Zünd America Inc., manufacturer of multifunctional digital cutting systems and U.S. sister company of Zünd Systemtechnik, has appointed John Cote to the position of national sales manager and channel manager for the U.S. and Canada. He will be responsible for managing the Zünd America sales team and distribution channels and his key focus will be [...]

The Dadong Arts Center in Taiwan includes performance halls, commercial art space for exhibitions and an art library. Photo: Dadong Arts Center A pair of dynamic fabric structures bookend the Taiwan landscape. From the northern most tip of Taiwan, where capital city Taipei is located, to the southwest coast, where Kaohsiung City, the [...]

Leo Pohlmann, owner and designer of Uncharted Marine Canvas, Gulf Breeze, Fla., has been serving the Gulf Coast’s boat canvas and marine upholstery needs for more than 25 years. Recognized by the Marine Fabricators Association for his achievement in design, Pohlmann’s business objective of providing customers with cutting-edge material and design products has been a [...]

Lawrence Fabric & Metal Structures installed a custom walkway canopy, approximately 14 feet wide by 260 feet long, made from aluminum tubing supported by 50 galvanized steel posts attached to concrete. Photo: Lawrence Fabric & Metal Structures Inc. Companies with in-house metal shops enjoy advantages in quality control and customer service, plus increased [...]

Warde urban flowers interact with passersby, creating a connection in an open and underused space. Photos: Dor Kedmi Vallero Square at the heart of Jerusalem, Israel, has seen better days. It’s located near a large open market and is divided into two separate spaces by a tramline. Home to facilities like a waste [...]

The Alpha series is a new generation of super multi-pass inkjet printers for the digital production of home textiles and fashion. It offers print widths of 190-330 cm and can be configured with up to eight colors and 64 Alpha-S print heads that achieve a native resolution of 600 dpi and a print speed of [...]

ES3 eco-solvent inks are now available for Mimaki’s JV300, JV150, CJV300 and CJV150 Series printers. Compatible with a wide range of media types from indoor posters to outdoor signs, the fast-drying inks offer superior media adhesion and color reproduction. The scratch resistance also makes the inks useful for high traffic applications such as transit advertising, [...]

Back in September 1999, I wrote my first editorial for the Industrial Fabric Products Review. At the time, I described myself this way: “I’m a rabid science fiction fan and a relentless afficionado of robust red wines, and I have no children, no pets, six slowly petrifying house plants, and only a fading hope that [...]

Northern Salt’s new tension fabric structure in St. Paul, Minn., holds 10,000 tons of salt to deice roadways, which the company sells to counties, cities, townships and commercial businesses throughout the region. Photo: Legacy Building Solutions Surviving winter in Minnesota, where annual snowfalls can exceed 80-plus inches, requires tons of salt each year to [...]

Large enough to cover half the ice sheet at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn., the “More Than Names” flag took 18 hours to fold in order to transport to the arena. Photo: Rhonda Morgan WCCO, a Minneapolis, Minn., television station, wanted to recognize members of the military in a way [...]