Announcing the 2024 International Achievement Awards Winners
Advanced Textiles Association® (ATA) is proud to announce the winners of the 2024 International Achievement Awards (IAA). These [...]
Advanced Textiles Expo 2024 Show Stoppers winners announced
The winners of the 13th annual Show Stoppers Awards program were recently announced at the 2024 Advanced Textiles [...]
ATA introduces PFAS Resource Center
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and the regulation of them continue to be one of the top issues [...]
CORT Events expands Orlando footprint
Photo courtesy of CORT Events and GK Photography. CORT Events, Chantilly, Va., the trade show and event division [...]
FTC ban on noncompetes blocked
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) final rule banning noncompete agreements — issued in April 2024 and set to take [...]
Lacemaking tradition inspires 3D-knit sculpture
To create the Common Thread sculpture, design studio SO – IL used black and white rPET yarn knit [...]
Made in the shade
A historical mansion in Healdsburg, Calif., near Santa Rosa, built in 1883 with some of that era’s famous gold [...]
Textile recycling confronts hurdles of cost, scalability
At the Sweden-based Siptex textile recycling facility, the sorting machines use near-infrared and visual spectroscopy to take mixed [...]
In memoriam: Robert Mastromatteo
Robert (Bob) J. Mastromatteo, 78, Brewster, Mass., died Aug. 12, 2024. Mastromatteo was an entrepreneur at heart, starting [...]
Chasing the “perfect event”
I vividly recall a meeting for a six-figure event with a client who, at the end of my [...]
