Textile World, the leading trade magazine for the US textile industry, has awarded the 2014 Innovation Award to TenCate Protective Fabrics. TenCate is a manufacturer of high-performance fabric solutions that are used to make a variety of protective garments used by military personnel, firefighters, and other emergency response personnel. The company was selected to receive the award because of its long-standing commitment to innovation in the textile industry and its development of fabrics that are truly life-saving.
TenCate is a 90-year-old multinational company based in Georgia. It combines textile technology with related chemical processes. It develops and produces specialist materials with specific properties like protective materials for fire-fighting clothing, strong, lightweight materials in aircraft and materials that block UV radiation.
TenCate Protective Fabrics protect people on the job from the harmful effects of heat, flame and other related risks. The primary applications in which the products are used include structural firefighting, wild land fire fighting and many industrial areas such as chemical, petrochemical, electrical and molten processing. Textile World magazine and TextileWorld.com are leading resources for textile news and information - from textile fiber to fabric formation and finishing.
