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Textile Printing
Regulation guidance: Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles
What is the Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles, what does it include and what does the print industry need to consider now to get ahead of compliance? Sustainability communications specialist Rachel England outlines the key facts.
How to spot false green claims
Common deceptive green claims and how to uncover them.
How to avoid carbon offsetting and stay sustainable
We look at the issue of greenwashing – especially in light of the changing status of carbon offsetting – to determine how print businesses can stay truthful.
Innovation in textile printing
Club FESPA Online spoke to Josef Osl at Zimmer Austria, the printing machine manufacturer, about how digital printing has revolutionised camouflage and the impact of AI on textile printing.
FESPA in Poland: changing fast
We spoke to Jacek Stencel, Head of FESPA’s Association in Poland, the Polish Association of Screen Printing and Digital Printing (PSSiDC).
FESPA Award winner: Tobex’s roll-to-roll textile installation
Digital on-demand printing company and small-scale sewing factory Tobex won a FESPA bronze award in the roll-to-roll printed textiles category.
Sign of things to come: South African sustainability pioneers win FESPA Award
Wade Bartlett, General Manager of Expand A Sign, describes how a unique mini product display allowed his team to showcase its talents.
Seeing clearly: striving towards supply chain transparency
The recent shocking images of people mining for cobalt that will end up in rechargeable batteries have placed a renewed focus on supply chain transparency. We look at what this means for printers.
What impact does being a net positive business have on the industry?
We spoke to Andrew Winston, one of the world’s most respected thought leaders on the issue of sustainability – and co-author with former Unilever chief Paul Polman of the recent book Net Positive – about the changes that need to happen to businesses in general, and printers in particular.
Digital textile microfactories create resource efficiency
Dr Thomas Fischer, from DITF, Europe’s largest textile research centre, on analysing inputs and outputs for agile, sustainable, just-in-time fashion products.
Digital fashion and textiles: the next challenges
Alexandra De Raeve, at HOGENT University of Applied Sciences & Arts, on maintaining the garment printing industry’s innovation while tackling sustainability problems of the sector, through further digitising design and production processes.
How to use 4D printing to create smart textile products
Katarina Winands of ITA Institut für Textiltechnik of RWTH Aachen University explains how fused deposition modelling can create ‘smart’ textiles.
Innovations in textile printing: transparency and traceability
Speaking at the FESPA Global Print Expo 2022 in Berlin, Debbie McKeegan, FESPA’s Textile Ambassador, explains how new innovations and ways of thinking are helping Europe’s textile industry become more sustainable.
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Staying ahead with sustainable textiles
Mitesh Patel at Premier Digital Textiles on sourcing greener textiles and how technology will make supply chains more transparent.
Shaking up the world of interior décor
Curator of Printeriors Debbie McKeegan discusses the new breed of designers and the scientific advancement changing interior décor for ever.
Debbie McKeegan: inspiring interiors
The Printeriors curator on bridging the gap between graphics and the interior décor industry.
A post-COVID boom in industrial printing?
Peter Buttiens of ESMA looks at future opportunities for printers in post-COVID markets and new inroads in biomedical printing and textiles.
