Small Business Health Options Program to help businesses

June 1, 2008  |  Management

The Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP), introduced by senators Durbin, Snowe, Lincoln and Coleman, is designed to help small businesses that now employ about 13.5 million workers who are uninsured. Key elements of the legislation: It would provide small businesses with tax credits to help …
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Composites allow creation of custom materials for unusual applications

June 1, 2008  |  Features, Management, Marketing

It sounds like science fiction: portable airport hangars supported by columns of air, paper that conducts electricity and synthetic mother-of-pearl that can be bent without breaking. We have now entered The Matrix, but don’t expect to see Keanu Reeves in a black coat defying gravity and leading a …
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Durable cotton webbing meets Berry Amendment requirements

May 1, 2008  |  Products

6017CS cotton webbing is durable, latex free, vat dyed, colorfast to laundering, crocking and accelerated weathering, and meets all fire-rated testing and Berry Amendment requirements. SOURCE Avila Textiles +1 508 828 5882
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Avery media featured in 10 booths at ISA 2008

May 1, 2008  |  Graphics

Avery Graphics media were printed and featured in 10 booths at ISA 2008. The Epson booth sported a wrapped Lamborghini, designed and installed by Skinz Wraps and printed on MPI 1005 EZ RS. The Feller’s booth was showing a wrapped BMW 550i designed by Sergio DeSoto, Creator of The Bad Wrap™ and V…
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Finding alternatives to PVC

May 1, 2008  |  Graphics

Where would your business be without PVC? It’s understandable why PVC banner media is ubiquitous in the sign industry—it’s cheap, durable, and prints easily. And it’s also understandable why there is interest in finding alternatives: The PVC manufacturing process is believed to be toxic to h…
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Movable graphic towers create a dramatic outdoor environment

May 1, 2008  |  Graphics

The project. To construct a traveling road show for Time Warner Cable recreating a much larger installation in the Time Warner headquarters in New York City. The original “Home to the Future” used digitally printed fabric scrim to enclose a two-story “house” constructed in the building’s s…
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Neschen Americas hires senior product manager

May 1, 2008  |  Graphics

Neschen Americas, Elkridge, Md., welcomes Andreas DeGroot to the company’s product management team. Andreas has been appointed senior product manager for Inkjet Media. In this capacity, he will direct the product development, marketing, and distribution channel management of Neschen and SEAL brand…
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Gandinnovations names chief operating officer

May 1, 2008  |  Graphics

Terry Vandewarker has been appointed chief operating officer for Gandinnovations, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Vandewarker has more than 20 years of senior operational and financial experience, and has worked within the digital graphic and printing industry with such companies as Encad Inc. and Eas…
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Performance Fabrics and Fibers LLC expands

May 1, 2008  |  Graphics

The Williamsburg County Development Board and the South Carolina Department of Commerce joined Performance Fabrics and Fibers LLC in announcing that the company has expanded in Williamsburg County, adding a manufacturing facility and 42 full-time employees. Performance currently operates in Williams…
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Kuraray Co. Ltd. completes manufacturing facility expansion

May 1, 2008  |  Graphics

Kuraray Co. Ltd., Fort Mill, S.C., has completed expansion of its Vectran® fiber manufacturing facility in Saijo City, Japan. The manufacturing facility in Fort Mill has also undergone recent improvements to increase capacity. The company said it is increasing production of its Vectran fiber by 40 …
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