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Outdoor brand bags balloon fabric
October 1st, 2015
A client of True Mountain, an outdoor apparel manufacturer in Preston, Lancashire, U.K., asked for a promotional item for a trail running group. Company founders Tim Butcher and Jojo Burns created a shoe bag to separate dirty trail shoes from clean gear in a kit bag, but the waterproof fabric they tried on the prototype […]
Printing possibilities
October 1st, 2015
More technology There are two main parameters that shops look at when they’re investing in printers: print quality and speed. Both have been improving markedly. In recent months, Rainier Industries has been upgrading to Durst Rhotex’s P10/P12 series of direct-to-fabric printers. Scott Powell, marketing director, is a fan of the new tech. “The P stands […]
Breaking from tradition
October 1st, 2015
Game-changing shifts in the flexible substrate printing market prove the rules are changing in the growing graphics industry. It’s not news that fabric graphics are booming. Thanks to continuing advances in technology, printing on flexible substrates has experienced reliable growth for years. More than any other single factor, the existence of fabric graphics has shaped […]
Rooms with a view
October 1st, 2015
The Sacred Valley of the Incas, near Cusco, Peru, has been carved by the Urubamba River, fed by numerous rivers pouring from adjoining valleys and gorges. The Incas were drawn to the valley by its spectacular geography, climatic qualities and suitability for maize (corn) production. Archaeological remains, including those of the 15th century Inca estate […]
Mad Max Hybrid promotes F1 racing
October 1st, 2015
The Lotus F1 Team, a British Formula 1 racing team based in Enstone, Oxfordshire, joined forces with Warner Bros. Pictures to develop a new machine for the post-apocalypse—the Mad Max Hybrid. The vehicle, complete with front-mounted spikes, huge off-road tires, flame throwers and a sprinkling of mounted skulls, pays homage to the de-evolution action film […]
Making the rounds
October 1st, 2015
Textile waste is gaining new life through closed-loop processes, creating more products (and some profits) in more industries. Forty-five years ago, Kermit (the frog) lamented, “It’s not easy bein’ green.” Environmentally speaking, it still may not be easy, but it’s becoming less difficult every day—and more profitable. “We introduced a recycled fabric prototype 15 years […]
Demand + supply = prevail
October 1st, 2015
Robert Cole brings decades of experience and common sense to the time-honored but always evolving economic model of supply and demand. One of the great things this industry has to offer is the quality of its suppliers,” says Robert Cole, IFAI Honored Life Member (HLM) and owner of Goodwin-Cole, Sacramento, Calif. “They’ve kept our industry […]
An (almost) silver lining
October 1st, 2015
Cracks or leaks in old cast-iron pipelines allow sewage to seep into groundwater, roots that grow and expand, costly waste of clean water and, eventually, expensive environmental, public infrastructure or property damage. The Pine Grove Resort in northern Wisconsin had a deteriorated cast iron sewer pipe under a concrete floor. The only option to fix […]
Thriving on innovation
October 1st, 2015
Success in medical and biomedical textiles markets requires established expertise and a long-term commitment. If you want to talk about today’s medical textiles markets, it’s necessary to go beyond the end product—and even the finished textile—and look at what goes into making that textile. And as much as highly engineered materials are now well established, […]
Forethought: On your mark…
October 1st, 2015
One hundred years ago, the first issue of The National Tent and Awning Manufacturers Review was issued to association members. In 1915, World War I deepened in Europe: in January, the first German Zeppelin attack occurred over Great Britain; in May, the SS Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine; in April, the massacre of […]