X-Rite Pantone Launches Global Event Series to Modernize Textile Color Workflows
Grand Rapids, Michigan – February 2026 – X-Rite Pantone, the global authority in color standards and color science, today announced a comprehensive textile industry roadshow designed to help apparel, footwear, soft goods brands, mills, and supply chain partners transition from traditional analog processes to integrated, data-driven color ecosystems.
Through live conference sessions and virtual events throughout spring 2026, X-Rite Pantone color experts will demonstrate how digitalization, visualization, and virtualization can bridge the gap between trend forecasting and design with production and quality control.
These modern workflows enable teams to collaborate more efficiently, reduce costs and waste, and accelerate time-to-market in an increasingly competitive global landscape.
"Color laboratories are at a turning point," said Ryan Stanley, Director of Product Management for Textile at X-Rite Pantone. "Digital color is no longer just a technical upgrade. It is a strategic shift. By adopting integrated, data-driven color management solutions, organizations can achieve measurable business gains while advancing their sustainability goals."
The event series will span multiple continents and formats, including the AATCC Coloration Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina on February 24-25, the 8th Asia Functional and Technical Textile Symposium in Ho Chi Minh City on March 24-25, a WTIN webinar on April 2, and TechTextile EMEA in Frankfurt on April 21-24. Sessions will explore practical strategies for modernizing textile color workflows across brands, mills, color labs, and manufacturers.
Solutions including Textile Color Hub, PANTORA, Color iMatch, Color iQC, and X-Rite spectrophotometers work together to replace subjective physical sampling with data-driven color management.
By sharing digital standards and objective data across the supply chain, brands and suppliers can achieve greater consistency, faster development cycles, and more sustainable outcomes.
The company is also offering a free four-part virtual webinar series focused on color specification for apparel, footwear, and soft goods brands.
The series addresses common challenges related to physical standards, data integrity, visual evaluation, and strategies that support textile zero-waste initiatives.
About X-Rite Pantone
Together with its Pantone business, X-Rite Pantone employs more than 800 people in 11 countries.
The company's corporate headquarters are located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, with regional headquarters in Europe and Asia and service centers across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. X-Rite Pantone offers a full range of solutions used by manufacturers, retailers, printers, and graphic design houses to achieve precise management and communication of color and appearance throughout their processes.
X-Rite Pantone products and services are recognized standards in the printing, packaging, graphic design, automotive, paints, plastics, and textiles industries.
