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Top tips for operating a specialty fabrics business during a pandemic
April 1st, 2020
IFAI Division Webinars this week are bringing together diverse members of the specialty fabrics industry to discuss how they are navigating the COVID-19 crisis. For companies that are operational—that is, they have either been deemed essential businesses or they are not currently under a “shelter in place” order—worker health and safety is a major concern. […]
Announcing the 2020 InTents magazine Reader’s Choice Award winners!
April 1st, 2020
Twenty-two manufacturers and suppliers to the tent rental industry are honored in the April–May 2020 issue of InTents magazine in the third annual Reader’s Choice Awards. This 40-by-60-foot Anchor Century® tent, installed at a venue in Farmington, Conn., by Connecticut Rental Centers, served as a ceremony tent with theater-style seating. Anchor Industries was voted Best […]
Quad-C invests in Textum Weaving
April 1st, 2020
Quad-C Management Inc., a middle market private equity firm, has closed on an investment in Textum Weaving and its affiliates, a manufacturer of advanced, high-performance textiles based in Belmont, N.C. Textum is an advanced textile engineering and manufacturing company that possesses a wide range of fabric forming capabilities including fabric and preform engineering, standard 2D […]
Fashionable space wear
April 1st, 2020
The new space wear collection, designed for the private spaceline Virgin Galactic, combines form and function to enhance the customer experience. Sir Richard Branson will wear one of the spacesuits aboard the inaugural commercial spaceflight, expected in 2020. Photos: Virgin Galactic. When Virgin Galactic launches an anticipated test spaceflight this year, the mission specialists on […]
Russia is working to expand exports of tent fabrics
April 1st, 2020
by Eugene Gerden Ivanovoiskozh, one of Russia’s producers of technical fabrics in the Ivanovo region, is working to become a leading player in the domestic market of tent cloth and to start foreign expansion this year, thanks to the commissioning of new production of multilayer tent cloth with polymer and PVC coatings, according to recent […]
Mood art at the Microsoft Research Center
April 1st, 2020
An art installation that smiles back Programmed to react to human expression, Ada is driven by artificial intelligence in real time, offering multiple opportunities for participants to interact with the sculpture, which changes color and light depending on the mood in the room. Photos: Jake Knapp. Walk into the atrium of Building 99, a Microsoft […]
IFAI Expo: 1940-1949
April 1st, 2020
THIS AWNING INDUSTRY —YOURS AND MINE by R. M. Schofield, Sales Manager, Cotton Goods Division, Glen Raven Cotton Mills, New York About 12 years ago I recall a survey which was conducted along certain sections of the East coast. The survey consisted of picking certain residential areas and asking each home owner one question: “Have […]
Working the airline runway
April 1st, 2020
United Airline personnel look good and feel good in uniforms that work for them—because they were designed with their input. Photos: United Airlines. Remember Tim Gunn’s advice to Project Runway designers to “Make it work”? That phrase takes on a whole new meaning when designing uniforms for United Airlines personnel who literally work the runway. […]
Disaster shelter design competition tests engineering students
April 1st, 2020
John Brown University’s disaster shelter contest challenges students to develop and demonstrate solutions for emergency scenarios. By Holly Eamon Global economic losses from natural disasters topped $232 billion last year, rounding out a decade that cost the world nearly $3 trillion, according to the 2019 Weather, Climate & Catastrophe Insight Annual Report published by global […]
Outdoor lifestyles of the rich and famous
April 1st, 2020
A retractable canopy provides just the right shading in the California sun. Photos: Arya Group. Villa Sarbonne, a Bel Air mega mansion, was designed with no detail left unattended. The 25,000-square-foot home boasts nine bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, a movie theater, hair salon, spa and even a car elevator that rises seamlessly from underground to deliver […]