Beverly Knits, a textile supplier based in Gastonia, N.C., is celebrating its 30th anniversary as a manufacturer of circular knits. Creative Ticking, the company’s mattress fabric sales unit, opened for business in 2005. In May 2008, Creative Ticking acquired the U.S. assets of Anton Cramer & Co., a Greven, Germany–based textile supplier.
“We integrated many of the Anton Cramer designs and patterns into our existing lines and are currently developing additional fabrics for the mattress market,” said Ronald Sytz, Creative Ticking owner and chief executive officer.
Creative Ticking markets a patented FR fabric line under the name TioTec. The collection recently was expanded to include patented TioTec Free, a chlorine–free FR fabric.
“We believe we have an important answer to chemically treated goods and, as we all know, ‘green’ is becoming increasingly important to the buying public,” said Jerry Pratt, Creative Ticking president. “TioTec Free is inherently FR, does not wash out, yet does not use any of the potentially hazardous chemicals used in fabric manufacture, including antimony, mercury, melamine and many more.”
The company’s Gastonia manufacturing facility covers 170,000 square feet and holds 180 knitting machines. The plant’s 135 employees produce more than 19 million meters of fabric annually for a number of business segments.
