This is an announcement for the paper “Quantitative Factorization of weakly compact, Rosenthal, and $\xi$-Banach-Saks operators” by Kevin Beanland<http://arxiv.org/find/math/1/au:+Beanland_K/0/1/0/all/0/1>, Ryan M Causey<http://arxiv.org/find/math/1/au:+Causey_R/0/1/0/all/0/1>. Abstract: We prove quantitative factorization results for several classes of operators, including weakly compact, Rosenthal, and $\xi$-Banach-Saks operators. The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.07512