Monday, June 30, 2008

Inkjet Technologies to bring new products for technical textiles sector

June 30, 2008 (Netherlands)
In January 2008 TenCate acquired 75% of the shares of Xennia Technology Ltd near Cambridge (UK).

The main reason for this acquisition is primarily to accelerate the opportunity to use inkjet technology to produce technical textiles.

Inkjet technology has the potential to replace existing finishing and coating technologies and create new materials for the technical textiles sector.

Within the Digitex R&D project, which is subsidized by the EU Commission, TenCate, Xennia, Xaar and other companies and institutes have worked together in order to use inkjet technology to create breakthrough innovations in technical textiles for the European sector.

A number of important inkjet developments carried out by Xennia in recent years have also generated valuable applications in other industrial sectors like product decoration, packaging, material deposition and specialist printing.

Inkjet deposition of functional materials is a key area for Xennia's business and is expected to grow strongly over the next few years.

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