Effective in July 2014, John Anderson assumed the post of managing director of Xennia Technology LTD, headquartered in Letchworth, U.K. Anderson will be responsible for further developing sales globally for the industrial inkjet manufacturer. Xennia provides complete application solutions tailored to customer requirements based on the company’s expertise in high-performance inkjet inks and fluids, and [...]

Brand & Oppenheimer Co., Red Bank, N.J., a leading textile converter, has announced that Lizz Gillcrist has joined the company as business development and marketing manager for protective fabrics. Gillcrist will be responsible for global expansion and new market segments for protective fabrics, as well as providing education about Glen Guard® FR Hi Vis products.

Carmel, Ind.-based Top Value Fabrics is recognizing senior sales consultant Suzanne Freeman for 30 years with the company. Freeman, who has been named Sales Consultant of the Year nine times by Top Value Fabrics, is being lauded for outstanding customer service, technical knowledge and attention to detail. Freeman’s success is due in large part to [...]

Enhanced appearances and time saved. New turnkey solution from Autometrix facilitates the automation of awning design and cutting; new bundled package includes Eclipse 3D exclusive awning design software used to create dome, waterfall and traditional awnings with features for strip alignment and adding custom valances. The software exports a flattened pattern to the cutter, reducing [...]

Students from the University of Michigan cheered Quantum, a solar-powered vehicle designed by a student engineering team, as it coasted to victory in the 1,700-mile 2014 American Solar Challenge—the team’s fifth consecutive victory. The eight-day drive, powered completely by the sun, brought the team into Minneapolis on July 30 with stinky T-shirts and dirty socks—but [...]

Market expectations of mass-produced wearable technologies continue to grow as a generation surrounded with non-stop digital communication and entertainment looks for the next “must have” devices. The July 2014 Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco, Calif., featured many whiz-bang functional fashions, including the ambiotex T-shirt, which measures the wearer’s pulse rate, breathing, heart-rate variability, calorie [...]

The Jones Fall River drains an entire watershed’s streets and streams, transporting tons of debris to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor—where residents and visitors alike get to view the gag-worthy collection. “I was tired of always hearing tourists say ‘ugh, this harbor’s disgusting,’” says John Kellett, co-founder of Clearwater Mills LLC, a start-up with a mission. “I [...]

By Sigrid Tornquist Q: How has Jacquart Fabric Products’—and Stormy Kromer’s—success affected Ironwood, the town in which they’re located? A: What happened as Stormy Kromer developed was that people started to visit the town that I live in because of it, and it became something even grander than we had imagined. You would be somewhere [...]

By Sigrid Tornquist Taking a cap that is more than 100 years old and making it relevant for today’s consumer was Stormy Kromer’s goal when it introduced its Hardware Caps last year. The original cap was developed out of necessity, and the story of how it came to be is at the foundation of the [...]

Bob Jacquart uses the “power of pluck” to expand his company and build a strong brand identity. “If you’re going to really ramp up your business you have to have that world of brand strategy experts look you over,” says Bob Jacquart, CEO of Jacquart Fabric Products Inc. (JFP) in Ironwood, Mich. “You have to [...]