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Event promoter UBM Asia has secured a slice of the booming digital textile printing market with the acquisition of the China (Shanghai) International Printing Industry Expo (CSTPF) from SUNEXPO.
Insight27 Jan 2015Adidas is the only textile or luxury goods manufacturer to make it into the 2015 Global 100 – a league table of sustainability performance published by ‘Corporate Knights’, described as ‘The Magazine for Clean Capitalism’.
IMI Europe is partnering with FM Brooks, the organiser of the InPrint show for industrial printing technology, to deliver the Industrial Ink Jet Technology Showcase, at the angelo Hotel Munich Westpark in Munich, Germany on June 24 and 25, 2015. It says the aim of the conference is to raise awareness of industrial print and showcase available technology.
Textile-chemical producer Archroma has added its portfolio of dyes and chemicals that are compliant with the Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) Group’s Manufacturers Restricted Substance List (MRSL) to its pioneering ONE WAY Sustainability Calculator.
Insight6 Jan 2015Inkjet print-head manufacturer Xaar plc has so far been largely absent from the textile scene, as its technology is not designed to jet aqueous inks. But its selection of a new CEO will ring bells for many with long memories, as Dr Doug Edwards was once a research chemist working on textile dyes at ICI Colours, and subsequently at Zeneca Colours.
Profile27 Nov 2014The name ‘Rialco’ is not widely known in the digital-textile printing industry, but in the past 12 years this UK company has quietly carved itself a niche at the heart of the supply chain for dye-sublimation inks. It processes and supplies highly purified dye powders under the brand name Riaplas, used in the ink formulations of several of the leading global brands.
Kenya is seeking a major expansion of its textile and apparel sector, according to a report by Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, which quotes the Principal Secretary of the Ministry of Industrialization and Enterprise Development, Dr Wilson Zonga, as stating that the Ministry is working to attract some of the largest textile industries to set up base there.
The Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC) is in crisis after members at an extraordinary general meeting passed a vote of ‘no confidence’ in their own Board of Trustees. The fallout from the vote is expected to result in resignations among the Board.
News11 Nov 2014Ricoh has previewed two new inkjet print heads, both of which are expected to have textile application. At the 2014 IMI European Ink Jet Printing Conference, held in Barcelona last week, Graham Kennedy, business development manager of industrial print at Ricoh Europe, gave details of the forthcoming MH2830 head, with flow-through technology, and the GH2220, designed for lower costs. Both heads are expected to go into production towards the beginning of Q2, 2015.
Cleantech Solutions International Inc says it has received two new Chinese patents, covering components of the hot-air circulation system of the its low-emission air-flow dyeing machines. The company believes that the hot-air circulation system helps to enhance the machines' ability to produce higher-quality textiles with a better look and feel.
Next year’s Sign & Digital UK will have a floor area one fifth bigger than the 2014 edition as a result of increased exhibitor demand. Organisers Faversham House say that even at this stage, bookings for the March event are 11% beyond this year’s total.
