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 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
