The fabric of success PGI

THE FABRIC OF SUCCESS

PGI (Polymer Group Inc.) is one of the world’s leading producers of nonwovens and a global technology-driven developer, producer and marketer of engineered materials. It is currently repositioning itself to meet future growth opportunities.

Polymer Group Inc. (PGI) is a leading global engineered materials company, focused primarily on the production of nonwovens for the hygiene, wipes, medical, and industrial markets.

With one of the largest global platforms in the industry, PGI operates 13 manufacturing and converting facilities throughout nine countries. More than 3,000 employees worldwide power the company’s purpose – to be the premiere partner of choice for companies seeking innovative products that simply perform better and offer superior value. PGI achieves this by delivering exceptional customer service and innovative solutions that help its clients succeed.

PGI’s extensive experience makes it a total-systems supplier for many of its clients, which include multi-national and regional consumer and industrial product manufacturers. A big part of what makes this possible is PGI’s global reach and international market expertise.

PGI is strategically located near many of its key customers in order to increase its effectiveness in addressing local and regional demand. Its manufacturing facilities reach across North and South America, Asia and Europe. In Europe alone it has plants in France, Spain and the Netherlands.

Hygiene and healthcare

PGI is the leading global supplier of nonwoven fabrics for hygiene products. It meets demanding specifications for components in baby care (diapers and training pants), adult care (adult incontinence diapers, underwear, briefs and pads and bed under-pads) and feminine care (napkins, panty liners and tampons).

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In the healthcare sector PGI is the number one global supplier of nonwoven fabrics for infection control, medical apparel and wound care.

Its products are used in surgical gowns and patient drapes, healthcare worker and patient apparel (isolation gowns, patient gowns, headwear, footwear, warm-up jackets, scrub suits, lab coats, etc.), face masks, wound care substrates, CSR wrap and transfer wrap and medical accessories (Back table covers, Mayo stand covers, patient screens, bed linens, baby blankets, etc.)

Cleaning fabrics

PGI is also the premier worldwide manufacturer of nonwoven cleaning fabrics and finished packaged wipes. Its Chicopee subsidiary is built on more than 60 years of experience as a former Johnson & Johnson company and today offers a wide array of wiping products to meet every consumer and professional need. PGI operates two Chicopee divisions: North America and Europe. Each location provides unrivalled expertise in wiping applications and industry-leading technology that delivers high quality products with enhanced characteristics, such as superior absorbency, strength, durability and softness. Chicopee Europe provides finished, packaged wipes and roll goods engineered for automotive, aftermarket, foodservice, building care, industry, health care, consumer home care and consumer personal care applications.

Industrial fabrics

PGI’s Industrial Group offers a broad range of high-performance and high-value engineered fabrics that employ a variety of process technologies, fibers and resins to create the right system for any application.

Its Construction, Cable Wrap and Home Furnishings products include fabrics for flooring, concrete reinforcement fibers, telecommunications cable wrap, house wrap, window shades, bedding and flame retardant components and furniture. Its Agriculture, Filtration and Food Packaging products serve applications in air and liquid filtration, components for filtration, tea bags, food tray liners and thermal packaging. Automotive & Acoustics product applications include trunk liners, wheel well liners, package trays, partial mold barrier, dash insulator, deck lid and auto acoustics.

Planning for the future

In 2012 PGI announced began implementing a new internal operating framework – realigning and repositioning its organization to consolidate the benefits of its global footprint, align resources and capabilities with future growth opportunities, and provide for a more efficient structure to serve existing markets.

The major components of the organizational change include heightening the focus of concentrated resources around PGI’s global markets, with a consolidated strategic approach to each of its geographies and scalable innovation capabilities, gaining further efficiencies through a focused and standardized approach to world-class operational excellence across the supply chain and combining the strengths of the company’s existing U.S. and Latin American footprint to create a consolidated Americas region that contains greater efficiencies to serve broader markets.

“PGI has evolved from a collection of segregated companies and units in the 1990s to our current globally organized company with four, major regional footprints,” said Veronica M. Hagen, chief executive officer. “We are now ready to move the company boldly to new levels of competency, ready and capable of realizing the full potential of our global footprint for competitive advantage.”

These changes are the result of PGI’s long-term planning and evaluation to respond to market dynamics, resource new growth opportunities, and benefit from the company’s global scale. In designing the new operating framework, PGI is creating a more sustainable future for its customers and employees. n