Rosh Haayin (Israel) headquartered Kornit Digital develops, manufactures and markets industrial and commercial printing solutions for the garment, apparel and textile industries. The company focuses on enabling the mass customization of printed textile products. In this interview, Robert Zoch, Global Content Manager, Kornit Digital, explains the advantages of digital printing and how Kornit is helping the textile industry to gear up for the digital future.

The partnership aims to turn textile waste into a resource while unlocking employment opportunities for more than 4 million waste workers in India

Digital textile printed volume will increase from 2021 to 2026 by 13.9% CAGR reaching 5.531 million sq m annually, says Smithers’ new report.

Together, the two technology leaders will collaborate on developing commercial scale production of superior quality viscose fibers from up to 10 000 tonnes of Renewcell’s 100% textile recycled material Circulose annually.

Companies jointly launch a manual to open-source an improved dyeing process that significantly reduces the amount of water, chemicals and energy required for cotton dyeing to accelerate change in the industry.

The agreement with Applied DNA Sciences Inc enables Ganesha to introduce and apply CertainT-verified rPET to provide assurance for the raw material with textile and apparel customers.

Textile companies are under pressure to adopting sustainable practices across the value chain. Traditional printing technologies such as table printing, flat bed printing or rotary printing are expected to give way to digital printing as the latter has an interesting sustainability profile, says Rakesh Rao.

During his interaction with Textiles Minister Piyush Goyal, Smarth Bansal (GM of ColorJet Group) discussed about textile printing and how ColorJet is leading the path of digitalization of textile printing worldwide

With Mimaki’s range of printers designed for sublimation transfer papers and direct-to-textile printing, the customer can print on fabrics and ready-made clothing to streamline production, speed time to market, and stay in touch with changing trends. In this interview, Mark Sollman, Product Manager EMEA, Mimaki Europe, elaborates more industry trends and the company offerings.