Geosynthetics photo contest

January 21, 2010  |  Geosynthetics, Industry News

The International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) is holding its first-ever photo competition, just ahead of its planned April 2010 launch of the redesign IGS website and the May 2010 quadrennial IGS conference in Guaruja, Brazil. Winning photographs must demonstrate geosynthetic materials and technolog…
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PGI releases sustainability report

January 20, 2010  |  Industry News

Polymer Group Inc. (PGI) has released its inaugural 2008 Sustainability Report. Prepared following framework of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an organization in which PGI recently became an organizational stakeholder, the report covers five sustainability goals the company hopes to meet by …
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Wind turbine props, textile-reinforced

January 18, 2010  |  Industry News

Wind energy promises to become a staple of a green economy, and innovative strategies to make wind turbines more durable can give companies a competitive edge. Technical textiles developed with carbon, glass and aramid reinforcements bonded by thermosetting or thermoplastic agents give rotor blades …
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ARA to recognize industry service at The Rental Show

January 14, 2010  |  Industry News, Tents

The American Rental Association (ARA) recognizes individuals for outstanding service to the Association and the industry each year. At this year’s Rental Show, Stan Crumbaugh, president of Independence Rent-All, Independence, Mo., will receive the Meritorious Service Award, which honors an ARA…
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Synthetic textiles industry in India sees recovery

January 13, 2010  |  Industry News

The increase in cotton yarn prices has led to a growing interest in India’s manmade fibers, according to the Synthetic and Rayon Textile Export Promotion Council in Mumbai, India. For the period between April and September 2009, manmade fiber exports rose by 10 percent over the previous year. …
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PGI invests in nonwovens technology

January 11, 2010  |  Advanced Textiles, Industry News

Polymer Group Inc. (PGI) is investing in nonwovens technology in both the U.S. and Asia to serve the hygiene and healthcare marketplace. PGI plans to install new custom-designed spunmelt machines in the U.S. and China. Construction associated with the projects is expected to begin early in the first…
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Geotextile boom in China

January 1, 2010  |  Geosynthetics, Industry News

After the State Council of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) approved the Ministry of Railways’ investment plan of 2 trillion Chinese yuan in 2008, the Ministry of Transport is examining a plan to invest 5 trillion yuan over the next 3-5 years. In the ten measures issued by the Counci…
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Fiber Society conference in Turkey

January 1, 2010  |  Industry News

The Fiber Society’s Spring 2010 Conference is being organized by BUTEKOM, Bursa Textile and Confection (Home Textiles and Furnishings) Research and Development Center, in collaboration with Uludag Exporters Union and The Fiber Society. The event will take place in Bursa, the textile center of …
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Textile wastes: re-use them or lose them

January 1, 2010  |  Industry News

At the University of Borâs, Sweden, Ph.D. students devised a method to produce 500 grams of ethanol from a kilogram of denim waste. This is one example of the possibilities explored at a recent sustainability forum in Swinburne, Australia, sponsored by the Technical Textiles Nonwovens Associat…
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Biomedical Textile Structures Laboratory opens

January 1, 2010  |  Advanced Textiles, Industry News

Forty years ago, Dr. David Brookstein, dean of Philadelphia University, was an undergraduate in the former Textile and Sciences College. In late October, he and the University president, Dr. Stephen Spinelli, presided at the grand opening of the new Biomedical Textile Structures Laboratory. The lab,…
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