Herculite Inc. manufactures a broad range of PVC flexible composite fabrics for the medical supply chain, agriculture, defense industrial base and numerous other specialty applications. The products are essential elements used to manufacture hospital beds, operating room beds, beds for assisted living and nursing homes, isolation curtains, gurneys, wheelchairs, face shields, patient triage tents and [...]

It has been encouraging to see manufacturers in the U.S. and around the world coming together to find ways to retool and manufacture PPE to meet the urgent need during the current COVID-19 pandemic. As a proud ATA member, we would like to share with you the information and patterns we have collected while working [...]

Sewn products industry organization SEAMS reports that, as it has been engaged with its members in helping to manufacture much needed PPE products for the U.S. Covid-19 pandemic.  As part of this collaboration with the industry, SEAMS has centralized many patterns required to produce PPE products from home creations to approved medical products for easy access. [...]

Advanced Textiles Association (ATA), along with The National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO), and Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry (INDA) are reaching out to provide an initial database of Finished Goods and Input Production manufacturers capable of meeting the continuing need for textile-based PPE and medical supplies amidst the current COVID-19 crisis.   COVID-19 Production [...]

The Geosynthetic Institute (GSI) will sponsor a webinar, “Wave (or Wrinkle) Management for Proper Deployment of Geomembranes,” on April 15, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST. Geosynthetic Materials Association (GMA) member companies and their employees receive discounted rates on all GSI webinar and short course registrations. An intrinsic property of all exposed geomembranes is [...]

The Geosynthetic Institute (GSI) will sponsor a webinar, “Geomembrane Puncture,” on April 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST. Geosynthetic Materials Association (GMA) member companies and their employees receive discounted rates on all GSI webinar and short course registrations. The need for geomembranes to remain free of holes while in service is paramount to [...]

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Jovita Carranza launched the Paycheck Protection Program on April 3, 2020, a $349 billion emergency loan program created last week with the President’s signing of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES). The program provides forgivable loans of up to $10 million to small businesses left [...]

  As the industry works together to address the vast PPE needs, please let us know if you have patterns or specification information you are willing to share with the industry at large. The hope is to publicly post designs for masks and gowns to enable manufacturing by more ATA members. Some of our members [...]

The special events industry stands poised to address surging capacity needs of the U.S. health care infrastructure. Ten of the major U.S. tent and structure manufacturers have joined together in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The principal strategy of the group is to align needs for disaster resources including field hospitals, emergency temporary shelters, [...]

The Trump administration is recommending that many Americans wear face mask to slow COVID-19 infection rates. And, Dr. Anthony Fauci has emphasized the goal is not to "take away from the availability of masks that are needed for the health care providers who are in real and present danger of getting infected from the people [...]