Students from Danville Middle School paired up with our Pennsylvania plant for their “What’s So Cool About Manufacturing?” video contest entry, where they spent the day capturing footage and fabricating pillows. Keep an eye out for their final video (and online voting) next Spring! Click here for more info on the contest.

Our sales team was present in Las Vegas for the IHG Americas Investors & Leadership Conference (November 18-20th). The event is attended by Owners, GMs, and Sales Directors from thousands of IHG hotels across the Americas region for brand summit/sales training and networking sessions. We were happy to assist our specified brands such as Atwell Suites, Garner, Holiday Inn, and Holiday Inn Express. Click here for more details.

Fabtex returns as an exhibitor to the 2024 BWH Hotels Annual Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, and offers exclusive deals for hoteliers— a 15% off discount for the entire project when full treatments are ordered.

BWH conventions provide the latest brand updates, company performance, new revenue opportunities and upcoming initiatives for its members. BWH Hotels is a hospitality network of approximately 4,300 hotels across every chain scale segment, in over 100 countries and territories worldwide.

Seen on top is a Fabtex-donated banner for the Valley Township Fire Department’s recycling program. Fabtex has been a consistent partner of 9 of Danville, PA’s Fire Departments, sponsoring communication materials from volunteer recruitment forms to car decals, and even decking out sheds.

Last June 25-26, we helped sponsor the Hilton Focused Service Design Summit in Memphis, TN— an educational forum for design firms on the Hilton design submittal process. Our VP for sales, Eric Frantz, was there to entertain questions from about 90 attendees from firms that work on Focused Service and Extended Stay projects. Learn more about out Hilton offerings here.

We’re back on our annual pilgrimage to both the AAHOA 2024 in Orlando, Florida from April 2 – 5, and Choice Hotels International 2024 Convention from April 30 – May 2 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Around 12,000 hoteliers are expected to attend, and we’re excited to meet and assist all of our brand partners!

Our new billboards in Las Gaviotas, Baja California are up, along with marketing banners in neighboring condominiums. Fabtex, long considered as Tijuana’s best kept secret for quality window treatments, is amplifying its presence in the region to attract local hospitality establishments.

Fabtex’s sales and purchasing team toured the MTL fabric mill in Jessup, PA to learn more about their products and manufacturing processes. MTL’s attention to detail and drive to produce top-tier products were evident, and hopefully we can work with them soon!

Fabtex hosted the Central PA Chamber of Commerce’s Inside Jobs Tour where guests were given a behind-the-scenes look at the tools and materials we use in making our products. The tour, which we have hosted for the 2nd year in a row, helps raise our community profile and network with PA business owners. Those in attendance were thrilled to fabricate their own pillows!

Fabtex exhibited at the 2023 Baja International Construction Expo last September 28-29 at the Baja California Center Convention Center in Tijuana, Mexico. Fabtex joins over 100 exhibitors in bringing new innovations in construction technologies to the 3500 show attendees.

Fabtex returns as an exhibitor to the 2023 BWH Hotels Annual Convention in beautiful Honolulu, Hawaii, offering exclusive deals for hoteliers.

BWH conventions provide the latest brand updates, company performance, new revenue opportunities and upcoming initiatives for its members. This year also featured the highly rated Women and Diversity Forum and golf outings.

To make parts ordering as frictionless and as efficient as possible, Fabtex launched its online store today. The portal promises to speed up the processing and delivery of parts that are critical to the daily operations of our clients.

Dubbed “Fabtex Shop”, we currently offer about 60 of our most in-demand replacement parts for roller shades, drapery, as well as some limited-stock bed coverings, with more to be added soon. Head over to https://fabtexshop.com/ to see the complete catalog.

Fabtex is getting out into the community this summer starting with Orange County Coast Keeper’s volunteer beach clean-up! Our volunteers picked up bags and bags of trash in this monthly cleanup at Huntington Beach, adding to the hundreds of thousands removed since the initiative started in 2011.

Fabtex is a proud supporter of Relay For Life, one of the largest peer-to-peer fundraising events in the world dedicated to helping communities attack cancer. The June 10 event at the Danville Middle School in Pennsylvania had community members taking turns walking around a track lined with luminaria bags, honoring cancer survivors and caregivers alike. 

Our 3-day exhibit at the HD Expo + Conference in Las Vegas was a success! Fabtex, as the hospitality sales channel of Winsol & Crown Shade Company, proudly displayed our new ‘Dress Up the Outdoors’ offerings of custom pergolas, shades, drapes, prints & pillows. We also sourced for representatives for our open territories across the nation. 

Get the full brochure <here>.

The 3rd annual What’s So Cool About Manufacturing video contest for Central Susquehanna of Pennsylvania culminated in an awards ceremony today where the Warrior Run Middle School won the Outstanding Brand Placement award with Fabtex!

Our congratulations to all the winners including to the Selinsgrove and Central Columbia teams as they head to the statewide competition on May 15th in Harrisburg. The contest encourages students to explore cool manufacturing careers and produce profiles of companies throughout Pennsylvania and features 10 schools from Columbia, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Snyder, and Union counties.

Hilton’s new brand, Spark by Hilton, fills an open space in the industry by creating a new premium economy lodging option to meet the needs of even more guests and owners seeking value, quality and consistency.  

With more than 100 deals already in various stages of development, Spark by Hilton leverages a conversion model to offer a compelling investment option for hotel owners. Fabtex is happy to announce that we’re a specified vendor for the window treatments of guestrooms and public spaces for all new Spark owners.

Fabtex kickstarts its tradeshow season with 2 shows this 2nd quarter:

The Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA) Convention from April 11-14, 2023 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. It’s the nation’s largest event exclusively for hotel owners, bringing together the industry who’s who for networking and learning. Come visit us at booth 437.

The HD Expo + Conference from May 2-4, 2023 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. This is the largest destination for hospitality product discovery in the US. We’ll be at booth 3505.

New Year, New Office. Our California corporate headquarters is moving to a fresh new building at the heart of the birthplace of the electric guitar: Fullerton.

Our new address is at 615 S State College Blvd., Fullerton, CA 92831. All our contact numbers remain the same. Come say hi whenever you’re in the neighborhood!

What’s turning into an annual Christmas tradition, Fabtex donated dozens of gifts to the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree program for underprivileged kids 12 and under. We believe every child deserves to feel the joy of Christmas, that’s why both the Pennsylvania and California offices pitched it to sponsor children so they have something to open up on Christmas morning.

Fabtex also supported Families Forward, an organization that helps families in need to achieve and maintain self-sufficiency through housing, food, counseling, and other support services. This year Fabtex fulfilled gifts from the ‘wish lists’ of at-risk teens.

The Ronald McDonald House of Danville provides free lodging to families of critically ill children who are either hospitalized or receiving outpatient care. We manufactured and donated 45 new decorative bed covers to assist in making those families feel more at home while staying at their “Home Away from Home.”

In this season of gratitude, we are thankful for local organizations like RMHC who support local families through difficult times. For more information on RMHC Danville, you can visit their website: https://lnkd.in/gjfXvhrD

The annual What’s So Cool About Manufacturing® video contests excite students to explore cool manufacturing careers and produce profiles of companies throughout Pennsylvania— showing them that today’s factory work are not always loud, dirty, monotonous or dead end jobs. This year, Jr. High students from the Warrior Run School District got their hands-on training with Fabtex.

Seen here is their firsthand demo on the computerized pillow stuffing machine. From machine operators to process improvement managers, the kids were exposed to the various types of work and skills it takes to support a manufacturing facility. Plus, each kid got to create and bring home their very own pillows!

Spotted: Fabtex is back at the Best Western International Annual Convention. From October 28-29 in Cleveland, Ohio, we showcased our Window Treatment in a Box schemes which made designing window treatments simpler— giving hoteliers 6 spec-approved design options where they can mix and match colors to reflect their personality while keeping with the sleek Best Western look.

The Fabtex Sales & Process Improvement Team were hard at work at the IFAI or Advanced Textiles Expo, where they browsed hundreds of exhibitors and learned new technology in the Advanced Textiles, Specialty Fabrics, and Shade and Weather Protection markets.

Our delegates also attended plenary sessions, networking luncheons, and classroom education sessions on Innovations in E-Textiles, 3D Printing, Medical Textile Breakthroughs, and Sustainability in Advanced Textiles.

Fabtex enjoyed hosting guests from the Innovative Manufacturers Center and Central PA Chamber of Commerce for an Inside Jobs Tour as part of a National Manufacturing Month celebration. After providing a quick backgrounder on the company that is “the performance pacesetter of the fabric fashion industry” in the hospitality and healthcare industries, we put our visitors to work, and we’re happy to report we had no “recordable” injuries.

Pennsylvania State Treasurer, Stacy Garrity, was with Fabtex’s VP of Sales, Eric Frantz, at our Danville, PA plant discussing possible partnerships and funding resources. Fabtex is always keen on exploring new channels to grow its business and is aligned with Garrity’s focus on fiscal transparency and waste-cutting.

This visit also coincides with the first sojourn of Bucknell University engineering students for their months-long collaboration with Fabtex for their capstone project.

We donated leftover fabric to the Nottingham Assisted Living in Northumberland, PA. We can’t wait for them to share some of their craft projects with us and to see all they create. We enjoy opportunities like this to give back to our local community.

It was great to be back at the Hospitality Design Exposition & Conference. The 3-day event at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center brought hoteliers, commercial designers, architects, developers, purchasing firms, and product suppliers to find new design inspiration provided by leading commercial suppliers and imaginative specialty vendors. We were proud to showcase our in-house printed, no-MOQ, roller shades, banners and wallpapers.

What a great first day at AAHOA! The largest hotel owners association in the nation (its 19,500+ AAHOA Members own almost one in every two hotels in the US) came together in Baltimore, MD for its annual convention, bringing together the who’s who of the industry for networking, learning, and deal-making on the show floor.

Our Danville, PA location partnered with KidsPeace to help children in the local foster care program have a brighter Christmas. We watched them drive away with a truck full of gifts and $150 worth of gift cards!
Our Orange, CA location partnered with two organizations: Families First to provide local teens of struggling families with Christmas gifts, and Toys for Tots to donate toys to children for Christmas. The team was able to donate 80 gifts total!