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2020-12-01
As an industry, we’ve barely gotten our feet wet with Textile Industry 4.0, and now Textile Industry 5.0 is on the horizon! According to experts at Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA), the development of functional fiber computing solutions will likely be the basis for moving us into...
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2019-02-01
Though digital printing on a wide variety of textiles has been available on a commercially viable level for at least the last decade, there remains huge growth potential in this area of the industry. The technology continues to evolve, and though there are still challenges, there is a concerted...
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2019-08-01
How effective is your color management strategy? For many in the textiles and apparel industry using conventional manufacturing processes, consistent color management is a given. In fact, in textiles, color accuracy is quite stringent. In the graphic arts, a Delta E of “one”—the point at which...
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2019-06-01
Not since the 1970s introduction of the barcode-the universal language of retail-has the apparel industry undergone such a radical transformation. In the past 12 months, an important development-the upgrade of the world's barcode standard to give every product a web address in a standardized...
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2020-08-01
One thing the coronavirus pandemic highlighted is shortcomings in our global supply chains. Post-pandemic, how much effort will be applied to rethinking how we source, manufacture, and distribute? For some time now, there have been relatively limited efforts at near-shoring work in the textiles...
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2019-10-01
Denim is classic and iconic. Since its creation more than one hundred years ago, the fabric has continued to increase in popularity, not just for jeans but for other types of garments and accessories too. A 2018 report predicted the worldwide denim market would be worth US$79 billion by 2023,...