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SDC EC, the Indian branch of the Society of Dyers and Colourists, has announced details of its National Conference 2014, under the theme ‘Sustainable Innovations in Colouration’. The one-day conference will be held at the Textiles Committee, Prabhadevi, Mumbai, on June 6.
ICAP-SIRA Chemicals and Polymers SpA, the Italian producer of water- and solvent-based polymers and pigment dispersions, has gained the environmental-management certification UNI EN ISO 14001:2004 for its production site in Barberino di Mugello.
The launch edition of Heimtextil India, the country’s specialist trade fair for home and contract textiles, has garnered tremendous response both from exhibitors and potential trade visitors and is expected to be a sell-out, according to organisers Messe Frankfurt Trade Fairs India.
TenCate Protective Fabrics has received an order for fabric to make 23,000 items of protective clothing for European employees of the French chemicals group, Arkema. Delivery of the Tecasafe Plus XL-9300 fabric for the first 10,000 sets has already begun.
Archroma has announced further major price increases on a wide range of its textile dyes. It says the main driver for the increases is the growing pressure from increased environmental controls in the production of important raw materials and dye-intermediate chemicals in Asia, especially in China.
Colour-management software company GMG achieved top ranking in the recent ‘Printing the Unexpected – Textile!’ proofing challenge, run by Germany’s Graphic Technology Research Association (Fogra) and the German Fashion Institute during the recent Colour Management Symposium in Munich.
Huntsman Textile Effects has introduced Eriofast Navy M for polyamide and its blends with elastane, including microfibres, and says the new reactive dye makes it possible for textile mills to achieve economical navy shades and royal blue with the highest standard of wet fastness.
Epson has revealed plans to launch over 10 new inkjet printers for a range of professional print applications over the next 18 months under an ambitious rollout programme that will double the suite of machines built up over the past two years.
Kiian Group is to launch a dye-sublimation ink for use in wide-format textile printers equipped with the popular Kyocera print head. The ink will be demonstrated next week at the InPrint show in Hannover, Germany, and later at FESPA Digital in Munich.
News26 Mar 2014Apparel-industry quality-assurance and supply-chain-optimisation company Impactiva has partnered exclusively with NSF International to provide laboratory testing for the global textile industry. Testing for restricted substances and physical property failures will be performed at NSF International’s laboratory in Shanghai, China.
UK based Fastek is to introduce its own range of dye-sublimation and eco-solvent wide-format printers, under the Samsonn Digital brand. Scheduled for launch at the Sign & Digital show at Birmingham’s NE C (April 29 – May 1), the dye-sub version will come in widths of 1600m and 3200mm, with the eco-solvent version also available in the intermediate width of 2500mm. All the printers will be fitted with the Epson DX5 print head.
