F at Sree Co how pie tim s e
Volume 28, Number 3
Summer 2018
The Global Home & Contract Sourcing Newspaper
Shade Specialist Comfortex Rolls Out Digitally Printed Custom Made Drapery for Consumers, Designers Online Company Sees $50 Million Business in Custom Soft Window Treatments F&FI News Network
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APLEWOOD, New York — After 32 years in the window shade business under the Color Lux brand, Tom Marusak, the 67 y/o founder of the $50 million plus operation,
says that Comfortex is now moving into digitally printed draperies, valences and cornices which coordinates with its own line of hard window treatments. He feels there is another $50 million in sales in the soft window treatment market, especially
if Comortex concentrates on the 65,000 plus interior designers in North America. Comfortex started to digitally print Roman shades, roller shades, cellular and pleated shade fabrics in utra violet inks five years ago using its own wide
format printers in its 180,000 square foot plant near Albany, N.Y. “The company employs 300 people and is taking on more of a design-driven culture due to its thirty-something aged employees,” says Marusak, a former
aerospace engineer with a specialty in solar architecture. Just two years ago, Comfortex started to print three different kinds of polyester basecloths in highly textured faux linen, matte and luster finished sateen and for (continued on Page 13)
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