Textiles & Apparel
This section focuses on the digital transformation occurring in printing of textiles for fashion, fast fashion, home goods and more. Printing technologies, supporting workflow and other software, key suppliers to the industry and manufacturers using digital technologies will be covered, along with textile/fast fashion trends.
Commentary & Analysis
The New Wearable Takes Center Stage Thanks to Digital Textile Printing Technologies
How Much Do Your Jeans Mean to You?
How Hybrid Digital Textile Print Technology Is Unlocking the Textiles Value Chain
Wide-Format, Signage, and Apparel Technology Update
The Fashion Industry Faces a Step-Change Post-COVID, Say McKinsey and Kornit Digital
How Effective is Your Cloth Mask?
What Is the Impact of Data on Creative Fashion?
Does It Take a Pandemic to Change the Fashion Industry—Will COVID Be the Catalyst for Change?
Trends Update: Textiles and Apparel
World Environment Day—Precious Resources and Textile Manufacturing
Will On-Demand Manufacturing Be the New Normal Post-Pandemic for Textiles and Apparel?
News
Former AnaJet/Ricoh DTG Executives Venture Out on Their Own to Start DTG Connection, LLC.
WhatTheyThink LunchNLearn Webinar Looked at the Future of Textiles and Apparel
Global Textile Printing Market: Key Players and Production Information analysis with Forecast 2020
Aurora Re-Invents Fabric Wall Coverings With the Launch of Scenic Expressions
Epson Subsidiaries Robustelli and For.Tex to Merge
COVID-19 Has Birthed a New Generation of Fashion and Accessory Designers
FESPA Africa Postponed to 2021
How Will the Pandemic Affect the Global Textiles & Apparel Supply Chain?
Published: July 27, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare many frailties in the global textiles and apparel supply chain but may also be a driver for brands, retailers and manufacturers implementing significant changes as we move into the post-pandemic "new normal," according to textiles expert Debbie McKeegan. Watch Video
Debbie McKeegan Talks Textiles Sustainability
Published: July 20, 2020
Debbie McKeegan, textiles expert and CEO of Texintel, shares her thoughts on how digital technologies can help ameliorate the huge sustainability problem facing the textiles and apparel industry, suggesting that coming out of the pandemic, there may be unique opportunities to change operating practices. Watch Video
The Signs Are Good for Signs of Success
Published: February 13, 2020
Curtis Metz talks to David Zwang about Signs of Success, a company that contracts with sign shops to do installations of major sign projects—analog and dynamic digital—and how the company is growing its digital business. The company also has a side business in embroidery and custom heat-transfer T-shirts. Watch Video
EFI’s Adele Genoni Identifies Today’s Textile Trends
Published: February 3, 2020
Adele Genoni, Senior Vice President and General Manager of EFI Reggiani, talks to Cary Sherburne about the most important trends in textiles as the industry continues its analog to digital transformation—including sustainability, data management, and AI and technical textiles. She also provides an update on EFI BOLT installations. Watch Video
David Gross of Conde Systems Explains How Easy and Affordable It Is to Enter the Product Decoration Market with Heat Transfer Dye Sublimation
Published: January 16, 2020
David Gross of Conde Systems explains how his passion for heat transfer dye sublimation has grown into a highly diverse business that provides everything customers need to decorate just about any product, not only creating and producing items but helping them with marketing strategies as well. Users can enter this market with a minimal investment. Watch Video
Carolina Textile District Helps Match Entrepreneurs to Textile Manufacturing Resources
Published: December 19, 2019
Tanya Wade explains how the Carolina Textile District acts as a matchmaker for companies and entrepreneurs interested in textile manufacturing in the U.S. to connect them with the necessary resources. Through an online application process, manufacturers, mills, pattern makers, and others can quickly review requests and determine whether to participate. Watch Video
American Color Imaging Adds Dye-Sub Products with Two HP Stitch Digital Textile Printers
Published: December 18, 2019
Mark Lane, President & CEO of American Color Imaging, describes the company's journey from a portrait photo studio and wet photo lab to a digital operation that includes two HP Stitch digital textile printers for production of personalized blankets and other textile-based photo products. Watch Video
Print. Make. Wear. An Expanded Presence Planned for FESPA 2020
Published: December 18, 2019
Debbie McKeegan, Textile Ambassador for FESPA and organizer of the event's Print. Make. Wear. exhibit, explains how the exhibit showcases technologies that are changing the future of manufacturing in textiles and apparel. She notes how the exhibit will be expanded for FESPA 2020 in Madrid. Watch Video
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