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. 91制片厂, 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.