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Innovative AccuMark® © Laird Performance Materials to make silver

software by Gerber metallized smart knitted textiles by selective plating

Technology; Key to

successful apparel

business

The Smart or E-textiles are the products that are
technical features for their potential use as
easily adaptable to fast changing environment. They washability of component design are important
are extending the functionality and usefulness of professional wearable product for medical, military,
conventional textile. © Statex and Laird performance aerospace and automobile applications.
materials have proclaimed a new technique of
selective plating to create conductive pattern or Compared to already existing rigid wearable
circuits on both side of knitted fabrics by using electronics developed by screen printing of
highly conductive material. conductive inks, the developed technology will
provide high amperage flexible circuits that are easy
Pure silver metallization was done to provide better to roll, ready to use sensors along with value-added
performance products with greater reliability and less services like die cutting, multilayer lamination, wire
connection, and LED population or battery
developmental cost. The stretchability and
implementation.

Novel colour formulation

software by © X-Rite for

textile industry

Cutting accuracy and efficiency has been efficient and cost effective production.
considered an extremely important factor for Recipe formulation is key for proper textile colouration. Textile colour match performance is a function of how
garment manufacturing process and profitable To boost productivity dramatically its new precisely dye behavior in a formula reflects dye behavior under current conditions.
business. Automation and digital technology has subscription-based bundles, helps companies to
also impacted the efficiency of apparel and keep up with the continuously changing trends and ©X-Rite and Pantone, leaders in colour science and technology, always offer something novel to textile
garment industry. styles due to easy and affordable access of the industry. They showcased their new colour formulation software at Barcelona ITMA (20-26 June). This Color
latest version of AccuMark® the pattern design, iMatch software accelerates recipe formulation through better initial matches and fewer corrections for faster
grading, marker making, production planning and dyeing time and cost savings by reducing waste.
© Gerber Technology: the innovative solution 3D simulation software. Gerber’s YuniquePLM plan
provider to the manufacturer, supplied the industry helps all the industries to accelerate in less time, Richard Knapp, Product Manager, X-Rite and Pantone said, “Apparel and textile manufacturers use diverse
with new AccuMark® software to satisfy the design improve deadlines by managing the details of line color palettes for natural and synthetic materials that can lead to longer colorant recipe creation times and
and production requirements. Their dynamic plans, minimizing the communication gap by multiple lab dips”. At ITMA, attendees saw how easy it is to match the color intelligently through Color iMatch,
YuniquePLM plan enabled the organizations to simplifying collaboration with worldwide by reducing wasteful formulation attempts it can streamline complicated textile workflows.
connect their creative teams with supply chain for business allies.
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