Finding help, from outside the family

January 1, 1970  |  News

By Jamie Swedberg How do you find good people to work at your company, assuming you haven’t brought them into the world yourself? “The short answer of what we’re using is Craigslist,” admits Chandler Clark, owner of Signature CanvasMakers LLC, Hampton, Va. “Because, I m…
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Specialty Fabrics Review interviews Ron Houle, vice president, government relations DHS Systems LLC

January 1, 1970  |  News

Interview by Sigrid Tornquist As USIFI (United States Industrial Fabrics Institute) board chair, what are the pressing issues for the industry, and what are you currently working on? One of our goals is to expand the Berry Amendment—which requires the Department of Defense to give preference i…
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Rapid assembly shelter lightens the load

January 1, 1970  |  News

By Sigrid Tornquist Any advancement in DHS Systems’ line of Deployable Rapid Assembly Shelters (DRASH) products is one more tool that lightens the warfighter load, and one more argument that Ron Houle can take to Capitol Hill. The DRASH Satellite Support System was rolled out in 2009 as an acc…
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Creating a seamless design

January 1, 1970  |  News

By Maura Keller Heimtextil, one of the largest and most important textile and home decoration trade shows occurs every year in Frankfurt, Germany. The 2013 event was HP’s first time exhibiting and was viewed as a key event because HP has identified the custom decor market as a key growth oppor…
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Understanding form and content

January 1, 1970  |  News

By Maura Keller Paul Lilienthal at Pictura Graphics understands what it takes to create awe-inspiring exhibit fabric graphics. This is evident in his company’s recent collaboration with Landscape Structures and their design agency, Carbon Collaborative, to execute the fabrication of their trad…
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Lighting the way

January 1, 1970  |  News

By Maura Keller When it comes to dressing an otherwise plain, warehouse-like space, it’s important to incorporate fabric graphics that add height, color, branding and create ambience. Just ask Fabric Images. In October 2012, Fabric Images created a display for New Holland at EIMA that was desi…
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Designtex divides and conquers

January 1, 1970  |  News

By Jamie Swedberg Because printers require certain levels of humidity and cleanliness, print shops tend to group them together and sequester them in a separate room. But at Designtex, Portland, Maine, the particulars of workflow and media storage meant that it made more sense to split the printers i…
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Tackling constant change

January 1, 1970  |  News

By Jamie Swedberg Get it right once, says Gary Teich, partner at New York City’s Color X, and from then on, it’s easy: you just have to keep it right. “I think we’re always efficient, and it’s just a matter of staying efficient,” Teich says. “If we get a big…
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So how’s the RV business?

January 1, 1970  |  News

By Carla Waldemar Josh Skiller, general manager of Countryside Interiors Inc., Junction City, Ore., launched in 1981, reports that following a market decline business has bounced back up. “It’s level again, and today people are asking for more upgrades too,” he says. “It&rsqu…
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RV interior design: simple, sensible, shiny, sparkly

January 1, 1970  |  News

By Carla Waldemar Not surprisingly, trends in interior design and décor are reflected in the preferences of today’s RV buyers. According to Ariann Kasper, interior styling supervisor for Winnebago Industries Inc. in Forest City, Iowa, it’s all about simplicity, but that doesn&rsqu…
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