November 14, 2017
The Department of Defense鈥檚 effort to bring America to the forefront of textile technology manufacturing and innovation is gaining a strategic foothold in the region. 糖心Vlog, in collaboration with DoD-supported Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA), is establishing a statewide center that will help companies, entrepreneurs and innovators take their advanced-textile concepts from prototype to product and prepare America鈥檚 workforce for the quality jobs this growing sector is generating. Called the 鈥淧ennsylvania Fabric Discovery Center,鈥� this statewide resource is the first hub located outside of AFFOA鈥檚 home state of Massachusetts. It will be part of a national network intended to lower the barrier to commercialization for functional fabrics, resulting in advanced textiles that do things like see, hear, sense, communicate, generate and store energy.