Photos by Rudy Meyers Photography Robert Cole brings decades of experience and common sense to the time-honored but always evolving economic model of supply and demand. One of the great things this industry has to offer is the quality of its suppliers,” says Robert Cole, ATA Honored Life Member (HLM) and owner of [...]

Trelleborg’s Drainplus Liner 2.0 is suitablefor pipes and sewers from 70 to 250 feetlong and 3 to10 inches wide, both verticaland horizontal. Its expansion rate, once inthe pipeline, can be precisely calculated to avoid damage through expansion pressure.Photo: Trelleborg Pipe Seals Cracks or leaks in old cast-iron pipelines allow sewage to seep into [...]

Success in medical and biomedical textiles markets requires established expertise and a long-term commitment. If you want to talk about today’s medical textiles markets, it’s necessary to go beyond the end product—and even the finished textile—and look at what goes into making that textile. And as much as highly engineered materials are now well established, [...]

One hundred years ago, the first issue of The National Tent and Awning Manufacturers Review was issued to association members. In 1915, World War I deepened in Europe: in January, the first German Zeppelin attack occurred over Great Britain; in May, the SS Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine; in April, the massacre of [...]

Benjamin Shine’s work has attracted clients such as fashion labels, product and interior manufacturers, international art and design institutions and royalty. He has won the Red Dot Design Award, the Courvoisier Future 500 Art and Design Award, the Enterprising Young Brit Award and the ACT Export Award in Australia. Photos: Benjamin Shine Studio. [...]

Smart Welding Manager is a cloud-based production welding management application for weld mapping and full traceability. Working with any standard web browser or on any Internet-enabled device, users can plan welds and assign work to qualified welders by creating work packs while having an easy interface to manage WPS, drawings, welder qualifications, materials, welding consumable [...]

Teijin’s functional polyester fabric achieves the pile structure of toweling, offering comfort, water absorbency, a soft texture and a unique bulky-but-lightweight feeling. Water diffusion is nearly five times faster than that of general fast-drying materials, and heat insulation is three times greater than that of fleece. Heat is retained even when the material is wet. [...]

Imperial College and Royal College of Art students Lucy Jung, Elena Dieckmann, Ming Kong and Daniel Garrett designed the BRUISE suit to aid paraplegic athletes. The garment is being shown at the Smarter. Faster. Tougher. sportswear exhibition at the DX Museum, Toronto, Ont., Canada, until Oct. 12, 2015. Photos: Marie O’Mahony The medical [...]

The integrated speed and accuracy of the Taurus™ II cutter with the workflow technology of CutWorks® 9 software can result in an up to 12 percent increase in hide cutting throughput for manufacturers. Its computerized nesting engine is 250 times more powerful than previous offerings, mapping hides and flaws in seconds. The process is enhanced [...]

Sunbrella® Contour is the first Sunbrella shade fabric engineered for shade sail applications. Featuring exceptional durability, it’s the first knit Sunbrella shade fabric, and features a rich texture with the ability to fit to any shape and angle, for a variety of applications such as shade sails, fixed awnings, shade structures, windscreens, umbrellas, cabanas, pavilions [...]