Syfa从1972年作为TYAA的开始开始，适应了该行业的天气低迷，并庆祝今年成立50周年。
由Alasdair Carmichael
t他合成纱线与面料协会（SYFA）及其前身组织美国纹理纱协会（TYAA）在2022年庆祝50年的运营。
这个时期是抽奖纹理的曙光和聚酯纺织细丝作为用于抽取纹理的饲料纱的商业收益。在70年代开始之前，尼龙是使用完全绘制的纱线作为供应的主要纹理纤维。
聚酯是在1940年代开发的,和initial focus was on producing a staple fiber to either complement cotton in blended yarn or to compete with cotton. Filament polyester remained a smaller volume than polyester staple globally until 1993, but by 2020 had grown to be more than double the size of staple.
质地的增长，尤其是聚酯纤维的增长，将许多新生产商带入了美国市场，并导致了由北卡罗来纳州门罗的Goulston Technologies Inc.的Norman Cohen领导的行业领导者，他们决定该行业足够大，足够独特，可以实现保证自己的技术贸易协会。本文的作者于1972年春季加入了美国纺织业，并有幸参加了1973年夏季TYAA的第二次完整会议。
the Growth Of Texturing
在美国和其他地方纹理增长的主要驱动力是开发抽奖纹理，该纹理采用了四个过程步骤，并将它们组合成两个步骤，并提高了生产率，并生产出更大，更好的纱线，用于直接编织或编织。
there was no shortage of technical developments to be discussed at the TYAA conferences!
在1970年代中期至后期，美国大约有115家公司的纹理或绘制纹理机。目前，该行业的结构是由增长驱动的。有许多大型织物公司将其生产多样化以包括纹理。此外，一些大型聚酯纤维生产商还投资了纹理。还有许多具有纹理操作的专业纱线公司。双重编织行业为越来越多的纹理聚酯植物提供了一种明显的食欲，直到不可避免的发生并需求崩溃为止。
Figure 1 shows data from the American Fiber Manufacturing Association (AFMA) publication Fiber Organon. Polyester textile filament capacity in the United States grew from 316 million pounds in 1970 to 1.7 billion pounds by 1979, with the growth driven mainly by demand for textured polyester. The 1979 peak was the highest level the U.S. industry ever achieved. The 1980s were a time of consolidation and closures within the industry, as well as a time for product development and production technology improvements which resulted in a good recovery in the 1990s.
但是，随着日历变成21世纪，国内行业的美好时光即将结束，全球供应链成为普遍的商业模式。纺织业的许多领域都受到全球采购的巨大打击，纹理纱行业也不例外。该图表非常清楚地跟踪了衰退。
the TYAA was faced with a rapidly declining pool of membership. From approximately 115 companies with texturing machines in the late 1970s, by 2006 there were only 17 companies remaining.
该协会面临三个选择：
- 完全关闭；
- 与另一组合并；或者
- 通过更名和吸引更广泛的会员资格来增加会员资格的范围。
Following tough discussions, the board decided to take the most difficult of the alternatives and rebranded in 2006 as the Synthetic Yarn and Fiber Association (SYFA), a name that was later changed to Synthetic Yarn and Fabric Association.
the rebranding has been a success with both membership and attendance at conferences seeing significant growth in the years following the decision.
两个协会里程碑脱颖而出。首先是对可持续性对行业的重要性的认识，从协会的重塑过程开始开始，它已经有意识地努力，以在其所有会议上包括有关可持续性的演讲。协会历史上最成功的会议是2008年冬季会议，整个计划都以“可持续性可以实现”为主题致力于可持续性。那次会议的记录有300多人。
第二个里程碑是最近的，这就是能够通过19日期大流行，并能够展望光明的未来的能力。
the association is celebrating 34 years as TYAA and 16 years as SYFA for a total of 50 years of serving the U.S. synthetic textiles industry. Please join SYFA in celebrating this milestone at the fall conference to be held November 3-4, 2022, in Charlotte, N.C. For more information about this special event, please see, “Syfa 50年，”TW， 这个问题。
编者注：Alasdair Carmichael是合成纱的副总裁
和面料协会（SYFA）
2022年9月/10月
