Switzerland-based OEM Mouvent was pleased with the reception of its signature TX801 digital textile inkjet printer at the recent Gartex exhibition, which took place recently in New Delhi.
Mouvent's booth at Gartex 2018
According to show organisers, Gartex is a comprehensive trade show focused on garment and textile machinery, and it gives Indian market players in the garment and textile production industry an insight into the latest innovations and product launches.
It was the first time Mouvent’s TX801 had been showcased in India. Many visitors were interested in the TX801’s potential and how it can aid India’s digital textile printing industry, which continues to grow.
The TX801 prints with up to eight colours and, although it is a scanning machine, can complete up to half of its print jobs in a single pass, delivering top-of-the-bill productivity of 200 sqm/h without compromising on quality, claims Mouvent.
Visitors showed particular interest in the machine’s Cluster Technology, according to the Swiss machinery manufacturer. The technology uses clusters instead of fixed-size print bars by colour, arranged in a modular, scalable matrix. This results in one system that can be simply adapted to all substrates of all widths, for all markets. Its print quality is extremely high with an optical resolution of up to 2,000 dpi. The machine can process knitted, woven and non-woven textiles with a maximum fabric width of 1,820mm with roll diameters of up to 400mm, adds Mouvent.
Ghislain Segard, Mouvent’s textile machines marketing and sales manager
“The TX801 showed how innovation, guided by the needs of the market, results in a pioneering product that delivers what that market has been waiting for,” says Ghislain Segard, marketing and sales manager, textile machines at Mouvent. “The industry experts who saw the machine were delighted with its extremely high print quality that remains constant even at very high production speeds, as well as its precision and scalability. We’re also very happy that companies will be able to immediately profit from the competitive advantage the TX801 is bound to deliver through our strategic partnership with Fortuna Colours & Prints LLP.”
Vinod Krishnamurthy, one of the co-founders of Fortuna Colours & Prints LLP, started digital printing on textiles in 1998. The company launched Mimaki, Reggiani, Hong Hua, Kornit, Huntsman and almost a dozen brands, ranging from ink over software to machines in India.
“We are very happy that we can help Mouvent bring the TX801 to customers in India. The Indian textile market is extremely varied, interesting and rapidly changing, and the TX801 perfectly responds to the need for a very high quality, productive digital textile printer,” says Krishnamurthy. “It came as no surprise to us that the presentation of the machine was met with such enthusiasm. After all, the Indian textile production market consists of companies producing exclusive high-quality textiles as well as huge-scale mass-produced products. The solutions Mouvent can offer are very well suited to this market.”
Gartex 2018 was also showcasing products, services and technologies related to the complete production chain. It was divided into several zones – including the DigiTex zone, which has an exclusive focus on Digital Textile Printing Technology.
Following the company’s launch in 2017, India has become Mouvent’s latest target for expansion. Currently, the OEM has already visited high-profile trade shows in Turkey and China, where it believes the TX801 printer will be well-suited.
