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Italian Army Rainsuits Use GE Fabrics

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

I kid you not, the company that makes rainsuits for the Italian Army is named Lovers s.r.l. Actually, they make pretty much all of the issue combat clothing for Italian forces, except for SOF and have been since 1982. For rainsuits, they use the GE fabric formerly known as eVent. The contract for rainsuits is now in its fourth year Lovers has already supplied 210,000 sets to the Army and will deliver another 57,600 sets as part of this latest contract.

GE will deliver PTFE for lamination to camouflaged face fabric by Tessitura Majocchi s.r.l. which will then be turned into uniforms by Lovers.

“GE is a leader in innovation and technology. We’re pleased to use our expertise to create dependable, protective garments for the Italian Army supporting Lovers and Majocchi,” said Glenn Crowther, product line leader for performance fabrics at GE.

GE materials are also used in foul weather clothing for the US and Korean militaries.

eVent by Any Other Name

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Apparently GE has decided to revise their branding strategy for eVent fabrics. No longer will they market the eVent brand but rather continue development of the technology and license the fabric to customers allowing them to build their own brands. This means that a lot more manufacturers will be using the eVent technology just under a variety of private label brands.