[Color X Inc.] New York, N.Y. For their 125th Anniversary, Hearst Corp. approached Color X Inc. to produce banners to be displayed in their iconic Manhattan office building’s seventh floor atrium. As one of the nation’s largest diversified media and information companies, they wanted to highlight areas of achievement, including music, visual arts, magazine and [...]

[Design 360 Inc.] New York, N.Y. Amistad Academy, New Haven, Conn., looked to Design 360 to enhance the entrance to a vestibule at the school, and inside their gym, but they also wanted the look to be changeable. “In the gym they were looking for a solution that would add color and allow for their [...]

DASH Multi-Corp Inc., St. Louis, Mo., has announced the appointment of Alan Prelutsky as vice president of its Textile Group, which produces coated, solution dyed and laminated fabrics for many industrial applications, including the marine, awning, military and safety markets. Prelutsky has worked at DASH for five years. “The mission at hand is to grow [...]

Machell Apple has joined The Victor Group, Saint-Georges, Quebec, Canada, a textile manufacturer specializing in sustainable and innovative fabrics, in a newly created position: director of new development initiatives. She will use her combined 24 years experience in the textile industry to identify new business and product opportunities within the contract market segment. Apple most [...]

TMI LLC has promoted three key employees as the company works to meet the growing demand for its complete line of PVC-based environmental products and energy control doors. Chris Cummings has been promoted to division manager for TMI’s Save-T Solutions department, which provides energy control and material handling solutions. David Rimbey has assumed the role [...]

Doug Goldstein has joined Adhesives Research Inc., Glen Rock, Pa., as market manager for the company’s pressure-sensitive adhesives, tapes, coatings, films, laminates and engineered microfiber technologies. He has 20 years of experience in the coating and laminating industry, and holds a B.S. in Forestry from North Carolina State University and an M.B.A. from Wake Forest [...]

On Sept. 18, P. Robert Siener Jr. joined a distinguished group of octogenarians who still serve as chairmen of successful companies, a group that includes Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway), Sumner Redstone (CBS Corp.) and J.W. Marriott Jr. (Marriott International). Siener celebrated 65 years with the Cooley Group, the Pawtucket, R.I., designer, developer and manufacturer of [...]

Nonwovens made from Lenzing Tencel® and Viscose® fibers are based on a renewable raw material: wood. The Lenzing Group, headquartered in Austria, has closed the biological circle on its nonwoven household wipes, which the Belgian certification company Vincotte has declared suitable for both industrial and individual garden composting. The “OK compost HOME” certificate from Vincotte [...]

ATA—one hundred years of setting the bar for the textile industry. By Jessica Bies and Sigrid Tornquist On September 12, 1912, fourteen manufacturers of canvas and awnings met at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver and formed the National Tent and Awning Association. The manufacturers established the trade association to set standard weights and prices [...]

A four-inch tropical mantis shrimp with a power-packed punching arm is the newest darling of material scientists at the Bourns College of Engineering, University of California–Riverside. The shrimp, or stomatopod, has a bright orange fist-like club that accelerates faster under water than a 22-caliber bullet and can break open mollusk shells and crab exoskeletons, two [...]