Various metals and chemical agents have long been touted for their antimicrobial properties, but the effectiveness and safety of the materials are far from certain.
Are Antimicrobial Materials and Surfaces Really What We Think?
Material Bank Is A Game Changer For A&D Specifiers
Material Bank powers complex searches across hundreds of manufacturers and thousands of materials in seconds, turning hours of work into minutes.
Watch: A Look Inside FLORIM'S Automated Ceramic Factories in Italy
HAWORTH & KVADRAT ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP
Haworth, Inc. and Kvadrat are launching a new partnership at NeoCon and Orgatec to provide a global textile offering that coordinates with Haworth’s global product portfolio.
Wilsonart to Acquire KML
Wilsonart Engineered Surfaces announced that it will acquire KML, the Tacoma-based manufacturer of decorative surfaces and panels.
Watch: Transcend by Suzanne Tick
Skyline Design introduces Transcend glass collection by award winning textile designer Suzanne Tick. Transcend responds to changes in how we use and experience space today, as we seamlessly transition from one spatial function to the next—between interior and exterior, from public to private, from open to quiet areas.
It's A Material World
Happily, the workplace is no longer tied to prescriptive ideas of how it should look or function. Corporations and start-ups alike are creating multi-purpose spaces in which people do lots of different things. Given the mobility and diversity of the people at work, we see a need for universal design and materials that allow everyone to function, to do what they do, whoever they are. Today, materials are not applied as specifically as before, rather we look for textiles that can be used across the office and on both the horizontal and vertical plane.
The Prince Estate and Pantone Unveil
The Prince Estate, alongside Pantone Color Institute™, the global color authority, announced the creation of a standardized custom color to represent and honor international icon, Prince.
WILSONART ENGINEERED SURFACES & HANWHA SURFACES JOIN FORCES TO GROW SOLID SURFACE PRODUCTION IN NORTH AMERICA
Wilsonart Engineered Surfaces and Hanwha L&C Corporation announce a joint-venture agreement to build a manufacturing facility in Temple, Texas, supporting expansion and growth of the Wilsonart® Solid Surface and Hanex Solid Surfaces product lines. The more-than-125,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility provides both companies with added capacity and onsite product development capabilities to service their respective North American solid surface customers.
Suzanne Tick Ventures Into Glass for Skyline Collection
Architecture is an endless source of inspiration for textile designer Suzanne Tick, and she has brought that sensibility to a number of her projects, be they flooring for Tarkett or upholstery for Luum Textiles. “I go by every building skeleton and take a picture, and think, ‘That’s going to be the next weave structure,’” she says.
Google’s huge 4K touchscreen whiteboard is now on sale for $5K
Google’s Jamboard is not a kitchen app for curating PB&J recipes – it’s a 55-inch digital whiteboard, with pen and touch input, companion iOS and Android apps, an Nvidia Jetson TX1 processor on board and 4K resolution. The behemoth is an enterprise-focused collaboration tool, that comes in three fun colors and has a stand that looks ripped from a Herman Miller catalog, and if you’re in the U.S. you can order one today for $4,999.
Wilsonart to Acquire TFL Manufacturing
Wilsonart Engineered Surfaces announced an agreement with Roseburg Forest Products to acquire manufacturing assets in Oxford, Mississippi. The facility, which manufactures Thermally Fused Melamine (TFL) Panels, will become an integral part of Wilsonart’s Coordinated Surfaces program in North America.
Are Conference Room Acoustics Sabotaging Your Meetings?
When evaluating the effectiveness of a meeting space, the most obvious factors to consider are the technology, the furniture and maybe the design style or "personality” of the room. What might be overlooked, unfortunately, is conference room acoustics.more “Many conference rooms are designed with glass walls, hard ceilings, whiteboards and big-screen televisions on the walls,” points out Steve Johnson, founder of ADI Workplace Acoustics.
Arborite Acquires Lamin-Art
Lamin-Art, one of North America’s leading decorative surfaces brands, has been acquired by Arborite, a Montreal-based high pressure laminate manufacturer. The previously a privately-held business, based in Schaumburg, Illinois, will now operate as part of Wilsonart Engineered Surfaces with Kevin Geijer joining the company as general manager.
Writing’s on the Wall: 8 Surfaces Perfect for Brainstorming
Erasing is also a form of creating, strange as that may sound. British artist Charlotte Mann demonstrated this notion at a boutique in Brooklyn with her site-specific work, Erasing Is Leaving a Mark. Her canvas, a wall treated with Wolf-Gordon’s Wink dry-erase coating, enabled Mann to not only add, but also remove marks in the densely detailed, large-scale drawing.
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Wilsonart Introduces Spectrum to Virtual Design Library
Designers looking for dynamic, fashionable colors can now look to the Wilsonart design team and the entirely new and completely customizable category of color-carrying laminate designs, Spectrum. Spectrum launches this month as the latest addition to the Wilsonart® Laminate Virtual Design Library (VDL), a unique online resource for laminate design.