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• AATCC Concept 2 Consumer® Interest Group Officer Nominees

  Debra Hibbard September 21, 2020 AATCC Newsletter

    Tom Stutts, Senior Sales Representative, Color Solutions International, is the nominee for chair of the AATCC Concept 2 Consumer® Interest Group. He started his career at Armtex as a Lab Manager, where his primary responsibility was working with designers developing seasonal palettes and scaling lab recipes for production. He moved to Datacolor in 1985 […]

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• AATCC MATERIALS INTEREST GROUP NOMINEE FOR CHAIR

  Debra Hibbard September 16, 2020 AATCC Newsletter

  Christina Rapa, Textile Specialist with SITKA GEAR/W.L. Gore & Associates is the nominee for chair of the AATCC Materials Interest Group. She will join current Materials Interest Group At-Large Member, Apurba Banerjee, serving the AATCC Materials Interest Group and representing this interest group on the AATCC Board of Directors. Rapa has an MS in Textile […]

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• Benefits of Standardized Reference Detergent

  Carrie Gray September 15, 2020 AATCC Newsletter

  Benefits of Standardized Reference Detergent By Carrie Gray   Consumer laundry detergents have an unexpected vast landscape of ingredients, which can lead to problems in a laboratory setting. There are two main ingredients in laundry detergent, a surfactant and a chelating agent. Surfactants are the heavy lifters that lift away oil and dirt with their […]

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• It’s Time to Invest In Our Clothing: Clothing Repair, Reuse, & Repurposing Are No Longer An Option, But A Necessity

  Guest September 10, 2020 AATCC Blog

  It’s Time to Invest In Our Clothing: Clothing Repair, Reuse, & Repurposing Are No Longer An Option, But A Necessity By Joanne Brasch and Olivia Sullivan   Clothing shouldn’t be disposable, but that is often how it is treated. In 2018, synthetic clothing and other textiles were the 5th most common material thrown out by […]

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