Hygienically Clean Helps Launch APIC Online Infection Prevention Resource

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — February 13, 2017 — To expand access to information and research that accompany infection prevention industry products and services, TRSA’s Hygienically Clean Healthcare program has joined the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) in launching Industry Perspectives, a new online platform for infection preventionists (IPs) and other healthcare professionals.

Industry Perspectives — www.apic.org/industryperspectives — expands healthcare professionals’ and IPs’ clinical knowledge related to infection prevention product usage, the science supporting a specific methodology, and best practices to keep patients safe. The mobile-friendly web platform features information in a variety of formats including white papers, background articles, reports, research papers, case studies, product guides, PowerPoint presentations, videos, podcasts and educational session proceedings.

Hygienically Clean Healthcare’s first campaign on the site, “The Six C’s of Handling Soiled Linen in a Healthcare Environment,” provides a link for APIC members to receive a flash drive containing this TRSA training video for hospital staff and a related quiz and posters. The drive also contains PDF files that explain the Hygienically Clean Healthcare certification, emblematic of laundries’ commitment to third-party verification of their best management practices (processes) through plant inspection and quantification of laundered product cleanliness (outcome) through microbial testing.

A second campaign, “Handling Clean Linen in a Healthcare Environment,” will provide a whitepaper to APIC members on maximizing hygiene in linen distribution practices. The whitepaper includes guidelines for hospitals to develop policies and procedures governing this function for training new staff members and monitoring and evaluating the linen-handling process. The paper observes that Hygienically Clean Healthcare represents textile services providers’ success in meeting standards that ensure medical facilities receive the healthcare textiles (HCTs) they need to operate safely. But once HCTs reach a facility’s doors, launderers’ role in maintaining their hygiene is limited or nonexistent (unless the laundry’s service includes linen distribution).

“APIC’s mission is to create a safer world through prevention of infection. We are pleased to partner with our industry colleagues to offer this new resource to expand the knowledge base and competencies of infection preventionists,” said APIC Chief Executive Officer Katrina Crist, MBA, CAE. “Geared to the needs of busy healthcare professionals, Industry Perspectives provides easy access to evidence-based information related to infection prevention products and services to facilitate better understanding and evaluation of innovations in patient safety.”

Content provided by industry undergoes rigorous review by APIC subject matter experts and is clearly identified as coming from healthcare companies. Topic areas include environmental infection prevention, hand hygiene, surveillance and screening, pre-operative prevention, decontamination and disinfection, technology, pathogens, and care settings.

Posted February 13, 2017

Source: TRSA

100 Years Peter Dornier — “From Human Flight To Flying Threads”

LINDAU, Germany — February 10, 2017 — He founded Lindauer DORNIER GmbH (LiDO) in 1950 and led the company successfully for several decades. He was not only at home in the world of textile machines but also in the world of aircraft construction — as exceptional design engineer and entrepreneur who was far ahead of his times: Peter Dornier. The second eldest son of aeronautical pioneer Claude Dornier would have been 100 on January 31.

Ideas, designs, trials — Peter Dornier was born into this world of aircraft construction in Friedrichshafen, Germany on January 31, 1917. Already as a young person, he started creating design drawings which he then kept together with his notes in his sketch- books. He completed his studies at the Munich Technical University, Germany, in 1944 as graduate engineer. Already during his training his father assigned him tasks at the Dornier Factory in Friedrichshafen-Manzell. It quickly became apparent that his unconventional ideas gave important impulses to aircraft construction. One example as a young engineer was when his father involved him in a project for high-performance aircraft for speed records. Together with chief engineer Eugen Jäger, he developed the concept for the Do 335 which was the fastest propeller aircraft in the world at its time. For this achievement he was 1944 awarded a prize from the Lilienthal Society. Later in the Sixties he also gave decisive impulses for the development and construction of the Do 31, today still the only transport aircraft with jet propulsion as well as vertical take-off and landing capability.

The Dornier company was left with nothing at the end of the Second World War: Destroyed or confiscated machinery and factories as well being forbidden to be involved in aircraft construction prevented any industrial activities. Claude Dornier was placed under house arrest by the French troops. Despite the difficult times, Peter Dornier proved his skills as entrepreneur: He founded an engineering firm in 1946 and started research on wind power plants. To ease the severe housing shortage and to bring as many “Dornianer” from his father’s company back to work and livelihoods, he planned building transportable prefabricated cabins made of aluminum, so-called “Wohnzeuge” (livingcrafts) instead of aircrafts. Due to a shortage of capital, the production was too expensive. Unfortunately his plan failed. Peter Dornier had to discard his idea.

In 1949 Peter Dornier took over the previously occupied factory in Rickenbach, Germany, after it was released. He founded Lindauer Dornier GmbH in July of the following year; 14 people started work there. A decisive change in the production program resulted from a meeting with the director of the textile company Erba in Wangen, Germany, who asked him to construct shuttle looms for his factory: The start signal for the production of weaving machines that has remained an important mainstay until this day. Already at that time, Peter Dornier designed a completely enclosed weaving loom as can be seen in notes in his sketchbooks. His idea: Air-condition each single weaving loom to save energy as well as to collect and dispose of the dust created that soiled the fabric. The machine housing was designed to reduce the then unbearable noise in the shuttle loom weaving mills. This concept was revolutionary at that time but unfortunately too expensive. Such developments first went into series production several decades later.

Already at the start of the Sixties, a time when weaving loom production was running at full load, Peter Dornier recognized that a new era was evolving with the introduction of shuttleless weaving machines. In a detailed study, also included in the sketchbooks mentioned, he considered his ideas for a new machine concept. He designed a multiple widths weaving machine with the drive positioned in the center between the four cloth widths. Peter Dornier considered using air, water, a rapier or a projectile as possible aid for transporting the filling yarn on such shuttleless weaving machine. However he decided not to realize this complex concept but to build a rapier weaving machine instead which took off successfully at the end of the Sixties. Peter Dornier had created an extremely flexible weaving machine where the solid construction allowed producing, above all, technical fabrics and therefore opened up the imperative structural transformation of the textile industry towards technical textiles.

Peter Dornier’s ability to listen to people, to gather ideas and develop opportunities for new markets led also to the founding of a second business division of the Lindauer Dornier GmbH, the specialty machinery construction.

In 1950 Peter Dornier got to know Hans Haubold. The latter had produced textile finishing machines in Chemnitz, Germany, before the war. They soon agreed that Dornier should construct these machines under license. The high quality and economic efficiency of the Dornier textile dryer was soon well-known. Other manufacturers outside of textile finishing also gained interest in the drying plants. The transfer from cellophane to oil-based packaging films that occurred five years later led to large chemical companies searching for a suitable technology. Peter Dornier, together with his employees from the textile dryers, was successful in developing those into film stretching lines, which are now the second, important mainstay of the Lindauer Dornier GmbH.

At about the same time, the Dornier GmbH was founded again in Friedrichshafen, Germany, and the Lindauer Dornier GmbH integrated in the corporate group. Aircraft engineering restarted and Peter Dornier was significantly involved in various developments.
As requested by his father in the beginning of the year 1961, he dedicated his full attention to the Lindauer Dornier GmbH. The intensity of developments in weaving and specialty machinery engineering increased and the company continuously grew. In 1985, it was planned that the Dornier-Group, to which also Lindauer Dornier GmbH belonged, should be sold to the Mercedes-Benz AG. Peter Dornier agreed to the sale but only on the premise that all shares in the LiDO will be transferred to him.

A stroke of luck for the company! Peter Dornier invested large amounts in renewing the machinery and production facilities. At the same time, he intensified the development and created one of the most modern textile machine factories. All this se- cured the positive development of the Lindauer Dornier GmbH and was the basis for the growth to the present size. Presently the family-owned company produces with approximately 1,000 employees weaving and specialty machines exclusively at two production sites in Germany.

In honouring his services, Peter Dornier received many awards and honors. He set his own finest memorial when he created the Peter Dornier Foundation in 1985 which receives every year 10 percent of the operative profit of the Lindauer Dornier GmbH.
“By means of this foundation he wanted to give back to the community some of the material values he accrued together with his employees” said Maja Dornier who became Chairwoman of the foundation after her husband’s death on January 28, 2002, and has continued to guide it since then according to his principles.

From the very beginning of his entrepreneurial career, Peter Dornier trusted the abilities of his employees and promoted their talents – irrespective of their cultural background. As a prime example, two decisive weaving machine developments, the concept of the Dornier rapier and air-jet weaving machines, were based on the ideas of a Greek, Nikolaus Kokkinis, and a Syrian, Dr. Adnan Wahhoud.

Peter Dornier would have been 100 years old on January 31, 2017.

Posted February 10, 2017

Source: DORNIER

Lanxess Contributes To Textile Dyeing Without Effluent

COLOGNE, Germany — February 10, 2017 — Bleaching and dyeing textile fibers and fabrics without causing any environmental pollution through effluent may sound too good to be true. And yet “minimal liquid discharge” (MLD) and “zero liquid discharge” (ZLD) i.e. the minimization or complete avoidance of liquid waste – are already a reality thanks to highly efficient water treatment processes that combine reverse osmosis with ion exchange. Reverse osmosis elements of the Lewabrane brand and Lewatit ion exchange resins from the LANXESS specialty chemicals company play a key role in this.

The essential nature of advanced wastewater management within the context of the responsible handling of water as a valuable resource is also illustrated by the subject of this year’s World Water Day on March 22: “Water and Wastewater”.

The textile and leather industries, for example, with their traditionally high water consumption and often severely polluted effluent, represent a major challenge for experts in disposal technology and drinking water production. This is especially true in some parts of Asia, where these industries are nowadays concentrated. Above all in the large industrial centers, a vast number of people have to be provided with a regular supply of clean drinking water. A study from 2009 showed that, by 2030, water requirements in India will be twice as high as the available fresh water resources. This demonstrates clearly that it will be impossible to get by without water recycling.

“Water treatment is a significant global challenge and at the same time an attractive growth market,” said Jean-Marc Vesselle, Head of the Liquid Purification Technologies (LPT) business unit at Lanxess, in the run-up to this year’s World Water Day. The market for reverse osmosis membrane elements is currently projected to grow at an above-average rate of 10 percent annually in the coming three years. In the case of ion exchange resins, future growth is predicted to average four percent per year. “With cross-technology innovation and continuous investment we shall continue to meet customer requirements and our responsibility in the future,” said Vesselle.

Modern Wastewater Management In Tirupur

The Indian government has for years been funding initiatives to avoid wastewater and encourage recycling, especially in heavily industrialized regions. One example of this are efficient treatment plants in the Indian city of Tirupur in the southern province of Tamil Nadu, the center of Indian cotton processing. As recently as the 1990s, hundreds of textile mills, in particular many cotton dyers located there, were still discharging large volumes of effluent — often untreated — into the river Noyyal, which is an important source of drinking water for the whole region. Inorganic salts and organic substances from cellulose dyeing in particular contaminated the river water to such an extent that it became almost impossible to obtain unpolluted drinking water. At the same time, the population of Tirupur has more than doubled in the last 25 years. So, of course, has the demand for drinking water.

The wastewater situation changed when the responsible authority, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB), developed a treatment process specifically for effluent from cotton dye works as part of a nationwide program. In a Public Private Partnership, the Tamil Nadu Water Investment Company Limited (TWIC) began to implement a number of corresponding projects. As a result, dedicated treatment plants for large textile companies as well as joint plants for small and medium-sized dye works were built. More are under construction. Such plants can be ideally combined with existing production facilities. For newly built factories, specially optimized production processes offer additional possibilities for reusing process water and avoiding effluent beyond end-of-pipe solutions.

In total, some 24,000 cubic meters of wastewater are currently being treated in the Tirupur region every day with membrane elements and ion exchange resins from Lanxess.

Wastewater Treatment For Dye Houses: How It Works

The multi-step end-of-pipe process begins with biological treatment, the separation of sludge and coarse filtration to remove the majority of organic constituents and dispersed particles such as fibers. Subsequently, the color is removed from the filtrate by adsorption with the help of ion exchange resins and then softened. In the next step, through reverse osmosis, a colorless, low-salt permeate is formed, which contains less than one percent of the originally dissolved salts and no organic contaminants whatsoever. It can frequently be returned directly to the industrial process. “Pretreatment by ion exchange is a very effective measure against organic or biological fouling in reverse osmosis,” explained Alexander Scheffler, director, Membrane Business in the Lanxess LPT business unit. The retentate enriched with salt can, in the case of a low chloride content, be directly used again in the dyeing process or separated by nanofiltration or fractional freezing and concentrated further by solar dryers. Finally, the salts, mainly sodium sulfate and sodium chloride, are obtained separately in solid form. The sulfate can be used again in the dyeing process and the chloride can be dumped on a landfill. With this process, there is no more effluent and it is therefore described as a ZLD solution. This not only conserves the environment and the supply of natural water, it also offers cost-cutting potential for the textile industry, especially due to recovery of the salt. Experts are convinced that all this can be achieved with virtually no additional operating costs if use is made predominantly of renewable energy sources.

An Innovative And Efficient Method

In a textile mill in Tirupur, for example, 154 Lewabrane RO S400 HR-type membrane elements and 7,500 liters of the weakly acidic macroporous cation exchange resin Lewatit CNP 80 WS have been used to treat around 85 cubic meters of wastewater per hour since August 2016. “We reckon on a life of three to four years for the reverse osmosis elements, which means that the process is also highly attractive from an economic point of view,” said Scheffler. “The combination of ion exchange and reverse osmosis is an innovative and efficient way to treat effluent even if it has a very high salt content and a high level of organic contamination,” he said, summarizing his recent experience.

Posted February 10, 2017

Source: LANXESS

Ellery Purchases Assets Of Extreme Linen

NEW YORK CITY — February 8, 2017 — Ellery Homestyles, a supplier of ready-made window curtains and top-of-bed products, announced today it has acquired assets of Extreme Linen — a designer, manufacturer and distributor of comforters, duvets, sheets and decorative pillows. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Yigal Barmucha, founder and president of Extreme, has joined Ellery as chief merchandising officer of Bedding, as have members of his team.

“This acquisition significantly enhances the breadth and depth of our bedding assets by adding the design, merchandising, sourcing and sales expertise of Yigal and his team,”   said Hugh Rovit, CEO, Ellery. “Together, we have created a bedding business with complementary skills and talents to provide a portfolio of licensed, proprietary, and store brands of significant dimension across all channels, both in-store and on-site. Combined with our dominant soft window business, this acquisition accelerates Ellery’s mission to be a leading soft home enterprise of scope and scale.”

“This is a partnership of tremendous resources,” said Barmucha.  “We are very excited to join forces with the Ellery team and maximize numerous opportunities together across customers, channels, brands and aesthetics.”

Posted February 10, 2017

Source: Ellery Homestyles

SOL FR® Features Flame Retardant, Antibacterial Properties

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China is a textile power accounting for more than half of the world’s fiber processing capacity, however still follows behind some other countries in many high-tech breakthroughs in technical aspects, especially in fiber materials and equipment manufacturing. However, with the deepening transformation and upgrading of the industry in recent years, many technical advances have been observed. For example, in the field of flame-retardant (FR) textiles, Beijing-based SOL Flame-retardant Fiber Ltd. (SOL) has developed a new flame-resistant cellulose fiber — SOL FR® based on more than 10 years of research.

SOL FR® — Defines The Flame Resistant Application Boundary With Technology

Flame resistant textiles have become a major social concern. Today, the FR fiber material is not only applied to such personal protection items as military, fire-fighting, and industrial protective clothing, but also largely is used in the civilian market including home textiles and clothing for special groups. In some developed countries, for example, there are strict flame-resistant laws and regulations regarding soft furnishings such as mattresses, sofas, and carpets, as well as the components inside vehicles including built-in cushions and backrests and infant clothing.

FR regenerated cellulose fiber has played an irreplaceable role in the FR textile field thanks to its good FR performance, in addition to such characteristics as wear comfort, natural soft touch and excellent moisture absorption and perspiration of the fabric.

However, the FR cellulose fiber worldwide is mainly occupied by phosphorus-based and silicon-based products. The former enjoys good FR performance, but may release a large amount of smoke and cause great damage to the environment; the latter is well known for sound FR performance and environmental protection, but may suffer a serious decrease of FR performance against washing with low strength, and cannot be woven into fabric.

SOL FR® is a new cellulose-based inherent FR fiber. It is produced through spinning and solidifying after a grafting reaction between a cellulose solution and new silicon-nitrogen flame retardants. Thanks to the excellent thermal protection performance and small heat shrinkage coefficient of SOL FR®, the fabric can still maintain its original shape when burned at a high temperature of 1100ºC, playing the role of a barrier. According to the company, SOL FR® is characterized with excellent flame-resistant and thermal protection performances, no melting and dripping, small smoke emission, non-toxic and non-polluting smoke, and great wear comfort. In addition, it will not pollute the environment after degradation. It can be widely used in fire-fighting, military and special protective clothing; garments for infants, young children and the elderly; home textiles; and interior furnishings of transportation vehicles.

Phosphorous-based fiber --Thermo gravimetricanalysis 热失重分析磷系阻燃热失重1Flame-resistant And Antibacterial — Combined Functions Reveal The Technical Strength

SOL FR® is endowed with an additional function — antibacterial qualities. According to the company, the newly developed products recently have undergone testing that proved a new series of SOL FR® products exhibit excellent antibacterial function.

Fibers with antibacterial properties may widely be used in personal protection, home textiles, underwear, medical textiles, and sweatshirts among other end-uses. Clothing made from antibacterial fibers are able to resist the adhesion of bacteria in clothing and therefore protect people from the intrusion of bacteria. Antibacterial protection either is inherent or through post-treatment, and current international inherent antibacterial fibers are mainly chitosan fibers, seaweed fibers, and polyimides, while the post-treatment antibacterial fibers mainly include silver-based antibacterial fibers and copper-based antibacterial fibers.

The inherent antibacterial qualities come from the antibacterial radicals of the fiber molecular radicals, so that such types of fibers are permanently antibacterial. Silver fiber is a high-tech product with a layer of pure silver permanently bonded to the surface of the fiber using special technologies. Copper fiber is a new type of acrylic fiber grafted with organic copper chains and high hydrophilic radicals respectively on the side chain of acrylic polymer by graft copolymerization in the stage of the primary pulp polymerization followed by wet spinning technology.

Similar, but different, from other inherent fibers in antimicrobial principles, the  antibacterial properties of SOL FR® are long-acting based on ensuring the FR performance. The antibacterial titanium dioxide (TiO2) and organic nitrogen compounds are added to the flame retardants. Anatase TiO2 is photocatalytic antibacterial agent with antibacterial effects rising from catalytic activation mechanism — the metal elements absorb environmental energy, such as ultraviolet energy, activating the oxygen in air or water to generate hydroxyl radicals or reactive oxygen ions that then react with the protein, unsaturated fatty acids, and glycosides in bacterial cells, destructing its normal structure to death or loss of reproductive capacity. The antibacterial mechanism of organic nitrogen compound — combining with bacterial or fungal cell membrane anions or reacting with the sulfydryl to destruct the synthesis system of protein and cell membrane thereby inhibiting the reproduction of bacteria or mold, playing a bactericidal, antibacterial, and mold-proof effect, among other effects.

SOL FR thermo gravimetricanalysis 热失重分析The antibacterial function of SOL FR® also has won approval of the academic Jiang Shicheng, as well as other experts in the appraisal meeting organized by China National Textile and Apparel Council. So far, SOL successfully has developed ecological and environmentally friendly cellulose-based series fiber products, namely those with inherent FR; inherent far-infrared emission; inherent antibacterial properties; inherent antibacterial and far-IR; and fiber with inherent FR, far-IR emission and anti-bacterial function all in one products.

SOL FR® properties:

  • High flame resistant performance — Limit oxygen index LOI ≥ 32%;
  • Barrier effect — The fabric’s original shape can be maintained though the cellulose and burn out after burning in 1100°C, forming a shielding layer;
  • Low smoking and non-toxic smoke — Combustion does not produce toxic gases and smoke;
  • Environmental protection performances — The waste is naturally degradable, harmless to the environment; and
  • Inherent flame resistant — Washing will not affect the flame resistance performance; reusable.

February 7, 2017

Bard Peripheral Vascular OEM Products Celebrates 40th Anniversary

TEMPE, Ariz. — February 7, 2017 — This month marks the 40th anniversary of Bard Peripheral Vascular OEM Products, a provider of a wide range of products and services for the medical device industry, including implantable ePTFE and textiles, for use as components in cardiovascular devices. The company, a division of C.R. Bard, combines best-in-class technologies with a proven commitment to quality and recognized regulatory heritage to meet the needs of some of the world’s leading OEMs and emerging medical device companies. Bard Peripheral Vascular OEM now offers ePTFE encapsulation services to cardiovascular device manufacturers for creation of custom medical solutions.

For four decades, Bard’s products, expertise and legacy regulatory information has freely been shared with other companies using its OEM products. Since the 1970s, Bard has offered a full line of more than 20 styles of implantable textiles, many of which are still available today and used in state-of-the-art customer devices such as heart valves and left ventricle assist devices (LVADs). Over the years, Bard PV OEM has expanded its offerings to include PTFE & PET felts, and ePTFE for use as components in the most advanced cardiovascular devices.

Bard Peripheral Vascular OEM’s latest offering for other medical device manufacturers is its ePTFE encapsulation capabilities, originally developed for Bard’s own branded stents.  Bard PV OEM customers now have access to the material and processes they need for encapsulating their own component or device. ePTFE encapsulation is ideally suited for transcatheter heart valves and other medical devices which benefit from its thin, high strength, micro-porous, and biocompatible properties.

In addition to its textile and ePTFE offerings, Bard PV OEM provides, on an OEM basis, a comprehensive range of standard size PTA and PTCA angioplasty balloon catheters. These catheters can be used for typical balloon angioplasty, stent delivery, and even drug coated by the customer.  Bard ClearStream™ Technologies has the ability to design, develop and manufacture angioplasty balloon catheters specifically for OEM and medical device customers.

“For 40 years, we have been proud to provide our esteemed customers with the component products, technical support, and regulatory information they need to develop the highest quality medical devices for cardiovascular applications,” said Bill Gemma, director, OEM sales and marketing, Bard PV OEM. “We stand with our customers from device inception to production to regulatory approval, leveraging our team’s engineering expertise and the proven quality of Bard products to enable them to efficiently and effectively bring new and innovative medical device solutions to market.”

Posted February 7, 2017

Source: Bard

Diesel Teams Up With Certilogo To Protect Consumers From Denim Counterfeiters

MILAN, Italy — February 7, 2017 — Diesel Lovers across the world now have a new tool that will let them verify immediately the authenticity of the Diesel product they are buying.

Thanks to a global partnership with Certilogo, Diesel consumers everywhere in the world, will be able to easily verify the authenticity of a pair of Diesel denim, even before purchasing it.

By the end of this year, all Diesel denim, including the renowned Jogg Jeans, will display the Certilogo Code, on a heat-printed label in the waistband along with the writing “Scan for Authenticity”.

 

We care about our consumers in everything we do, this is why we want to protect them from fake products and get them even more connected to our brand. Consumers can receive a fast and free confirmation that the product is authentic in three easy ways: by simply scanning the code with a standard QRcode reader on their smartphone, or with the dedicated Certilogo application customized for Diesel, or by registering and entering the product’s CLG Code at certilogo.com.

“In a new consumer landscape driven by appreciation for high quality, we embrace the trust of our consumers, creating a direct dialogue with them”, says Alessandro Bogliolo, Chief Executive Officer of Diesel. “With Certilogo we will empower Diesel fans to authenticate the unique identity of our  denim, making sure they shop our original products in a safe and secure way”.

“This is a smart move on Diesel’s part,” declared Michele Casucci, CEO of Certilogo. “The relationship between brands and consumers has changed in the digital age. It’s not acceptable to say, ‘Buyer beware and good luck’ about fakes when every one of us has the technology in our pocket to stop it.”

Counterfeit and pirated goods siphon away an estimated $1.8 trillion in revenue from consumers, legitimate manufacturers, and tax authorities annually.  An estimated 25 million jobs worldwide have been lost as a result. Demand from consumers for a simple and reliable tool to identify and avoid counterfeit products has powered more than 100% growth in same-day, year-over-year authentications at certilogo.com since 2013. [1]

Fans of Diesel denim seem equally enthusiastic. Since the first 5-pocket denims coded with Certilogo arrived in store, consumers from more than 70 countries have connected to the Certilogo platform to ensure their purchases were authentic. Twenty percent of those authentications were performed by shoppers considering a purchase; 64% were performed after a purchase in a physical store; and 16% were performed after a purchase in an online store or marketplace.

[1] International Chamber of Commerce / BASCAP, Estimating the Global Economic and Social Impacts of Counterfeiting and Piracy (2011). http://www.iccwbo.org/Advocacy-Codes-and-Rules/BASCAP/BASCAP-Research/Economic-impact/Global-Impacts-Study/

Frontier Economics, Global Impacts Study (2011): http://www.iccwbo.org/Advocacy-Codes-and-Rules/BASCAP/BASCAP-Research/Economic-impact/Global-Impacts-Study/

Posted February 7, 2017

Source: Certilogo

 

Litzler Designs World-Class Double Dip Tire Cord Dip Line

CLEVELAND — February 7, 2017 — C. A. Litzler Co. Inc. has received an order to design and build a 100/125 meter per minute double dip Tire Cord Dip Line for Performance Fibers in Kaiping, China. Performance Fibers is a division of Indorama Ventures Public Co. Ltd.  With the purchase and installation of this equipment, Performance Fibers will be the largest producer of tire cord in China. Benefits of the Litzler Tire Cord Line include:

  • Multiple tension zones throughout the line providing maximum flexibility for elongating/relaxing the cord to meet specific processing criteria;
  • Line speed up to 125 meters per minute;
  • Speed and tension control accuracy of ±0.1% to achieve control of critical cord properties;
  • Improved spreader design for better control of low EPI fabric; and
  • Proprietary ‘No-foam’ dip system.

Litzler offers 64 years of experience designing ovens which are the most critical component for tire cord production. Litzler ovens are specially designed for tire cord drying and curing.  The ovens feature all of the technical innovations that Litzler is known for, including:

  • High velocity jet nozzles for consistently uniform heat transfer;
  • Precise temperature control for optimum safety and highest product quality;
  • Energy efficient oven designs utilizing premium efficiency motors and variable speed drives for lower operating costs; and
  • State-of-the-art open network controls by Litzler Automation, including multiple redundant PLC networks with Ethernet communications to save installation time and costs.

Posted February 7, 2017

Source: C.A. Litzler

BlueGreen Alliance Statement On U.S. House Introduction Of The Buy American Improvement Act

WASHINGTON — February 7, 2017 — Today, U.S. Representative Dan Lipinski (IL-3), introduced the Buy American Improvement Act in the U.S. House. This bill would improve transparency and consistency in domestic content requirements for projects that use taxpayer dollars, and would expand Buy America provisions to a broader set of federal grant-making programs.

Following the introduction of the bill, the BlueGreen Alliance released the following statement from Executive Director Kim Glas: “Strong domestic content requirements — like those in the Buy American Improvement Act — are the right way to invest in and protect American workers. We know that these types of policies work, not only to grow American manufacturing and the number of quality, family-sustaining jobs in this country, but also to better use American tax dollars and improve the environmental outcomes of major infrastructure projects.

“Expanding Buy America is a win for U.S. workers, the environment, and the economy. When products are made in the U.S., we can be confidant that they are meeting environmental and labor standards. They are also historically safer, more reliable products. Additionally, strong domestic sourcing requirements help boost U.S. manufacturing and employment. We urge the House to act swiftly on this bipartisan priority.”

Posted February 7, 2017

Source: BlueGreen Alliance

A&E Launches Innovative Reflective Industrial Sewing Thread

MOUNT HOLLY, N.C. — February 07, 2017 — American & Efird (A&E) today announced the official launch of Anefil™ Reflector — a new product in reflective innovation. Anefil Reflector is a reflective, specialty industrial sewing thread used in coverstitch and overedge applications for use primarily in activewear, workwear, safety apparel, swimwear, denim, footwear and other reflective markets.

“A&E’s spirit of innovation continues with this new reflective product, Anefil Reflector,” said Mark Hatton, vice president Americas. “Offered in a Tex 120 size, Anefil Reflector adds another layer of functionality in sewing that has traditionally been dominated by reflective tape. This product is a versatile, decorative sewing thread and a valuable addition to the reflective market.”

Posted February 7, 2017

Source: A&E

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