As the work came in, Herman pushed the fashion envelope, introducing polyester blends to McDonald's, knitwear to FedEx and cuffless shirts to the casinos of Las Vegas.
BYD, for example, is the world's largest maker of nickel-cadmium batteries, and India's Reliance Group makes more polyester fibre and yarn than anyone else.
Sinivasan, president of the Texmaco group, an Indonesian textile and machinery manufacturer, his company will be one of the world's top producers of high-quality polyester.