Unifi in the News

Unifi products are frequently featured in consumer and trade publications. See recent coverage below.

  • Shape

    Shape - 04-01-2010

    Shape Gives Away BlueAvocado bags made with REPREVE. Carry groceries in style with BlueAvocado reusable bags. Five readers can win the starter kit (a $30 value).
    Go to www.shape.com/giveaways to enter to win
    View Article.
  • Health Magazine

    Health Magazine - 04-01-2010

    Blue Avocado Bags, made with REPREVE, make Health Magazine's Hot List for April
    Bag it Up. Schlep your groceries in style with vibrant, reusable shopping bags and totes from BlueAvocado ($9.99, BlueAvocado.com) that collapse into the tiniest of pouches.
    BlueAvocado bags are made with REPREVE! View Article.
  • Uniform Market News

    Uniform Market News - 03-01-2010

    Perfection Uniforms, made with REPREVE, receive UNIVATOR Uniform Innovation Award. Recipients of this award embody the most elite products in the industry and are acclaimed as widely popular and well regarded. By committing to REPREVE eco-friendly fiber, Perfection Uniforms are now aligned to aid law enforment officers not only in keeping the streets safe, but also in protecting our environment!View Article.
  • Triad Business Journal

    Triad Business Journal - 01-29-2010

    Greensboro-based Unifi Manufacturing joined others such as IBM, Microsoft, EMC and Raleigh-based Red Hat among the winners of the 2009 NCTA 21 Awards, the North Carolina Technology Association announced Friday morning. Unifi, a textile firm, has N.C. operations in Greensboro, Yadkinville, Madison and Reidsville, along with facilities in Brazil and Colombia, South America; and, a wholly-owned subsidiary in Suzhou China. Unifi earned the Green Technology Award. View Article.
  • Parents.com

    Parents.com - 12-15-2009

    I don’t know about you, but I find it really hard to remember to bring my own bags to the grocery store. But that has all changed since I met with the ladies of BlueAvocado. BlueAvocado is a line of sustainable, reusable and machine washable grocery bags, and if they couldn’t get any more green, BlueAvocado has teamed up with Repreve to create a bag made from 50% recyclabe, traceable polyester fibers made from plastic bottles and crude oil.View Article.
  • Fitnessmagazine.com

    Fitnessmagazine.com - 12-08-2009

    Just in time for the holidays, BlueAvocado has created new kits from a new kind of material to help satisfy all of the greenies on your list. BlueAvocado is a mission-driven lifestyle products company that makes it easy to do good while getting it done.And as of just recently, these gro-pak kits are now made from a certifiable recycled REPREVE fabric. Meaning, the gro-pak – collapsible, reusable shopping system – just got greener!View Article.
  • Alloy.com

    Alloy.com - 12-04-2009

    Blue Avocado, made with REPREVE: Go green! This starter set is perfect for a trip to the grocery store, a weekend excursion or even for an outing to the mall.View Article.
  • Apparel

    Apparel - 06-18-2009

    Restore Clothing sought out Unifi, the prominent producer of multi-filament polyester and nylon textured yarns and related raw materials, as Celeste sought an ecofriendly replacement for fabrics containing polyester. View Article.
  • Textile Insight

    Textile Insight - 11-01-2008

    “Five years ago, we were not sure where the bottom was going to be. How much contraction would the U.S. market experience and how much would move entirely to Asia? But now our strategy is clear.” ~ Roger Berrier, EVP Unifi View Article.
  • Forbes.com

    Forbes.com - 10-03-2008

    Unifi unveiled a new consumer-focused, interactive website as part of its new "Repreve. For the Planet." campaign. The new website, www.Repreve.com, is focused on educating users about the positive environmental benefits of Repreve, Unifi's family of 100% recycled yarns, and the importance of resource and energy conservation and recycling. View Article.
  • Packaging Digest

    Packaging Digest - 10-01-2008

    Hewlett-Packard won Wal-Mart's Home Entertainment Design Challenge - a contest that encourages companies to reduce the environmental impact of products in the home-entertainment category. HP replaced the box used for one of its products retail shelf packaging with the HP Protect Messenger Bag. “The messenger bag is made out of fabric that is produced from recycled soda bottles and water bottles,” says Boeller. The fabric is woven from Repreve yarn, which is manufactured by Unifi, Inc.View Article.
  • OR Daily

    OR Daily - 08-10-2008

    Unifi is introducing Repreve nylon. Since it’s a “first source” recycled nylon, it can replace traditionally-sourced nylon in proven garments, much like its cousin, Repreve polyester. And global partners are lining up. View Article.
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