Prudential Overall Supply, an industry leader in reusable image work apparel and related textiles, last week announced that it has acquired the customer accounts from Golden West Betterway Uniforms, Inc. “We chose Prudential Overall Supply to carry on the customer...
Texbase, Inc., a cloud-based data management platform for the textile and consumer product industries, announces a collaboration with the global textile testing partner, Hohenstein. As a Texbase Lab Connect partner, Hohenstein customers can collaborate, send test...
NAUMD mourns the passing of Simboliq's Leonard Greenfield, who died suddenly on January 10. The custom software solutions provider Simboliq has been a member for many years, and Len was an active industry and association supporter. Always willing to help, Len was the...
The next normal for B2B sales is here, and there’s no looking back. According to management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, businesses are no longer cautiously testing the waters, incrementally (and sometimes reluctantly) inching their way online. The...
Last week, the Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act (or Fashion Act) was unveiled: a bill that, if passed, would make New York the first state in the country to pass legislation that will effectively hold the biggest brands in fashion to account for...
At the 2021 World Climate Conference in Glasgow, representatives of the textile industry presented a more ambitious version of the UN Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action. In the updated charter, more than 130 participating companies pledged their commitment to...
Frontier.cool, the world's largest cloud solution for rapid fabric digitization at scale, announced in December that it would reveal the world's first FPGA-based MPSoC (multiprocessor system on a chip) for the textile industry at the Consumer Electronics Show in...
NAUMD recently named Mukesh Vijaywargi a Chief Global Advisor. As NAUMD continues to expand as a global network involved in the uniform, image apparel, workwear and public safety industries, there is a greater need for strategic advisors outside the association's...
Back when the COVID-19 pandemic first struck, there was the now-infamous run on toilet paper, with Americans scrambling to secure massive stockpiles of the essential product that helps keep the world a better, cleaner place. Police quartermasters were among the...
Over 380 million tons of plastic is produced each year, according to recent figures. Approximately 35.7 million tons is used by the U.S. alone, most of which consists of plastic bags. In addition to plastic, cotton also has a large ecological footprint as 4% of all...
Shortages of fabric and labor mean the newest members of the Air Force and Space Force will leave boot camp next year with fewer uniform items. Starting in November, the Air Force began issuing to graduates of basic military training two dress blue uniform shirts —...
School uniforms don’t appear to improve student behavior or attendance patterns, according to a national study of school-aged children. Parents and administrators, in the past, have asserted that non-uniform clothing can reflect wealth and status, bringing problems to...
