DAYTON, OH – HPC Fire Inspired™, a gas fire pit manufacturer, has acquired all intellectual property, designs, and assets of Forno de Pizza out of Grand Haven, MI. Hugo Laranja will join HPC, as the business development manager for HPC Outdoor Cooking Product Line.

The Hybrid Gas/Wood is perfect for cooking pizza, grilling, smoking, and even baking. The design of the Forno de Pizza oven, coupled with HPC ignition technology, makes the acquisition for HPC a seamless fit into the product offering.
The Forno de Pizza philosophy is that wood-fired ovens are like architecture: they must be beautiful,…

ATLANTA/ HIGH POINT/ LAS VEGAS – Capitalizing on a recent shift in timing of home furnishings industry markets, and in concert with ongoing travel and government restrictions in the western United States, International Market Centers (IMC) has rescheduled the winter and summer editions of the Las Vegas Market — originally planned in January and July — to run April 11-15, 2021, and August 22-26, 2021. IMC’s 2021 markets in Atlanta for Gift & Home and Apparel will run as scheduled

“We have opted to postpone the winter Las Vegas Market in connection with Governor Sisolak’s recent extension of Nevada’s ‘statewide…

HUDSON, N.C. – The Austrian based Sattler AG, manufacturer of solution-dyed acrylic fabric, especially for outdoor use, acquired USA outdoor fabric manufacturer Outdura from Shuford Mills in 2010. This purchase included the historic Hudson Cotton Mill, circa 1904, which was Shuford Mill’s production operation and distribution center in Hudson, NC, and the building remains as Outdura’s US headquarters and textile production center. The 180,000 sq. ft. mill is also on the National Register of Historic Places.

At the time of the transition, Manfred Heissenberger, Sattler director of Marketing & Sales stated, “We believe Outdura’s strength in the casual furniture and…

HIGH POINT, N.C. - Para Tempotest has opened a new showroom in High Point, N.C. located in the historic Market Square Tower (MST 326). The new showroom will be open during markets and by appointment.

The showroom houses a vast array of Para’s popular line of Tempotest Italian performance fabrics. Made from woven solution dyed acrylic yarns, Tempotest is woven in both canvas and textural solids as well as dobby and jacquard patterns. Para produces Tempotest at their five plants all located in Italy with distribution in the US from their warehouse in Carrollton, Texas.

www.tempotestusa.com

Serge Ferrari has introduced what designers are calling the softest, most durable, woven outdoor upholstery fabric in the industry – Batyline® Elios. This fabric delivers the same technical properties that have made the Batyline range a success for over three decades, including dimensional stability, easy maintenance, and resistance to UV, mold, tearing and fading. However, Batyline Elios goes a step further with its distinctive and patented weave that provides the same soft look and feel as indoor textiles.

Available in ten colors, Batyline Elios is highly flexible and ideal for any outdoor upholstered seating, including sofas, chairs, garden furniture…

LANCASTER, PA - Earlier this year, the Casual Comfort manufacturing facility near Lancaster, Pa., was destroyed in a devastating fire, including materials and equipment. “And while the tightly-knit Amish community quickly banded together to rebuild and get the operation back up and running, you can only imagine the high expense to reestablish the outdoor furnishings business,” wrote Jaclyn C. Hirschhaut, executive director, International Casual Furnishings Association.

Paul and Mary Maki, ICFA retailer owners of Porch Concepts in Wilmington, N.C., launched a Go Fund Me campaign to help support their fellow ICFA supplier. See link below.
https://gf.me/u/y93gcr
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Patrick Schatz is a mechanical engineer with several patents who sees most things in life as performing interconnected functions. He rebuilds old cars in his spare time (preferring circuit board-free muscle cars) and works, happily challenged, for Dayton OH-based manufacturer, HPC Fire Inspired.™

Schatz, HPC’s product engineer, noted that some testing functions were tedious and repetitive. For many years, they tested various equipment functions, capturing data by hand. “Some testing procedures were so monotonous that it became the least interesting part of work, which added repetitive cross-checking to ensure the accuracy of testing,” he said. “Something had to change.”…

Native Spun, founded in 2019 by textile industry veteran Gina B. Wicker, is introducing a full collection of decorative outdoor throws made with sustainably sourced solution‐dyed acrylic for fade‐ and UV‐resistance. The collection is handwoven in North Carolina and is designed with a high‐end aesthetic in mind.

Throws can be finished with a self‐fringe or a tailored hem and are engineered to withstand frequent home or commercial laundering using a variety of cleaning and disinfecting agents including bleach or hydrogen peroxide. All Native Spun throws can be machine washed and dried and are pre‐shrunk as part of the finishing…