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2017 Student Design Challenge Winners: Awnings and Canopies

First place: “Eternal Sailboat” by Gabriel Ramon Galeano Carcamo. The Professional Awning Manufacturers Association (PAMA), a division of ATA, announced the winners of the 2017 Awning and Canopy Student Design Challenge at IFAI Expo in New Orleans on Sept. 28. First Place: Gabriel Ramon Galeano Carcamo, from Anhalt University in Germany, won the [...]

By |2017-09-27T10:49:40-05:00September 28, 2017|

Understanding ITAR and export controls

ATA’s Advanced Textiles Conference in New Orleans began Tuesday in New Orleans with presentations organized into four tracks: Medical, Military, Testing and Smart Fabrics. The Military track covered a range of topics from protective materials to the DoD budget. It also addressed a critical topic for any company that exports beyond U.S. borders, or is [...]

By |2017-09-28T12:49:17-05:00September 28, 2017|

E-textiles experts field questions at IFAI Expo

A group of trainblazers in the world of e-textiles offered ideas and fielded questions in a casual setting on ATA’s EXPO show floor yesterday. Many of the audience were experts themselves, so the discussion was, one might say, among colleagues in this segment. Standards for smart textiles was on the minds of many. One audience [...]

By |2017-09-28T12:46:41-05:00September 28, 2017|

2017 Student Design Challenge Winners: Advanced Textiles

The “Load-Absorbing Stabilization Crew Sock,” created by University of Minnesota students Quinessa Stibbins, Evan Idhe and Caitlin Hartman, took first-place honors in this year’s Advanced Textiles Student Design Challenge. Advanced Textile Products (ATP) and the Narrow Fabrics Institute (NFI), both divisions of ATA, announced the winners of the 2017 Advanced Textiles Student Design [...]

By |2017-09-28T07:38:09-05:00September 28, 2017|

Advanced Textiles Division membership growing

The Advanced Textiles Division of the Advanced Textiles Association (ATA) held an open meeting Tuesday at IFAI Expo. The division leadership announced that it is the fastest growing division at ATA and has increased to 219 members – a significant jump in just the last year, said incoming chairman, Amit Kapoor. He credited the outgoing [...]

By |2017-09-28T12:44:23-05:00September 28, 2017|

2017 IFF Innovation Award winner announced at IFAI Expo

The Industrial Fabrics Foundation (IFF) has announced the winner of the 2017 Innovation Award: UltraTech International Inc., Jacksonville, Fla., won this year in the category of “Chemicals, Coatings and Compounds” with the EverShield® C6 water-based fabric treatment. The company was awarded a prize of $5,000. EverShield was developed under a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) [...]

By |2017-09-27T10:16:46-05:00September 28, 2017|

This year’s Show Stopper winners

All the best from New Orleans: Thursday morning at IFAI Expo led off with lists of winners for the year, including the most popular products on the show floor. The sixth annual Show Stopper competition was designed to showcase the best of the best in the industry, from fabrics, equipment and chemicals to services and [...]

By |2017-10-20T11:17:52-05:00September 28, 2017|

2017 International Achievement Award winners announced at IFAI Expo

This year’s winners in ATA’s global International Achievement Awards (IAA) competition, recognizing design excellence in specialty fabrics applications, were announced on Sept. 28 at the organization’s annual meeting at IFAI Expo 2017 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. For more than 70 years, IAA has acknowledged innovation and excellence in design [...]

By |2017-09-27T14:11:24-05:00September 28, 2017|

Keeping employees engaged

According to Barry Adams, President of Peach Tree Awnings in Norcross, Ga., “The reason people separate from their company is because they feel their contribution is not valued and they feel what they do isn’t making a difference.” Adams’ session, “How to Keep Talented Employees Engaged,” presented at IFAI Expo 2017, focused on ways to [...]

By |2017-09-28T08:34:28-05:00September 28, 2017|

Derreck Kayongo encourages American business to deal with the ‘yuck factor’

Derreck Kayongo calls himself a “disrupter” of the soap business. Kayongo, founder of the Global Soap Project and CEO of the Center for Civil and Human Rights, was the keynote speaker September 27 at IFAI Expo 2017 and his passion for his work was fully evident. Dressed in a dapper plaid suit and brimming with [...]

By |2017-09-27T14:57:30-05:00September 27, 2017|
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