NEWS LATEST PRODUCTS EFI REGGIANI OPENS NEW, STATE-OF-THE-ART DIGITAL TEXTILE CAMPUS EFI Reggiani, the industrial textile printing business of Electronics For Imaging, Inc. (EFI), has broken ground on a new textile campus to accommodate ongoing growth. The new 20,000-square-meter campus in Comun Nuovo, Bergamo, Italy, is expected to be completed mid-year in 2023. “EFI Reggiani has always worked diligently to take our offerings to the next level, thinking ahead and developing high-tech, high-quality and reliable textile solutions,” said Adele Genoni, EFI Reggiani SVP and GM. “The new campus is an important step in our journey, and it is proof of EFI’s strong commitment to continued development of the textiles business unit. Not only will this provide us more space to continue our growth, but it will also be a welcoming and sustainable environment for our employees.” The new facility was designed with environmental sustainability and employee well-being in mind. That focus includes plans to install 400 kilowatts of solar panels supplying 60% of the facility’s total energy requirements. Moreover, the building will benefit from superior thermal insulation that will ensure a reduction in heating and cooling costs. Numerous skylights in the facility will provide better natural lighting and a reduction in artificial lighting usage. Green space on the campus was a priority in the design process, covering an estimated 20% of the total area. For a more welcoming work environment, the campus will also feature a canteen and gymnasium for employee use. A 3,000-square-metre demo center in the new facility will be nearly twice as large as the current EFI Reggiani demo center in Grassobbio, Italy, offering a high-end, high-tech showcase for state-of-the-art EFI Reggiani printers, as well as Mezzera pre- and post-treatment and Jaeggli yarn treatment products. The demo center will also feature EFI Reggiani’s recently acquired portfolio of Inèdit raster image processing (RIP) and workflow software solutions. DUPONT SHOWCASES NEW INKS FOR TEXTILE PRINTING DuPont has been an innovator in inkjet pigment inks for over 30 years, from home & office to digital textile and commercial printing inks and now developing digital inkjet inks for packaging applications. DuPont will exhibit a full portfolio of digital printing solutions at the Printing United Expo in Las Vegas Oct 19-22. For textile printing, DuPont will highlight Artistri® Brite P5500, the newest addition to its pigment inks for DTG (direct to garment) and DTF (direct to film) applications. The booth will also feature an extensive RTR (roll to roll) range including Artistri® Xite P2700 and P3600 pigment inks. The new Artistri® P5500 ink set delivers improved wash fastness with both press or oven curing and with faster curing times. Artistri® P5590 white ink offers the opacity and stretch that customers value along with longer shelf life. This high gamut volume aqueous-based inks package is designed to work in printers with low-viscosity piezo-electric printheads 8 and is suitable for all DTG applications, including DTF printing. With the Artistri® P5500, printers will be able to tailor their ink usage to the application without compromising on colour, fastness and repeatability. For RTR printers, Artistri® Xite P2700 pigment inks offer best-in-class colour gamut with deep, rich blacks, outstanding colour saturation and superior durability, meeting the needs of quality conscious textile printers in apparel and home OCTOBER 2022 furnishings. “We are delighted to deliver a full solution that enables leading printing performance in all the areas that contribute to our textile customers’ success: brilliant and durable colours with less ink usage with reduced curing times while still delivering printing consistency and dependability to help lower operations and maintenance costs,” says Robert Robert Simpson, Americas Business Director, DuPont™ Artistri® Digital Inks. Simpson, Americas Business Director, DuPont™ Artistri® Digital Inks.
