S&S Activewear, Bolingbrook, Illinois, will name Frank Myers as its new chief executive officer effective Nov. 1. Myers currently serves as S&S president and has been with the company for 13 years holding positions as chief financial officer and chief...
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BELLA+CANVAS Opens New Alabama Facility
BELLA+CANVAS, Los Angeles, has opened a new fabric-cutting facility in Wetumpka, Alabama. The company invested $11.9 million in the new venture which operates in an 890,000-square-foot building formerly occupied by Russell Brands. “We are thrilled to be part of the...
American Print Consultants Partners with Ultraflex
American Print Consultants (APC), Chambersburg, PA, has announced its recent partnership with Ultraflex Systems Incorporated. Ultraflex supplies high-performing digitally printable textiles and substrates, including banners, fabrics, wallpaper, canvas, and exhibit...
AMI Graphics Adds Durst to Lineup
AMI Graphics, Rochester, NY, becomes the first to welcome a Durst P5 500i in America. AMI provides innovative signage solutions to professional sports teams and leagues, collegiate athletics, corporations and small business, resellers, special events, and more...
Performancewear Outlook 2023
With new technologies surfacing every day, interest in the performancewear market has continued to increase. Manufacturers, in turn, are tasked with the challenge of bringing these technologies to the mass-blanks market in the context of the continued recovery from...
Sticker Mule Bolsters Custom T-Shirt Market with Epson Relationship
Sticker Mule, Amsterdam, NY, is on track to become a global leader in custom printed T-shirts with the installation of several new Epson direct-to-garment (DTG) printers. The installation of these printers is the largest in Epson history with the strategic...
SanMar Partners with Kimbrell Foundation for Honduras School Expansion
SanMar Corporation, Issaquah, Wash., has partnered with the W. Duke Kimbrell Family Foundation, an affiliate of Parkdale Mills, to make a major investment in the Mhotivo School in Choloma, Honduras. The funds from the investment will support the addition of 22...
Roland DGA Adds Belt-Driven Hybrid UV Printers to VersaUV LEC2 S-Series
Roland DGA Corporation, Irvine, Calif., has announced the addition of two new belt-driven hybrid UV printers to its VersaUV LEC2 S-Series. The LEC2-330S B-200 and LEC2-640S B-200 hybrid inkjets use a conveyer belt to transport media along the bed to a stationary...
Beaver Paper Enters Sustainable Market with New TexSeal Eco Pouches
Beaver Paper, Atlanta, has announced the launch of its new TexSeal Eco Pouch sustainable paper packaging. The new TexSeal Eco Pouches are an innovative, earth-friendly paper-based packaging solution suited for today’s market providing protection for customers content...
Impressions Expo Fort Worth Makes its Mark
If there was ever a sign the decorated apparel industry is recovering from the shock waves caused by the Covid pandemic it was the energy apparent at this past week’s Impressions Expo in Fort Worth, Texas. First the numbers: Over 2,500 decorating professionals paid a...
HanesBrands Celebrates First Company-Owned Solar Power Project
HanesBrands (HBI), Winston-Salem, N.C., has made a large direct investment in company-owned solar energy equipment at its sewing facility in Surin, Thailand. HBI’s Surin plant began operating on 50% renewable solar power in September. Kamalraj Ramadoss, plant manager,...
Tajima Acquires Pulse Microsystems
Japan-based Tajima Group announced that it has acquired Pulse Microsystems Ltd. and established it as Tajima Software Solutions Inc. (TSS) in Toronto, Canada. “Our vision of providing comprehensive solutions to the product decorating market depends on integrating...















