It may sound like an old-fashioned idea, but in today’s workplace apprenticeships are a thoroughly modern option. Registered Apprenticeship is a national system of industry-driven, on-the-job training delivered through partnerships with individual companies. This “earn-and-learn” training model combines work-based learning with related classroom instruction using the highest industry standards. Registered Apprentice has a network of [...]

The Gores Group, a Los Angeles, Calif.-based investment firm, has sold Scovill Fasteners of Clarkesville, Ga., to Morito, the world’s second-largest supplier of metal clothing fasteners, based in Osaka, Japan. Morito is also a global supplier of components for automobiles, cameras and other niche manufactured products. Founded in 1802, Scovill is a leading manufacturer of [...]

DIOLEN SAFE FR yarns, the flame-retardant yarns manufactured by FR Safety Yarns GmbH & Co. of Kunertstraße, Germany, are now available for applications from fine furniture fabrics in contract and residential to knitted structures and seating solutions for home and commercial use. They are also available for a variety of technical purposes due to consistent, [...]

TMI International LLC, Pittsburgh, Pa., has been acquired by River Associates Investments LLC, Chattanooga, Tenn. TMI is a fully-integrated, leading international manufacturer and supplier of innovative products and solutions designed to manage customer environments by improving work safety, cleanliness, comfort, efficiency and energy savings. Its wide range of products includes strip doors, exclusive PVC-based strip [...]

The Lenzing Group’s new factory in Lenzing, Austria, boasts the world’s largest production facility for lyocell fibers. Now fully operational, it is the first factory in the industry to feature a single production line with an annual nominal capacity of 67,000 tons. As a result of purchasing the TENCEL brand name in 2004, Lenzing now [...]

Garmatex of Vancouver, B.C., an inventor of intelligent fabric and apparel technologies, has signed a two-year supplier agreement with Buffalo, N.Y.-based New Era Cap, the world’s largest headwear brand and official on-field cap for Major League Baseball and the National Football League. With this partnership, Garmatex will enter the headwear market and introduce a new [...]

Dr. Marcin Otto of Netherlands-based Teijin Aramid and Prof. Matteo Pasquali from Rice University in Texas won the Paul Schlack Man-Made Fibers Prize for corporate-academic partners in fiber research. Granted by the European Man-made Fibers Association, the prize was awarded for the development of a new generation of super fibers using carbon nanotubes. The fibers [...]

Arlon Graphics LLC, Placentia, Calif., a manufacturer of pressure-sensitive cut vinyl, flexible substrates and print media films, has expanded its distribution partnership with screen and digital inks and equipment supplier Nazdar SourceOne, Shawnee, Kan. Nazdar is now distributing Arlon products nationwide. With more than 14,000 products available from locations across the U.S., the addition of [...]

Brand & Oppenheimer Co., a Red Bank, N.J.-based textile converter, has appointed Brian Foley to be project lead/program manager. Foley will be responsible for the implementation and execution of special projects and programs. He will focus on developing new customers as well as maintaining existing clients. Foley brings experience in soft goods services, including product [...]

OMNOVA Solutions of Fairlawn, Ohio, has named Anne Noonan president of the performance chemicals business segment, succeeding James Hohman who retired in October. Noonan brings a deep knowledge of the specialty chemicals industry to the position, including strategic marketing, product development, mergers and acquisitions and general management. OMNOVA is an innovator of emulsion polymers, specialty [...]