BondCote News and Headlines




2/13/13 - BondCote Corporation is being represented at IDEX 2013 in Abu Dhabi, UAE by the US Department of Commerce, Hall 3, Stand 068a. Primary fabrics being presented are Extreme Insulation and OakTree fabrics. Both are designed to provide energy savings in both hot and cold climates for the tent market. Representative samples and data are available at the stand.


1/15/13 - IFAI Tent EXPO 2013 Bound… BondCote will exhibit for the first time at the IFAI Tent EXPO on January 22 – 24, 2013 at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, FL. We will be introducing our latest product offerings for wall, roof, and insulation. Visit our website, www.bondcote.com, to download VIP Pass for FREE admission to the Tent EXPO 2013 exhibits. Drop by to meet with us at lucky booth #13. Or, don’t hesitate to email us to set up a meeting in advance; mleonard@bondcote.com. We do look forward to seeing you.



11/1/12 - BondCote Corporation Names Derek Klinedinst, Ph.D. as Research Chemical Engineer

BondCote Corporation announces that Derek Klinedinst, Ph.D. has been named Research Chemical Engineer for the company.

Dr. Klinedinst will expand BondCote’s development of new chemistries related to high performance coated industrial textiles.

Dr. Klinedinst earned a Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. He also has Masters in Engineering in Materials Science & Engineering and M.S. in Materials Science; as well as B.S.E.S in Engineering Science.

BondCote has been a leading industrial fabric supplier since 1949, providing quality performance engineered coated, laminated, and composite fabrics for military, trucking, recreation, safety, tent and oil boom markets. BondCote is a small business that continues to manufacture in Pulaski, Virginia USA.

Specialty Fabrics Review, January 2013

10/29/12 - BondCote Corporation Names Michael Hoadley as Chemist.

BondCote Corporation announces that Michael Hoadley has been named Chemist. Mr. Hoadley has a Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering from Michigan Technological University. He also has an Associates Degree in Biology.

BondCote has been a leading industrial fabric supplier since 1949, providing quality performance engineered coated, laminated, and composite fabrics for military, trucking, recreation, safety, tent and oil boom markets. BondCote is a small business that continues to manufacture in Pulaski, Virginia USA.


8/7/12 - BondCote Corporation recently received a contract award from DLA Troop Support. The award is valued at $2,086,935 over a three year period forminated cloth. After 63 years, BondCote continues to support the US military supplying highly engineered fabrics with exceptional quality and customer service.


6/1/12 - BondCote's latest energy efficient developments for soft wall shelters will be on display at Eurosatory 2012. As energy efficiency continues to be a looming issue for military operations, new technologies such as Extreme 250 Insulating Fabrics and OakTree(TM) Shade Fabrics allow for conservation of invaluable energy that can be distributed elsewhere throughout operational environments. Information and fabric samples will be available at US Department of Commerce booth, Hall 6 JK 669. BondCote will also be on site Monday through Wednesday. Take a look at our Extreme 250 Insulation Material.

5/18/12 - BondCote is now featured on Defence-Suppliers.com. Defence-Suppliers provides a unique platform to present your latest equipment and systems to the world’s defence and security industry. View the defence-suppliers.com page

04/1/12 - (Printed in the SouthWest Times Newspaper, Pulaski, VA)
Pulaski Rocks @ BondCote By: Neesey Payne
While other textile companies are shipping their headquarters overseas; BondCote has remained a staple in Pulaski County for over 60 years. How is this possible? According to Ted Anderson president and CEO, the company’s longevity in the community is credited to “our employees, technical development and production capabilities.” BondCote is a “textile converter,” which takes fabric and supplies it to companies that make various products such as transportation and swimming pool covers. However, the largest market for which BondCote supplies is the armed forces; making fabrics that serve as tents, shelter and covers for Humvee’s and other equipment.



The company specializes in creating new fabrics based on the needs of customer’s requests; BondCote has many products in the works. These products include creating a fabric that shields signals. For example the fabric would not allow a cell phone to be used, thus making it a good defense mechanism. They are also working with the Department of Defense on a chemical biological fabric, a medical fabric using a nano technology, as well as disaster relief shelters.

BondCote’s products are used globally, appearing in countries such as Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan, and even Mount Everest. The future is looking bright for BondCote as the company will continue to work on developing new products for homeland security and developing fabrics per customer request. Last year, the Virginia Economic Development Partnership accepted BondCote into its two-year Virginia Leaders in Exporting Trade Program. The company’s main office is located behind BB&T at 509 Burgis Ave. in Pulaski. BondCote also has another location in the Industrial Park in Dublin. There are 87 employees working to fulfill BondCote’s service to the community and the country.


02/10/12 - BondCote Corporations new product Marine Aeroflate (TM) makes Fabriclink Network's Top ten products of 2011. The FabricLink Network honors its 2012 picks for the Top 10 Textile Innovations of the past year. This year’s selections represent the best the industry has to offer, incorporating innovations from the medical, industrial, safety & protective, and the geotechnical market, as well as for specialty apparel and unique outdoor apparel applications.

02/09/12 - BondCote Corporation (BondCote) has collaborated with Camel Manufacturing Company (Camel) through an exclusive distribution agreement to sell and distribute Extreme 250 Insulating Fabrics in the USA and International markets. The Extreme 250 Insulating Fabrics are constructed with a layer of 3M™ Thinsulate™ Platinum Insulation, a flame resistant, light weight, compressible insulation designed for use in soft wall shelters. It is compliant to the Berry Act, 10 U.S.C. 2533a, which requires that military soft wall shelters and other textile-based products be produced in the United States using fibers that are also produced in the United States. Camel formed the team as a combined effort with 3M to address the recent Strategic Energy Security Goals set forth by the U.S. Army Senior Energy Council. As energy efficiency continually becomes a looming issue for military operations, new technologies such as Extreme 250 Insulating Fabrics allows for conservation of invaluable energy that can be distributed elsewhere throughout operational environments. Extreme 250 Insulating Fabrics are designed to meet your requirements using various facings, and 250 or 500 gram of 3M™ Thinsulate™ Platinum Insulation. Dependent upon fabric configuration, typical fabric weight is 13.5 to 20.3 oz/yd2 (459 to 689 g/m2), with R-Value of 2.06 to 4.05 and Thermal Weight Efficiency of 3 .98 to 4.94. BondCote strives in offering quality products for our Warfighters. BondCote provides highly technical fabrics for the military shelter program, which includes BondBarrierTM (Chem-Bio single wall fabric) and OakTreeTM Solar Mesh. BondCote continues to provide exterior wall and floor fabrics, plenum and single layer liner fabrics, ducting, ground cover, and bag fabrics; as well as repair adhesive tape.

3M and Thinsulate are trademarks of 3M.


12/29/11 - There is no doubt that 2011 had its challenges for individuals, communities, businesses, and nations caused by economic uncertainties, global uprisings, towns wiped out due to tornados and earthquakes, increasing hunger, loss of businesses, and the list is endless. Through all the challenges we faced, we persevered. Perseverance produced character like none known in most of our lifetime. Without hesitation, we quickly rose to support and help those that faced loss of family, homes, and community. Small businesses and industries united to sustain and strengthen their markets. 2011 ends in hope. Hope in building, sustaining, and growing relationships, businesses, communities, and nations in 2012. Let us challenge ourselves as we move forward by sustaining our long term relationships, growing our newest relationships, and building new relationships. Let us talk via telephone or face-to-face. Yes, email and texting is good. But nothing is better in growing healthy, long lasting relationships than verbal communication. BondCote wishes all a Joyful, Growing, and Prosperous New Year. We look forward to talking to you in 2012!


11/21/11 - BondCote Highlighted in Future Materials November 2011 Magazine Kathlyn Swantko's "Vital Lifeline" article on new product developments at IFAI Expo Americas 2011 detailed BondCote's latest developments, Marine AeroFlate and NANO-Spear. Future Materials communicates material advances and brings together innovators. It's the world's only technical textiles magazine with coverage of all the end-use sectors. Future Materials is the publisher of Techtextil News.


11/10/11 - BondCote Corporation Reaching You Through Social Media
BondCote strives to provide high performance quality engineered fabrics at a fair price in the military, industrial, athletic, recreation, and medical markets. It is critical that current and potential customers have immediate access to new developments and means to view extensive testing on these developments. BondCote can now be followed on YouTube and LinkedIn. BondCote’s website, www.bondcote.com, is continually updated with news releases, product introductions, and videos. BondCote is now providing and updating videos illustrating strengths of their high performance fabrics on YouTube. Stay tune at http://www.youtube.com/bondcotecorp. Do not forget to follow BondCote on LinkedIn; http://www.linkedin.com/company/bondcote-corporation. BondCote’s latest development, Marine AeroFlate, is extensively tested to ensure durability as well as permeability. Check out the latest video showing how serious we are about the quality of this fabric; http://www.bondcote.com/commercial/Inflatableboatfabric.


11/7/11 - BondCote Corporation Certified Small Business
BondCote is certified as a Small Business through the Virginia Department of Minority Business Enterprise. BondCote's SWaM (Small, Women, and Minority) Certification Number is 652976.

7/27/11 - BondCote Corporation Selected to Participate in Virginia’s VALET Program


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 27, 2011


Suzanne West
VEDP
(804) 545-5806


Three Southwest Virginia Companies Selected to Participate in Virginia’s VALET Program - Two-year program provides resources to support international business -

RICHMOND - The Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) today announced the acceptance of three Southwest Virginia companies into its two-year Virginia Leaders in Export Trade (VALET) program. Launched in January 2002, the program assists exporters in the Commonwealth that have firmly established domestic operations and are committed to international exporting as an expansion strategy. The new companies accepted into the program include BondCote Corporation of Pulaski County; Ceramic Technology, Inc. of Tazewell County; and McAllister Mills Inc. of Grayson County.

Currently, the VALET program has 46 companies as participants. Because of the proven results of the program’s graduates, the VALET program will continue to expand to work with more Virginia companies over the course of the next six months. In addition, new participants in the program will have access to $15,000 in reimbursement funds from the Commonwealth. The program provides participating companies assistance from a team of experienced international service providers to help them meet their international goals. Private sector service providers such as attorneys, Web designers, bankers, translators and freight forwarders contribute essential expertise for expansion into international markets.

These Southwest Virginia companies join the program as part of the 20th class of VALET companies. To participate, each eligible business must meet several quantitative criteria and complete an application process. Participating firms are chosen based on their dedication to growth through export. Currently, more than 150 Virginia companies have been accepted to participate in the VALET program.

“The VALET Program generates international sales for Virginia companies,” said Paul Grossman, VEDP Director of International Trade and Investment. “Since its inception in 2002, the program has worked with more than 150 companies to increase their international sales. Because of the program’s proven success and because jobs are created when Virginia companies sell more into global markets, it is important that we expand the VALET Program to assist more Virginia companies. We are happy to welcome these companies to the program and look forward to working with them over the course of the next two years.

The Virginia Economic Development Partnership, a marketing organization, was created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1995 to encourage, stimulate, and support the development and expansion of the economy of the Commonwealth. The Partnership is a state authority, which is governed by a 22-member Board of Directors appointed by the Governor and the Virginia General Assembly. To accomplish its objectives of promoting economic expansion within the Commonwealth, the Partnership focuses its efforts on business recruitment, expansion and international trade. VEDP has offices in Virginia, Belgium, Shanghai, Mexico, Japan and the United Kingdom.

To learn more about VALET program, visit www.ExportVirginia.org.
2/20/11 - Expanding Business Internationally
BondCote recently featured in the February issue of Specialty Fabrics Review; "A World of Opportunities" article. The magazine has a monthly reach of over 46,000 industry decision-makers worldwide. It is also available online.

1/17/11 - Future Materials 100 Textile-Related Innovations PULASKI, Virginia USA (1/17/2011) - BondCote Corporation’s BondBarrierTM has been listed as one of the top 100 textile-related innovations for 2011 by Future Materials (FM100). Each year, FM100 outlines what is the most remarkable of developments from the previous 12 months. FM100 is recognized as the definitive annual guide to the most groundbreaking innovations across the global technical textiles industry. In previous years, many of FM100 innovations have gone on to great commercial success, receiving recognition and awards.

BondBarrier fabrics are constructed to meet the physical requirements of military performance standard MIL-PRF-44103, covering flame resistance, blackout and mildew resistance. The BondBarrier family currently consists of products including exterior floor/wall, liner/ plenum and ducting. The composites were developed to allow standard fabrication welding techniques to be utilized, including Radio Frequency, hot air, hot wedge and hot bar. To find out more, please visit www.bondcote.com. BondCote Corporation has continuously manufactured vinyl fabrics in Pulaski County since 1949. BondCote provides quality engineered fabrics for military, commercial and construction uses.

3/11/10 - BondCote answers Haiti's call for help

Local company provides waterproof fabric for use as shelter from rain

A Pulaski County company has stepped up in a big way to help the people of Haiti recover from the devastating earthquake that struck the tiny nation in January. About three-quarters of a million Haitians are still without basic shelter following the quake, and now the annual rainy season poses a huge threat. And by June, hurricane season will arrive posing an even greater threat. Finding even the most basic of shelter from the sometimes torrential downpours that strike Haiti this time of year is a tremendous challenge for its people.
BondCote Corporation is helping to meet the challenge head-on by donating a shipping container load of its coated fabrics to the Haitian relief effort. According to BondCote President and CEO Ted Anderson and Plant Manager Donnie Kemp, the fabrics will beused to make shelters for those thousands of Haitians who have lost their homes, or do not have dry shelter of any kind. Anderson said the amount of fabrics being donated have a manufacturing cost to BondCote of about $114,000. Anderson said that if you unrolled the dozens of rolls of fabrics filling the container there would be enough "to cover over eight football fields," and if laid out end to end the fabric would reach from Pulaski to Radford.
After the fabrics are donated to Haiti, they will be assembled by America's Development Foundation and be used by the millions who were left homeless due to the earthquakes.

BondCote Corporation is helping to meet the challenge head-on by donating a shipping container load of its coated fabrics to the Haitian relief effort. According to BondCote President and CEO Ted Anderson and Plant Manager Donnie Kemp, the fabrics will be used to make shelters for those thousands of Haitians who have lost their homes, or do not have dry shelter of any kind. Anderson said the amount of fabrics being donated have a manufacturing cost to BondCote of about $114,000. Anderson said that if you unrolled the dozens of rolls of fabrics filling the container there would be enough "to cover over eight football fields," and if laid out end to end the fabric would reach from Pulaski to Radford.

Kemp said most of the fabrics being sent to Haiti are solar reflective to reflect heat from the sun, and all of it is waterproof. He added the fabric is both heat weldable and sewable. The rainy season in Haiti poses a significant danger to its people. The rainfall is often heavy enough to cause landslides, and will definitely cause problems for the extremely poor country as it rebuilds from the 7.0 quake blamed for killing hundreds of Haitians. Makeshift camps have been set up around the country with some half million Haitians taking up emergency residence under sheets and tarps that are hardly able to protect against the heavy rains. According to published reports, the Haitian government's appeal for 200,000 tents has not been met. However, now the need is for rain-resistant shelter - the likes of which BondCote is providing. According to Shipping Manager June Flinchum, the filled shipping container will travel by truck to Norfolk where it will be shipped to Haiti.

BondCote, with facilities in Pulaski and in Dublin at the Pulaski County Corporate Center, is a world-wide leader in single-ply roofing systems and coated and laminated fabrics. Its products are used in a variety of applications in the transportation, military, environmental, medical, agricultural,recreational and athletic industries. BondCote was founded in 1949.

 

courtesy of The Patriot, Pulaski County, VA 3/12/2010


Military

BondCote is a leader in the advancement of coated, laminated, and composite fabrics for the Military, FEMA, and Homeland Security. Fabrics are produced to government and/or performance specifications, as well as to customer specifications. BondCote's military fabrics are proudly made in the USA in our ISO certified facility in Pulaski, VA. They are compliant with the Berry Amendment, 10 U.S.C. 2533a

Commercial

BondCote produces a wide variety of coated and laminated fabrics for use in demanding applications around the world, including: transportation, marine, environmental, agricultural, recreational / athletic, airline, inflatable, and industrial.

Roofing

From the Arctic to the Antarctic, internationally, millions of square feet of BondCote roofing have been installed. And in over thirty years of punishing exposure, we've never failed to live up to our standards.