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Twine displayed groundbreaking waterless dyeing system at ITMA 2023. Their latest innovation, TwineX4, is ideal for small to medium production needs. Say goodbye to water waste and hello to sustainable growth. Twine Solutions launched TwineX4, the next-generation waterless, thread and yarn digital dyeing system for production. With the TwineX4 system, textile manufacturers can optimize their production process, achieving unmatched levels of accuracy, speed, efficiency and sustainability.

TwineX4 offers the convenience of on-demand, in-house thread and yarn digital dyeing for small to medium-sized batches, eliminating supply delays. This enables textile manufacturers to enhance their production flexibility, accelerate order fulfillment, and increase capacity to match the fast pace and demands of the fashion industry.

Engineered for sustainable manufacturing, TwineX4 utilizes a digital dyeing process that does not require any water. This zero-water process makes TwineX4 highly energy efficient, with energy consumption being approximately 2.7 times more efficient per kg compared to the traditional dyeing processes.

By performing in-house dyeing, customers produce exact lengths of thread and yarn, reducing wasted materials by up to eight times the amount resulting from external supplier MOQs. This approach supports the implementation of lower waste-to-landfill policies. Furthermore, producing dyed threads and yarns in-house helps to minimize electricity and carbon emissions by reducing the need for excess inventory storage and streamlining the supply chain.

TwineX4 meets production requirements with its exceptional dyeing speed, averaging 21.6 kilometers per hour, wound on four cones, each capable of accommodating up to 1.5 kilograms in a single run. With its upgraded capacity, TwineX4 can dye up to 2 tons of thread/yarn per year.

“We are excited with the response of TwineX4 from the textile industry,” said Alon Moshe, Twine Solutions CEO, “We believe this system represents the future of textile production and will be a huge change for our customers. We are confident that TwineX4 will help textile manufacturers increase efficiency, reduce costs, and produce more sustainably.”

Twine’s TS-1800 legacy system, designed for product development and sampling, introduced new enhancements to the market, including Coats GCB colors for dyeing sewing threads and an improved color engine with color fine-tuning tools that facilitate unlimited creativity with minimal operational expertise.

The digital capabilities of Twine’s dyeing systems are versatile and ideal for a range of textile applications, including sock, garment, accessory manufacturing, and ribbons. Twine’s systems feature advanced color management tools that enable customers to match and replicate colors and develop new colorways accurately.

Twine Solutions displayed TwineX4 and TS-1800 at ITMA Milan 2023, the world’s biggest textile industry trade show. Industry professionals and textile manufacturers could witness the systems firsthand at the event and explore their capabilities.

Underscoring support for the growing textile and personalized products industry, Epson announced the hybrid SureColor F2270 for both direct-to-garment (DTG) and direct-to-film (DTFilm) printing.

Designed to bring customized apparel to the market that holds true to the designer’s vision, with minimal waste and environmental impact, the hybrid SureColor F2270 DTG printer incorporates DTFilm printing capabilities and goes beyond traditional garment printing and transfer to a wider variety of materials, including uniquely shaped items.

“The SureColor F2270 was purpose-built with an eye toward what’s happening in the industry. Specifically, we wanted to address the needs of print shops transitioning from mass production to producing what’s needed,” said Tim Check, senior product manager, Professional Imaging, Epson America, Inc. “With its ability to produce high quality output, with great reliability and consistency, print shops can now create premium quality products, designed to last years. This also results in less waste from the print process to the garment wearability.”

Purpose-built for both DTG and DTFilm printing, the SureColor F2270 hybrid printer features a new PrecisionCore MicroTFP printhead with Nozzle Verification Technology, and next-generation UltraChrome DG2 ink to deliver vibrant colors and incredible detail at impressive speeds – up to 20% faster when printing on dark garments, compared to previous generation model with printing 13.6” x 16.0” dark garments at default print quality.

The printer’s cartridge-free bulk ink pack system helps reduce ink replacement frequency. Featuring automatic garment thickness adjustment, it measures thickness using multiple sensors during the loading process to create a garment height profile and will automatically adjust the printhead and optimize print quality without user intervention to help increase productivity and ensure high-quality output.

Additional features designed to bring a new level of versatility and efficiency to the garment decorator, promotional product and e-commerce fulfillment industries, include:
• Low maintenance – Dedicated cleaning solution channels and fabric head wiper system help reduce downtime
• Intuitive design – Flattop work surface can hold items; large 4.3-inch touchscreen interface with ergonomically placed control buttons
• Easy-to-use, quick-load platen – Assists with garment alignment and helps reduce loading times.
• Intuitive, easy-to-learn workflow – Epson Garment Creator 2 software features improved processing time and high-resolution processing for exceptionally detailed and vibrant prints
• Epson Cloud Solution PORT2 – Provides live production monitoring of your printer fleet status, including production rates and printer utilization

“Ultimately, prints done right the first time saves times, money and physical resources, and that’s the goal with the new SureColor F2270,” said Check.

The SureColor F2270 will be available in August 2023 through Epson Authorized Professional Imaging Resellers with an estimated MSRP of $18,995.

Zünd focused on the benefits of digital single-ply cutting in modern garment manufacturing at ITMA 2023 in Milan, Italy. They demonstrated why it is the go-to partner for customized, on-demand cutting, and why single-ply cutting of fabrics offers nothing but advantages. Digital technologies are changing the garment industry Manufacturers are dealing with rapidly advancing digitalization along with increasingly short product life cycles by investing in lean and highly automated production workflows. Zünd solutions allow them to rationalize processes from ordering to cutting while minimizing manual interventions.

Digital, automated single-ply cutting is the answer to these new production realities. Zünd’s single-ply cutters are the perfect cutting tools for production-workflow automation, offering manufacturers the flexibility and profitability they so urgently need. Intelligent automation features, optical solutions, and software tools make it easier for them to optimize their resources, monitor material usage, and support

employees, so they can focus on other activities that add greater value to the business. With digital, single-ply cutting technology, manufacturers can increase productivity while expanding their production capacity. With very economical and efficiently scalable on-demand production, manufacturers can easily accept last-minute orders and meet short delivery times. They can handle spikes in demand with ease and confidence.

Zünd cutters combine tremendous versatility in a single machine, giving users access to a completely new level of flexibility in their production workflow. They can process demanding textiles, complicated patterns, and diverse shapes without any difficulty. Zünd’s cutting technology allows the garment industry to produce customized, made-to-measure clothing in small batches and on demand just as economically and efficiently as large quantities. It enables processing and handling multiple orders more quickly while simultaneously saving both time and material with highly efficient nesting capabilities. Combining this technology with MindCut production software and the superior precision of single-ply cutting leads to almost zero waste. Parts can be nested very tightly and close to the edges of the material, which generates considerable savings but also helps reduce the environmental footprint.

Kornit Digital Ltd, a market leader in sustainable, on-demand digital fashion and textile production technologies, showcased the Kornit Apollo platform at ITMA 2023 in Milan, Italy—offering quality in high-throughput digital production at scale. The company also introduced the Kornit Atlas MAX PLUS system for decorated apparel. These transformations were held live for the first time at ITMA Milan.

The new Kornit Atlas MAX PLUS system now incorporates smart curing, flexible pallet sizing, and autonomous calibration for the highest quality, consistency, and productivity, Kornit said.

Enabling digital production to go mainstream, Apollo allows customers to become more agile, drive revenue opportunities, shift to localised production, and ease complex workflow processes. It offers large-capacity and high-quality-driven players the opportunity to adopt digital versatility and a quick time to market—expanding beyond screen printing to achieve vertical or horizontal expansion and robust business opportunities based on current operational models.

The Apollo platform is built on field-proven and industry leading Kornit MAX technology and is the most comprehensive, streamlined single-step solution for nearshore short- and medium-run apparel decoration. Empowering customers to sidestep the hazards of complex supply chains, it also offers unmatched speed and agility in digital decoration—designed from the ground up to decorate 400 unique garments per hour.

Automated loading and unloading, integrated smart curing, and inline garment type adjustment yield higher output and reduced labour for optimised profitability.

The platform helps fulfiller and brand supply chain managers gain ultimate visibility into their production—ensuring consistency and operational control across multiple systems and locations. This pairs with on-demand production strategies to continuously fulfil orders of multiple sizes, strengthen supply chains, and shorten fulfilment times. The solution fulfils the promise for brands to never run out of bestsellers and end backlogs of marked-down inventories.

The new Atlas MAX PLUS system takes Kornit’s proven Atlas MAX platform to the next level, bringing increased productivity of 150 garments per hour. With integrated smart curing, rapid size shifter pallets, and autonomous calibration, the offering takes smart production capabilities a step forward introducing production flexibility, consistency, and the highest quality available.

Another product that was displayed at ITMA 2023 was the Kornit Atlas MAX POLY, transforming professional and recreational sportswear, teamwear, and licensed gear to inject new life into apparel with superior design freedom leveraging Kornit’s MAX platform. The Atlas MAX POLY is the most efficient specialty system for polyester decoration, covering also blends, triblends, and other synthetic fabric combinations. The solution delivers colourful and vibrant prints using innovative neon inks while supplying retail-grade quality and durability.

The Kornit technology ecosystem is led by an unmatched number of patents for its innovative processes and inks for wet-on-wet fabric and garment decoration. The company continues to advance these innovations across applications, systems, and chemistry. Kornit owns approximately 79 issued patents within the US and other countries, with approximately another 80 provisional or pending US and non-US patent applications, added the release.

“These technologies offer a unique way forward for businesses to potentially expand into new markets and realistically adopt shortrun, made-to-order apparel. More recent advancements such as Kornit Apollo are true engines of this transformation, empowering decorators to re-think how they’ll do business. These advancements will only continue to propel digital technology to the forefront of preferred apparel decoration methods,” said Johnny Shell, Principal Analyst at Keypoint Intelligence.

“The fashion and textile industry has remained at a crossroads—aware of its limitations but lacking a clear solution for moving from wasteful, inefficient production models,” said Ronen Samuel, Chief Executive Officer at Kornit Digital. “Offering a true platform for agile, high throughput digital production on demand, Apollo transforms what apparel producers and brands can do. It empowers them to meet the creative inspirations and ever-changing demands of a global community with capabilities to fulfil those expectations, with quality, consistency, sustainability, and the necessary profitability to scale no matter what unforeseen trends await.”

Aeoon Technologies was founded in the hometown of Angelo Schiestl, Schwaz in Tirol – CEO and founder. His philosophy to treat all employees, distributors, clients and partners like family has created strong, successful and life-long partnerships. It is of utmost importance to Aeoon Technologies to be known for building the best DTG equipment in the world, offer second to none service and support and build strong and long-lasting rapport with their new and current family members. Aeoon Technologies showcased its wide range of technologies: Hybrid 3.0 series, Compact & Compact PLUS Series on booth H7-E305 at ITMA Milan 2023.

Hybrid 3.0 Series – For demand-oriented textile printing

Let your creativity unfold! The Aeoon Hybrid 3.0 printer combines DTG and screen-printing in one machine. With the whole process in one printer, you get all the advantages of both printing techniques.
· Cost savings per print for multicolor designs
· Creating special effects and textures
· Ideal for single or smaller jobs
· Printing without pre-treatment
· Printing on garments that have low cotton content

Compact & Compact PLUS Series – For versatile digital printing production
· High-end print quality
· Low printing costs with high output
· Kyocera industrial print heads
· Easy connection to an automated production workflow
· Smarttouch central control unit
· Huge selection of pallets
· Little space required
· PLUS highlight: integrated heat presses

Textile printing technology pioneer Epson announced the revolutionary Monna Lisa ML-16000/Hy that can uniquely digitally create any type of special effect on fabric. The hybrid printer has been developed to reproduce the most sophisticated effects for modern printed fabrics with gold, silver, and glossy tints.

The continuously evolving textile market requires increasingly sustainable and efficient solutions in order to deliver unique results and low-impact productivity. The Monna Lisa ML-16000/Hy is the ideal printer for companies that need to optimise the production of complex prints and offer the market more creativity.

With the latest portfolio addition, the Monna Lisa series – already known for its print quality, ink optimisation, extreme flexibility, and sustainability – can reproduce special effects on any fabric without requiring any subsequent steps. These range from glossy lacquer through to gold and silver metal and opaque white.

The combination of the Monna Lisa ML-16000/Hy’s 8 colour inkset, 16 PrecisionCore printheads and 64 nozzles, finally enables the digital printing of special effects, previously the exclusive preserve of conventional screen or cylinder printing.

Its Genesta water-based inks guarantee colour accuracy and resistance in fabric prints, while pastes developed and produced by Epson Como Printing Technologies create the special effects.

PrecisionCore printhead technology guarantees the exceptional quality for which Epson is renowned while delivering the high speeds necessary for commercial and industrial printing. At the heart of this technology is the MicroTFP next-generation printing chip. PrecisionCore technology perfectly embodies Epson’s goal of delivering unrivalled levels of value and performance to the widest possible customer base.

The Monna Lisa ML-16000/Hy is proof of how Epson’s research and development team always has its eyes on the future. With the latest evolution of the Monna Lisa series, and the ability to produce 100% of printing effects with digital technology, the needs of several markets – from fashion to home textiles, swimwear to sportswear – can be met at the same time.

“At Epson, we know how crucial it is to respond quickly to a market in perpetual motion,” commented Paolo Crespi, Commercial Director of Epson Como Printing Technologies. “Today, with the Monna Lisa ML-16000/Hy, we have reached a new milestone and completed a journey that began 20 years ago with the birth of the Monna Lisa project: the coverage of 100% of printing requirements with digital technology.”

He further added: “In order to facilitate the work of our customers, our primary goal is to ensure the maximum flexibility of our solutions. All the printers in the Monna Lisa series allow us to organise and combine our printing processes in the best way, extremely quickly, and with as little waste as possible of resources. Shorter processes, fast response times to market demands, and extreme versatility have therefore always been core qualities of the Epson product range.”

Monna Lisa ML-16000/Hy – Main features:

· Printheads: 16 Epson PrecisionCore printheads. PrecisionCore printing technology is the evolution of Epson’s proprietary Micro Piezo printing technology. The next-generation MicroTFP print chip combines quality, precision and speed
· Nozzles: 64 nozzles
· Resolution: up to 1200 dpi
· Width: 180 cm
· Ink colours: 8 Genesta colours accompanied by special pastes
· Special effects: glossy lacquer, metallic gold and silver, glue for metallic foil, opaque white
· Ink types: Genesta inks and special pastes developed and produced by Epson. Genesta’s water-based inks guarantee superb quality on any type of fabric
· Fabrics supported: all
· Epson at ITMA 2023. Creativity and innovation: a bridge to sustainability

All the benefits of Epson’s Monna Lisa series were presented during the ITMA, the world’s most important exhibition for textile machines, in Milan from 8 to 14 June.