Trade fairs, projects and material thinking from a fourth-generation Portuguese coated-fabric maker.
A banquette is reupholstered far too often because the wrong fabric was specified. The real cost is rarely the material — it is the closed section, the lost ...
Kaizen is about building a better way of working every day, and that is exactly the path Monteiro Fabrics is embracing. Through this partnership with Kaizen ...
The post argues that “leather vs. coated fabrics” is the wrong debate because the two materials serve different purposes in footwear. Leather remains ...
How do you prove a material is truly biobased? C¹⁴ radiocarbon analysis offers a science-backed answer. By detecting the presence of carbon-14 — a natural ma...
Stadium seating upholstery faces some of the most demanding conditions in the contract furniture world. Choosing the right upholstery is therefore critical t...
As hotel development surges worldwide, the industry faces a sustainability dilemma. PEEL, a plant-based coated fabric by Monteiro Fabrics, offers a powerful ...
Monteiro Fabrics hosted a Bioshoes4All demo day, showcasing bio-based innovation, lab breakthroughs, and TRL 9 materials — now ready to scale for sust...
Project Preserving Design Heritage: Monteiro Fabrics has entered into a collaboration with the InBloom Project
Francisco Marques, our Sales Manager, spoke with Portugal Têxtil about Monteiro Fabrics' latest innovations. He highlights how locally sourced materials like...
Innovation and Capacity Building of the Footwear Sector for a Sustainable Bioeconomy The integrated project “BioShoes4All – Innovation and Capacity Buildin...
PVC (polyvinyl chloride — a synthetic thermoplastic material made by polymerizing vinyl chloride) is one of the most widely used plastics in the world—and fo...
Monteiro Fabrics proudly participated in the 4th Annual Future of PVC 2025 Conference held in Brussels on March 13th–14th, where our R&D and Technical Ma...
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