Actuality 2004 at Texbosa

Fruit of the work in 2003, we can announce the best improvements in the first half of 2004.

As always these contributions have as an objective improve the adaptation to the market of our customers. Without them Texbosa wouldn’t have reason to exist.

• We have recently started with a new planning program.
• We have incorporated a Martindale device in our laboratory.
• We have improved the acoustic work conditions and room temperature.

In consequence of these actions:

From June ’04 the production management gets the information in an automate way and immediately from the commercial department. The transmission of the information on paper will be also operative, but any department will have to wait the previous one to be able to foresee its resources needs.

A common computer program does this transmission in double way, giving an important saving of time and a increasing of the control and the conscience to both departments and it is especially healthy and positive.

We can offer to our customers the guarantee of a certain abrasion degree (resistance of 5/10/25/30 mil cycles Martindale...); this is especially interesting in outer items.

With this analysis we can assure that the outer fabric will have the life desired.

We have installed a frequency alter to the turbine in our furnace of printing and drying. Also 5 meters of the furnace have been insulated to avoid the irradiation. This change allows us to work in better work conditions of temperature and noise than last summer. This is a measure with profound effects in all levels that we are especially satisfied.

Perfection does not exist but improving does, this progress in our system generate a better improving of service to our customers and an extension of the possibilities of our products.

International Conference about the quality in the textile industry

It is planned for July 2004, this meeting of 100 technicians whose responsibility is to unify the world textile guidelines. Coming from 12 countries, these professionals, most of them engineers, debate the rules and their translation. The aim of this classification is that the production of a fabric will be coherent and consensus in the 5 continents according to a required specification.

This difficult intercultural mission is a challenge of positive globalization, and good for the planet. In this context, Textil Bordes S.A. – Texbosa, furthermore taking part in the conference , what we are proud, as Technicians and we assume part of the organization supplying briefcases in which the important documents will be handed in.

Design – April 2004

Texbosa starts a main creative activity.

In the last Iberpiel edition in Madrid these sleepers were launched with a design of Texbosa

The instep of these sleepers is made with two fabrics united with latex. Upper fabric is printed with a high-resolution four printing. The fabrics have been chosen, bearing in mind, the task to develop, guaranteeing the resistance or the printing quality.

The technical contribution is added to the knowledge of this sector and its tendencies previously shared with the client. Thanks to this coordination, our client obtains more value in only one deal:

A part of having a fabric technically right, obtains a perfect outer appearance appropriated for its selling project.

In this project, our customer has got the option to acquire the copyright produced and managed by Texbosa.

So our customer saved the risk of working with originals with doubt origin and / or doubtful property.

To sum up: the design and production structures coincide each other and they are coordinated to obtain first textile fabrics with the image and the design desired with full guarantee of copyright.

Actuality in Texbosa (2003)

Textil Bordes S.A. – Texbosa, in a consequently way with our line of work to achieve that our clients increase the quality and quantity of its sold products, we does inversions in human resources and equipment to offer a bigger variety of products that will remark the difference between others in the market.

New staff has been incorporated to supply and sell in all countries around the world.

Machinery has been updated, incorporating new technologies.

New inversions have been done to improve the working conditions of our staff.

New machinery has been incorporated to enlarge the offer in the printed items.

The control quality laboratory has been enlarged to guarantee the process (strength of the seams).

Texbosa’s look has been renewed by means of new catalogues and advertising in the Net.

We are sure, from all these new contributions, to be able to give our customers the best service and product to collaborate with the leather manufacturers industry.

We are proud to work with outstanding and excellent trade marks in different markets that guarantee our ability and quality service.

In conclusion with the described actuality we can offer:

A finishing for the polyester lining (flat or jacquard) that has a soft touch with the best resistance, the TPH guaranteed by the British Standard data, allow us to offer our polyester lining for handbag in the best level of quality in Europe.

We have incorporated new printing machinery to print in six colours. With this new machine we have been able to participate in publicity promotions, as a spanish petfood trademark, that has been advertised on TV. Also we are doing progress to offer four-printing with full guaranties.

We have started business in the United Kingdom, and we are proud to announce that we have fulfilled orders satisfactorily to Dunhill and Glennroyal. The first visit was in November ’02.

Our warehouse and cutting process have been modernized and mechanized, and also communication systems have been improved; all this allows us to increase our logistic production, our cutting production and the service to the customer. We have changed our storage system from fixed to mobile containers. Also we have invested in a new cutting line, where the quality and quantity have been increased successfully.

Our customers and suppliers can always reach us via e-mail at tb@texbosa.com or by phone at +34 661 287 453.

We have made considerable improvements in our laboratory. We can serve the goods, with an assurance of the colour reproduction (according to the spectrofotometer study alpha tolerance), solidity of the colour (dry and damp), and resistance of the seams (international recognized proof). All this leaves us in an outstanding position towards the main problems and incidents that have been happening in the leather goods industry. This measures are joined to the traditional ones of our trade that we are doing with the best carefulness.

It’s been launched the first umbrella with Texbosa’s jacquard.

In a full adaptation to the umbrella’s industry to the abroad import and following with a policy of difference, a new line of umbrella will be presented on the next edition of Intergift (Madrid) this September.

A jacquard that imitates Gaudí mosaics, joining together 4 colours, gives a personality to the umbrella, basically urban, and thanks to the green colour, can be perfectly adapted to a natural environment. The other colours: beige, marine, cherry and dark red are more suitable to be excelled in a boulevard or avenue.

Nathan-Baume News

The Belgian trademark Nathan-Baume, to whom high society personalities go to their boutiques, has launched, with a wealth of detail, its new line of travel in jacquard.

This new line is developed after making a high quality jacquard, made in Spain by a Catalonian company specialized in the leather industries of high quality.

The finishings that are of high quality and the most meticulous details makes all the pieces as a object of desire, to who consider their leisure as a personalized satisfaction, well prepared, well studied, and consequently with the optimum results. We can say that the result is directly proportional to the creative, technical and practical effort. Don’t you think this often happens in many matters in the life?

This thought the first customers who do not doubt to acquire the pieces that were adapted to their needs. Then in this line it’s been coordinated the visual attraction of its jacquard, the forms, the metallic accessories and the experience of the professionals of travel-ware goods who have provided it with all the features, and application that can be needed.

This line has completed the offer already existing in handbag and small leather-ware goods. It’s available in the same jacquard in days before and it is another consequence of the drive that this mark is doing from its European expansion from Brussels.

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Tendencies on our sector

We are a textile company and we are specialized in the Leather industry. Our staff are 18 people and recently we have taken the necessary steps to have a management gestion in the quality ISO 9001/2000.

It’s no difficult to see that leather goods with an important labour component have the tendency to be delocated.

This concept has been enough extend to know that it’s no necessary an analytical exposition about the total annual increasing of the items exported “made in China” on a worldwide level, or about the number of European manufacturers desapeared in Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy...etc.

What is important to say is how the internal production of this sector is developing in the European countries.

We can see as items “made in CE” are still being produced in Europe thanks to a increasing demand in specifications and technical controls and a fast updating and a constant trend. Both criteria ( Quality and Speed) allows to keep the production activity in this sector and also to keep the “know how” and the relief generation to generation.

As the speed and the quality also develop in the rest of the world through logistic operators, telecommunication systems and modern manufacture systems, new items “design in CE” are appearing so that Europe is still selling its product thanks to the selection work of the raw materials and the prototype design, in this case the management is sold and the trade culture weaken.

In any case, bearing this in mind, the part of main concern to us is better to supervise rather than being actors of the process.

Many companies have kept its turnover giving part of the business to the commercialition. This takes them to a bigger marketing action, approaching its product to more specific groups.

So more and more specifications, more control and more quality are required.

Also punctuality concepts, product presentation, after-sales service, and the satisfaction of the customer are growing in importance. In the prospect of this situation that is lasting five years ago, we write this article to bring closer the concepts of ISO 9000/2000, Total management of the quality, Systems to improve constantly, Managerial excellence...Sometimes we think that they are relevant and advisable for the sector.

Due to the whole spectrum distribution of small companies, the leather industry lives in a paradox where it’s considered that the product is a “Quality Product”, but if we go through the production line, we find some important gaps in the control of it.

We have recently introduced a system to guarantee the quality ISO 9001/2000, and despite of the work and effort we have done, we believe that is completely advisable and viable for small companies from 10 workers. Consequently, this will improve the business and relationship with our customers.