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Using innovative technology, Hobbs Bonded Fibers has become a leader in the development of synthetic fiber batting and other fiberfill products for the apparel, home furnishings and industrial markets. The company's founder, Carey Hobbs, attributes much of its success to the versatility achieved by the spray bonding of fiberfill with environmentally friendly resins.
The company began operations in 1970 as Clark Brothers Felt Co. in Groesbeck, Texas. At the time, Mr. Hobbs saw a promising future for spray bonded polyester fiberfill products. That observation came about "almost by accident." The company was already using starch supplied by National Starch and Chemical Co., Bridgewater, N.J., to bond sisal fibers in the manufacture of insulating pads for bedsprings. Then the U.S. Department of Agriculture began to promote bonded cotton applications in cooperation with the Cotton Batting Institute. Mr. Hobbs saw an opportunity to apply this same concept to polyester fibers, which he believed would create better products.
This idea led to the founding of Hobbs Bonded Fibers, and innovation became the company's hallmark. Hobbes became the first company to make a high loft air filtration media with the fiber orientation perpendicular to the airflow that has become the standard in HVAC filtration. In 1976 it obtained FHA approval for the country's first synthetic carpet underlay. Mr. Hobbs considers spray bonding as a key element in the succes of these products. |
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Spray bonding helps to create versatile fiberfill products in ADHESIVES AGE, Vol. 40, N° 12 (11/1997)
