Berger Textiles is bolstering its North American presence with an expanded sales team and new warehousing facilities to enhance its nationwide supply coverage.

UFabrik Soft Display Textile was the material of choice used to promote the Super Mario Bros movie shown at the Vue Cinema in Westfield, Shepherd’s Bush, London. Three walls and a section of the ceiling in the corridor leading to screening rooms 1-7 were dressed with the impactful graphics.

Texo Trade Services will be demonstrating its green credentials at the 2023 Munich FESPA from 23 to 26 May. With increasing demand for both sustainable products and calls for corporate social responsibility, TTS is committed to innovation in this area, ensuring that its customers and their clients always meet the market’s stricter sustainability requirements. TTS will demonstrate its new green developments and products at FESPA, as well as the opportunities it can offer the market, which include the TTS Textile Recycling Service that provides soft signage customers the chance to offer recycling to their own customers.

KD Kanopy Inc. the leading manufacturer and worldwide distributor of industrial strength commercial custom canopies, tension tents, and digital signage has adopted UFabrik Tent Textile for its dye sublimation printing work.

UFabrik, the leading manufacturer of super-wide digital textile materials for display graphics has opened a new state-of-the art production facility in Chonburi, Thailand. The unprecedented success of the UFabrik brand as the leading specified material in the UK and European markets, compelled further investment in production capacity to replicate its ascendance in the US.

Fisher Textiles, the leading supplier of fabric for digital printing, has added three fabric media for SEG and soft signage to its Enviro-Tex fabric line for dye sublimation printing. All are made with 100% post-consumer recycled polyester and have a better white point that traditional textiles made from post-consumer waste. Using recycled polyester yarns not only keeps PET bottles out of landfills, it also reduces energy consumption and conserves petroleum resources used to produce virgin polyester.

As print shops continue to see demand for transfer printing applications, Epson today announced two new 44-inch wide-format dye-sublimation printers – the SureColor® F6470 and SureColor F6470H. Designed to maximize productivity for print businesses, the versatile 4-color SureColor F6470 and 6-color SureColor F6470H generate fast output for quickly and efficiently producing high-quality transfer images. The new models will replace the renowned SureColor F6370 and join Epson’s expansive line of SureColor F-Series dye-sublimation printers.

Banner Box Print Solutions has printed all the flags required for the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham using printer equipment, inks, and textiles from CMYUK.

EFI™ Reggiani, the industrial textile printing business of printing technology company Electronics For Imaging, Inc. (EFI), has broken ground on a new textile campus to accommodate ongoing growth. The new 20,000-square-metre campus in Comun Nuovo, Bergamo, Italy, is expected to be completed midyear in 2023.

To meet the demands of continuing market growth, MacroArt has invested in technology and software from Durst, manufacturer of innovative digital printing systems and software solutions. The wide-format specialist has become the first UK & Ireland user of the P5 TEX iSUB dye-sublimation production press, enabling it to continue delivering the best print for its wide variety of customers, and follows investment in Durst’s Lift ERP integrated, highly automated software platform last year.

Following its new focus on textile markets, the European Specialist Printing Manufacturers Association (ESMA) launches a brand new event to explain and inspire change within the industry. Textile Printing and Sustainability (TPS) conference takes place on 8-9 September 2022 at Dorint Kongresshotel Düsseldorf-Neuss and welcomes all involved in automatisation, new business models and best environmental practices for various textile applications.

MX Display has invested in an EFI VUTEk FabriVU 340i textile printer and a High Roller Carousel storage solution from CMYUK. The printer was installed in November last year, followed quickly by the Carousel.

Kornit Digital Ltd. (NASDAQ: KRNT), a worldwide market leader in sustainable, on-demand, digital textile production technologies, announced today that Portuguese textile specialist Blur has installed the Kornit Presto S with Softener solution for sustainable, single-step direct-to-fabric production of multiple fabrics in any quantity. The print services provider, which supports the production needs of high fashion brands has previously installed multiple Kornit Atlas and Avalanche systems for industrial-scale digital direct-to-garment (DTG) production on demand.

With the all-important COP26 Climate Change Conference having taken centre stage in November, there is no time like the present for the fashion world to rally together in stepping up sustainability efforts and getting carbon emissions under control. Globally, the fashion industry is now estimated to account for around 10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and 20 percent of wastewater[1], making the pursuit of greener production methods more pertinent than ever before. Thankfully, we are seeing a new era of production enter the fashion arena, with the increasing emergence of technologically advanced, highly automated microfactories.

Beaver Paper Group, a leading manufacturer of sublimation media and cut and sew paper is pleased to announce the two new of state-of-the-art roll converting machines to their recently modernized production facility. The additions include The Lemu Master Roll 3500 and The Lemu BRA-3.

AMI Graphics, a nationally recognized large format print service provider with locations in New Hampshire and Florida announce the addition of the Durst P5 Tex iSub to their equipment line-up.

Kornit Digital Ltd. (NASDAQ: KRNT), a worldwide market leader in sustainable, on-demand, digital textile production technologies, announced today that United Kingdom-based Save Our Souls Clothing has implemented the Kornit Storm HD6 Lite system for just-in-time production of its “alternative” custom apparel. Replacing a fleet of smaller, low-capacity digital direct-to-garment (DTG) machines, the Kornit system has enabled the company to scale its business upward with minimal time and labour needs.

CMYUK’s  Creatives in Residence Live initiative began in September this year. Since then, the three surface designers have worked through a comprehensive educational and skills-based programme, been tutored by production technology experts, and mentored by luminaries working in textiles, fashion and interiors. Now, with two design briefs behind them, we find out how the experience has stacked up so far…

Print Inc., a specialist in print and embroidered clothing, has celebrated its fifth anniversary by making a substantial investment in new technology and equipment, a move that will allow it to increase its capacity by 300%, and raising a significant sum for charity.

Kornit Digital Ltd. (NASDAQ: KRNT), a worldwide market leader in sustainable, on-demand, digital textile production technologies, announced today the release of its Kornit Presto MAX system for sustainable on-demand production of apparel and other textile goods. The new system will make its live debut at Kornit Fashion Week Los Angeles + Industry 4.0 Event, which the company is hosting November 2-5 to showcase technology innovations, partnerships, and proven strategies driving the business case for sustainable, on-demand production of fashion and textile goods worldwide.

Demand for digitally printed textiles is rebounding strongly through 2021, and is set for accelerated growth over the next five years, according to The Future of Digital Textile Printing to 2026, the latest expert market study from Smithers.