Ramos & Fortier Ltd

Ramos & Fortier is one of the founding members of, what was then called, the Smart Textile and Wearables Innovation Alliance (STWIA). Initially facilitated by the National Research Council of Canada, the STWIA is an industry-led initiative that brought together over 60 Canadian companies from all levels of the supply chain. The company is also the founder and organizer of Vancouver Men’s Fashion Week™. Launched on 30 September 2011, it was the first industry event focused on menswear in Canada.v.MFW was created to give Canadian menswear designers a platform, and also to bring awareness to the textile waste issue we face as Canadians. Through government, academic, and private initiative participation, partnerships, and events that it produces such as v.MFW, Ramos & Fortier continues to remain true to its mission. The company is active in city and provincial endeavours. It is one of the few companies invited to be part of British Columbia‘s inaugural creative conference sponsored by the Consulat général de France à Vancouver. BCreative 2012 was designed to bring together government, business, researchers and the creative sector to stimulate thinking to develop a strategy in building the creative economy of British Columbia. The company is currently developing an innovation hub, the Sustainable Textiles, Apparel, and Innovative New Materials Centre™, SusTAIN Centre™ in Vancouver, BC to address the above problems and objectives. SusTAIN is planned to be a centre for showcasing new textiles and materials, as well as output from new research. It is also planned to offer short courses on textile engineering, woven, non-woven and nanomaterials that will be taught by experts and academics from selected institutions, such as the Faculty of Textile Engineering and the Institute for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation of the Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic. Please contact us for more information or possible partnership with your university.