Specialty Fabrics Review interviews Cindy Boersema, owner of The Nautical Needle

January 1, 1970  |  News

Interview by Sigrid Tornquist   What is one way you create and maintain employee satisfaction? It’s very important to me that our employees feel secure, and a huge part of that is providing health insurance for them. We have an alternative supplement plan in place right now, but are looking…
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Designing for the elements

January 1, 1970  |  News

By Sigrid Tornquist To keep out rain and spray from the ocean while keeping the interior of the vessel comfortable is a common request made of marine fabricators like Cindy Boersema—but every vessel is different, requiring a different approach to the design. Owners of “The Midwestern&rdq…
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Rethinking the use of existing materials for space exploration

January 1, 1970  |  News

By Janice Kleinschmidt Jeffery Hall, a staff engineer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., has been testing fabrics to be used as far as 750+ million miles from Earth: on balloons for exploring Venus and Saturn’s moon, Titan. “Both of those balloons have involved the u…
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SuperFabric targets transportation

January 1, 1970  |  News

By Holly O’Dell The mass transit industry has a list of requirements for seat covers, and a high-performance technology called SuperFabric is trying to hit the mark. SuperFabric, based in Oakdale, Minn., starts with a fabric base, such as polyester, nylon or cotton, on top of which millions of…
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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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