INDIA DIGITAL TEXTILE SECTOR READIES ITSELF FOR MAJOR EXPANSION

Steadily falling costs of digital textile printing in India and the country’s central government’s success in developing the specialised skills needed to operate these technologies are paving the way for modern inkjet printers to replace conventional printing techniques in this key Asian textile manufacturing centre. “Technology is advancing fast, rotary and screen-printing machines will be phased out in eight to 10 years,” Santosh Sawant, a dealer of Japanese digital textile printing machines in Mumbai, told Digital Textile. Operational costs have been ...


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