INVISTA History
Earlier company descriptions, brand line-ups, store counts and photographs from the history of INVISTA, kept for historical reference.
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The Company Description of Its Time
INVISTA is the parent filing for two of the best-known ingredient brands in clothing, and its historical profile opens at corporate level: INVISTA is a global company creating value for its customers and shareholders across a portfolio of advantaged intermediate chemical technologies, brands, differentiated fibers, polymers and products. The apparel side of that portfolio is what earns the company its place in this directory. Its product is appropriate - the word used at the time - for swimwear, denim, intimate apparel, activewear, socks and hosiery, outerwear and more: from innerwear to outerwear, work to play, the boardroom to the beach, INVISTA's apparel products are described as versatile, transforming daily life through premium fiber products.
Relationships, Trade Shows and the Licensing Group
How the business works is described in terms of relationships and presence. Some of the most influential names in the apparel industry recognize the value of INVISTA's innovations and brands; the business establishes global relationships with top designers, enacts brand marketing activities around the world such as exclusive customer events in the world's fashion capitals, displays at major trade events across the globe within numerous apparel segments, and maintains a manufacturing or marketing presence in every major region of the world. The value chain it serves is named end to end: the business creates value not only for fabric mills, garment makers and brands, but for anyone wearing apparel made with its fibers and fabrics - what you wear, how you move and why you feel comfortable all start, in the framing of the time, with the fibers and fabrics that make up your clothing.
The profile's second company-within-the-company is INVISTA Performance Technologies, IPT - the technology licensing group within INVISTA. IPT provides the resources and know-how to deliver world-scale technology for licensing, across a growing portfolio in the value chains of polyester (PTA, polymer, fiber, and the R2R route named in the filing), polyurethane (BDO and PTMEG) and nylon (including N2O abatement). The apparel examples given are concrete and kept product-focused here: LYCRA fiber fabrics that help jeans, sweaters and shirts keep their shape instead of sagging; swimwear innovation partnerships with mills, brands and trade shows; COOLMAX technology adding cooling and drying performance to denim; and the performance brand family - COOLMAX, LYCRA SPORT, SUPPLEX and THERMOLITE - offering products designed for athletes, outdoor enthusiasts and active consumers.
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