Lowering Our Face Weight

Nood promises to do the next right thing as soon as the next right thing comes along. We promise to CHANGE and EVOLVE and that is not an empty promise. We are committed to lowering our footprint and in this case, it means lowering the weight of many of our products. We are happy to announce that we have introduced new yarn technology in partnership with Ascend(previously Solutia) to overhaul our collection of Ultron 6.6 yarns. We will be moving to a 900 denier building block that will allow us to increase our typical 2-ply twisted and heatset yarn to a 1800 denier product. This will significantly lower the weight while increasing our GBW(green by weight) percentages. We will achieve this technically by lowering pile height and increasing stitch rate. The easy explanation is that the yarn is bigger and we can get better coverage at lower pile heights allowing us to significantly lower the amount of yarn(petroleum) needed.. This has altered the specifications and any new requests for specs will show the relevant changes. There will be two slight challenges as we transition. Any signed strike-offs for orders will need to be re-done in the appropriate fabric if there is not sufficient greige goods in inventory to fill the order. This may create some frustration but it is imperative that we stay true to our commitments. We will proactive address outstanding strike-offs if the probability of getting an order is high based on sales partner input on the 30/60/90 projections from the sales partners.

I can hear some of you thinking that pricing is going to go way down. There is some reality to the notion that lowering weight means less fiber for Nood to buy but there is an increased cost to processing the larger yarn so don’t expect any crazy price adjustments. The following is a list of the products that will be effected. Go change the world one designer at a time!