“Where others see garbage, I see raw material,” says Javier Goyeneche, president of Ecoalf. The company’s goal is to create the first generation of recycled products with the same quality, design and technical properties as the best non-recycled products. Photo: Ecoalf. Javier Goyeneche, president of Ecoalf Recycled Fabrics S.L., headquartered in Madrid, Spain, [...]

Compromise and collaboration are key to revising standards that improve textile product safety. The road to revised standards can be bumpy, fraught with lively discussions and detailed (some might say “picky”) decisions. The standards, some enforceable and some voluntary, guide material and product manufacturers through the complex world of creating safe and functional products. Hundreds, [...]

3M™ chief design officer Eric Quint revealed during Milan Design Week that 3M will open its first-ever center for design in Minneapolis this July, focusing on innovation in water preservation, energy conservation and innovative applications of materials. Photo: Stefano Boeri Architetti. Milan Design week allows designers and innovators in materials to wow the [...]

At the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in California, Classic Event & Tent Rentals created a lounge with a wood-plank floor for Mercedes-Benz that allowed the carmaker to showcase its history with a display of automobiles. Photo: Classic Event & Tent Rentals. Creating a function—and personable—space for increasingly demanding customers is taking the tent-rental [...]

The Ross Miles Foam Analyzer (RMFA) is an instrument that measures foam height electronically. An LED bar and sensor bar are fitted along the intake vessel, and foam height is detected based on the difference in brightness at the foam-air boundary. The electronic height detection provides repeatability of the measurement and, with a resolution of [...]

Designed to make hems on woven and knitted textile banner media without sewing, Banner Ups TexTape™ bonds permanently to most textiles and is durable for both outdoor and indoor use. It is made of premium grade modified double-sided acrylic adhesive and available in ⅜-inch and ¾-inch width. TexTape is applied like ordinary double-sided banner hem [...]

Iconic baseball venues Fenway Park, Wrigley Field and Yankee Stadium chose Ultra Cross Black Dyneema®, often called “invisible netting” in the industry. “By using Ultra Cross product, the performance and the look will remain unaffected regardless of the natural elements,” says Dan Oliver, president of NET Systems Inc. Photo: DSM Dyneema. Baseball is [...]

Thrace LINQ, Summerville, S.C., has been awarded ISO 9001:2008 certification for their quality management system. The achievement demonstrates the woven and nonwoven technical fabric supplier’s commitment to provide the highest quality materials to the markets they serve. ISO 9001 standard is designed to help ensure that an organization’s products and services consistently meet the requirements [...]

Thrace LINQ, Summerville, S.C., has been awarded ISO 9001:2008 certification for their quality management system. The achievement demonstrates the woven and nonwoven technical fabric supplier’s commitment to provide the highest quality materials to the markets they serve. ISO 9001 standard is designed to help ensure that an organization’s products and services consistently meet the requirements [...]

Leigh Fibers, Inc., Spartanburg, S.C., will become the recycling partner for Cintas, the Cincinnati, Ohio-based uniform company. The first-of-its-kind national program will facilitate the safe disposal of out-of-service uniforms that normally end up in landfills. Instead, the recycling process will offer new life to the used materials in the automotive and other end-user industries. The [...]