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Article: Ink manufacturers are finding opportunities in the textile market.(european REPORT)
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- Ink World
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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Textiles are attracting the attention of both printers and ink makers in Europe because of high growth rates in printing of fabrics and apparel.
After going through a slump in the late 1990s, textile printing has been experiencing a revival. Improvements in printing equipment and colorants, especially pigmented systems, have helped to generate double-digit growth levels in some textile printing segments.
As a result, competition among producers of inks for textiles has been intensifying in Europe. Long-established suppliers of textile inks, some of whom trace their history back to the manufacturing of dyes for fabrics, are now having to contend with ink ...