When TRSA’s Production Summit Task Force considers sites for their twice-yearly event, cities stand out based on their abundance of textile services plants worth touring. New Orleans offers such variety. For this fall’s Summit, the group selected Starr Textile Services and TLC Services. The Big Easy adds another distinction. Slammed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, it’s the perfect backdrop for the Summit’s education focus on disaster prevention and recovery.
 
These discussions will likely extend beyond climate-related devastation to catastrophes such as devastating fires, IT/computer data loss, chemical spills and riots/terrorism. All agenda items, however, are analogous to ...