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Review1 Mar 2019Digital textile prints stood out on the catwalk at London Fashion Week 2019, with up-and-coming fashion designers making the most of the versatility of the technology
Profile25 Feb 2019Becoming a flexible buying house and manufacturer is no mean feat. Grosso Moda director business development Jelle Van Laer shares the company’s experiences and discusses the importance of digitalising for success. Tansy Fall reports
Insight21 Feb 2019It’s only February and yet 2019 has already seen numerous product launches in the digital textile printing space and new installations of technology. Not only this but, as it’s an ITMA year, the best is almost certainly yet to come
Oerlikon has long been a front runner in the MMF technology sector, but it has recently stepped up its commitment to industrial digitalisation to deliver the most sophisticated plants to date. Tansy Fall talks to Mario Arcidiacono, project lead for Oerlikon’s Edge Computing Initiative, to find out more
Insight14 Jan 2019The Central Saint Martins (CSM) project with Grayson Perry, undertaken by second-year BA Fashion Print students, provides a commercial brief but gives scope to be highly innovative and imaginative in part due to the adoption of digital textile machinery solutions, which is giving valuable experience to a new breed of fashion designers and is providing them with the skillset required to succeed, project organisers say.
Insightfree18 Dec 2018If you shop online, you often order several sizes or articles to choose from – and returns are guaranteed. The transport to and from the customer and the processing – or even partial destruction – of the garments, pollute the environment.
Insightfree13 Dec 2018It was expected that 2018 would be a quiet year for the digital textile printing sector, as innovation remains behind closed doors and investments are put on hold until ITMA 2019. But there have been some interesting developments in the market, as Tansy Fall reports
Insightfree10 Dec 2018Former director of raw material innovation at Lululemon, Aaron Jackson has been named as the CEO of Won.House – a textile and apparel R&D business and think tank based in Tao Yuan, Taiwan – with the goal of commercialising kinetic colorization.
Insightfree26 Nov 2018Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems have claimed a secure place in industry. They have long been considered the most effective method for interfacing machines and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), logging data and alarming operators of issues, providing quantitative measurements of important processes, and determining trends.
Insight2 Nov 2018A research project in which over 750 global businesses were consulted – from industries including agriculture, energy, mining, maritime and transport – suggests that improving the environmental sustainability of business operations can be achieved through the adoption of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies.
