US fabric maker Polartec has launched a new ‘Ready to Roll’ programme offering first-quality fabrics, in stock and ready to ship, to meet customer demand for shorter lead times.
Ready to Roll offers premium Polartec fabrics including many of the most popular styles, as well as rarities and hard-to-find colours. This includes lightweight next-to-skin, cooling, insulation, weather protection and flame resistant fabric technologies across the Polartec line of roughly 250 different performance fabrics. Polartec Ready to Roll also enables more responsible production forecasting and minimises waste.
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The company says the programme coincides with upgraded production capacity to service high demand for shearling or ‘sherpa’ fleece fabrics, including made-in-the-USA styles with shorter duty-free shipping times into the NAFTA/CAFTA regions.
“Customers have long asked for in-stock inventory without the standard production lead times, and this announcement enables rapid order fulfilment in time for fall/winter 2019 production to meet increased demand,” says Gary Smith, Polartec CEO.
Earlier this month Polartec announced it was building on its partnership with Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, the developer of spider silk-based fibres, to bring the first materials made from recombinant spider silk to the performance apparel market.
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