Mission Statement|Commitment to Quality|
What We Do|Vincent Diaz: Founder and President

To aid our customers in the manufacturing of high-performance textile products and devices.

Our job is to provide you with:

• Best In Class Products
• Valued Added Information
• Exceptional Service Levels

We are committed to the delivery of components and services that contribute to both our customer's manufacturing processes and the performance of the products they offer for sale.

We believe that Total Quality Performance means understanding who the customer is, what the customer's requirements are, and how we can meet the customer's needs with quality products and services which are delivered in a timely manner.

As the foremost supplier of high performance fiber products, Atlantic offers you the benefit of years of experience in all aspects of the many industries that we serve. These include:

• Airline Industry
• School Bus Industry
• Racing Industry
• Aerospace Industry
• Safety Equipment Manufacturers
• Protective Apparel
• Footwear Manufacturers
• Business Furniture
• Mattresses and Bedding

Since 1980, Atlantic Thread has specialized in high performance sewing threads made of flame resistant fibers such as NOMEX® and KEVLAR® by DuPont, as well as sewing threads made of TEIJINCONEX® and TWARON® made by Teijin Twaron. Other high performance fibers include SPECTRA® made by Honeywell, and DYNEEMA ® made by DSM. Atlantic has built a reputation for customer service by helping manufacturers find the best sewing threads for the manufacturing of textile products that have a highly specialized end use application.

Domestically, this has included a wide variety of projects: (1) the geotextile foundation beneath the Seagirt Marine Terminal in Baltimore, Maryland; (2) the stitching together of composite aircraft components made of carbon fiber. Internationally, our expertise in stitching together high performance fibers helped to design and build a new type of cargo chute used to upload and offload cargo ships transporting alumina silicate. These new loading chutes reduced changeover downtime from one day per month to one day per year!

Coupled with the service and expertise provided to our customers, Atlantic Thread & Supply Company has been a major contributor to the development of international standards and specifications used in industries where performance, especially safety related performance is important. This has included the writing of standards developed for the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), the American National Standards Institute, Inc. (ANSI), the Canadian General Standards Board and Commercial Item Description (CID) standards used by the Federal Government.

Because of its international reputation as a major innovator, Atlantic Thread continues to be at the forefront when a new textile fiber is introduced, for use as a sewing thread, into the high performance fiber marketplace. Atlantic Thread can also help you find answers to a number of technical questions related to stitching.

Atlantic Thread & Supply Company supplies customers in all 50 states within the United States and 23 countries in the Pacific Rim, Latin America, Mexico, Canada, Middle East and Europe. Atlantic is recognized internationally as a "supplier with solutions" to technical problems related to specialized sewing. We can also be of direct assistance to you in any one of three languages: English, Spanish and French.

Atlantic Thread & Supply was founded in 1980 by company president Vincent Diaz, an industry leader whose career in the thread and yarn business spans more than thirty-five years. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Vince began his career after military service in Vietnam. Today he presides over an operation that serves textile manufacturers across the country and around the world.

In addition to participating in the writing of both military and civilian performance standards, Vince has assumed leadership roles in two ASTM committees: D13 on Textiles and F23 on Protective Clothing. He is also a member of the NFPA Wildland Fire Fighting Protective Clothing Subcommittee.

Most recently, Vince has been proactive in helping prepare the textile manufacturing industry for new federal standard on mattress flammability (16CFR1633). Drawing on his more than twenty-five years of experience in fire-resistant textiles and protective clothing, Vince assisted with the development of several ASTM test methods pursuant to establishing new standards that measure how FR components used to manufacture mattresses will perform when exposed to an open flame and high heat. He has written numerous articles and technical documents intended to help bedding manufacturers to better understand the challenge of open flame and textiles. He helped to develop the Protection for Peaceful Sleep® tape edge closing system.