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Event Safety Alliance announces Severe Weather Summit

The Event Safety Alliance is set to host the next Severe Weather Summit March 22-23, 2018, at the National Weather Center’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla. The summit is designed to aid event and venue professionals in preparing for and responding to dangerous weather conditions. Subject matter experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric [...]

By |2018-01-15T17:58:25-06:00January 15, 2018|

TRB Annual Meeting is Jan. 7–11, 2018

More than 13,000 people—including industry leaders, policymakers, administrators and researchers from government, industry and academia—are expected to gather for the Transportation Research Board’s 97th Annual Meeting. The event will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., from Jan. 7–11, 2018, and will involve thousands of presentations at nearly 800 sessions and [...]

By |2018-01-06T20:32:58-06:00January 6, 2018|

GSI offers webinar on geosynthetics in hydraulics

The Geosynthetic Institute (GSI) will offer a webinar entitled “Geosynthetics in Hydraulic Applications,” on Jan. 10, 2018, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT. By 2040 it is estimated that two billion people (25% of the world’s population) in 60 countries will have inadequate freshwater. This alarming prediction suggests that water must be hydraulically transferred [...]

By |2018-01-03T19:08:45-06:00January 3, 2018|

Titan Environmental tests concrete-reinforcement geogrid introduced in 2017; Release ‘Year in Review’

On Dec. 20, 2017, Titan Environmental released their 2017 Year in Review, including an article on testing of their new TE-SCR100 ConForce Grid for concrete reinforcement, which was released in 2017. Titan said, in pursuit of progressive research, they collaborated with the University of California, Irvine, to conduct testing of their state-of-the-art TE-SCR100 ConForce Grid [...]

By |2021-04-13T11:11:48-05:00December 20, 2017|

Narrow fabrics industry faces a shortage of people who “get it”

Close-up of the yarn feed on Fabdesigns’ Stoll CMS ADF-3 flat knitting machines. Stoll introduced the machine in October 2013. Photo: Fabdesigns. According to textile engineer Connie Huffa, the last year she taught at Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science (1998), less than 5 percent of the students were studying textiles and the [...]

By |2017-11-13T15:12:25-06:00December 15, 2017|

2018 Boat Show Award entries being accepted

Entries are now being accepted for the 2018 Progressive® Insurance Miami International Boat Show® Innovation Awards. Winners will be announced at the boat show on February 16. Deadline for entry is January 8. Full program details and requirements can be found at www.miamiboatshow.com/show-awards. The Innovation Award program is managed by the National Marine Manufacturers Association [...]

By |2017-12-14T00:00:19-06:00December 14, 2017|

Nonwovens industry outlook

INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, has released a new industry outlook report, “North American Nonwovens Industry Outlook, 2016–2021.” The exclusive content provides analysis across all of the nonwoven end-use markets, including 128 disposable and 127 durable categories, to provide a comprehensive and accurate view of the total North American nonwovens industry. Detailed [...]

By |2017-12-13T00:00:50-06:00December 13, 2017|

Digital textile printing on rise

The global textile printing market is expected to realize a compound annual growth rate of more than 18 percent from 2017 to 2021, according to Technavio’s latest market research. In a recent report, “Global Digital Textile Printing Market 2017–2021,” Technavio covers the market outlook and growth prospects of the global IoT market in energy grid [...]

By |2017-12-12T22:05:12-06:00December 12, 2017|

TRB offers webinar on getting the most from the TRB Annual Meeting

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) will conduct a webinar on Tuesday, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, at 1:00 p.m. EST, that will help both new and returning Annual Meeting attendees get the most out of their meeting experience. The webinar will review issues related to planning for the meeting, including hotel reservations, airline reservations, and other [...]

By |2017-12-12T12:39:57-06:00December 12, 2017|

GSI offers online course on QA/QC of geosynthetics in waste containment

The Geosynthetic Institute (GSI) will offer an online course entitled “Quality Assurance/Quality Control of Geosynthetics in Waste Containment Facilities,” on Jan. 30 and 31, 2018, and Feb. 1, 2018, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST. This online course focuses on the quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) of geosynthetics [...]

By |2017-12-18T13:56:30-06:00December 12, 2017|
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