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PUMA introduces Fit Fit Intelligence is a technology platform that can be
deployed to a range of different sport and lifestyle
Intelligence shoe products, responding to athletes and their
environment while making fit intelligent and adaptive
to each user.

The first product implementing Fi is the self-lacing Fit
Intelligence Training Shoe built and designed to meet
consumers’ needs in every aspect of their lives, be it
in a gym, an office or an airport. The shoe
automatically adapts to your foot and knows how
tight or loose it can lace. The only thing you have to
do is swipe up or down on the shoe with your fingers.

How does it work: Tiny zeros and ones, a binary
code, tell integrated servo motors powered by an
onboard battery to drive a uniquely configured cable
system that winds and unwinds around your foot. If
you swipe up on the Fi module on the shoe you
tighten it and if you swipe down, you loosen it.
Through a smartphone app available in the App
Store, you can monitor and fine tune the fit. The app
also gives you the fit setting and the battery level
indicator. The shoe’s knitted and molded upper Setting a new
provides for breathability and comfort.

How is that smart: The shoe comes with preset fit standard in jet
levels. The Fi motor then senses resistance which
helps to achieve the best fit – it cannot over tighten,
Ever since then, PUMA’s innovation team has worked and you can make little adjustments manually. The Fi
hard improving functionality, user interface and motor remembers those adjustments. That’s smart, dyeing
durability. The result: Fit Intelligence (Fi). isn’t it?

Fong’s Europe, based in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, The chambers can accommodate variable loads in
A revolution in sublimation transfer printing by Sensient® will introduce its Then Smartflow TSF hydraulic terms of both weight and material type down to 40kg
for flexible processing, and each Smartflow TSF unit
high-temperature dyeing machine at the ITMA
Barcelona trade fair for textile machinery, which takes can be equipped with up to 8 chambers, in order to
Sensient Imaging Technologies, a subsidiary of When Sensient launched ElvaJet Opal SC ink in place from 20-26 June. fully maximize productivity, while taking up to 40%
Sensient Technologies Corporation, announced January 2018, this pioneering ink gave users less floor space than competing systems.
today the launch of a new range of high unparalleled benefits in terms of color, sharpness, The Then Smartflow TSF is designed to achieve the
performance digital dye sublimation inks for and superior release from coated and uncoated lowest possible energy and water consumption rates Another innovation is the new bath preparation unit
low-viscosity Epson® printheads, ElvaJet® Opal transfer papers as low as 18 gsm in weight. With available on the market for jet dyeing, with achievable (BPU) and its patented satellite tank. Mr Fander said,
SB inks. Following the extensive success of ElvaJet Opal SB ink, Sensient resets the standard for liquor ratios for a full load up to 300kg with a reduced “As the process times of jet machines have been
sublimation printing in wide format systems. ElvaJet
ElvaJet® Opal SC inks for mid- viscosity Opal SB ink defines ease of use with simple start-up, kier volume and a liquor ratio down to 1:3.5 for cotton continuously optimized over the past few decades,
printheads, ElvaJet® Opal SB ink addresses the minimal maintenance, and maximized printing up time and 1:2.5 for synthetics, according to the manufacturer. they have required an increasing number of service
needs of low viscosity printheads, and allows with further unique benefits for users. tanks for dyes, auxiliaries and hot water, adding both
customers of wide format printers to benefit from Fong’s Europe has a number of patents pending on expense and additional space requirements. Our
the revolutionary technology. ElvaJet® Opal SB ink The digital sublimation inks developed under the the innovative new features of this machine, including new BPU and satellite tank, with its automatic dosing
fulfils the need for a plug and print solution in this ElvaJet® Opal platform are designed and the Smartflow’s fabric transport design. This is based and mixing programmes, working in combination with
market. ElvaJet Opal SB ink is also certified for Eco manufactured in Morges, Switzerland, and have on a smart, winchless fabric transport system which the THEN temperature management system, ensures
Passport for OEKO-TEX®, epitomising Sensient’s been formulated for use in Piezo-based printers for eliminates the need for a loading rope, and a circular the recipes are supplied in exact quantities, with dyes
commitment to sustainability and responsible use applications such as fashion, sports apparel, home plaiter with programmable rotation speeds which and auxiliaries well diluted and heated to the required
of chemicals in the supply chain. textiles, and sign & display. provides full filling of the drop zone. temperature extremely rapidly.”

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