric that will keep doctors and surgeons protected. But it has to be breathable and have antistatic properties as well. We’re playing a critical role in that supply chain.”
他们正在寻找的确切完成的客户。
Defend® — “Your Fabric + Our protection™”
TSG的品牌室内装饰品被称为Defend®，该公司于2017年因其水和污点而进行了重新推出。尽管如此，作为一家历史上的技术公司，纳入品牌营销策略还是一条新的道路。罗森斯坦说：“我们重新定义了自己，并随着我们进入市场营销的舒适区。”“我们以前的口头禅是我们是那个家伙背后的家伙。但是在当今大多数情况下，市场需要一个名字和故事。您需要有一个品牌。”考虑到这一点，TSG还对标语“您的面料 +我们的保护™”进行了商标，该标语简单地说明，但有效地捕捉了公司所做的工作并有助于推销品牌。
DEFEND was originally developed for the woven residential and contract business, but it’s starting to break into other markets as well, according to Rosenstein. For example, denim producers and the U.S. military have shown interest in DEFEND. “What makes DEFEND special is that we can apply it to any fabric,” Rosenstein said. “There are no limitations. You want to protect a high pile velvet? Fine. High-end linen — no problem. Embroidered silk — bring it on. A treatment for a military camouflage product that can only be treated on one side — done.”
“I can’t imagine that we would be unable to apply DEFEND to any product,” Rosenstein said.
客户驱动的产品
TSG有一个技术库，但业务通常是客户驱动的。
“On the one hand, we’ve really started to push and market the DEFEND brand, but people are knocking on our door more than ever to solve problems that don’t involve our core business of woven upholstery fabric,” Rosenstein mentioned.
The company fields phone calls from customers — including Fortune 500 companies — looking for a partner to help them achieve a certain look or set of properties in a finished fabric. Even in cases where production has yet to be attempted, TSG approaches each new proposal with a “not yet,” rather than a “no” attitude. “We have a saying around here that ‘the difficult we can do now, the impossible just takes a little longer,’” Rosenstein said.
通过创新思维来应对挑战
According to Rosenstein, “One of the cool things about the job is seeing all the different, highly-innovative things that we are able to do with our existing equipment.”
The existing equipment Rosenstein is referring to is a tenter frame — a piece of equipment for drying fabric while it is stretched and held under tension between two parallel chains — which is central to most textile finishing operations. Options built into a tenter frame can differ, but the basic functions of the machine are the same. But according to Rosenstein, what can be done using that machine both before the fabric enters the machine and after it comes out is something that TSG has excelled at over recent decades.
罗森斯坦说：“我们的公司建立在知识产权和强大的合作伙伴关系的基础上。”“任何人都可以出去购买帐篷框架，但这是我们能够用那个启动框架使我们与众不同的事情。我们将为客户定制设计并构建自己的化学涂料系统。我们将站在落后并保护我们认为是我们的一切，但我们也认识到与供应商和客户合作的好处。在当今时代，如果您不重视这些关系，就无法保持坚实的业务。”
CEO, TSG Finishing LLC
未来的增长
根据罗森斯坦（Rosenstein）的说法，创新和保持设计趋势是在整理行业保持成功的关键。罗森斯坦提到：“设计趋势确实推动了整理行业。”“最新的是这一概念，即创建工作空间和设计，以更反映您的客厅。现在，我们需要服用曾经被降级到很少使用的房屋部分的织物，例如装饰天鹅绒，并找到使它们在沉重的交通工程区中工作的方法。TSG绝对可以帮助使用防御延长这些织物的寿命，因此不必每隔一年更换它们。想象一下这可以为环境做什么？”
TSG业务的其他成长领域包括建筑物和过滤产品。当大自然母亲戴上牙齿时，该公司为帮助消费者重新站起来而感到自豪。罗森斯坦指出：“当有龙卷风或飓风并失去房屋或屋顶时，我们的玻璃纤维服务为有需要的人提供了持久的解决方案。”“由于加利福尼亚州的野火，过滤方面的业务也在增加。那里的空气质量确实很糟糕，因此对空气过滤产品的需求增加。”
Rosenstein sees definite opportunities for TSG in the future. The diverse nature of the company’s business and involvement in many different markets allows for the technology crossover and product diversification in which TSG finds strength. “We’ve been spread out and diversified over the years, which might lead some to say we cannot focus on any particular area to give it the attention it deserves,” Rosenstein said. “But the fact that we were so diversified and involved in so many markets helped us through the recession. When one market is down, another one is up. That diversification, along with our inability to say ‘no,’ now exposes us to growth areas and sales opportunities.”
罗森斯坦沉思地说：“我认为，如果我的曾曾祖父现在还活着，他绝对会惊讶地看到我们在那些装饰机上运行的一些东西。”但是，雅各布·利维（Jacob Levy）可能会惊讶地看到该公司还忠于其根源完成那些军事羊毛面料的根源，就像1901年一样。
编者按:这篇文章出现在纺织磨破ld courtesy of the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) as part of the “American Textiles: We Make Amazing™” campaign. NCTO is a trade association representing U.S. textile manufacturing. Please visit ncto.org to learn more about NCTO, the industry and the campaign.
2019年11月/12月
