Seaman Corporation’s Shelter-Rite® Architectural Fabrics product line now includes High Light Transmission (HLT) Architectural Fabric. Seaman Corporation’s Shelter-Rite® Architectural Fabrics product line now includes High Light Transmission (HLT) Architectural Fabric with applications for structures requiring natural light such as sports arenas, event venues and greenhouses. Available in different strengths/weights, the products have light transmission values [...]

Bainbridge International’s Nauti Carbon Pole™ won a 2022 IFAI Expo Show Stopper Award in the Hardware, Findings and Accessories category. Bainbridge International’s Nauti Carbon Pole™ won a 2022 IFAI Expo Show Stopper Award in the Hardware, Findings and Accessories category. The new telescoping pole is made from black carbon fiber and is an excellent solution [...]

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering has announced that Victoria Sheehan will join the organization as the new executive director of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) on Dec. 5, 2022. Sheehan will succeed Neil Pedersen, who has served as TRB’s executive director for nearly eight years. Victoria Sheehan Sheehan comes to the National Academies from [...]

Together Outdoors (TO), a coalition of more than 100 outdoor recreation organizations committed to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the outdoors, announced nine recipients of its pilot round of grants. In total, 84 proposals requesting $775,000 were submitted for this inaugural grant cycle from a broad range of inclusion-focused initiatives designed to build a [...]

A webinar on An Approach To High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) Geomembrane Selection For Challenging Design Requirements by Dr. Fady B. Abdelaal will take place on October 25, 2022 at 9 p.m. Eastern Time (U.S. and Canada). You can register here. An approach for selecting a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) geomembrane for a long design life is presented [...]

Registration is open and reduced pricing is available now through October 31 for the annual Marine Fabricators Conference being held Jan. 26-28, 2023, at the Sheraton New Orleans in New Orleans, La. The conference features three full days of education and networking designed to help marine fabricators cultivate industry connections, improve their efficiency and increase [...]

“There is no doubt the world is warming,” says Mar Ricketts, principal and founder of GuildWorks in Portland, Ore., which specializes in permanent tension fabric structures. Ricketts considers climate change a market opportunity for people in the shade and comfort industry. In the Expo 2022 session “Warming Earth: The Need for Sustainably Designed and Built [...]

Charah Solutions, a leading provider of environmental services and byproduct recycling to the power generation industry, has been awarded an ash pond closure project from a utility partner in southern Indiana. The project is scheduled to start in mid-October 2022 and is expected to take approximately two years to complete. The project includes the closure [...]

Two new members of the Advanced Textiles Association (formerly IFAI) have been named as winners as part of a membership promotion at the IFAI Expo 2022. Companies that joined ATA at this year's Expo were registered in a drawing to win a free year of membership or a free registration to the Advanced Textiles Expo [...]

Shelter Structures America, Palos Verdes Estates, Calif., is expanding its national footprint by adding its third distribution facility. The new location outside of Roanoke, Va., comes months after Shelter’s announced it had purchased a new distribution center in Chicago. “Shelter Structures America is committed to expanding its operational footprint across the U.S. to provide an optimized network [...]