SOUTH AFRICA’S DIGITAL PRINTING SECTOR
January 22nd, 2023
The sales and production of South Africa’s digital textile printing sector has largely rebounded back to pre-Covid 19 levels, but business is focused on small and medium-sized orders, with local finishers unable to compete on scale with lower cost Asian producers.
“The market has been very buoyant, almost at pre-pandemic levels, particularly for home decor and lots of enquiries for textiles, although small orders, not in the thousands of metres,” said Craig Whyte, CEO of ArtLab in Cape Town, which handles small digital print runs of around 2,000 ...
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