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Outdoor fabrics: School spirit via banners, tarps and more
August 31st, 2023
This CoverSports windscreen surrounding a school district’s tennis courts reduces wind and distractions while fostering team spirit with branding. Photo: CoverSports When high schools and colleges resume classes every fall, outdoor sports are underway too. Outdoor fabrics play a key role in training and in the way stadiums and other sports facilities look. Sports fans […]
Rethinking equipment purchasing strategies
June 1st, 2021
Gilman Gear in Gilman, Conn., pivoted from making sporting equipment to surgical gowns during the pandemic. Here, employee Colton Fuqua pulls off gowns as they are being cut by an Eastman cutting machine. Photo: Gilman Gear. Of all the adages that could be applied to the past year, “Necessity is the mother of invention” may […]
Playing it safer: performance and protection for sports and recreation
June 1st, 2018
Today, people of all ages are embracing active lifestyles: playing team sports, hitting the slopes, biking, climbing and hiking in all kinds of weather conditions, testing their mettle in boxing rings and martial arts classes or going for the gentler forms of exercise, like yoga. People are on the move, including retiring baby boomers who […]