Textile Insight

The Latest Updates & Developments from Suppliers & Brands. T exbase, a cloud-based data manage- ment and collaboration platform, has introduced an exclusive material marketplace built into Texbase that gives suppliers and ingredient brands a cost-effective, secure and direct marketing channel for customers from within Texbase itself. Called MaterialFirst, the platform allows suppliers to track library requests and control the security around who sees their shared materials, and provides sales and marketing teams with specific and timely information. For brands and retailers, MaterialFirst is a place to look for new materials from current suppliers or find fabric or trims from new suppliers that are completely vetted by industry peers. Material developers and sourcing agents can import material information directly into their Texbase libraries to speed development and eliminate repetitive data entry. According to Texbase CEO Joe Walkuski, MaterialFirst is unique in several ways. He explains that MaterialFirst is exclusive to Texbase sub- scribers. Suppliers have available a curated list of material sources, and as such, suppliers are confident that the inquiries they receive are coming from established customers. "We understand the challenge of maintaining content and to that end we've implemented tools that allow suppliers to easily maintain the data describing their collections," states Walkuski, who adds, "because supplier and customer are operating on the same platform, we get to do some interesting data integrations." MaterialFirst is the tip of the sourcing spear while the balance of Texbase functionality accelerates the testing, commercialization and adoption of new materials while tracking them through production to ensure both quality and compliance. l IN THE MARKET | COMPANY NEWS Texbase Launches MaterialFirst Platform textileinsight.com March/April 2022 ~ Textile Insight • 9 A new DX Ranch Collection is the latest devel- opment between brand partners Cordura and Dovetail Workwear, a women's specific company based in Portland, OR. The garments showcase a unique combination of rugged performance and serious style, influenced by the hardwork- ing women of the DX Ranch — a fourth-generation Oceti Sakowin ranch on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. The capsule collection features two durable Cordura fabrics, the heavyweight 10-ounce Cordura Indigo Denim with high stretch and the 9.5-ounce medium stretch Cordura Dark Kodiak Canvas. l PrimaLoft has hired Manish Jain as its new senior vice president technology and development. Most recently, Jain served as vice president of R&D and technology for Crane Company Currency Division, leading the company's technology innovation for substrates (currency and security paper) as well as security threads, fibers, and micro-optics security technology. Previously, Jain was the head of material science and process technologies for the Albany International Corp., Homer, NY extrusion facility, where he was responsible for raw material needs, leading R&D, quality, and the new product development group. Jain replaces Vanessa Mason, who is retiring this year from her position as SVP, engineering. l Cordura Features in New Dovetail Workwear Collection PrimaLoft Names New SVP

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