The Worthen Coated Fabrics Label Group produces printable coated fabrics used
in apparel labels, industrial tags and labels, and graphic arts.
Coated fabrics especially for thermal transfer, laser, and inkjet printing
technologies.
Coated fabric label substrates for flexographic, offset, and letterpress printers.
We
engineer coated fabrics especially for thermal transfer, laser, and inkjet printing
technologies. We also provide a full range of coated fabric label substrates for
flexographic, offset, and letterpress printers. Once printed, our label fabrics
are extremely durable and withstand industry standard washing and dry-cleaning.
They meet flame resistance and environmental exposure test requirements. Base
fabrics include woven polyesters, woven nylons, cottons, polycottons, acetates,
and nonwovens such as spunbonded Reemay® and Tyvek®.
We provide product in bulk rolls, slit rolls down to ½-inch widths, and
cut sheets.
Paper or film label materials cannot match the tear resistance, flexibility,
heat stability, and aesthetics of coated fabrics.
Durable care labels for apparel represent an important market
for us. Our OEM customers use digital or hot stamp printing on our coated fabric
media as part of a complete in-plant printing solution. Our label printer customers
use high quality flexographic, offset, and letter press printing techniques on
our coated fabrics and sell the labels directly to brand name apparel companies.
We work with distributors in certain apparel markets. In addition, we provide
heat seal adhesive coating for apparel labeling.
Our
printable coated fabrics find use in all areas of the tag and label industry.
We provide fabric facestocks to adhesive coaters for PSA (pressure sensitive adhesive)
label applications. Our coated fabrics provide unique label solutions including
labeling RFID (radio frequency identification) chips and proprietary security
features. Paper or film label materials cannot match the tear resistance, flexibility,
heat stability, and aesthetics of coated fabrics. The Worthen Coated Fabrics Label
Group collaborates with the largest label companies throughout the value chain,
from base material suppliers to printers, to create novel tags and labels from
printable coated fabrics.
Our inkjet printable fabric technology finds use in graphic
arts, and arts and crafts applications. We treat cotton fabrics with a proprietary
chemistry rendering inkjet inks water and detergent resistant. As an option, we
supply these inkjet printable fabrics with removable paper or film support backings
to assist in feeding through wide-format or narrow-format inkjet printers.
The
Worthen Coated Fabrics Label Group focuses technical resources to solve customer
problems and rapidly develop new products. We have expertise in polymer synthesis,
coating formulation development, textile science, heat seal and PSA adhesives,
and film extrusion. Our manufacturing capabilities include polymer manufacturing,
blending and mixing of large batches of coating compositions, solvent- and water-based
fabric coating, and film extrusion. We collaborate closely with fabric suppliers
and other manufacturing partners to ensure the highest quality, most cost effective
printable fabric solutions for our customers. We would like to solve your labeling
needs.