Kornit Digital’s New Apollo Platform Introduces Sustainable On-Demand Production At Scale
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Kornit Digital introduced the innovative Kornit Apollo platform at ITMA 2023, delivering the latest in high-performance digital production at scale.
The company also introduced the Kornit Atlas MAX PLUS system for decorated garments, which now incorporates smart curing, flexible height sizing and autonomous calibration for the highest quality, consistency and productivity.
Kornit's expanded ecosystem comes at the right time for the market.
These technologies offer a unique way forward for companies to potentially expand into new markets and realistically adopt projects at short-term tailor-made.
Newer advances like the Kornit Apollo are true drivers of this transformation, allowing decorators to rethink how they will do business.
These advances will only continue to push digital technology to the forefront of preferred methods of garment decoration.
Digital Production At Scale
By enabling digital production to go mainstream, Apollo enables customers to become more agile, unlock revenue opportunities, shift to localized production, and ease complex workflow processes.
It offers high-capacity, high-quality players the opportunity to embrace digital versatility and fast time-to-market, expanding beyond screen printing for vertical or horizontal expansion and strong business opportunities based on current operating models.
The Apollo Platform Is Based On Kornit MAX Technology.
Field-proven and industry-leading, it is the most comprehensive and optimized one-step solution for short- and medium-run garment decoration.
By enabling customers to circumvent the pitfalls of complex supply chains, it also offers unmatched speed and agility in digital decorating, designed from the ground up to decorate 400 unique garments per hour.
Automated loading and unloading, integrated smart curing, and in-line garment type adjustment drive higher throughput and reduced labor to optimize profitability.
The platform helps brand supply chain managers gain maximum visibility into their production, ensuring consistency and operational control across multiple systems and locations.
This is combined with production-on-demand strategies to continuously fulfill orders of various sizes, strengthen supply chains and shorten fulfillment times.
The solution delivers on brands' ultimate promise to never run out of bestsellers and end the backlog of discounted inventories.
“The textile and fashion industry has remained at a crossroads, aware of its limitations but without a clear solution to move from inefficient and wasteful production models,” explains Ronen Samuel,CEO of Kornit Digital. “By offering a true platform for on-demand, high-performance, agile digital production, Apollo transforms what producers and apparel brands can do. It enables them to meet the ever-changing creative inspirations and demands of a global community with the capabilities to meet those expectations, with quality, consistency, sustainability, and the profitability needed to scale no matter what unforeseen trends lie ahead.”
Atlas MAX PLUS And Atlas MAX POLY: Taking Transformations Further
The new Atlas MAX PLUS system takes Kornit's proven Atlas MAX platform to the next level, delivering increased productivity of 150 garments per hour.
With integrated smart curing, quick size change vanes, and self-sizing, the offering takes smart production capabilities a step further by featuring production flexibility, consistency, and the highest quality available.
Also on display at ITMA 2023 was the recently introduced Kornit Atlas MAX POLY., which transforms professional and recreational sportswear, teamwear and licensed gear to inject new life into apparel with unmatched design freedom leveraging Kornit's MAX platform.
Atlas MAX POLY is the most efficient specialty system for decorating polyester, also covering blends, tri-blends, and other combinations of synthetic fabrics. The solution delivers colorful, vibrant prints using innovative neon inks while providing retail-grade quality and durability.
Expanded Patent Portfolio
Kornit's technology ecosystem is led by an unrivaled number of patents for its innovative garment decoration processes and inks.
The company continues to advance these innovations in applications, systems and chemistry.
Kornit owns approximately 79 issued patents within the United States and other countries, with approximately 80 other US and non-US provisional or pending patent applications.
