Transportation practitioners from around the country recently gathered virtually for three days to learn more about the seven innovations that will be promoted during EDC-7 (2023-2024). If you missed sessions or breakouts, you can still view these on-demand at the summit website. The theme of day two was Building Sustainable Infrastructure. Enhancing Performance with Internally [...]

Economic activity in the manufacturing sector contracted in February for the fourth consecutive month following a 28-month period of growth, say the nation’s supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®. The report was issued today by Timothy R. Fiore, CPSM, C.P.M., chair of the Institute for Supply Management® (ISM) Manufacturing Business Survey Committee. “The February Manufacturing PMI registered 47.7%, 0.3 percentage [...]

Sattler® Outdura® announced that Chris Caldwell, current product manager for Outdura casual furniture and Sattler shade fabrics, has taken on the new responsibility of sales manager for Outdura. Julie Talbert has also joined the Outdura team as a sales manager. As product manager, Caldwell was responsible for the development, analysis and management of all furniture [...]

When constructing roadways over soft soils and weak subgrades, geocells are one of the most powerful value engineering tools available to the civil engineering and construction industries today. Understandably, some engineers may be apprehensive about using a geosynthetic product for which they have an incomplete technical understanding. So, if you’ve ever wondered how geocells work in load [...]

Photo courtesy of Michael & Anna Costa Photography Town & Country Event Rentals (T&C), Van Nuys, Calif., recently acquired Signature Party Rentals (Signature), Santa Ana, Calif. T&C is the portfolio company of Shadow Lake Partners (SLP). It was added to the SLP portfolio through a majority recapitalization in December of 2022 as a premier provider of event infrastructure and support [...]

Our inaugural live episode of Talking Textiles is a panel discussion including an all-star cast of past Canadian guests talking about the fabric structures industry. Francophone and Anglophones alike will love the advice on how to get new projects and customers, as well as the quote process and how to respond to different markets.  Hear [...]

Archroma announced the closing of the acquisition of the Textile Effects business from Huntsman Corporation. When the Huntsman Textile Effects acquisition was first announced in August 2022, Archroma Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Heike van de Kerkhof called the transaction a “merger of equals.” Indeed, the global business of Huntsman Textile Effects comprises approximately 2,300 [...]

The 2023 Advanced Textiles Association’s (ATA) Geosynthetics Conference took place Feb. 5–8, in Kansas City, MO and co-hosted with the International Erosion Control Association's (IECA) Annual Conference and Expo, brought together those from the geotechnical industry as well as the erosion, sediment control and stormwater industry. The combined conference attracted more than 1,800 combined attendees and [...]

A consortium led by zero-emission vessel provider ACUA Ocean in partnership with zero-emission infrastructure provider Unitrove has won a multimillion pound UK government grant in a major push to decarbonize the maritime sector. The Hydrogen Innovation–Future Infrastructure & Vessel Evaluation and Demonstration (HI-FIVED) consortium will receive more than £3.8m ($4,573,566 USD) of funding to build [...]

The Reinforced Earth Company (RECo) has acquired the assets of two precast facilities located in Florida and Indiana. The 48-acre, multi-building site in Labelle, Fla. (formerly Henkay Precast) has a production capacity of 200,000 tons of concrete per year. In Winamac, Ind. (formerly S&S Precast), the 20-acre site has a production capacity of 100,000 tons [...]