INVISTA - Fashion Company Profile
INVISTA is the Wichita fiber, resin and intermediates company created from DuPont's textile fibers business and owned by Koch Industries since 2004 - the company that once owned the LYCRA and COOLMAX fiber brands, and sold its apparel textiles business in 2019 to what is now The LYCRA Company.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Operating - a fiber, resin and intermediates company. Its Apparel & Advanced Textiles business - including the LYCRA, COOLMAX and THERMOLITE brands - was sold in 2019 and now operates as The LYCRA Company, so INVISTA no longer owns those apparel brands
- Type
- Private - a subsidiary of Koch Industries since 2004
- Headquarters
- Wichita, Kansas, United States
- Founded
- 2003, as DuPont Textiles and Interiors; renamed INVISTA and sold by DuPont to Koch Industries in 2004
Company Profile
A B2B intermediates and fiber supplier carries no shop box: INVISTA sells to mills, manufacturers and licensees, not to shoppers. The earlier record - the apparel portfolio as it stood before the 2019 sale, its trademark registrations and applications, and the INVISTA Performance Technologies licensing group - is kept in full on the history page. For LYCRA and COOLMAX today, see The LYCRA Company, linked from those brands' own profiles in this section.
The brand line-up is stated in one sentence and it anchors this whole corner of the letter: comprised of a line-up of powerful, global consumer brands - including LYCRA fiber and COOLMAX fiber - the business delivers comfort and fashion in premium garments. Those two brands have their own filings beside this one, and the routes on this page lead to both: the COOLMAX page for moisture management and cooling, and the LYCRA page for elastane fit and shape. The parent's scale marker is intellectual property: INVISTA Apparel & Advanced Textiles holds more than 2,000 issued registrations and pending applications worldwide, covering the trademarks and innovations the brands are built on.
INVISTA History
The earlier record for this company - its history, past brand line-ups, figures and photographs from the periods described - is kept on a separate page for historical reference.
INVISTA History & Historical Profile →Common Questions
Does INVISTA still own LYCRA and COOLMAX?
No. INVISTA completed the sale of its Apparel & Advanced Textiles business, including LYCRA, COOLMAX and THERMOLITE, on January 31, 2019; that business now operates as The LYCRA Company.
What does INVISTA do now?
INVISTA is a Koch Industries subsidiary making fibers, resins and chemical intermediates, including its nylon 6,6 intermediates and polymer businesses, and licensing process technologies worldwide.
When was INVISTA founded?
It was formed in 2003 as DuPont Textiles and Interiors, renamed INVISTA, and sold by DuPont to Koch Industries in 2004.
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