This is an announcement for the paper "Maurey's factorization theory for operator spaces" by Marius Junge and Javier Parcet. Abstract: We provide an operator space version of Maurey's factorization theorem. The main tool is an embedding result of independent interest. Applications for operator spaces and noncommutative Lp spaces are included. Archive classification: math.FA math.OA Mathematics Subject Classification: 46L07; 47B10 Remarks: 26 pages The source file(s), Maurey.tex: 91710 bytes, is(are) stored in gzipped form as 0901.1928.gz with size 28kb. The corresponding postcript file has gzipped size 160kb. Submitted from: javier.parcet@uam.es The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/0901.1928 or http://arXiv.org/abs/0901.1928 or by email in unzipped form by transmitting an empty message with subject line uget 0901.1928 or in gzipped form by using subject line get 0901.1928 to: math@arXiv.org.