Giant Inflatables’ waterslide makes a mega splash

November 1, 2025  |  Projects

The Australian Open in January may have focused on world-class tennis, but the event also hosted concerts and areas with games and activities, play zones, DJs, food and retail. Part of the “Fan Fun Centre” was a 1,750-kilogram (3,858-pound) gigantic inflatable waterslide installed by, naturally,…
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ATA NZ 2025 Awards for Excellence Supreme Champion crowned

October 1, 2025  |  Projects

More than nine years of research into the development of a low-impact mobile aquaculture system culminated in March. Scientists from Auckland organization Plant & Food Research transferred 2,000 snapper into a moored pen operated in the ocean off the South Island of New Zealand.
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Insulation blankets help establish Vulcan rocket

September 1, 2025  |  Projects

AR Tech designed, tested and manufactured more than 30 multilayer insulation blankets (MLIs) of various shapes and sizes in preparation for the first of two certification missions of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan rocket in January 2024, launching from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Th…
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Challenging install, beautiful result

August 11, 2025  |  Projects

The most challenging aspects of installing the low-profile tension umbrellas at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, Calif., for Irvine Company, are features patrons will never see.
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Inaugural Best of Canada award in 2024 ATA IAAs

August 1, 2025  |  Projects

New for the 2024 International Achievement Awards (IAAs) was the Best of Canada award, where all of the entries from Canadian companies competed against one another, regardless of category. The winner this year, over 18 other projects, was “The Leaf at Canada’s Diversity Gardens,” a conservato…
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Quantum physics inspires interactive fabric art

July 1, 2025  |  Projects

A 2023 interactive art project involving two Maine artists, Cynthia Thompson, owner of Transformit in Gorham, and James LaPlante, Sputnik Animation, South Portland, led to another. The 2024 installation was inspired by quantum physics concepts and explored through giant lotus flowers.
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Above-pool shade project shields school swim team

June 1, 2025  |  Projects

Hoover Architectural Products, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., took poolside shade to a new level—literally over and above—to protect the swim team at Pine Crest School in Boca Raton. The 8,846-square-foot shade structure, fabricated in two parts, comprises 288 yards of fabric and shades an eight-lane po…
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Church members help raise a new fabric roof in Lomé, Togo

April 1, 2025  |  Projects

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. A new 2-ton roof was hoisted and assembled for New Life Evangelical Church in Lomé, Togo, in West Africa, with the help of a crew of 14 community and church members.
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Fabric awning replaces metal—fast

March 1, 2025  |  Projects

A New Zealand seafood restaurant in need of a refresh to its outdoor patio turned to Kolorful Kanvas Ltd., of Christchurch. The project replaced the restaurant’s metal awning with a retractable fabric solution and outfitted the outdoor dining area with new screens and signage, making it look more …
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Add, enhance, amplify

February 18, 2025  |  Projects

When the Il Venetian restaurant in Cleveland, Ohio, wanted to expand its dining seating to the outdoors, it contacted Ohio Awning & Manufacturing Co. in Cleveland. Ohio Awning worked directly with the restaurant group that owns this high-end Italian eatery.
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