HTC Services that Impact our Industry

Listed below are other HTC services and their impact on the domestic industry.

• Testing - Impact to the Industry
• Many mills have launched new product lines based on the tests run by HTC Testing Lab. 
• Saved on yarn claims over $400,000 where the yarn company and manufacturer would have been charged with a large chargeback.
• Have done many retests of tests run by outside labs which have saved companies many charge-backs. One led to the saving of an extremely large product line from a major retailer worth millions of $. 
• Have picked up testing for Kmart at HTC. 

• Hosiery Consortium
  • Work to date
  • http://www.legsource.com/Hosiery_Consortium_Testing/sock_consortium_home.htm
  • Phase 1 Fit
  • Phase 2 Fit
  • Abrasion

• Trials developed for yarn vendors
• Market development work for Contract Alliance
• Finding New Markets for The Industry.
• Others 

• LEGSOURCE
• Taking HTC services outside North Carolina
• Video Conferencing

• Over 4500 hits per day from over 350 unique users
• Over 240 megabytes in size
• Traffic worldwide from over 25 foreign countries
• Over 20 websites developed for manufacturers and suppliers (10 more currently being developed)
• New product and service rollouts for manufacturers and suppliers
• Building push technology infrastructure for enhanced industry communication

• Environmental
  • Wastewater analysis
  • Detection of residual particles on fabric
  • Others