Japan-based trading company MN Inter-Fashion has acquired the trademark rights to performance cotton fabric brand Ventile.

Ventile is a weather-resistant cotton fabric developed in the 1930s by the Shirley Institute in Manchester. Talbot Weaving in Chorley produces Ventile and the material builds up a track record of being effective in mountaineering and polar expeditions as well as in military applications. In the 1990s, Zurich-based fabric developer Stotz & Co AG became the sole producer of Ventile under a contract manufacturing arrangement with Talbot Weaving. Stotz then acquired the Ventile business in 2017.

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