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• Planning for the next generation: leadership transitions in family businesses

  Specialty Fabrics Review | from the May 2013 issue
  Keeping family businesses strong requires a long-term strategy and realistic planning.
  http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/0513_f2_next_generation.html

• Report on nonwoven production in 2011

  Specialty Fabrics Review | from the November 2012 issue
  EDANA has released a public summary of its annual statistics.
  http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/1112_c1_nonwoven_production.html

• The help-wanted hurricane

  Specialty Fabrics Review | from the September 2012 issue
  The aging of the U.S. workforce is predicted to cause skilled workforce shortages.
  http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/0912_bs_workforce_shortage.html

• BASF, Cargill and Novozymes target commercial bio-based acrylic acid process

  Specialty Fabrics Review | August 27, 2012
  Companies will develop technologies to produce acrylic acid from renewable feedstocks.
  http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/082712_acrylic_acid.html

• SBA, AARP team up to support age 50+ entrepreneurs

  Specialty Fabrics Review | June 5, 2012
  Online courses, business mentors help train 100,000 “encore entrepreneurs.”
  http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/060512_sba_aarp.html

• Rapid demand growth is driving investment in nonwovens

  Specialty Fabrics Review | March 2, 2012
  Nonwovens roll goods producers building new facilities, lines targeting growing demand.
  http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/030212_ti_nonwovens.html

• 100,000th OEKO-TEX® certificate issued

  Specialty Fabrics Review | May 9, 2011
  The International OEKO-TEX® Association issued the hundred thousandth certificate.
  http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/050911_oekotex_certificate.html

• PGI announces long-term investment strategy for developing regions

  Specialty Fabrics Review | April 29, 2011
  PGI plans to invest in spunmelt manufacturing operations in South America and China.
  http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/042911_pgi_strategy.html

• Inside the healthcare market

  Specialty Fabrics Review | from the December 2010 issue
  The key to selling to the healthcare industry is patience—and lots of it.
  http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/1210_f2_healthcare_market.html

• INDA’s “flushability” guidelines

  Specialty Fabrics Review | from the November 2010 issue
  Truth in advertising doesn’t always apply to products advertised as “flushable.”
  http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/1110_sw14_flushability_guidelines.html

• New Oeko-Tex test criteria

  Specialty Fabrics Review | from the March 2010 issue
  Based on a joint resolution adopted by its 14 member institutes, the Oeko-Tex® Association has revised and expanded applicable test criteria, limits and by-laws of the product certification process for Oeko-Tex Standard 100.
  http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/0310_c1_criteria.html

• Plant-based products at UN climate summit

  Specialty Fabrics Review | from the March 2010 issue
  NatureWorks LLC, a Minneapolis, Minn., company making Ingeo™ plant-based fibers and bioplastics, showcased its renewable products to the world in December 2009.
  http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/0310_sw4_summit.html

• Auto interior materials offer options for your customers

  Specialty Fabrics Review | November 20, 2009
  New options abound to offer customers the trendiest—or most traditional—auto interiors.
  http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/1009_f2_automaterials.html

• Finding a niche: Small markets, big profits

  Specialty Fabrics Review | October 8, 2009
  How and why digital graphics companies are succeeding because they found their niche.
  http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/fg0909_f1_niche.html

• Making it work with Millennials

  Specialty Fabrics Review | from the October 2009 issue
  Generation Y is impacting the business world in unprecedented ways.
  http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/1009_bs_millennials.html

• Listening to your employees

  Specialty Fabrics Review | from the July 2009 issue
  Learning what matters to your employees is a key step in making your business more productive and profitable.
  http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/0709_ft2_employees.html

• The changing workforce

  Specialty Fabrics Review | June 17, 2009
  Businesses across all industries face changes in workforce and labor needs.
  http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/mf0509_bs_workforce.html

• Trends expand applications for nonwovens

  Specialty Fabrics Review | from the November 2008 issue
  The same trends that are driving development in wovens are expanding applications for nonwovens.
  http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/1108_f2_nonwovens.html

• Fabrics protect agricultural products

  Specialty Fabrics Review | from the November 2008 issue
  From seed to store, protecting agricultural products with fabric.
  http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/1108_f3_agricultural.html

• Nanotechnology provides more function with less space

  Specialty Fabrics Review | from the October 2008 issue
  Nanotechnology, the engineering of functional systems at the molecular level, is all about getting more function on less space.
  http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/1008_f3c_nanotechnology.html

• Planning eco-friendly weddings

  Specialty Fabrics Review | from the October 2008 issue
  Going green helps event companies gain both conscience and capital.
  http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/1008_f3g_weddings.html

• A global outlook on nonwovens

  Specialty Fabrics Review | from the November 2012 issue
  EDANA reports that several market segments in the nonwovens industry recorded their best output ever in 2011.
  http://specialtyfabricsreview.com/articles/1112_f2side1_nonwoven_edana.html