Vignesh Amalraj has been appointed business development manager of Hohenstein India Pvt. Ltd., the official Hohenstein Institute representative for India. As the former head of one of five Hohenstein contact offices in India and Sri Lanka, Amalraj is experienced in marketing the institute’s testing and certification services to manufacturers and target groups. Amalraj holds credentials [...]

Moss Inc. has appointed Dan Patterson to the new post of executive vice president, business development, and chief marketing officer for the company’s products and services to the event, exhibit, sports and retail interior industries. Patterson formerly served 10 years as senior vice-president and general manager for George P. Johnson, primarily responsible for global delivery [...]

Castillo to represent Arlon Graphics Castillo to represent Arlon Graphics Arlon Graphics LLC, Santa Ana, Calif., has announced the addition of Brian Castillo as regional sales manager of the company’s south central region. Castillo will develop and coordinate sales of the company’s full line of pressure-sensitive cut vinyl, flexible substrates and print media films, as [...]

Dr. Derek Klinedinst assumes the role of research chemical engineer for BondCote, an industrial fabric supplier of coated, laminated and composite fabrics in Pulaski, Va. He will expand BondCote’s development of new chemistries related to high-performance coated textiles. Klinedinst earned a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, holds [...]

Specialty chemical supplier Alexium Intl., Greer, S.C., received a $200,000 contract from the U.S. Air Force to demonstrate its Cleanshell® CB treatment for chemical and biological protection suits. Alexium specializes in reactive surface treatment (RST) technologies that combine chemistry and microwave curing to allow surfaces used by the military to repel water, oil and simulated [...]

A full line of blades designed to cut and finish rolls of paper, film and foil, corrugated materials, textiles and abrasives down to size is available from Hyde Industrial Blade Solutions (IBS), Southbridge, Mass. Hyde’s score slitter blades, complemented by a line of perforator blades for finishing products, are engineered to provide clean cuts consistently [...]

The U.S. Department of Commerce provided $2.3 million to Arsenal Medical Inc., Watertown, Mass., to accelerate production of core-sheath (concentrically layered) nanofibers with features that help release targeted therapeutic molecules in medical applications. At the fall meeting of The Fiber Society in Boston, Arsenal Medical presented the results of a new high-throughput slit-surface electrospinning technology [...]

A new hybrid yarn 10 times smaller than a human hair can lift more than 100,000 times its own weight and generate 85 times higher mechanical output than natural skeletal muscles. This discovery by researchers at the University of Wollongong ARC Centre for Excellence in Electromaterials Science (ACES) in New South Wales, Australia, may lead [...]

Chemicals are routinely used in traditional dyeing, bleaching, printing and fabric-finishing techniques, which use large amounts of water and energy. De Monfort University (DMU) in Leicester and Loughborough University in Leicestershire, U.K., have recently launched research on using laser and enzyme processing technologies to color and pattern fabrics more sustainably. Postgraduate students from each university [...]

A report by industry research group Textiles Intelligence, “Automotive Fabrics: Expanding Opportunities in the Vehicles of Tomorrow,” traces the increasing application of fabric components in auto manufacturing—a trend likely to spur growth in the future. In 2000, the average weight of textile materials in a standard vehicle was 20 kg; today, it is 26 kg, [...]