New year, new business at the upcoming Heimtextil: Within just a few months, more than 75 exhibitors have already signaled strong interest in participating in the new Carpets & Rugs product segment, which extends over an entire hall level. Further promising participations are in prospect. The positive response comes from a wide range of nations - including commitments already received from Egypt, Bangladesh, China, Greece, India, Italy and Turkey.

Heimtextil 2024 shines with strong national and global demand across all product segments. More than 2,600 exhibitors present their new products in Frankfurt am Main. The global trade fair for home and contract textiles also forms the launch of Econogy, a realignment of sustainable formats in the global Texpertise Network. Econogy standardizes the evaluation criteria of all Messe Frankfurt textile events and creates cross-fair transparency for resource-saving products and exhibitors.

With decades worth of experience in screenprinting, aeoon's CEO Angelo Schiestl knows exactly what the textile decoration industry needs and how to tackle challenges effectively. With the incredible Hybrid 3.0 printer, aeoon's RnD team has managed to create a machine that uses the advantages of both digital and screenprinting, whilst ruling out their disadvantages.

Mass customisation, direct-to-consumer sales models, drastically reduced delivery times, sustainable production and the strong influence of social media on buying decisions are all contributing to the continued rise of digital printing.
In conventional screen printing, each adjustment to a design requires a new rotary screen which slows down lead times. Digital designs, by contrast, can be generated instantly and adjusted on the spot.

Textil Santanderina, an innovator known globally for the manufacture of quality fabrics with controlled traceability, today launched its Advanced Black denim collection in collaboration with Archroma, a global leader in specialty chemicals towards sustainable solutions.

The Advanced Black collection by Textil Santanderina uses Archroma’s new DIRESUL® EVOLUTION BLACK LIQ dyestuff to produce on-trend authentic black denim apparel with industry-leading sustainability and resource savings.

Archroma, a global leader in specialty chemicals towards sustainable solutions, and Shima Seiki, a leading provider of computerized flat knitting machines and digital design systems, have expanded their partnership to bring the industry’s largest library of colors for cotton and polyester to the SDS®-ONE APEX design, planning and virtual sampling system and APEXFiz® (hereafter SDS®-ONE APEX series) subscription software.

Company Operations Remain Strong and Unified Across Customers, Partners and Team Members Despite Ongoing Tragedies in Israel
Kornit to showcase how accelerated demand for flexible and fast changing consumer trends, limitless user-generated content, e-commerce agility, and transparent sustainability drive brands and retailers towards lean, highly reactive short-runs production

By combining Mimaki’s textile dye sublimation solutions and Early.Vision’s apparel customisation software capabilities, UK-based bespoke cycling attire manufacturer NOPINZ has stepped its production into a higher gear.

Founded in 2013, NOPINZ is a renowned UK-based manufacturer of clothing for cyclists and triathletes. The company's first product was the ‘SpeedPocket’, a product that allows competitors to attach their race numbers more easily (and with ‘no pins’) while improving the all-important aerodynamics.

Ricoh Pro DTF 10 and Ricoh Pro DTF 8 achieve outstanding results on classic cotton and mixed materials as well as polyester, nylon, and water repellant materials such as leather and even wood.
Inspired garment and industrial decorators can now more simply, creatively and cost efficiently, transform a wider variety of textiles and substrates with the new RICOH Pro DTF direct to film solutions.

Investment in Mimaki digital printers enables Omniapiega to benefit from increased production speed, flexibility and creativity, meeting the exacting demands of fashion brands and designers
Pleating never goes out of fashion. On the contrary, the passion for pleated textures continues to set trends in the world of fashion and haute couture and has even conquered other creative sectors, such as design and architecture.

Azonprinter stands out on the market as the only Croatian manufacturer of digital printing machines.
Headquartered in Zagreb, Azonprinter operates all over the world and has achieved great success, especially in the EU and the USA. Some of the partners are: ALSO Group, Spandex, RICOH and Kissel & Wolf.

Germany-based ZwissTex is a leading manufacturer of textiles with over 150 years of experience, creating innovative and sustainable textile solutions for the automotive and apparel industries. The company also operates in Mexico, to specifically serve the automotive sector across North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) markets. Via OEMs, ZwissTex supplies German automakers including Volkswagen Auto Group, BMW, and Mercedes, as well as American manufacturers in select cases.