Contaminated sediments are among the toughest to manage because any disturbance (digging or dredging) releases pollutants into the water. CETCO Remediation Technologies, Hoffman Estates, Ill., specializes in cleanup technologies and will now offer the Triton® Marine Mattress, a flexible geotextile container that can be installed underwater and filled with native soils or materials. While the [...]

Milliken & Company, Spartanburg, S.C., sold its Automotive Body Cloth division to a Milliken management group supported by an investment capital firm with automotive expertise. The new entity, Autotex, will continue to employ 1,000 of the 1,200 workers of the former Milliken division and will be headquartered in South Carolina. However, the deal will close [...]

TMI LLC, Pittsburgh, Pa., continued expansion plans for its broad range of PVC products by acquiring the assets of RJF Intl. Corp.’s KoroKlear® Division, Fairlawn, Ohio, manufacturer of vinyl strip doors and industrial barriers. TMI manufactures and supplies flexible PVC solutions for the door, food service, safety and material handling industries, and KoroKlear’s products are [...]

A new Middle East office in Manama, Bahrain, will allow Dow Corning, headquartered in Midland, Mich., to offer its silicone-based materials to support construction, petrochemical, textile and oil and gas industries in the region. Dow Corning’s silicone construction materials (emulsions and sealants, for example) have applications in protecting buildings against sand, high winds and extreme [...]

Fibers can be spun from abaca (a type of Philippine hemp), banana and pineapple, but the gum content makes production processes sticky. The Philippine Textile Research Institute (PTRI) has developed pretreatment technologies for these indigenous and sustainable fiber resources that can reduce the gluey byproducts and render fibers clean and spinnable. The processes cut the [...]

Exports from the Chinese textile and garment industry will experience the largest drop in 30 years, as the China National Textile and Apparel Council is projecting a 10 percent decline by the end of 2009. A slight pick-up is expected in the last few months of 2009, related to the Christmas holiday and exhausted foreign [...]

The U.S. Small Business Administration provides loans to stimulate exports for businesses with up to 500 employees. Now the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO), a national trade group, is urging Congress to offer $5–15 million loans to firms with up to 1,250 employees, a move that would include a large number of textile companies. [...]

Exports of manmade fiber textiles are on the path to recovery, with new demand coming from Europe and Western Asia, according to India’s Synthetic & Rayon Textile Export Promotion Council. For the period April–September 2009, manmade fiber exports rose by 10 percent (in dollars) compared to 2008. Ganesh Kumar Gupta, council chairman, said “The recovery [...]

Mark Graham brings 17 years of textile testing experience and leadership skills honed in his own business, Graham Technical Services, to his new role at SDL Atlas, Rock Hill, S.C. Graham will direct sales and service efforts across the Carolinas, Tennessee and Virginia for SDL Atlas, a provider of textile testing products, supplies and services. [...]

Peter Allard brings 25 years of printing industry experience to his new role as Southeast U.S. sales manager for Ultraflex Systems Inc., Randolph, N.J., a supplier of printing substrates for digital solvent, UV, latex and screen printing. His role will be to broaden the company’s client base throughout the southern states.