Plants: Totowa, NJ; Troy, NC; Phoenix, AZ
Processes: High loft, needlepunch
Markets: Bedding, automotive, healthcare

New Jersey-based Precision Textiles has recently been focused on expanding its manufacturing footprint throughout the U.S. In August 2022, the company announced it had leased a 160,000-square-foot factory in Troy, NC, to better serve its customer base in the high-growth mattress industry. The facility—once a textiles production plant that serviced the automobile industry—was Precision Textiles’ first domestic manufacturing facility outside its New Jersey headquarters. It has doubled the company’s needlepunch nonwovens production and boosted its high loft quilting fiber output by 50%. In addition to its production capacity, the facility includes warehousing space.

The North Carolina factory is enabling Precision Textiles to better meet the needs of customers and logistically helps it reduce transit time to those located across the Southeast while providing additional capacity to better serve customers.

Soon after, the company announced it had signed another lease, for a 50,000-square-foot facility in Phoenix, AZ, to better serve its customers throughout the western U.S. The facility will produce all of the company’s bedding product lines, further expanding its volume of high loft quilting fiber and needlepunch nonwovens in the U.S. to keep pace with its strong sales growth.

Both sites are responding to increased demand for Precision’s nonwovens for markets like automotive and bedding.

In early 2024, Precision partnered with Unifi, Inc., the makers of Repreve recycled performance fiber, to use the company’s recycled polyester yarn in the manufacturing of all its filler cloth products. The first-of-its-kind collaboration within the industry makes Precision Textiles the only bedding component manufacturer to use Repreve recycled performance fiber in its nonwoven products.

“We are extremely proud to be the first and only FR nonwoven component supplier to use Repreve recycled performance fiber in our products,” says Gerry Welkley, national sales manager at Precision Textiles. “This technology is being used in many other industries by some of the world’s most recognized brands, so we are very excited to bring it to the mattress industry. Today’s consumers are increasingly conscious of their environmental impact with their product purchases. Because we consume millions of pounds of yarn during the manufacturing of our filler cloth products, our collaboration with Unifi showcases our dedication to meeting these consumer expectations for our customers and reaffirms our commitment to a more sustainable future.”

Every 100-yard roll of the company’s Endure IFR and Advantate SB nonwoven products will include Repreve recycled performance fiber that is made from 228 recycled water bottles. As a result, Precision Textiles will eliminate more than 20 million plastic water bottles from waste streams on an annual basis.

In March, Precision introduced new sleep products in conjunction with the International Sleep Products Association (ISPA) Expo. IQFIT Flex, a patented FR material known for its ability to better maintain mattress comfort and enhance sleep performance in mattress designs, can be transformed into a variety of FR solution products, including traditional FR socks, open width format for laminating to mattress fabrics, or with the company’s patent pending IQFIT Glass Free NOSO Sock. The NOSO Sock garnered additional attention for its ability to streamline the assembly process, reduce costs and increase throughput by eliminating the need for traditional sewing, stapling or gluing techniques.

Plants: Totowa, NJ; Troy, NC; Phoenix, AZ
Processes: High loft, needlepunch
Markets: Bedding, automotive, healthcare

New Jersey-based Precision Textiles has recently been focused on expanding its manufacturing footprint throughout the U.S. In August 2022, the company announced it had leased a 160,000-square-foot factory in Troy, NC, to better serve its customer base in the high-growth mattress industry.

The facility—once a textiles production plant that serviced the automobile industry—was Precision Textiles’ first domestic manufacturing facility outside its New Jersey headquarters. It has doubled the company’s needlepunch nonwovens production and boosted its high-loft quilting fiber output by 50%. In addition to its production capacity, the facility includes warehousing space.

The North Carolina factory is enabling Precision Textiles to better meet the needs of customers and logistically helps it reduce transit time to those located across the Southeast while providing additional capacity to better serve customers.

Soon after, the company announced it had signed another lease, for a 50,000-square-foot facility in Phoenix, AZ, to better serve its customers throughout the western U.S. The facility will produce all of the company’s bedding product lines, further expanding its volume of high loft quilting fiber and needlepunch nonwovens in the U.S. to keep pace with its strong sales growth.

Both sites are responding to increased demand for Precision’s nonwovens for markets like automotive and bedding.

Precision Textile’s bedding business is also being boosted by the introduction of PurLoft, an environmentally friendly alternative to 100% synthetic high loft fire barriers for bedding products. It is offered in varying weights and made with renewable wool fibers, which are naturally flame retardant. Incorporating wool directly under the sleep surface offers a high-performance, sustainable alternative that is not only FR compliant, but also creates air pockets, which act as natural insulators to help regulate body temperature. PurLoft also offers superior moisture management as well as odor and allergen protection. In addition, the naturally crimped wool fiber helps products retain shape longer, making it more durable.

Plants: Totowa, NJ; Troy, NC; Phoenix, AZ
Processes: High loft, needlepunch
Markets: Bedding, automotive, healthcare

During the past 12 months, New Jersey-based Precision Textiles has expanded its manufacturing footprint throughout the U.S. In August, the company announced it had leased a 160,000-square-foot factory in Troy, NC, to better serve its customer base in the high-growth mattress industry.

The facility—once a textiles production plant that serviced the automobile industry—was Precision Textiles’ first domestic manufacturing facility outside its New Jersey headquarters. It has doubled the company’s needlepunch nonwovens production and boosted its high-loft quilting fiber output by 50%. In addition to its production capacity, the facility includes warehousing space.

“Demand for these products has risen to the point where we are near full capacity at our home facility in New Jersey,” says Scott Tesser, CEO. “In addition to keeping pace with current demand, this investment positions us for future growth as we continue to expand our customer base in the bedding and automotive industries.

The North Carolina factory is enbling Precision Textiles  better meet the needs of customers throughout the nation and logistically helps us reduce transit time to those located across the Southeast while providing additional capacity to better serve both existing and new customers.”

Soon after, the company announced it had signed another lease, for a 50,000-square-foot facility in Phoenix, AZ, to better serve its customers throughout the western U.S. The facility will produce all of the company’s bedding product lines, further expanding its volume of high loft quilting fiber and needlepunch nonwovens in the U.S. to keep pace with its strong sales growth.

“Demand for our products is high in the bedding industry, which has fueled our expansion. The Arizona facility is close in proximity to many of our customers, which was a primary factor in the choice for this location,” says Tesser.

Precision Textile’s bedding business is also being boosted by the introduction of PurLoft, an environmentally friendly alternative to 100% synthetic high loft fire barriers for bedding products. It is offered in varying weights and made with renewable wool fibers, which are naturally flame retardant. Incorporating wool directly under the sleep surface offers a high-performance, sustainable alternative that is not only FR compliant, but also creates air pockets, which act as natural insulators to help regulate body temperature. PurLoft also offers superior moisture management as well as odor and allergen protection. In addition, the naturally crimped wool fiber helps products retain shape longer, making it more durable.

“We have always been at the forefront of sustainability. Our R&D team continues to work with that goal in mind and they have once again developed an innovative solution, backed by service and quality, to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to the environment with products that help meet our customer’s needs,” says Scott Tesser, CEO of Precision Textiles.

“The inherent flame retardant properties of wool make it a very effective, eco-friendly solution for an FR barrier product,” says Keith Martin, vice president of Precision Textiles. “Wool helps transfer moisture away from the body. Unlike many manmade fibers where perspiration build up can become a breeding ground for bacteria, wool’s natural breathability reduces the risk of the mattress taking on unpleasant body odors. We not only developed a more natural FR solution, but also a more comfortable sleep experience.”

Plants: Totowa, NJ
Major Markets: Filtration, bedding, automotives, apparel


Sales continued to grow for Totowa, NJ-based Precision Custom Coatings (PCC) due largely to considerable growth in the automotives market. Other key technical markets include filtration and bedding, while apparel, although not growing, continues to represent about 40% of sales.

While filtration has been an important focus for the company in recent years, earlier this year PCC agreed to sell its filtration business to Lydall, a Manchester, CT-based manufacturer of nonwovens for filtration applications. PCC’s filtration division makes high-quality, air filtration media principally serving the commercial and residential HVAC markets with MERV 7 – 11 products.

Most recently, PCC added a dual card airlaid line that went onstream in the third quarter of 2015. The new line has allowed PCC to produce more technical air filter media along with some dual-layered bedding products, says president and CEO Scott Tesser. Like a similar line added in 2014, this new line has given the company more flexibility, allowing it to lay down two separate layers of fibers.

In addition to upping PCC’s profile in automotives with the addition of some acoustical products, the new line has allowed the company to expand into higher MERV rated products within its filtration business, a market it entered only five years ago.

Bedding is PCC’s third industrial business, and also its most profitable due to flame retardant regulations that exist in the mattress industry.

Meanwhile, in Asia, where 100% of its apparel sales are made, Tesser says the company has begun looking to grow its filtration and automotives businesses.

Plants: Totowa, NJ
Major Markets: Filtration, bedding, automotives, apparel


Sales continued to grow for Totowa, NJ-based Precision Custom Coatings (PCC) due largely to considerable growth in the automotives market. Other key technical markets include filtration and bedding, while apparel, although not growing, continues to represent about 40% of sales.

These technical markets are not only growing in terms of sales volumes but in the depth of its product offering. New product development has been aided by PCC’s commitment to new line investment. Most recently, PCC added a dual card airlaid line that went onstream in the third quarter of 2015. The new line has allowed PCC to produce more technical air filter media along with some dual-layered bedding products, says president and CEO Scott Tesser. Like a similar line added in 2014, this new line has given the company more flexibility, allowing it to lay down two separate layers of fibers.

In addition to upping PCC’s profile in automotives with the addition of some acoustical products, the new line has allowed the company to expand into higher MERV rated products within its filtration business, a market it entered only five years ago.

Bedding is PCC’s third industrial business, and also its most profitable due to flame retardant regulations that exist in the mattress industry.

Meanwhile, in Asia, where 100% of its apparel sales are made, Tesser says the company has begun looking to grow its filtration and automotives business.

Plants: Totowa, NJ
Markets: Filtration, bedding, automotives, apparel


Sales continued to grow reaching $170 million for Totowa, NJ-based Precision Custom Coatings (PCC) due largely to considerable growth in the automotives market. Other key technical markets include filtration and bedding, while apparel, although not growing, continues to represent about 40% of sales.

These technical markets are not only growing in terms of sales volumes but in the depth of its product offering.

New product development has been aided by PCC’s commitment to new line investment. Most recently, PCC added a dual card airlaid line that went onstream in the third quarter of 2015. The new line has allowed PCC to produce more technical air filter media along with some dual-layered bedding products, says president and CEO Scott Tesser. Like a similar line added in 2014, this new line has given the company more flexibility, allowing it to lay down two separate layers of fibers.

In addition to upping PCC’s profile in automotives with the addition of some acoustical products, the new line has allowed the company to expand into higher MERV rated products within its filtration business, a market it entered only five years ago.

Bedding is PCC’s third industrial business, and also its most profitable due to flame retardant regulations that exist in the mattress industry.

Meanwhile, in Asia, where 100% of its apparel sales are made, Tesser says the company has begun looking to grow its filtration and automotives business.

Plants: Totowa, NJ
Markets: Filtration, bedding, automotives, apparel

Sales were up about 9% in 2014 at New Jersey-based Precision Custom Coatings (PCC) due largely to considerable growth in the automotives market. Other key technical markets include filtration and bedding, while apparel, although not growing, continues to represent about 40% of sales.

“In  technical markets like automotives, we are not only growing our volumes but we are also expanding the depth of the products areas we get into,” explains president and CEO Scott Tesser.

This expansion comes on the heels of of the addition of a dual carding line at PCC’s Totowa, NJ headquarters. This new line, which was added in the third quarter of 2014, has given the company more flexibility, allowing it to lay down two separate layers of fibers.

In addition to upping PCC’s profile in automotives with the addition of some acoustical products, the new line has allowed the company to expand into higher MERV-rated products within its filtration business, a market it entered only five years ago. “We have really gotten more sophisticated with the products that we can offer,” Tesser says.

Prior to the dual carded line, PCC added a new airlaid line capable of making high loft bedding applications in late 2012. The new line, PCC’s first foray into this technology, replaced an old needlepunch line that was no longer needed after line upgrades allowed the company to run existing lines more efficiently, according to the company.

Bedding is PCC’s third industrial business and also its most profitable due to flame retardant regulations that exist in the mattress industry.

Meanwhile, in Asia, where 100% of its apparel sales are made, Tesser says the company has begun looking to grow its filtration and automotives business.

Key Personnel: Peter Longo, chairman and COO; Scott Tesser, president and CEO; Rich Noble, CFO and treasurer; Dan Kamat, vice president, industrial textile division; Shaile Dusaj, director industrial marketing and sales; Keith Martin, industrial business vice president; Gerry Welkley, national sales manager; Dave Reaman, director filtration services
Processes: Needlepunch, thermal bonded, chemical bonded, high lofts, heat activated adhesive coatings, specialty finishes and composites
Major Markets: Apparel interlinings, automotive fabrics, medical, fabric softener substrates, furniture and bedding, filtration, vinyl substrates, home furnishings, wipes, hygiene, footwear, roofing and construction, filtration

Recent news from New Jersey-based Precision Custom Coatings (PCC) include machinery upgrades aimed at increasing capacity, expansion into new filtration areas and movement into new Asian markets. As it waits for these recent efforts to bear fruit, the company reported modest 4% sales growth in 2013.

Of its $150 million sales in 2013, about 60% were on the industrial side of its business, split fairly evenly, from a revenue standpoint, between its three main markets—filtration, bedding and automotive.

By volume, however, the company’s filtration business, which it entered five years ago, was markedly larger due to the commodity nature of many of the areas PCC currently targets. This is set to change, however, as the company begins introducing more technical products featuring higher MERV ratings.

President and CEO Scott Tesser says the company first entered filtration through commodity areas like HVAC and other less sophisticated markets to build a strong customer base. Higher-end filtration areas can be harder to enter and gain acceptance.

“It’s taken some time for our customer base to get comfortable with our filtration products but we have grown this business both with existing and new customers,” he says. “We feel we are ready to go into these new markets.”

Meanwhile, PCC’s automotive business has grown in recent months due to aggressive marketing efforts, customer growth and a new coating technology that allows manufacturers to run molds more quickly and cleanly.

Tesser says the company has begun looking to Asia for growth opportunities in filtration and automotive. Currently, the total sum of PCC’s apparel business, representing the remaining 40% of corporate sales, is based in Asia.

“This business hasn’t changed much. We are maintaining market share and now we are hoping to bring our filtration and automotive business there through the network that we have set up.”

PCC’s third industrial business, bedding, is its most profitable business, due to flame retardant regulations that exist in the mattress industry. “If it weren’t for the flame retardant statutes, we wouldn’t be in the bedding industry,” Tesser says. “That was huge for us.”

Also benefiting this business was the addition of a new airlaid line, capable of making high loft bedding applications. The new line, PCC’s first foray into this technology, was added in late 2012 at its Totowa, NJ headquarters where it replaced an old needlepunch line that was no longer needed after line upgrades allowed the company to produce product more efficiently.

Processes: Needlepunch, thermal bonded, chemical bonded, high lofts, heat activated adhesive coatings, specialty finishes and composites
Major Markets: Apparel interlinings, automotive fabrics, medical, fabric softener substrates, furniture and bedding, filtration, vinyl substrates, home furnishings, wipes, hygiene, footwear, roofing and construction, filtration

Precision Custom Coatings LLC (PCC) as a whole was established in 1987 and is world-renowned for producing interlinings for some of the world’s largest apparel manufacturing companies. The company’s multiple nonwoven and coating lines produce the high quality nonwoven and knitted fusible interlinings.

PCC’s corporate headquarters is a 210,000-square-foot production facility located outside of New York City in Totowa, NJ. PCC has the flexibility to create innovative products quickly and efficiently due to the company’s state-of-the-art high-speed machinery and 250M yard production capacity. PCC currently has production in three factories in Asia, which is supported by a network of 38 distribution and sales offices worldwide.

PCC operates two divisions—PCC Precision Interlining and Precision Textiles. PCC Precision Interlining backs the apparel industry with the best in knit and nonwoven interlinings, while the company’s Precision Textiles division is a pivotal supplier of coated fabrics, nonwovens and laminations to the industrial market, serving manufacturers in the filtration, bedding, automotive, healthcare, home furnishings, footwear, luggage, food packaging and protective clothing industries.

Sales in 2012 were $145 million and the company added capacity to help meet the demand for the growth in its filtration division and automotive market. According to Scott Tesser, president and CEO, “We saw steady growth amongst our three main divisions—auto, filtration and bedding,” says Tesser.

During the year, PCC invested in additional filtration capacity and says new technology will be launched in 2013.

PCC has 20 offices around the world outside of the U.S. and continues to grow globally. “We are beginning a strategy of bringing certain product to those markets,” says Tesser. “Currently those offices are selling apparel related nonwovens only.”

Tesser says dry air filtration continues to be a healthy growth area for PCC while the automotive business has also seen a significant increase in sales.

“For 2013 we are adding more high loft capacity and a new product we are calling air spun,” Tesser says.