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FabricLink's Technical Center
About Us
TheTechnicalCenter.com Mission Statement
The mission of TheTechncialCenter.com is to serve as the trade-to-trade online resource for specialty textiles, including the technical sports, apparel, home furnishings, safety & protective, industrial and medical textile markets.
TheTechnicalCenter.com provides access to the newness and innovations needed to drive these dynamic markets and serves as a forum where industry businesses can create interest in their products, educate, and connect.
Through product features, articles, news releases, and interviews with key suppliers and manufacturers, TheTechnicalCenter.com provides free access to the current technical innovations and fashion trends impacting these markets.
Searchable Indexes, educational product presentations and special features make it easy to find and learn about the new raw materials and products being used, or that are becoming important in each of these markets. Hot links are provided to find more information and e-mail links to quickly make contact.
About FabricLink.com
FabricLink.com is the trade-to-consumer online resource. For 10 years, FabricLink has been the premier site for consumer textile education and product promotion. Currently, FabricLink.com averages over 150,000 visitors each month, who access the site's wealth of fabric resource and product educational information.
FabricLink.com's popularity is underscored by it's position on the major search engines, and the thousands of links to it from other sites, including publications, colleges and universities, family and consumer science programs, libraries, businesses, retailers, and trade associations around the world.
The Discovery Channel's has awared FebricLink.com its prestigious Content Rules Award, in recognition of its depth of content, placing the site in the top 1% of the thousands they review.
Please visit FabricLink.com and see for yourself. Then, contact Kathy Swantko for more information of how you can increase consumer awareness and interest in your product. FabricLink.com, the place where you customers come to learn.
About Kathlyn Swantko
Both FabricLink.com and TheTechncialCenter.com web sites were created by Kathlyn Swantko, a recognized textile expert and a tireless, pro-active advocate for the apparel and textile industries. Kathy has over 25 years of experience in the textile industry involving promotion, sales training, education, market research and editorial writing.
In 1995 she launched the award winning FabricLink which, for over 10 years, has been the premier site for consumer textile education and product promotion. At the encouragement of key industry leaders, Kathy developed TheTechnicalCenter.com in for the trade-to-trade marketing of specialty textile and textile-based products in the performance, industrial, safety & protective, medical and home furnishings markets.
Kathy serves on the textile/fashion advisory boards at California State University, Los Angles (CSULA), California Polytechnic University Pomona and Long Beach City College, and is an instructor in the CSULA Textile Production and Management Program offered through extended education.
In addition, Kathy and FabricLink.com sponsor and present industry seminars each year at the bi-annual Outdoor Retailer Shows held in Salt Lake City, UT for the Outdoor Performance Market. For more information about the seminars, go to Industry Panel Seminars.Marketing Partnership Opportunities with TheTechnicalCenter.com
All textile-based product suppliers and manufacturers are invited to take advantage of marketing opportunities with TheTechnicalCenter.com and become part of its industry resource community.
No other web site can deliver the same important, motivated trade visitors and buyers, because no other site has the editorial and educational value to the trade that TheTechncialCenter.com has.
TheTechnicalCenter.com, the place where your customers come to learn
TheTechnicalCenter.com Marketing Partnership Benefits:
For more information about joining TheTechnicalCenter.com, and finding out how it can enhance your trade marketing plan, contact:
Kathy Swantko, 818-345-7501, kswantko@fabriclink.com
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