Newlife™ is a complete and certified system of recycled polyester filament yarns coming 100 percent from recycled plastic bottles, processed into a polymer through a mechanical (not chemical) process and spun into yarn. The flexible Newlife platform allows for a vast number of applications and performances with levels of quality at least equal to virgin [...]

Arlon Graphics has promoted Chad Russell to the director of business development, based in Arlon’s headquarters in Santa Ana, Calif. He will be responsible for the product management team, new product commercialization, product strategy and pricing for all graphics product lines. Russell worked in Arlon’s sales organization for eight years and most recently served as [...]

Student populations rise and fall based on factors such as birth rate, the state of the economy, availability of grant funding, school reputation and more, giving facility managers fits trying to match building capacity to student enrollment. The popularity of portable classroom structures, also called bungalows, t-shacks, trailers, terrapins, huts, t-buildings or, in Australia, demountables, [...]

Although Liora Manné planned a life in the theater, a textile design class at North Carolina State University changed her career path. Intrigued with the dependence of design on cutting-edge technology, Manné completed a master’s degree in both textile design and textile engineering and headed for New York City. She found her passion in home [...]

At the Isle of Wight Festival in the United Kingdom in June 2012, some of the people carrying umbrellas were beta testers for a new product: the Booster Brolly. Vodafone U.K., Berkshire, England, created a multitasking prototype with the University College London that works like an umbrella—and an eco-friendly mobile phone charger—and a wireless cell [...]

Now that airlines charge fees for luggage, packing space for frequent flyers is at an all-time minimum. Luggage manufacturer Sea to Summit, Boulder, Colo., selected INVISTA’s Ultra-Sil CORDURA® Ultralite fabric to lighten up travellers’ loads. The company’s new line of travel accessories, Travelling Light™, features a lightweight, durable and modern solution to luggage organization. The [...]

Biomimetic textiles draw inspiration from nature, and include water-repellent fabric based on lotus plant morphology and fabrics with pores that open and close like pine cones. Now Katie Ledger, M.A., London College of Fashion, is mimicking snakes’ and insects’ ecdysis (skin shedding) with fabric designed to be discarded, one layer at a time. Ledger’s project, [...]

Two University of Missouri (MU) graduate students in textile and apparel management attended summer school this year—but not because they had to make up missed class work. Instead, Laura McAndrews and Stephanie Link spent six weeks at work in an apparel production factory in El Salvador collaborating with employees on a new brand of yoga [...]

Efficient use of energy, water and materials may make the difference in the viability of European textile and clothing industries. On November 22, Euratex and the European Textile Technology Platform plan a high-level conference in Brussels, Belgium, to discuss innovation for greater resource efficiency. The conference topics include current challenges faced by the industry, near-term [...]

Personal protective equipment stands up to many types of hazards, one of which is transmitted impact force. The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) International is developing a standard, ASTM WK38096, Test Method for Measuring Transmitted Impact Force through Materials Used in Protective Clothing, and welcomes perspectives from manufacturers of protective clothing. “Workers in [...]