Advanced Textiles Expo: Anaheim, CA, Sept. 24-26, 2024
August 1st, 2024
California, here we come Join thousands of textile professionals as Advanced Textiles Expo returns to Anaheim for the first time in nearly a decade. The industry’s flagship event is back on the West Coast, and this year we are partnering once again with Sun Shading Expo North America. Connect with the industry for four days […]
Advanced Textiles Expo 2024 Exhibitor Product Preview
July 1st, 2024
Your first look at the new products and value-added services waiting for you on the show floor at Advanced Textiles Expo 2024 in Anaheim, Calif., Sept. 24–26. Celebrate textile innovation at Advanced Textiles Expo, where hundreds of exhibitors will bring you the latest products and information from the entire supply chain, from fibers and fabrics […]
2024 State of the Textile Industry
June 1st, 2024
Each year, Advanced Textiles Association (ATA) surveys the readers of all of its publications, members and nonmembers both, to take the pulse of the current state of our industry. The survey asks questions on business sizes, revenue projections and recent sales context, top concerns, future plans, and a bit about the many different markets that […]
Roy Chism on making the most of opportunity, ATA membership
January 1st, 2024
New ATA board chairman Roy Chism shares his experience with—and plans for—recognizing and making the most of opportunity. Photography by Jacob Tyler Dunn © Mark Skalny Photography In 2021, Roy Chism retired as owner and operator of The Chism Co. Inc., the canvas and metal fabrication shop his father founded 70 years prior in San […]
Advanced Textiles Expo Exhibitor Product Preview
August 1st, 2023
Your first look at the new products and value-added services waiting for you on the show floor at Advanced Textiles Expo 2023 in Orlando, Fla., Nov 1–3. Celebrate textile innovation at Advanced Textiles Expo, where hundreds of exhibitors will bring you the latest products and information from the entire supply chain, from fibers and fabrics […]
IFAI selects Advanced Textiles Association as new name
May 17th, 2022
The Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI) will become the Advanced Textiles Association (ATA) effective June 1. The name change was approved in April with 85.6 percent of association members casting their votes to do so. Association bylaws require the approval of two-thirds of those returning ballots. The results were audited by Clifton Larson Allen. “This […]