CHARLOTTE, N.C.-It almost sounds like a riddle: What is at once both old and new, simultaneously static and changing? The answer, according to a panel of experts at the June 14-16 IME South Conference, is the textile industry. But the legacy industry needs a makeover, and it needs one soon, as textiles are too important to U.S. manufacturing to remain static. "We need to think of textiles as a new industry, not an old industry," said Jesse Jur, a professor of textile engineering, chemistry and science at North Carolina State University. Jur also serves as director of ecosytem technology for Cambridge, Mass.-based Affoa, Advanced Functional Fabrics of America.
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