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March 2012 Issue

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Features

Bryan Loane keeps his 197-year-old business focused and flexible

Bryan Loane grows his family’s company by planning ahead and thinking on his feet.
Working the show with fabric exhibits

Exhibits and displays for trade shows and special events demonstrate the advantages of fabric.
Integrated marketing strategies

The branding battleground moves to customers’ hearts.
Narrow fabrics market outlook

Flexibility, versatility and value help keep the narrow fabrics industry on track.

Markets

Creating the future of textiles

Empowering people to drive change and innovation is at the heart of our industry’s growth.
Working the show with fabric exhibits

Exhibits and displays for trade shows and special events demonstrate the advantages of fabric.
Narrow fabrics market outlook

Flexibility, versatility and value help keep the narrow fabrics industry on track.
Interior fabrics go beyond the tent

Additional fabric elements inside, such as linens, swags and liners, increase the value and appeal of tented events.
Fabric provides year-round solar control

SheerWeave Performance+ helps keep room temperatures regulated throughout the year.
The largest lagoon liner

A 350-acre geomembrane liner project was completed last year in Kazakhstan—in record time.
Printed materials create dynamic exhibit

To create an eye catching, show-stopping exhibit for the International Baking Industry Exposition, Lawrence Fabric & Metal Structures used a variety of materials.
Premier pigment ink

Sawgrass Industrial has launched M-XTR ink for extreme digital textile print production, designed specifically to handle the extreme speed of today’s next- generation inkjet printers.
Biodegradable laminates

Laminates consist of certified biodegradable laminating film with aqueous adhesive.
Lightweight fabric sculpture wraps around media lab

Wrapped around and rising above the modern MediaCityUK Living Lab’s two-level atrium is a floating lightweight fabric sculpture, Ribbon.
NMMA Canada boating statistics report

In 2011, 38 percent of Canadian adults went boating, good news for marine textile manufacturers.
A comfortable heart-monitoring harness?

Companies collaborate to create a textile harness that blends technology and comfort.
NRDC says no to nanosilver

Lawsuit filed by NRDC against EPA aims to halt select antimicrobial nanosilver use.
Inflatable events on the LaM

The LaM commissioned 2hD Architects to create a temporary art space for week-long public receptions, press events and film projections.
Bryan Loane keeps his 197-year-old business focused and flexible

Bryan Loane grows his family’s company by planning ahead and thinking on his feet.
Reducing the cost of carbon fibers in vehicles

Dow® Chemical and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have joined forces to develop a polyolefin-based carbon filter precursor in an attempt to make low-cost carbon fiber for use in automotive composite parts.

News

NRDC says no to nanosilver

Lawsuit filed by NRDC against EPA aims to halt select antimicrobial nanosilver use.
NMMA Canada boating statistics report

In 2011, 38 percent of Canadian adults went boating, good news for marine textile manufacturers.
Waterless dye process promoted

MADE BY held a seminar in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to promote sustainable textile wet processing and waterless dyeing.
Reducing the cost of carbon fibers in vehicles

Dow® Chemical and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have joined forces to develop a polyolefin-based carbon filter precursor in an attempt to make low-cost carbon fiber for use in automotive composite parts.
Certifying reduced carbon footprint

SGS offers new program allowing companies to demonstrate carbon reductions through marks.
California law requires transparency in supply

The California Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010 went into effect Jan. 1, 2012.
Global demand rising for technical textiles

Growth in the technical textiles industry is likely to be strong—5 percent per year.
OEKO-TEX® test criteria 2012

OEKO-TEX® updates applicable test criteria and limit values for testing textiles.
SMART code of conduct for donations

The board of directors of the Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles Association (SMART) has formally approved a Donation Drop Box Operator Code of Conduct.

Products

New software calculates thread demand

A new software module provides a scientific and consistent mathematic solution for accurate measurement of thread demand.
Tent deploys in 30 seconds

The V3 High Peak tent can be set up safely in 30 seconds—the only high peak shape using the pop-up tent system, eliminating any pole assembly often found in other models.
Premier pigment ink

Sawgrass Industrial has launched M-XTR ink for extreme digital textile print production, designed specifically to handle the extreme speed of today’s next- generation inkjet printers.
Fabric provides year-round solar control

SheerWeave Performance+ helps keep room temperatures regulated throughout the year.
Safety signals

Safety Integrity Level (SIL) audible and visual signaling devices are specifically designed to conform to SIL1 and SIL 2 safety requirements.
Biodegradable laminates

Laminates consist of certified biodegradable laminating film with aqueous adhesive.
Fabric collection produced with DIOLEN® SAFE yarns

JAZZ fabric collection produced using only DIOLEN SAFE yarns from FR Safety Yarns.

Business

Integrated marketing strategies

The branding battleground moves to customers’ hearts.
Bryan Loane keeps his 197-year-old business focused and flexible

Bryan Loane grows his family’s company by planning ahead and thinking on his feet.
Workforce development

Improving personnel management with ACT’s WorkKeys® program.
Creating the future of textiles

Empowering people to drive change and innovation is at the heart of our industry’s growth.

Projects

Flexible fabrics and optimal health

Building space an “environment for optimal health” with airy, practical fabric rooms.
Inflatable events on the LaM

The LaM commissioned 2hD Architects to create a temporary art space for week-long public receptions, press events and film projections.
Company seeks creative buyers to repurpose byproducts

repurposedMATERIALS launched by using waste products to make new products.
Lightweight fabric sculpture wraps around media lab

Wrapped around and rising above the modern MediaCityUK Living Lab’s two-level atrium is a floating lightweight fabric sculpture, Ribbon.
Protecting gear in outer space

Gear pouches feature attributes that provide optimal protection and safety for irreplaceable equipment submitted to unique environmental conditions.
A comfortable heart-monitoring harness?

Companies collaborate to create a textile harness that blends technology and comfort.
Exhibit represents powerful merger

PowerStation designed and built to show “power” of newly merged Pink Inc. and Moss Inc.
Printed materials create dynamic exhibit

To create an eye catching, show-stopping exhibit for the International Baking Industry Exposition, Lawrence Fabric & Metal Structures used a variety of materials.
Modular, sustainable exhibit constructed almost entirely of fabric

Tranformit constructed a 6,000-square-foot exhibit almost entirely of fabric elements containing a theater, several meeting spaces, a technical room and six product display areas.
The largest lagoon liner

A 350-acre geomembrane liner project was completed last year in Kazakhstan—in record time.

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