Fibres Applications Guidance
Our fibre
suppliers
Guidance in selecting the fibres suited to each application.
Our network
Our fibre suppliers are the producers that provide us with the raw material: natural, artificial and synthetic fibres, including recycled ones. We blend and process them in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce into cones ready for your looms and knitting machines. Our customers are North American and global weaving and knitting companies.
The choice of this material determines the performance of your finished product, the colours available to you and most of its carbon footprint. It is made with you, based on your application and your performance requirements, before production starts.
The value of our suppliers
What these suppliers mean for your order
Available material. We do not produce our own fibres. The range we can offer you is therefore exactly that of our suppliers, which is why we work with more than one. Two different materials sometimes meet the same requirement, yet differ in price, hand (the feel of the textile) and behaviour in production.
Joint development. A requirement for which no material exists yet cannot be settled by two parties alone. The pilot project carried out with CTTEI and Groupe Calko, funded by TechniTextile, is an example. The details of this project are on the Sustainability page.
That leaves carbon, and this is where the supplier carries the most weight. Nearly 90% of an order’s greenhouse gas emissions, within 5 percentage points, come from the fibre itself. Transport accounts for about 5%, not counting the round trip of materials to Italy, and plant electricity for less than 0.5%. The producer your material comes from therefore counts for more, in your footprint, than our entire process. This footprint comes from our GHG inventory, calculated in-house according to the GHG Protocol, whose methodology was reviewed by the independent firm CCG Climat: how we calculate it.
Our suppliers
What do we do with our suppliers’ fibre?
We choose it, then we process it. The material arrives in bales at our Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce plant, where it is opened, aerated and assembled according to the recipe planned for your order. The same technical requirement can often be met with several materials, alone or in blends. The proportions are what give the performance and the shade requested.
The supplier controls its fibre, its grades and its documentation. We control what happens to that material between the bale and the cone. Our ten-step process is described on the Expertise page.
Which fibre brands do we display?
All the ones we work with. We can name our fibre suppliers, and the list of brands we spin, including AKSA and Dri Release, is on the Technical information page.
The three fibre families we work with are detailed on the Technical information page. Recycled fibres, for their part, come from specialized suppliers, and their proportion depends on the application.
Describe your application and the target standard to us. Our technical team will tell you which materials meet it and which ones we source.
Collaboration partner
Moveina, driven by members of the Régitex team, is our collaboration partner: each company supplies the other and entrusts it with projects.
Become a fibre supplier
Do you produce a technical, recycled or natural fibre, and are you looking for a processor in Quebec? Contact our sales team. If your material interests us, we will ask you for a technical data sheet, a sample and a trial volume, then our technical team will evaluate it before offering it to our customers. And if it is a supplier you are looking for, for your own production, tell us what your product has to do.