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Enhanced printable black-back fabric

Fisher Textiles’ GF4030 Nirvana Plus is an enhanced printable soft signage black-back fabric with 30% more fabric on the face than other printable black-back media. Fisher Textiles’ GF4030 Nirvana Plus is an enhanced printable soft signage black-back fabric developed to significantly decrease smoke exhaustion during the transfer process. It has 30% more fabric on the [...]

By |2022-09-12T09:27:45-05:00September 12, 2022|

Taste of IFAI Expo 2022 webinar is September 14

The Advanced Textiles Association (ATA) is presenting a free “Taste of IFAI Expo 22” webinar featuring three experts giving a short preview of their education sessions taking place at IFAI Expo in Charlotte, N.C., in October 2022. The webinar takes place on Sept. 14, 2022, from 1:00-2:00 p.m. EDT. It will feature short sessions on: [...]

By |2022-09-12T08:26:46-05:00September 12, 2022|

Tiltex completes water infiltration barrier and erosion control protection to reinforced earth wall

Tiltex Australia has completed a major water infiltration barrier and erosion control installation to the Run of Mine (ROM) Wall Crusher A project at the Iron Bridge mine in Pilbara, Western Australia. The team installed a Tiltex 12B Anti-Cracking 80 MPa Compressive Strength Geosynthetic Cementitious Composite Mat (GCCM) over 50+-meter-long steep batters at 1V:1.6H, secured with its soil anchor grid system designed to endure 50m/sec winds. Tiltex 12B [...]

By |2022-09-12T01:29:00-05:00September 12, 2022|

Nonwoven fabrics market size projected to be $67.93 billion by 2030

Photo: SewLong Custom Covers The global Nonwoven Fabrics Market is predicted to witness substantial development. Demand for personal protective equipment such as gloves, facial masks, facial covers, and gowns, is mounting, leading to high demand for nonwoven fabrics. But the scarcities are leaving healthcare workers riskily ill-equipped to care for COVID-19 patients. The world needs [...]

By |2022-09-09T12:13:00-05:00September 9, 2022|

5-Part Series (Part 4): Cold Resistance

Editor’s note: Last November 2021, E Squared Technical Textiles discussed the five geosynthetics performance tests to ensure suitability for your application: Chemical Resistance, UV Resistance, Cold Resistance, Abrasion Resistance, and Flame Retardancy. In this fourth part of a five-part series, E Squared takes an expanded look at each of these specific tests, this time discussing [...]

By |2022-09-09T13:58:06-05:00September 9, 2022|

Marquee Event Rentals partners with Ultrapom

Marquee Event Rentals, McCook, Ill., has purchased inventory and an exclusive partnership with Kansas City-based wedding, design and décor company Ultrapom. Both organizations have built a longstanding relationship over the past 5 years, often working together to leverage Marquee’s expansive inventory of tenting and tabletop rentals with the design and décor solutions offered by Ultrapom. “We are thrilled [...]

By |2022-09-08T14:49:54-05:00September 8, 2022|

Haartz and GTT revolutionize waterless textiles

The Haartz Corporation, a provider of highly engineered and uniquely designed textile materials and Green Theme Technologies Inc. (GTT), a provider of waterless and PFAS-free textile finishing, announced a partnership to revolutionize how textiles are finished in the United States. The first of its kind in the North American market, GTT’s PFAS-free and waterless EMPEL™ [...]

By |2022-09-08T12:12:12-05:00September 8, 2022|

New grants benefit coastal resiliency, natural infrastructure projects

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) announced $7.7 million in new grants using funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to support ongoing natural infrastructure projects in seven states. These grants will support the design and implementation of projects to enhance the resilience of coastal communities and [...]

By |2022-09-06T09:37:42-05:00September 8, 2022|

Presto Geosystems Webinar – Permanent Stabilization for Roads, Highways and Bridges – September 13

Geosystems University will present the one-hour webinar on Permanent Stabilization for Roads, Highways and Bridges on September 13 at 11 a.m. CDT and you can register here. The presenter is Sam Justice, PE, Civil Design Engineer, and you can earn 1.0 PDH credit. The webinar will discuss challenges presented by aging infrastructure and how the GEOWEB geocells [...]

By |2022-09-08T01:10:00-05:00September 8, 2022|

Business expectations turn negative

The 15th ITMF Corona-Survey shows that the business situation plunged into negative territory in July 2022. The business situation is worse in Asia than in the rest of the world. Textile machinery is the only segment still in positive territory. Business expectations have also turned negative for the first time since the start of survey [...]

By |2022-09-07T12:45:21-05:00September 7, 2022|
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