Aldo Spinelli, Co-Founder of Italian Design Firm Poliform, Dies

Aldo Spinelli, Co-Founder of Italian Design Firm Poliform, Dies

MILAN –  Aldo Spinelli, co-founder of Italian design firm Poliform, famous for its marble tables, plush seating and fine cabinetry, has died, Poliform said Friday. A spokesperson for the company said its offices would be closed Friday. Based in the heart of Brianza, the northern Italian furniture district, the company was founded by Spinelli, and his cousins Alberto…

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Reju Opens First North American Research and Development Center

Reju Opens First North American Research and Development Center

Paris-based textile-to-textile regeneration company Reju has opened its first research and development facility in the United States. Located within engineering and construction firm Technip Energies’ advanced materials and catalysts research center in Conshohocken, Pa., the lab is designed to allow Reju to accelerate the deployment of its recycling technologies to develop circular solutions. Reju’s core…

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Engineering the Future: How Milliken Is Driving Molecular-level Innovation in Technical Textiles

Engineering the Future: How Milliken Is Driving Molecular-level Innovation in Technical Textiles

The textile market is being driven by an urgent need for circular sustainability and supply chain resilience as well as cutting-edge material performance. Milliken & Company, a global materials science giant, is one of the companies pioneering this new landscape by utilizing a deep portfolio of patents to solve complex everyday challenges. Here, Allen Jacoby,…

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EXCLUSIVE: Moreau Paris Will Soon Have a New Owner

EXCLUSIVE: Moreau Paris Will Soon Have a New Owner

Moreau Paris, a storied 19th-century French trunkmaker born during the same fizzy era as Louis Vuitton, Goyard and Moynat, is about to change hands — again. Strategic and financial investors are vying for the leather goods house via a court-supervised process under way in Paris, according to Richard Morgan, whose investment advisory is representing Asteren,…

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US, Iran Leave Qatar Talks With Hormuz Future Still Unclear

US, Iran Leave Qatar Talks With Hormuz Future Still Unclear

The Strait of Hormuz remains a centerpiece to ongoing negotiations between the U.S. and Iran to end their four-month war, but two days of talks between the parties in Qatar concluded Wednesday with no sign of resolution for the future of the waterway. Both sides did not meet face to face, instead interacting separately with…

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