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News18 Mar 2015Xennia Technology today launches a full range of digital textile inks for production printing of silk and polyamide fabrics, including nylon and Lycra/elastane/spandex.
News18 Mar 2015The organisers of ITMA 2015 have announced the opening of visitor registration. An earlybird rate of €80 for the full eight days, or €40 for a single day, is offered to anyone registering online at www.itma.com before October 15. This compares with a daily rate ‘at the door’ of €80.
Colour metrology specialist caddon printing & imaging GmbH and workflow specialist DALIM SOFTWARE GmbH, both of Germany, will next week present the initial results of their co-operative effort to create a portfolio of technology-independent solutions for colour-pattern communication.
Insight11 Mar 2015By now we’re all familiar with concept of ‘fair trade’ in the sourcing of commodities, as promoted by Fairtrade International, which introduced its certified cotton standard in 2005. But fair trade rules applied to practices in textile manufacturing are, on the face of it, less simple to formulate.
Insight11 Mar 2015It’s not often these days that the textile industry receives high-level attention within the corridors of the European Union, so the participation of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska in a conference next month in Poland is an occasion worth noting.
Insight10 Mar 2015The public’s appetite for clothing with the personal touch has long been identified as a potential driver for the advance of digital technologies. It’s a trend that has gone hand-in-hand with the development of the internet, and especially with universal access to broadband, which makes it easy for consumers to upload their own unique designs. Tens of thousands of one-off or short-run garments can only be delivered by digital printing.
Downward pressure on fibre prices has been a general global trend in recent months and is being reflected on the bottom line of major producers, even derailing their forward plans. Announcing lower sales in 2014, Lenzing Group signalled the ‘adjustment’ of planned expansions at its PT South Pacific Viscose (Indonesia) and Lenzing Nanjing Fibers (China) subsidiaries, blaming this revision on continued expectations of lower viscose fibre prices.
Review2 Mar 2015The 5th international conference run by Inkjet Forum India saw the launch of a unique training initiative, designed to help the country overcome its quality shortfall in digital textile printing and raise the level of its technical skills.
News2 Mar 2015Fashion company Filippa K has become the first to apply a new ‘alternative’ water-repellent technology, developed by OrganoClick AB, that is said to be free from fluorocarbons, non-toxic and readily biodegradable. Both companies are based in Sweden.
The creation in Thailand of a training academy dedicated to digital textile printing, as reported today in ‘The Nation’ newspaper, builds on a strong tradition both in textiles and in digital printing – with a readiness to adopt new technologies when the opportunity arises.
The emergence of China as a major centre for digital textile printing – and the scale of that activity there – will come as a surprise to many. The presumption that China is tied to long lead times, volume production and low added value is deeply ingrained. But perhaps it should not be a surprise. Where the West leads, Asia’s entrepreneurs are not usually far behind, especially if there are new commercial opportunities to be exploited.
Insight25 Feb 2015Colleges struggling to fund their digital-textile printing departments might take a leaf from the book or Iowa State University, in the USA. There, students have created their own collection of scarves, which are on sale in the university’s own bookshop – which, despite its name, carries a wide range of clothing and general merchandise, both in ‘bricks-and-mortar’ and online. These designs, selling for over $50 each, fund the fabrics, ink and other supplies consumed by the Digital Apparel Textile Studio. The venture was the idea of lecturer Christina Denekas, who studied digital textile printing for her Masters degree at Iowa State, before working in the apparel industry.
RevoLaze LLC, which makes laser technology for denim effects, says it has reached a settlement with Levi Strauss & Co, following its filing last August of patent infringement lawsuits with the International Trade Commission and Cleveland US District Court.
Huntsman Textile Effects has obtained a final judgment from the High People's Court in Shanghai, China, against Shanghai Colva Dyestuff Industry Co Ltd for infringing its Chinese Patent No. ZL00106403.7 by manufacturing and selling Colvazol Super Black LC-G and Colvazol Super Black LC-R.
Insight4 Feb 2015The acquisition of the young wastewater-treatment company Solwa srl by Santex Group is the first major coup by recently appointed CEO Marco Tecchio, who took over the post last summer and immediately embraced the growth strategy instituted two years earlier by his predecessor, Heinz Michel – now president of Swiss operating company Santex AG.
Insight30 Jan 2015Kyocera’s KJ4B print head has, since 2010, dominated the market in high-productivity digital-textile printing and is used in many of the leading machines – not least, the super-fast MS-LaRio. It is not without its critics, however, and is increasingly being challenged by a newer generation of heads from other manufacturers.
