BERMATEX, at its origin, was founded in 1969 by Karl Berlinger and Peter Mazeika. This is by contraction of the words BERlinger, MAzeika and TEXtiles, that the new corporation was named. The enterprise, since its beginning, focused on small specialized lots of textured yarns of polyester and nylon. Karl Berlinger was part of the team that developed the “false twist” texturing technology at Heberlein in the 50′s.
In 1980, Mathias Berlinger, son of Karl, joined the group. Educated in different universities in Quebec in physical and in accounting sciences, he took responsibility of each department one after another and he got actively involved in the general business development of the enterprise. In 1988, Mathias Berlinger took the presidency of Ambertex Inc., located in Brantford, Ont., which was a sister company of Bermatex. One year later, through a leverage buyout, he then became the main shareholder of Bermatex. From then, he launched an ambitious investment program which provided the plant with latest technologies in its specialty and which propelled the enterprise as the Canadian leader in texturing.He established a new R&D business unit in 2003 to accelerate new developments and to become unique in its offering of filament yarns.
Autodidact, creative and passionate about new technologies, Mathias Berlinger has always kept involved in product developments where he directed that department for over 20 years, along with his job of president of the corporation. His work on unique products has directed him to the deposit of a patent on the application of microcapsules into filament yarns. Consecutive to economic difficulties in the Textile Industry and to a major restructuring of his company, Mathias Berlinger formed BERMATEX INNOVATION in 2007. He strategically partnered with many manufacturers of filament yarns and he is pursuing his developments by offering new differentiated yarns to his actual customers.
BERMATEX INNOVATION is representing now many yarn manufacturing enterprises and it specializes only in filament yarns. Also, it offers consulting services while, in parallel, it is continuing to develop and to commercialize its patent on the insertion of microcapsules into filament yarns.
From this advanced technology, new “intelligent” yarns can take form. They are called “intelligent” because they can interact with their environment where they release encapsulated functionalities.
