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Greetings!
You know things are starting to reopen when you've been invited to cover events IN PERSON. Today, I'm traveling to a textile facility – my third in four weeks – to cover another amazing event. Coverage of that will be included in next week's edition. As we begin to emerge from our cocoons, I can't hide my excitement for getting back on the Textile Road. Moving from Zoom to vroom vroom vroom. Gotta love it.
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Classifieds – NEW LISTINGS
Gaston College searching for Textile Technology Instructor
Global Impex USA looking for Experienced Sales Rep
Global Impex USA, St. Cloud, Minn., is looking for an Experienced Sales Representative to help sell the company's diverse inventory globally. Please check out the job description here.
ORCO seeks Business Development Representative (Midwest U.S.)
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If a groundbreaking ceremony for a 45,000-square foot facility at the Manufacturing Solutions Center (MSC) in Conover, N.C., on April 30 is any indication, the U.S. textile industry is emerging from COVID-19 in grand style, at least in this region of Western North Carolina foothills.
Catawba Valley Community College (CVCC) and the City of Conover hosted the event, attended by more than 100 people at the Norman B. Coley Amphitheater, to officially launch a solution for a problem that reared its head during the pandemic – the shortage of and need for development of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). In addition to the two-story, state-of-the-art facility being built to house MSC’s incubator clients, the Manufacturing Solutions Center PPE-NC Initiative includes a renovation of CVCC’s current MSC facility on the property, the purchase of PPE testing equipment and two clean rooms.
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Retired MSC Director St. Louis presented N.C.’s highest honor |
Dan St. Louis, former longtime director of the Manufacturing Solutions Center (MSC), was presented North Carolina’s highest honor, the Order of the Long Leaf Pine Award, during a groundbreaking ceremony for the new MSC PPE-NC Initiative in Conover, N.C.
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TTC, MSC help eco-conscious startup turn plastic cups into fiber for garments |
In 2019, Lauren Choi, then an innovative senior majoring in Material Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, was sent a Los Angeles Times article by her mom about China banning imported U.S. recyclables. The article described how plastics shipped abroad could not be recycled because they are dyed, contaminated or mixed with other non-recyclable waste.
Distraught to see no compulsory bilateral environmental agreements between the two countries, the story made a profound impact on Choi. So she started a project, The New Norm, to find a way to use plastic waste to produce sustainably made textiles that would not harm the environment.
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