Named for its rubber-acrylic backing and polyester duck print side, GF 610 Rubber Ducky (FR) is compatible with dye sublimation and UV-curable printing. With a waterproof treatment for outdoor use, the fabric’s black, opaque backing makes a nice finish for banner stand applications. Also appropriate for pop-up displays in trade show exhibits and retail advertising. [...]

Seemee Mesh Solution from Verseidag Seemee US is a PVC-coated lightweight mesh that offers vibrant and crisp imaging. Competitively priced and compatible with solvent and UV printing, Seemee Mesh Solution is ideal for building wraps and indoor advertising. Seemee Vario allows users to stock just one product for backlit and frontlit jobs. The German made, [...]

The key word for fabric choices (and the products made from them) these days is performance: fabrics that resist weather of all types; fabrics that enhance; fabrics that protect as well as beautify; fabrics that fight infection; fabrics that generate power; fabrics that are made of recycled materials and can be recycled again; fabrics that [...]

The Berry Amendment Textile Coalition (BATC), funded by the U.S. Industrial Fabrics Institute (USIFI), worked closely with U.S. Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC), Congressman Walter Jones (R-NC) and Congressman Mike McIntyre (D-NC) to beef up the Berry Amendment. The Berry Amendment requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to procure certain items, including textiles and clothing, made [...]

SBA awards funding entrepreneurship training for veterans; Surety Bond Guarantee program contracts increase 61 percent in 2013. As part of its “Boots to Business” program, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has announced that it has awarded a $3 million grant to Syracuse University’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) to deliver entrepreneurship education [...]

Fabric solutions turn the outdoors into practical and pleasureable spaces with all the beauty and comfort of a room indoors. This was the winter that earned bragging rights for much of the U.S. and Canada. So at the first drip of a melting icicle, folks started thumbing through seed catalogs and searching for the perfect [...]

Practical advice from an expert on how to get started selling your products and services internationally. By James Chan, Ph.D You don’t have to be a big company to do business internationally. What you need to succeed are high-quality, niche products or services, management commitment and good timing. The hardest part of global expansion is [...]

Janet Echelman’s recent installation in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, is an enormous spectacle, even by the artist’s standards. This one spanned 745 feet between the 24-story Fairmont Waterfront and the Vancouver Convention Center. Constructed of twisted nylon, braided polyester and interactive, colored lighting, “Skies Painted with Unnumbered Sparks” is a complex matrix of 860,000 hand and [...]

Improvements in radiation protective textiles for earth and beyond. With close to $1.46 billion in investments since 2008, the commercial space industry is blasting ahead at speeds close to their supersonic vehicles. Key players include former Paypal co-founder Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Virgin’s own celebrity Sir Richard Branson. Promises of breathtaking views [...]

By Sigrid Tornquist Of the many and diverse projects Calhoun Super Structure has designed, manufactured and installed, the project for Cavendish Farms in Fort Fairfield, Maine, is one that Jeremy Calhoun is especially proud of. “Cavendish Farms is one of the largest land owners in North America,” Calhoun says. “And this was the first VP [...]