Sleepers everywhere demand their favorite pillows for everyday use, often bringing the perfect personalized pillow along on camping trips, airplane travel and hotel stays to ensure a good night’s rest. However, when hygiene is the most important consideration in a pillow, comfort can get kicked to the curb. Hospital patients, nursing home residents, hotel patrons [...]

Supply55 Inc., providing a variety of value-added products to the sign, screen and graphics arts markets, has released AP2155™ and AP3155™ adhesion promoters for use with UV printers. AP2155 is an adhesion promoter, anti-static and cleaner (eliminates fingerprints) for use with UV and LED curable inks when printing on plastic substrates, Coroplast, polystyrene, PVC and [...]

The ValueJet 1638X and 1638WX wide-format inkjet printers are 64-inch, staggered dual head models offering faster turnaround times, user-friendly operation and a convenient maintenance door. ValueJet 1638X is a eco-solvent printer and ValueJet 1638WX is a dye-sublimation/aqueous ink unit; both are designed for expanded applications, faster production and improved printing efficiency. Both models feature a [...]

New graphics technologies offer marine fabricators practical and eye-catching options. Customized graphics broadcast personality. “For many boat owners, boats become their babies,” says Rich Thompson, president of AdGraphics in Pompano Beach, Fla. Thompson also made a presentation at the annual Marine Fabricators Association (MFA) national convention in Charleston, S.C., in January. “They have an emotional [...]

The Norwegian Opera and Ballet customizes their costumes exactly how they were envisioned, says Kari Alette Baekkevold, the head of the print and dye shop. This approach was used to spectacular advantage for a recent production of Firebird, which required rich, vibrant colors on fine textiles. The Wasatch SoftRIP TX, developed exclusively for textile printing [...]

E-nose sensors could make textile substrates into wearable warning systems. When we think “wearable technology” we may think of photovoltaic materials powering small electronic devices, or sensors relating vital signs to health care providers. About a year ago, U.K.-based Peratech announced its involvement in a new project, dubbed “Nose in clothes.” The nature of the [...]

A professional shares his formula for improved sales and customer relationships that last. By Bill Foster There is certainly no lack of advice on how to increase your sales success. Books and seminars can be counted by the hundreds, and many of these are quite good. Firsthand experience working for others in sales positions and [...]

Manufacturers tackle the world’s growing need for safe drinking water–after disasters, and before. When a chemical storage tank in West Virginia leaked this past January, 300,000 people were unable to drink water from their taps. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) sent more than 367,000 gallons of water to the nine-county area; the local water [...]

NCTO supports Textile Enforcement and Security Act (TESA), Yarn-Forward rule. The Yarn-Forward Rule spurs investment in the U.S. textile industry, according to information from the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO). The U.S. textile industry has seen a surge in foreign direct investment over the past eight months. No fewer than eight foreign companies have [...]

Storm safety and evacuation is a matter of planning, preparation and communication. Weather is a way of life in the tent rental and event industry. We are the “rain or shine” people. Tent and structure professionals deliver a finished product when most other people have decided it’s too hot, cold, rainy or windy to work. [...]