Konica Minolta has opened a new €5 million textile innovation centre at Bregnano, near Milan, to help inkjet customers obtain first-hand experience in using advanced digital systems for textile printing.
The Konica Minolta IJ Textile Europe Demonstration and Training features three of the world’s most advanced systems for the textile market. Live printing is shown on Konica Minolta’s pioneering Nassenger SP-1, Nassenger 10 and Nassenger 8.
The Nassenger SP-1 is a high-productivity, high-resolution inkjet textile printer employing a single-pass system, while the Nassenger 10 and Nassenger 8 models are scan-type high- and medium-speed inkjet textile printers.
The three models give customers a wider range of options and are due to be formally launched at ITMA international textile machine exhibition in Milan, from November 12-19.
Akiyoshi Ohno, Konica Minolta senior adviser, said, ‘With our brand proposition, ‘Giving Shape to Ideas’, we remain firmly committed to innovations in the manufacturing process in the textile market by offering higher-performance, environmentally friendly products, and to helping customers enhance their corporate value, while joining the global effort to reduce environmental threats.
‘This investment in a new training, education and demonstration centre is a real and practical commitment. We are deadly serious about this market and helping customers to maximise the opportunities in this fast-emerging market of textile printing.’
Enrico Verga, chief operating officer for Konica Minolta IJ Textile Europe, said, ‘Initial reaction has been extremely positive to our new innovation centre, which will not only provide demonstrations for our world-class technology, but is also an important training and educational facility in this important and growing textile inkjet printing market.’
At the ceremony, the button to start the flagship Nassenger SP-1 (single-pass) system was pressed by Bregnano’s Mayor, Elena Daddi, accompanied by Konica Minolta’s Akiyoshi Ohno and Enrico Verga.
