{"id":8637,"date":"2014-05-03T01:58:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T17:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=8637"},"modified":"2014-05-03T01:58:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T17:58:38","slug":"new-apparel-innovation-centre-to-design-test-and-manufacture-protective-clothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/03\/new-apparel-innovation-centre-to-design-test-and-manufacture-protective-clothing\/","title":{"rendered":"New apparel innovation centre to design, test and manufacture protective clothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_181862534.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8638\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_181862534.jpg\" alt=\"safety\" width=\"1000\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_181862534.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_181862534-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">CALGARY\u2014A new research, development and manufacturing centre in Calgary is being set up to try to make the workplace a little safer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Olds College is joining Alberta Garment Manufacturing to establish what is believed to be Western Canada\u2019s first apparel research and development facility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">When it opens in 2015, the Calgary-based facility will test, design and manufacture protective clothing for the energy and construction industries, as well as for the Canadian Forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Adrian Bussoli of Alberta Garment Manufacturing says the centre will design its own product lines and test designs from other companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">He says an example would be tests on cold-weather gear developed by the Canadian military.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">The federal government has chipped in nearly $3 million to help purchase equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY\u2014A new research, development and manufacturing centre in Calgary is being set up to try to make the workplace a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":8638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}