The global market for solar energy

March 6, 2015  |  Industry News

Frost & Sullivan, a Mountain View, Calif.-based growth consulting firm, estimates that global solar market revenues will grow between 2014 and 2020 despite the economic uncertainty in the global markets. A number of government sponsored initiatives are expected to boost the proportion of energy …
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Houston to host June JEC Americas Composites Show

March 4, 2015  |  Industry News

The Paris-based JEC Group, a subsidiary of the nonprofit CPC, the Center for Promotion of Composites, will hold its 4th annual JEC Americas Composites Show and Conference in Houston, Texas, June 2-4. The international event, which focuses on innovation and opportunities for the composites materials …
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Bayer MaterialScience and IAF collaborate

March 3, 2015  |  Industry News

Germany’s Bayer MaterialScience and the International Apparel Federation (IAF) of the Netherlands are collaborating to improve innovation and sustainability in the apparel and footwear industry. The partners recently ran a series of INSQIN workshops addressing the concerns of brand owners that use…
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DSM upgrading Massachusetts facility

March 2, 2015  |  Industry News

Royal DSM, a life sciences and materials sciences company based in Heerlen, Netherlands, is upgrading its Wilmington, Mass., manufacturing facility to produce state-of-the-art, environmentally friendly and renewable waterborne resins for inks and coatings. The company’s NeoRez, NeoRad and NeoPac r…
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Brand & Oppenheimer name three to management roles

February 25, 2015  |  Industry News

Brand & Oppenheimer Co., Inc., a Red Bank, N.J., textile converter and supplier, has appointed Edward Ricci, Ben Galben and Bryan Boulis to its CEO office. The trio was recruited by B&O’s controlling shareholder, Praesidian Capital. Ricci, who will serve as CEO and oversee all B&O oper…
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Utah State will produce commercial quantities of spider silk

February 20, 2015  |  Industry News

Utah State officials have announce that the newly constructed Bioproducts Scale-Up Facility on the university’s Innovation Campus will enable synthetic spider silk to be produced in commercial quantities. Funding for the facility was provided by the Utah Science Technology and Research (USTAR) ini…
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DCI’s fabric system used in Virtual Interactive Engagement Wall

February 20, 2015  |  Industry News

When 180,000 employees around the world took in the webcast of Schneider Electric’s Leadership Forum in Paris, they viewed the French company’s first webcast using its Virtual Interactive Engagement Wall (VIEW). The 40-foot-long, 10-foot-high wall housed seven touchscreen monitors that toget…
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Under Armour eyes digital gains, posts record results

February 20, 2015  |  Industry News

High-performance sportswear maker Under Armour has posted a 32 percent increase in sales for 2014 to $3.1 billion and has announced its intentions to create the world’s largest digital health and fitness community. The Baltimore, Md.-based company has purchased Endomondo and MyFitnessPal to ad…
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HDT Global acquires DHS Technologies

February 20, 2015  |  Industry News

Solon, Ohio-based HDT Global (HDT), provider of equipment to government, military, commercial and industrial customers, has acquired the business and assets of DHS Technologies LLC, from investment firm Kanders & Company of Stamford, Conn. DHS provides rapidly deployable expeditionary equipment,…
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Johnson Controls, Lectra extend partnership

February 18, 2015  |  Industry News

Paris-based Lectra, provider of integrated technology solutions for soft-materials industries, and automotive-seating supplier Johnson Controls of Milwaukee, Wis., have extended their partnership for three more years. Under the agreement, Johnson Controls will acquire all of its high-ply fabric-cutt…
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