Duncan Ferguson, Vice President Of Epson Europe, Visits Texia─The Spanish Company Using Epson Monna Lisa Technology To Revolutionise The Manufacture Of Textile Products

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24 Aug

Written By Debbie Mckeegan

Texia , the Spanish family company that is revolutionizing the manufacture of textile products through digital technology, received a visit from Duncan Ferguson, vice president responsible for the commercial and industrial business of Epson Europe , on July 26 .

The meeting is part of the existing collaboration between both companies in the field of digital pigment printing and has allowed Ferguson to get to know first-hand the Texia headquarters, located in Monistrol de Montserrat (Barcelona), as well as its management team, headed by Marcos Guasch, CEO of the company.

“The collaboration with Epson has opened a new path for us to base our growth based on innovation. We are passionate about the idea of collaborative work between a family business like ours and a multinational like Epson, as it allows us to search for new developments and remain competitive in a sector as changing as textiles. This type of collaboration marks our future as a company”, underlines Marcos Guasch .

Monna Lisa: The Starting Point

Texia and Epson have collaborated since the Catalan company decided to enter the digital textile printing business through digital pigment printing, thus reinforcing its commitment to sustainable fashion.

A challenge that crystallized in two projects: one for children's fashion and the other for men's shirts.

In order to carry it out, Texia became the first company at the national level to acquire two 16-channel Monna Lisa Evo Tre 32, a digital printer distinguished by the use of pigment printing dyes, which allows all the color to be deposited directly on the fabric.

This process is achieved thanks to Epson technology, which allows the head to work in a vacuum and at low temperature.

Thus, there is no need for subsequent steaming and washing, which reduces the water footprint to a minimum.

In addition, the Monna Lisa makes it possible to respond to market requirements such as quality short runs, production on demand and cost savings.

One of the keys to this collaboration is to respond to some of the main challenges facing the textile production sector, such as reducing the intensive use of water during printing processes and the development of 100% sustainable processes in printing technology. seamless printing or seamless cut.

Epson joins this challenge and is committed to meeting it in the advances and developments of the Monna Lisa range.

“Collaboration is key to continue advancing in proposing optimal solutions capable of giving the necessary sustainable turn in textile production. Europe must and can recover part of that production, thinking of minimizing the use of water, the generation of waste or overproduction. We are in a position to present ourselves as an ideal solution and this collaboration with Texia demonstrates this”, explains Ferguson.

A Long-Term Collaboration

The collaboration between both companies has as its starting point the Monna Lisa printer, but more joint actions are planned for the future.

In fact, Texia is working side by side with Epson engineers and specialists to develop a pigment printing machine capable of applying the print and then cutting napkins and other Mydrap products.

Beyond the reduction of water consumption in stamping processes, Epson and Texia are investigating new methods to print a wide variety of visual effects, as well as the ability to scale production in a distributed way in other continents, as a growth opportunity factor. real with the implementation of new Monna Lisas and the consequent reduction of the environmental footprint associated with the optimization of the supply chain.