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Insight28 Feb 2014Strategies for enhancing the quality of Indian-manufactured cotton yarn were among the topics explored at the Uster Quality University – a three-day event staged in Goa, in December.
Profile24 Jan 2014A massive expansion at DBL Group, in Bangladesh, will double textile-finishing capacity. The project will see the commissioning of three Monforts Montex 8000 stenters this year, to complement a Montex 6500 installed in 2012.
Profile23 Dec 2013Xennia Technology reached a milestone this year with the introduction of UV-curing inks for a digital printing machine for industrial textiles, developed by TenCate in partnership with Reggiani Macchine. John Scrimshaw examines the background to the company’s continuing R&D programme.
Profile14 Oct 2013Craig Whyte, the founder of Cape Town-based ArtLab, can look back on a long career in digital imaging. He introduced the industry to the South Africa way back in 1983 – with Ciba-copy camera processors, the precursors of today's digital copying machines.
France’s top prize for textile innovation – the Prix International Théophile Legrand de l’Innovation Textile – has gone to science entrepreneur Coralie Marchand, a doctor of textile mechanics at Laboratoire de Physique et Mécanique Textiles (LPMT), Université de Haute Alsace in Mulhouse, and at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Sud-Alsace (ENSISA).
News24 Sept 2013The European Commission has adopted a report based on the results of three assessment studies carried out to investigate the possible need for new labelling requirements for textile and leather products, as well as allergenic substances in textile finished products.
AATCC, the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists, has developed a new digitally printed Stain Release Replica for use with AATCC Test Method (TM) 130, Soil Release: Oily Stain Release Method. The new Stain Release Replica was developed by the Association’s RA56 Stain Release Committee Task Force, which conducted testing of the replica across six different labs.
Kyocera will next week open a new inkjet print-head design centre at the company’s European headquarters in Esslingen, Germany. The centre will provide technical support in the optimisation of customers’ printing systems that use Kyocera heads.
News18 Sept 2013Leading UK digital and screen printer Standfast & Barracks has expanded its range of standard cloths, following a recent decision to purchase a second Durst Kappa 180 high-speed digital printer, which will be fully operational by November. The traditional home-textiles printer is also expanding its business in apparel fabrics.
News17 Sept 2013WTiN, the publisher of Digital Textile magazine – in association with the industry-leading Heimtextil exhibition for interior textiles – is to hold a special edition of the popular Digital Textile Conference, focusing on the newly emerging trend for industrial-scale digital printing of home textiles.
