Patricia Featherstone presented with EDANA Lifetime Achievemen Award More than 30 years of service to the nonwovens and related industries and over 15 years to EDANA acknowledged by peers. On the first day of INDEX™ Mrs Patricia Featherstone was awarded the EDANA Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her dedication to the industry, with a successful commercial career at ACE Films (Liège, Belgium) over the course of more than 30 years, and a contribution to the association’s activities for more than 15 years, featuring four (2012-2016) as Chair of the Board. Since first participating in the association’s working groups, Tricia has witnessed the growth of the EDANA team, and its membership, with a nearly two-fold increase from 160 member companies with a largely European focus, to over 300 member companies with activities across the globe. Before joining the Board of EDANA in 2009, Tricia participated in, and often led, various committees or working groups, helping to provide market intelligence, marketing, and communications support to the industry, in par-ticular in films and laminates for single-use hygiene and medical applications, at times where reusable textile gowns and drapes were struggling to demon-strate similar barrier properties to nonwoven-based infection control items. Representing ACE, Tricia has been a critical voice in defending more demand-ing standards in this area. She participated in and presented at many EDANA workshops and forums. Finally, as a governor and chair of the Board, she contributed greatly in de-vising EDANA’s OUTREACH strategy, for instance leading the association to expand its succesful OUTLOOK™ conferences both in Asia and Latin America. Pierre Wiertz, General Manager of EDANA said “EDANA is delighted to present Tricia with this prestigious award for her continuous support. Tricia’s s long-term involvement in the association’s activities has helped raise the profile of EDANA and thereby also improve the awareness and understanding of the role nonwoven products play in our everyday lives, in-cluding the critical and life-saving benefits they bring in surgery.”