NatureWorks LLC partners with TEXbase Inc to manage the Ingeo brand
02 Sep '05
3 min read
In addition to helping customers save money, TEXbase is also helping customers make money. In addition to internal data management tools, Textile Marketing Manager also offers real-time integration with customer websites through TEXbase's service oriented software architecture. “NatureWorks is capturing mind share and increasing market share for Ingeo fibers. The way in which data from TEXbase integrates instantly with NatureWorks' website allows us to cost effectively educate downstream buyers about who is making what products using our polymer. Textile Marketing Manager is helping us build momentum in the marketplace and pull our polymer through the chain” continued Davies. NatureWorks has over 500 fabrics from over 150 approved suppliers in an ever-expanding online library built by TEXbase.
For more information about TEXbase and its line of products including Textile Marketing Manager, visit www.TEXbase.com.
TEXbase provides technical textile and apparel companies with product data management (PDM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) enhancing software that streamlines product development, quality control, and marketing efforts. TEXbase Online offers the most powerful textile laboratory information management system (LIMS) on the planet. From concept through production, TEXbase can accelerate your textile innovations. Online at www.TEXbase.com.
Based in Minnetonka, Minn. with manufacturing facilities in Blair, Neb., NatureWorks LLC is the first company to offer a family of commercially available polymers derived 100 percent from annually renewable resources with cost and performance that compete with petroleum-based packaging materials and fibers.
The company applies its unique technology to the processing of natural plant sugars to create a proprietary polylactide polymer, which is marketed under the NatureWorks PLA and Ingeo fiber brand names. For more information about NatureWorks and its brands, please visit www.NatureWorksLLC.com or www.IngeoFibers.com.