RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — Every year, AATCC student chapters name a graduating senior to be recognized for academic achievement and contribution to the chapter, school, and society. This year AATCC presented each chapter award recipient with a certificate, copy of the book Color Vision and Technology, and an official AATCC graduation cord. Awardees also receive one year of free membership in AATCC as they start their careers.

Fashion Institute of Technology

Jessica Trippiedi began her career at FIT in 2017 with a degree in Technical Design and minor in Ethics & Sustainability. While working in the industry, Trippiedi witnessed the negative effects of fast fashion and decided to re-enroll at FIT to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Textile Development & Marketing (TDM) with a focus on textile science and entrepreneurship. Her goal is to find a solution for the second most polluting industry at its source.

Trippiedi is currently the Events Coordinator for the AATCC FIT student chapter. As a student chapter officer, she has increased student memberships and visibility for the chapter. She is a recipient of the Fibrous Materials Scholarship and was a second-place finalist for the AATCC “Pitch It to Win It” competition. Recently, Trippiedi has been nominated by her professors to be accepted into the 2022 MITxFIT Workshop sponsored by the Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA).

She is utilizing her studies from the TDM program to co-found her next venture in the femtech space; her motto is to protect our two homes: our bodies and our planet. By reimagining the female period experience, she has created a natural alternative pain relief solution that is designed for all menstruators. Fabricated in the TDM labs, within four short months she has created a testable prototype. Throughout this past fall semester, she has traveled and presented at multiple pitch competitions, while representing FIT and showcasing her expertise within the industry.

Georgia Institute of Technology

Alp Kulaksizoglu is studying Materials Science and Engineering—Polymer & Fiber Materials at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Kulaksizoglu has kept a 4.0 GPA and received Faculty Honors every semester at Georgia Tech while undertaking multiple research assignments in a voluntary role. He has completed a Minor in Computational Data Analysis and received the Hightower and Stribling Scholarships from the School of MSE at Georgia Tech.

Kulaksizoglu is a staff leader at GA Tech’s Materials Innovation and Learning Laboratory (MILL), A member of MSE’s student organization and created a School Canvas website, M5. He also started an “MSE at Georgia Tech” LinkedIn group, with over 150 members, to help students, faculty, and staff expand their networks.

Oregon State University

Rylee Moore will graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Apparel Design. A transfer student to Oregon State University, she overcame first-year challenges with determination and persistence. She recently completed a competitive summer internship with a national corporation where she excelled in her role. Moore is also a Teaching Assistant in the School of Marketing, Analytics & Design.

For more than two years, Moore served as the Chair of the AATCC Student Chapter at Oregon State University and has been a champion for the club. Moore is a gracious leader who kept the chapter organized and accessible during the Covid-19 pandemic. During the first year of the pandemic, the university went remote, and all in-person activities were canceled. It was unclear how the chapter would operate. However, under Moore’s leadership, the chapter thrived. In place of the planned in-person fashion show, Moore initiated the creation of a digital look-book for the apparel student designs. The chapter organized guest speakers from the industry who spoke on topics related to sustainability, movie collaborations, and New York designers’ calendars. As the remote work period extended, Moore hosted numerous activities and produced a second look-book. The chapter is now working on bringing back the spring fashion show. Moore has earned the respect of faculty for her dedication and outreach. Moore is a College of Business Student Leader for the AATCC chapter and apparel design students. She hosts information sessions, events, and attends all welcoming programs for new and transfer students into the college. Her tireless energy, optimism, and cheerfulness has kept the AATCC chapter vibrant and growing with new memberships.

University of Delaware

Michelle Yatvitskiy has dedicated herself academically as a research scholar in the Department of Fashion and Apparel Studies working on a variety of impactful research. She participated in Summer Scholars and worked with faculty member Adriana Gorea on researching how 3d software like Clo3D software can help designers in visualizing, developing, and communicating design details of a seamless knitted garments. She participated as student researcher in a collaborative project with the chemical engineering and athletics department where she aided in designing, patterning, and sewing a glove prototype with new STF padding for the UD football to improve impact performance. Lastly, over the past year, she worked with faculty members Kelly Cobb and Huantian Cao on reclaiming the value of end of use cotton products by creating textiles and products from post-consumer textile waste using tufting, weaving, felting, quilting, and knitting techniques.

Yatvitskiy has been part of the AATCC Student Chapter since 2018, when she was part of a group of freshman designer majors that worked together to rekindle the student chapter. They collaborated on recreating the constitution, creating budgets, and recruiting new members. Yatvitskiy served as treasurer for three years where she created budgets, secured funding, and performed any of the monetary transactions. However, she went above and beyond her role and actively participated in planning and hosting many of the AATCC events like a group tufting workshop and many guest speaker events. This fall, Yatvitskiy helped plan and led an AATCC student felting workshop, demonstrating how to use the felt loom and helping participants create their own felted wall art.

Virginia Tech

Emmy Alvis is a Fashion Merchandising and Design major and minoring in Event and Experience Management at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). She is the President of the AATCC Virginia Tech Student Chapter and plans meetings and chapter events, and recruits new members. She served as Director of Programming for her dorm freshman year. Alvis’ approachable and friendly personality made her the perfect candidate to get other students involved in activities, while her organized manner made her the perfect candidate to plan programs. She also joined the Fashion Merchandising Society her freshman year.

Alvis enrolled in Introduction to Textiles and Apparel Textiles Laboratory courses and was outstanding in identifying the structures and properties of textile components. She was invited by faculty advisor Jessie Chen-Yu to serve as a teaching assistant (TA) in the Apparel Textile Lab. She was a responsible, trustworthy and diligent TA with good knowledge and attitude. Her work is always completed on time with high quality. Ranked second out of thirty students, maintaining a 3.98 University GPA, Alvis also balanced intramural sports and campus ministry along with her full class schedule. She is talented, tough, and laser-focused.

North Carolina State University

Molly Pruett is a Polymer and Color Chemistry major at the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Wilson College of Textiles. She consistently performs at or above her peer group in her coursework in the polymer and color chemistry program.

Pruett is currently the President of the AATCC NCSU Student Chapter, but has served in multiple roles with the chapter. Leading a student organization can be challenging during ideal circumstances, but even more so with everything needing to be virtual. Over the last year, she worked diligently with the other students to ensure that the chapter continued to meet regularly in a virtual capacity due to the ongoing pandemic.

Congratulations to all of the winners this year! AATCC looks forward to seeing the bright futures ahead of you.

Being a student member of AATCC you get a discounted membership rate and access to tons of resources like AATCC grants and scholarships! If you would like to join at student chapter of AATCC, please visit https://aatcc.org/join/ to find a chapter near you!

Posted April 12, 2022

Source: AATCC

MENTOR, Ohio — April 8, 2022 — Avery Dennison — a global supplier of innovation and materials science, branding, and manufacturing — today announced the launch of Embelex™. A full-service ecosystem for on-product branding, Embelex supports customization, personalization, and smart solutions in the apparel, footwear, and accessories manufacturing markets.

Avery Dennison is a global supplier of on-product branding and supporting technology, helping bring brands, much-loved institutions, and sports teams to life through heat transfers, embroidery, patches, and badges. The company recently announced the continuation of its contract to supply Premier League official shirt names, numbers, and sleeve badges for on-pitch and retail. These badges have built-in smart technology that allows users to scan the badge to reveal hidden content on the Premier League app.

Now with Embelex, a journey of rapid growth is planned, positioning Avery Dennison as a leader in the supply of digitally enabled physical embellishments, as well as the software and manufacturing capability to provide everything a brand or organization needs to celebrate its name, personalize products in its ranges and create digital experiences to connect with consumers through on-garment branding.

In the past three years, the size of Avery Dennison’s on-product branding business has doubled due to the demand for its services. New sites have opened — for woven press and heat transfer services — and the company recently acquired Rietveld (RTVPRINT), which is based in the Netherlands and Turkey. Rietveld specializes in in-house designed and manufactured crests, heat transfers, and decorative sublimations, along with embellishment application and the provision of an end-to-end service to the team sportswear market.

World-class service, speed of product delivery, and innovations in embellished garments are priorities for Embelex. For instance, digitally-enabled branding elements — such as “smart heat transfers,” allow consumers to scan a label or transfer, using a phone, to access product information that enriches the end-user experience.

The custom apparel market is set to accelerate at CAGR of 5.8 percent by 2025, incremental growth of $1.13 billion, according to industry analysis. Fueling the change is the increasing consumer demand for personalization and hyper-relevance. Global research by Accenture has found that 84 percent of consumers are interested in personalized products, and many would not hesitate to pay more to get them.

Through its own research, Avery Dennison has discovered fashion and sportswear brands want to offer differentiated SKUs — such as personalized prints and applications — to stay relevant and competitive in today’s crowded apparel market.

Steve Mason, vice president, and general manager, EMEA & Americas and Embelex lead at Avery Dennison RBIS, said: “Speed and scalability are at the heart of the Embelex offer. Brands and organizations want to customize products, but they also want on-demand manufacturing, just-in-time delivery, and as little waste as possible to meet their sustainability credentials. Embelex exceeds these expectations. Our global footprint also enables us to provide world-class service to apparel factories, which in turn enables them to provide world-class value to their customers.”

Jeremy Bauer, global commercial director, Embelex at Avery Dennison RBIS, said: “Our on-product branding is already seen around the world on some of the biggest names in sports, including English Premier League, Futbol Club Barcelona and Real Madrid. But Embelex reach extends far beyond the pitch, from high fashion brands to high street retailers where leading designers, brands, and apparel suppliers are using decorative elements to bring their designs to life.”

Posted: April 8, 2022

Source: Avery Dennison

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — April 8, 2022 — Entries are being sought for the 2022 Herman and Myrtle Goldstein Graduate Student Paper Competition. The oral portion of the competition will be held during the 2022 AATCC Textile Discovery Summit on October 4-6 at the Hilton University Place, Charlotte, N.C. A completed official entry form must be submitted by May 9, 2022. You can fill out the official entry form here: https://aatcc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/HMGSPC-entry-form-2022-Revised_fillable.pdf

The Herman and Myrtle Goldstein Graduate Student Paper Competition, which is held under the auspices of the Education Advisory Board, is consistent with the goals and objectives of AATCC. The 2022 competition will consist of Graduate submittals only. Presentation of the student papers is a feature of each AATCC Textile Discovery Summit. Papers will be included in the 2022 Textile Discovery Summit Proceedings.

A project and appropriate results may be submitted by any graduate student who is a member of AATCC.  Graduate student entries must include work completed as a graduate. All papers will be prescreened by the competition chair to ensure that they meet 60 percent of the written evaluation total (the maximum points achievable on the written manuscript are 120). The top four entries will be eligible to present their research at the AATCC Textile Discovery Summit. Individuals will have 15 minutes to present their paper on-site at the Association’s Textile Discovery Summit. Graduate students would be required to be personally present and present their research at the summit to be considered for the competition. Previously published papers are not eligible for entry into the competition.

Graduate students will be judged based on their written paper and on-site oral presentation. The student may seek the advice of persons in industry or academia, but the preponderance of the work should belong to the student and the role of these academic or industrial advisors or any other nonstudent must be no more than advisory. Therefore, nonstudents can only be listed on the byline as co-author with a notation in parenthesis that the nonstudent was an advisor to the work.

Monetary awards will be given for the following:

• 1st place – $1,000.00
• 2nd place – $ 800.00
• 3rd place – $ 600.00
• 4th place – $ 400.00

The deadline to complete your official entry form is May 9, 2022. After that, the final date for acceptance of papers is June 20, 2022. You cannot submit a paper without first submitting an official entry form. To get more information on the competition guidelines or how to enter, visit https://aatcc.org/gradpaper/.

Posted: April 8, 2022

Source: AATCC