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News19 Feb 2015Clariant has released ColorForward Interiors 2016, the third annual trend and colour forecasting guide for the fibre and textile market. This year’s edition has been expanded to reach a wider range of textile yarn and filament producers, including those serving the carpeting, upholstery, automotive, and interior decoration sectors.
Coats plc, industrial thread and consumer textile crafts business, has appointed David Gosnell as non-executive director, with effect from 19 February, 2015. David is also currently Non-Executive Director of Brambles Ltd, the supply chain solutions provider.
News13 Feb 2015Huntsman Textile Effects has introduced its eCool70 range of dyes, consisting of AVITERA Brilliant Yellow SE, NOVACRON Brilliant Blue EC-B and Brilliant Turquoise EC-GN. eCool70 dyes are designed to make it possible for mills to achieve a range of brilliant shades while using less water and energy for better environmental performance, lower processing costs and enhanced productivity.
News12 Feb 2015Ocean Optics has launched its new miniature spectrometer line, Flame, which it said delivers high thermal stability and low unit to unit variation without compromising the flexibility and configurability that are the hallmark of modular, miniature spectrometers.
Review12 Feb 2015ESMA has announced that the next installation of the Printed Interior Decoration (PID) conference will be held in November 2016, looking to build on the success of the first edition held in November last year. The 2016 event hopes to further explore the potential of the interior decoration market and feature a broader approach with designers, creative developers, printers and suppliers, with digitally printed textiles being a key focus.
SpecialChem has announced that it will host an exclusive webinar that will focus on how to ‘Optimize Digital Print Quality on Textiles with Advanced Chemistry’. The webinar will feature: the benefits of digital printing, the parameters affecting digital printing quality and how ink receptive pretreatment technology can solve printing challenges.
News10 Feb 2015Datacolor, a specialist in colour management solutions, today announced the launch of the CHECK 3 portable spectrophotometer. A complete redesign on Datacolor’s previous spectrophotometers, CHECK 3 aims to address formulation and quality control needs of colour professionals in the paint, coatings, plastic and textile industries.
The first company to bring organic cotton bedding to the United States, Coyuchi, has announced today that the brand's classic Air Weight Towel Collection has achieved Fair Trade Certification under the strict requirements set by Fair Trade USA.
FM Brooks have announced that InPrint 2016 will take place at MiCo, Milan, Italy, from 9-11, November 2016. FM Brooks said that its decision to launch an InPrint Show in Milan is in direct response to demand from the market for a dedicated forum for industrial print technology in Italy.
The FluoroCouncil – a global organization representing the world's leading FluoroTechnology companies – has released a guidance document for the global apparel industry to provide an overview of Best Environmental Practices to help wet processing textile mills and finishers minimize waste and environmental releases, while also keeping desirable fluorinated product performance in the textile.
News2 Feb 2015Beaver Paper & Graphic Media, Inc. has announced the official launch of TexPrint ModaHS, a lightweight print medium engineered for newer, high speed, digital sublimation printers for the fashion industry. TexPrint ModaHS is offered as a 58gsm transfer paper for use with water based sublimation inks in a production environment.
News30 Jan 2015Soyang Europe has increased its already substantial wide and grand format textile offering by adding new products to its SoTex range, which comprises of 12 lines suitable for dye-sublimation, UV and latex printing, in rolls of up to 3.2m wide. The company’s fabrics offer high quality solutions for the indoor and outdoor display sectors in retail, exhibition and soft signage.
News28 Jan 2015Kornit Digital, provider of digital textile printing solutions, has launched a new-generation discharge ink for the Kornit Avalanche DC Pro direct-to-garment printing system. This solution creates unique digitally printed garments which have a natural feel when touched, which is crucial to the apparel industry, enabling garment decorators to expand into new markets and achieve higher revenues and margins.
News28 Jan 2015Following the product’s introduction back in 2013, Odegon Technologies’ Odegon DeoTags – small fabric tags that use micro technology to attract and destroy the molecules responsible for body odour – have seen success, becoming part of M&S’s range of lightweight suits and now the Bagir Group’s clothing brand on its suits and shirts.
News23 Jan 2015As part of its commitment to responsibly designed products, The North Face, an outdoor clothing brand, has incorporated Unifi, Inc.'s Repreve in its Denali line of fleece jackets. Repreve is a sustainable initiative whereby recyclable plastic bottles are cleaned, chopped and melted to make small plastic chips. These chips are then manufactured into recycled fibre, which is then made into fabric. By using fleece produced from Repreve, more than 30 million bottles are saved from landfills and turned into Denali jackets each year.
