After supplying its material for the seats of eight of the major Brazilian stadiums that hosted the 2014 Fifa World Cup, this year RadiciGroup is back in Brazil with its Radiflam S flame retardant PA 6 engineering plastics. Five of the venues of the upcoming Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games (August 5-21) - Centro Olimpico de Tiro Esportivo, Arena da Juventude, Centro Olimpico de Hóquei, Arena do Futuro, and Centro Aquático Maria Lenk - are, once again, going to bear the RadiciGroup brand name. The Brazilian market - where RadiciGroup has been present since 1997 with its Radici Plastics Ltda

RadiciSpandex Corporation, a subsidiary of Italy's RadiciGroup and based in Gastonia, North Carolina, awarded prizes to students of Kent State University's Fashion School. The award program, "Stretch to the Future" sponsored by RadiciSpandex, is a design competition to crate swimwear, activewear, lingerie and eveningwear utilizing the company's RadElast spandex. RadiciSpandex works with design students to give them unique opportunity to work with the strech fabic. Over 53 students took part in the competition in which four winning garments were choosen with one being an overall Grand Prize