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Insight26 Jun 2019During ITMA Barcelona, DGI unveiled its new paper transfer dye sublimation printer, POSEIDON, which came as a surprise to its audience of dealers and customers at the APOLLON launch event
Insight24 Jun 2019Ichinose has improved its iugo hybrid textile printer, developments of which it is displaying at ITMA
The Taiwan textile industry is focusing its efforts on smart machinery and digitalisation at ITMA Barcelona.
Insight14 Jun 2019Following multi-national thread company Coats’ move to Aryaka networking services – globally managed connectivity delivered as a service – Aryaka’s CPO Shashi Kiran talks to Madelaine Cornforth about the partnership and the importance of an integrated and secure global networking solution
Insight12 Jun 2019ConsenSys, a blockchain company dedicated to transforming the world’s digital architecture toward a more open, inclusive, and secure internet of value has, in partnership with LVMH and Microsoft, launched AURA, a platform that aims to serve the entire luxury industry with powerful product tracking and tracing services, based on Ethereum blockchain technology and utilising Microsoft Azure
Insight5 Jun 2019The digital textile microfactory (DTM) has exploded in the textile industry since it was showcased at Heimtextil in January 2017 with its benefits demonstrated at trade shows and the technology implemented in microfactories across the world, particularly in the US and Europe
Insight3 Jun 2019Textiles and virtual reality (VR) technology, until lately, have not crossed paths very often. It has mostly appeared in the apparel industry in the design and sampling stage of manufacture. However, other companies, such as Manus VR, are using it to help with training in manufacturing facilities
Insightfree3 Jun 2019Hydrogen is a critical component in the manufacture of thousands of common products from plastic to fertilizers, but producing pure hydrogen is expensive and energy intensive. Now, a research team at Princeton University has harnessed sunlight to isolate hydrogen from industrial wastewater.
Insight30 May 2019With its MindCUT Studio, Zünd offers a powerful, modular software suite for automated textile cutting. The company says that the MindCUT Studio excels in flexibility and modularity, offering highly efficient nesting for plain fabrics as well as pattern matching and a seamless print and cut workflow for digitally printed textiles
