The Spanish textile group Inditex, which markets the Zara clothing brand, will set up operations in Seoul, South Korea, to boost growth, the company announced in February. The group wants to see Asia account for 15 percent of its sales by 2009, up from 8.9 percent in 2006. Inditex opened an outlet in China in [...]

From 2000 B.C., India has made art and commerce out of cotton textiles, and it is this expertise that may lead India’s resurgence in exports of high-end cotton textiles, knitwear and hosiery, according to Hari Sud, former vice president of C-I-L Inc. and investment strategies analyst. China is the world’s largest cotton producer, but Sud [...]

These dust mites (Dermatophagoides) aren't anything to sneeze at - unless you have allergies and need a heated mattress to keep them at bay> Image: Armed Forces Pest Management Board. Some like it hot, but dust mites don’t, and the Hohenstein Institutes are capitalizing on that knowledge. Dust mites are microscopic insects that [...]

Better Roads magazine recognized HydraCX2® Cotton Fiber Reinforced Matrix, a hydraulically applied erosion-control product, as one of its Top Rollouts for 2007. The cotton hydromulch products were developed by North American Green, Evansville, Ill., from cotton-ginning byproducts. “Cotton by nature is porous, absorbent and biodegradable—an excellent trio for controlling erosion and establishing seed,” says Tim [...]

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA GO RIO dye sublimation polyester fabrics were developed to meet the demands of the latest high-speed dye sublimation printers. The 150-denier double-sided polyester show fabric and the 450-denier polyester flag fabric both utilize a brilliant output coating that produces exceptional graphics and works well with direct or transfer printing. The [...]

Any brand of football in which the players maul, ruck and scrum has got to be a fan favorite, and rugby’s rough and rowdy play is a hit worldwide. To celebrate the 2007 Rugby World Cup, Ferrari Group, La Tour du Pin, France, created a huge, inflatable rugby ball structure, which will be displayed at [...]

In order to provide rain and snow protection for the generator and power transformers on the roof of this Chicago high-rise, Evanston Awning designed a canopy and curtain system that encloses the power equipment, yet allows the curtains to roll up for maintenance. All components had to be brought to the roof via a service [...]

Occasional high winds and hurricanes prompted this museum, housing a multimillion-dollar automobile collection, to safeguard its air conditioner cooling towers, filtration system equipment and fans with protective screens. Manufactured by Hendee Enterprises to custom measurements provided by Sunmaster, the four debris-screen panels were installed using stainless steel and nylon hardware, with added storm bars to [...]

A & R designed these DRA protection pads to be used as a customized layer of protection to lay on top of a special Lockheed Martin tooling. This unique assembly was created from pieces of Poron® foam, cut to size, and covered with a red denier polyurethane-coated material; the cover pieces connect to each other [...]

This project entailed developing a flame-retardant pad for a glass tube extrusion facility in order to eliminate a safety concern in the facility’s environmental, health and safety engineering department. The pad is able to withstand a 60-pound hot molten tube of glass falling from 12 to 18 inches during a complete production run, [...]