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Next Level partners with GK to reach 100% US grown cotton goal
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ext Level Apparel has announced a strategic partnership with GK Global (GK) to provide nearshore fabric, with the goal of reaching 100% US grown cotton for NLA’s entire clothing line.
NLA CEO, Randy Hales, said: “There are many benefits of this partnership with GK, including shorter lead times and reduced exposure to geopolitical risks. “Bringing our fabric production closer to home allows us to have complete supply chain transparency, including upstream traceability to the cotton.” GK chairman, Yusuf Amdani, added: “In 2022 GK invested more than $236 million (USD) aimed at expanding our world-class operations and allowing us to bring the full strength of our global supply
New dual leadership at Karlowsky
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t the beginning of 2023, Niels Karlowsky joined the management team at Karlowsky Fashion and will now run the company alongside his father, Thomas Karlowsky. The German workwear specialist is now run by the fifth generation of the Karlowsky family. Thomas Karlowsky said: “After more than
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three decades alone at the head of our family heritage and building up a strong medium-sized company after reunification of Germany, it is a great pleasure for me to now manage the business together with my son Niels. The areas of digitalisation, internationalisation and sustainability in particular are important topics that can now be focused on even more through Niels’ move to the management. The change is an important impulse that will pave the way for the company’s future.”
Niels Karlowsky added: “In my new role as managing director, I am looking forward to further advancing my father’s visions as well as contributing my own visions and thus helping to shape the future of the company even more intensively.”
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Next Level Apparel’s goal is to have its entire clothing line made from 100% US grown cotton
chain to our relationship with NLA. “We are proud to partner with the leading printwear brand and to grow together by delivering the highest quality and responsibly sourced products available in the market today.” GK’s textile operations were
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established in Central America and Mexico more than three decades ago. At that time the company was one of the first foreign textile investors in Honduras, and since then has established vertically integrated production covering all facets of the textile supply chain to include innovative and sustainable fibres, yarns, fabrics, and garment manufacturing. Next Level Apparel is a design innovator, industry leader and top supplier of premium blank apparel. NLA put its stamp on the map as a blank apparel pioneer in the printwear industry by answering the call to its customers’ need for a sublimation T shirt. The company’s passion for exceptional craftsmanship catalysed the development of more styles and ultimately formed the Next Level Apparel brand.
Virus Inks introduces Rethink Black
ethink Black from Virus Inks is a ready for use ink made with a deep carbon negative pigment from
organic waste.
It is the new eco-sustainable black ink born from Virus Inks’ partnership with Bioforcetech producing a deep carbon negative pigment named OurCarbon coming from diverted organic waste, originally destined for disposal. One of the materials that is replaced in the formulation of the ink is carbon black, a pigment that is largely used in many inks and dyes to achieve black colour and its shades.
Carbon black is a very pollutant item made by burning fossil fuels and collecting the soot that forms in the kiln. The production of carbon black generates more than three tons of CO2e for every one ton of material made.
Together with Virus Inks’ partner, by diverting organic waste, transforming it by using carbon negative high technological systems producing more electricity that what they consume and reusing it during the manufacturing process of Rethink Black, 13 tons of C02e emissions for each ton of pigment involved in the process (LCA and third-party certifications available) can be prevented.
Rethink Black is made with a deep carbon negative pigment from organic waste
Rethink Black is an excellent black ink of great colour saturation that ensures the best performances in terms of productivity and printing quality comparable with a regular black inks. It’s 100% safe thanks to the high tight-bones molecular restructuring that occurs in the process and complies with the most severe MRSL (RSL test report available). Rethink Black is very easy to print and has a very good durability on a wide range of fabrics and materials such as nylon, synthetic and recycled materials, eco-leather, PET, suede, packaging, cardboard, automotive, footwear and fashion accessories, etc. Virus Inks is the only manufacturer offering this ink technology on the global market.
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