Coats launches hook and loop fasteners – Coats Connect
- 12 Sep 2013
World leading industrial thread and consumer textile crafts business Coats plc launches Coats Connect hook and loop fasteners, a new product in our high quality trims range.
Coats Connect has been developed in close cooperation with market leading suppliers and textile manufacturers to provide customised fastening solutions that meet a wide variety of customer needs.
The hook and loop fasteners can be utilised across a wide range of products including apparel, footwear, protective clothing, bags and travel goods, sports and outdoor equipment, furniture and upholstery, home textiles and interiors, medical, packaging and mattresses and bedding.
Rajiv Sharma, Chief Executive Officer, Industrial, Coats plc, said: ‘Coats Connect is an important addition to our highly regarded trims range. The product provides customers with durable, flexible fastening solutions across a wide variety of products and is yet another example of Coats’ varied portfolio of apparel, footwear and specialty thread, yarn and zip innovations.’
In addition to the many widths and shades available in the core Coats Connect range, a portfolio of special variants such as adhesive, flame resistant and elastic hook and loop fasteners are available as well as specialist solutions such as a marine series suitable for lifejackets, diving suits and rain coats.
Coats Connect is available globally.
To download a high resolution image for Coats Connect go to: www.coats.com/imagelibrary
To find out more about Coats Connect go to: https://coats-dev.addison-group.net/Products/Trims/Connect/Connect
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For more information contact:
Kristina Blissett, Communications Manager kristina.blissett@coats.com
T +44 (0)20 8210 5084, M +44 (0)7714 539887
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About Coats
With a rich heritage dating back to the 1750s, Coats is the world's leading industrial thread and consumer textile crafts business, at home in more than 70 countries, employing over 20,000 people across six continents. Revenues in 2012 were US$1.7bn.
Our well-known brands and strong relationships with customers and consumers mean our products and services meet current and future needs. Our company-wide understanding of our business partners and consumers, coupled with the deep expertise of our people, builds trust and certainty.
Coats’ pioneering history and innovative culture ensure the company continues leading the way around the world: providing complementary and value added products and services to the apparel and footwear industries; extending the crafts offer into new markets and online; and applying innovative techniques to develop products in new areas such as tracer threads, aramids and fibre optics.
- One in five garments on the planet is held together using Coats’ thread
- 75 million car airbags are made using Coats’ thread every year
- Coats produces enough yarn to knit 65 million scarves a year
- In three and a half hours, Coats makes enough thread to go to the moon and back
- 300 million pairs of shoes are made every year using Coats’ thread
- One million teabags using Coats’ thread are brewed every 10 minutes
- Thousands of surgical operations take place every day using Coats’ thread
- Thomas Edison used Coats’ thread in 1879 to invent the light bulb
- Coats produces enough thread to reach around the Equator every 11 minutes
- Coats is the second largest and fastest growing global zip manufacturer
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