OPTITEX SOFTWARE
The Leading Software for End-to-End Efficiency: From Digital Pattern Development to Production Optimization.
Serving the Fashion & Apparel, Automotive, and Home Furnishing industries.
Optitex is a leading provider of 2D and 3D CAD/CAM software solutions helping brands and manufacturers streamline product development from pattern design to production. Almost four decades of expertise serve an expanding global base of over 30,000 users.
By integrating Optitex solutions such as PDS, Marker, CutPlan, and OPTINEDCloud, you can automate tasks, optimize fabric usage, shorten production cycles, improve collaboration across teams, and gain greater accuracy over every phase of production while boosting sustainability and reducing costs.
Optitex’s mission is to empower pattern design and production professionals in the fashion, textiles, transportation, and furniture industries with innovative software solutions that seamlessly blend creativity and technology. By responding to clients’ evolving needs, Optitex delivers tools that drive innovation, efficiency, and sustainable operations supporting clients’ success in a fast-changing global market.
New York City, USA, October, 2026 – NedGraphics, a global leader in textile and apparel design software, today announced the official launch of NedGraphics 2027, a major software release designed to bring creativity, technology, and production closer together through a more connected and flexible digital ecosystem.
At the center of NedGraphics 2027 is OPTINEDCloud, a new cloud storage and asset management environment integrated across key NedGraphics applications.
OPTINEDCloud gives design, approval, and production teams a centralized space to store, organize, visualize, share, and manage product development files.
New York – NY – October 2026 – Optitex, a global leader in fashion technology solutions, has announced a significant update to its CutPlan software, introducing Purchase Order (PO) Wise capability as part of its O/26.1 release.
The new feature allows manufacturers to plan multiple Purchase Orders for the same style independently, addressing a long-standing inefficiency within the cut planning process.
New York - September 2026– NedGraphics, a global leader in textile design technology, has today announced the upcoming launch of NedGraphics 2027, a new generation of software set to redefine how designers bring their creative visions to life.
The countdown to the full reveal is now underway, with the company inviting the industry to follow along as details unfold.
Paris - France – September 15th 2026 – Optitex, a global leader in fashion technology, has today announced the release of O/26.1, the latest evolution of its industry-leading software suite.
The update strengthens the tools that fashion and apparel businesses rely on daily, introducing enhanced pattern design capabilities, more flexible cut planning, and a smoother, more connected cloud experience through OPTINEDCloud, formerly known as O/Cloud.
Paris, France – August 2026 – Optitex and NedGraphics will present their integrated design and manufacturing solutions at Première Vision Paris, taking place from 1st to 3rd September 2026 at Parc des Expositions, Paris Nord Villepinte, France.
Visitors can find the companies at Booth 3L11 in Hall 3, Smart Creation Area.
The joint appearance marks a significant opportunity for textile brands and manufacturers to experience first-hand how NedGraphics and Optitex deliver a unified workflow — one that connects textile design, colour refinement, and end product development within a single, seamless process.
Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil – July 2026 – Optitex, a leading provider of digital solutions for the apparel and textile industries, has announced its participation in FEBRATEX 2026, one of Latin America's most prominent textile and apparel trade fairs.
The company will exhibit from 18–21 August 2026 at German Village Park, Booth 185, alongside its local partner, SILMAQ.
New York – NY – July 2026 - Optitex Pattern Design Software (PDS) was developed around the daily realities of professional pattern makers, not around a generalized vision of what design software should look like.
The architecture of the platform reflects a specific understanding of how experienced practitioners actually work and what currently interrupts that work.
Pattern makers working in Optitex PDS can build, modify, and evaluate garments within one connected environment.
New York - July 2026 NedGraphics, a leading provider of textile and print design software today features NedGraphics Design for Photoshop, a purpose-built plugin that brings specialist print and pattern workflows directly into Adobe Photoshop.
The solution targets one of the industry's most persistent pain points: the hours lost to manual workarounds when completing routine design tasks.
NedGraphics, a leading provider of textile design software, announced that NedGraphics is rapidly integrating artificial intelligence across its design workflow.
Rather than offering AI as a separate tool, the company is embedding it as a native capability designed to work the way designers think.
The announcement reflects a wider shift within the textile industry, where AI is no longer a distant prospect but an active force reshaping how collections are created.
Optitex and NedGraphics have appointed James McDermott as Regional Sales Director Europe, a promotion that strengthens the support, guidance, and value delivered to customers across the region.
The appointment recognizes his consistent success helping organizations improve operational efficiency, strengthen collaboration across product development teams, reduce production bottlenecks, and accelerate speed-to-market.
New York – NY – May 2026 – Optitex, a leading provider of end-to-end 2D and 3D CAD/CAM software, has announced a powerful integration with NedGraphics to create a comprehensive digital ecosystem.
This unified workflow bridges the critical gap between textile design and physical production, allowing the fashion, automotive, and home textile industries to maintain absolute accuracy from initial concept to the final product.
By eliminating information loss and reconciliation gaps, the partnership empowers businesses to accelerate production without compromising their creative vision or environmental responsibilities.
The Exhibition presentation will highlight coordinated textile design, pattern development, and manufacturing preparation workflows for modern textile product teams
New York, USA – April 2026 ─ Optitex and NedGraphics will participate in Texprocess 2026, taking place April 21–24, 2026 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, where the companies will present how textile design, pattern development, and manufacturing preparation can operate together within a connected workflow.
Visitors can meet the teams in Hall 8, Booth D38.
New York City, USA – 17 March 2026 – Optitex today announced the availability of Optitex O/26, a forward-thinking software release engineered to strengthen digital patternmaking and production preparation processes.
As the industry faces urgent demands for greater efficiency and reduced waste, this measured evolution of the Optitex suite reinforces daily production workflows through improved automation, clarity, and consistency across product development and manufacturing environments.
February 2026 – Optitex, a leading provider of integrated 2D and 3D software solutions for the fashion and apparel industry, today announced its participation in the upcoming Garment Technology Expo in New Delhi.
With under a month until the event, the company invites industry professionals to visit Booth A-33 from 20 to 23 March to explore how its innovative solutions are transforming the apparel manufacturing landscape.
January 2026 – Optitex, a leading provider of integrated 2D and 3D CAD/CAM solutions, has announced a significant advancement in its platform capabilities, now connecting every stage of the product development workflow within a single digital environment.
This strategic integration serves to unify pattern creation, 3D sampling, fit analysis, costing, and production preparation, enabling teams across the fashion, automotive, and upholstery sectors to achieve faster decision-making and measurable efficiency
Optitex, a global provider of integrated 2D and 3D CAD/CAM software solutions, today highlighted its Dynamic Measurement Chart within the Optitex PDS suite.
This advanced feature directly links measurement specifications to pattern geometry, establishing a new standard for accuracy and efficiency in the fashion industry’s increasingly complex development cycles.
By bridging the gap between technical specification and creative design, Optitex continues to empower brands to navigate the demands of modern production with greater agility and reduced waste.
Eindhoven December 2025 – NedGraphics and Optitex have announced the appointment of Sinem Suder Niemeyer as the first Regional Sales Director for Asia and Africa.
This new leadership position signifies a deep commitment from the companies to invest in these key regions, fostering stronger customer connections and driving growth within the global textile and apparel industries.
With over 25 years of international experience in sales, sourcing, and digital transformation, Sinem brings a unique blend of technical expertise and customer-centric leadership.
Her extensive background living and working across continents has equipped her with a profound understanding of bridging diverse markets and cultures.
Optitex and NedGraphics proudly hosted West Coast Weave, an exclusive networking mixer at the historic Cardinal’s Quarters at Redbird in Los Angeles on October 23.
The event brought together apparel and textile industry professionals for an evening celebrating creativity, innovation, and collaboration in digital design.
Colour Separation: The Craft Digital Textile Design Shouldn’t Forget
Textile designer Stephan Alker draws on more than 40 years in the industry, going back to his start at Transfertex in 1980, to trace how colour separation moved from drum scanners, hand-retouched films and engraved gravure cylinders to fully digital workflows.
He argues that this production knowledge still matters in the age of digital printing, because properly separated designs give brands far more freedom.
The Path Foward: Connect Every Link:
Design, colour, workflow, production, data. Each link now depends on the one before it, and the printers who will lead the market are those who strengthen the whole chain, not just the machinery at its centre.
So, this autumn, ask the bigger question on your own shop floor.
Not "Which printer?" but "How well does my business connect demand, design and production?"
Rebés's story isn't one of nostalgia - It's a working blueprint for how heritage manufacturers can stay indispensable in a market that rewards speed, certification, and specificity in equal measure. Four million metres of stock mean nothing without the digital printing capability to turn it into something distinctive.
A 150-year name means nothing without the R&D discipline to win a tender for antistatic, carbon-fibre-infused uniform fabric on the first attempt.
Image Credit: Tejidos Rebé
What if the next dress you wore never touched the factory floor?
This is no longer a fringe experiment. It is a maturing production model, backed by genuine material science, real circularity, and an AI-assisted workflow that is becoming more accessible by the month.
Her advice to designers and brands alike is refreshingly practical: start small, get hands-on with an accessible 3D printer, and build fluency before the technology becomes table stakes. The businesses that treat this moment with curiosity, rather than scepticism, will be the ones shaping fashion's next decade rather than reacting to it.
The 2027 FESPA Awards are now open for entry, and the message to businesses across textiles, apparel, interiors and beyond is simple: your work deserves recognition. Every gold winner featured here started in the same place every entrant does - with a project they believed was worth submitting.
As the only independent awards programme with 18 categories dedicated to print and signage, FESPA offers a genuinely global stage, with shortlisted entries displayed at FESPA Global Print Expo in Spring 2027.
Colour Is Too Important to Leave to Chance
Print will always be the part of the garment people see first.
But the sum of all parts — the fabric, the trims, the fasteners, the finish — is what determines whether a design actually delivers on its promise. Brands that continue to treat colour as a single creative decision, rather than a coordinated technical discipline spanning their entire supply chain, will keep paying for it in re-dips, delays, and disappointed design teams.
A Century of Textiles, and an Ever-changing World
Few companies can trace their roots back more than a century and still count themselves among their industry's innovators. Texia, headquartered in Monistrol de Montserrat, Spain, is one of them.
But the story of Texia is not simply one of longevity.
It is a story of continual reinvention. As the textile industry has grown more global and competitive, Texia has repeatedly reshaped its business, investing in technology, developing its own brands, and placing sustainability at the centre of its mission. In doing so, it offers a compelling example of how a heritage manufacturer can lead rather than follow through a period of profound industry change. Image Credit: Texia
What are we craving Ultimately?
The instinct to slow down while simultaneously optimising every measurable aspect of life isn't a passing curiosity. It's a structural response to a world that feels increasingly unstable, and it's reshaping what people expect from their homes, hotels, workplaces and healthcare environments alike.
For the design and manufacturing sectors, this means rethinking both product and process.
The Structual Shift is Real and its Already Here
Volumes are moving east, where digital production is accelerating rapidly. Consumer behaviour has shifted.
Demand is now driven by personalisation, shorter buying cycles, and an expectation of near-instant responsiveness. Regulatory pressure is intensifying, with supply chain transparency now a legal and commercial fact in many markets. And margins? They are under sustained, structural pressure.
This is not a temporary disruption. It is a fundamental reordering of how textile manufacturing must operate.
The Challenge: Standing Firm as the Industry Shifts
The wallpaper landscape has changed dramatically. Digital printing has lowered the barrier to entry, spawning countless direct-to-consumer brands and pushing much of the market towards faster, cheaper production.
At the same time, manufacturing in the UK has grown steadily harder - rising minimum wage, national insurance, energy and substrate costs all bear down on margins. Surface Print have embraced all of these challenges - and stand resolutely prepared for the future.
From Helsinki's printing mill to Paris's Le Marais, discover how Marimekko is scaling a design-led brand with purpose, craft, and bold innovation.
But what makes Marimekko's story compelling is not just its aesthetic legacy?
The word "toxic" carries weight. It conjures danger, harm, and things best avoided.
“Yet in the textile industry - Where between 3,000 and 10,000 chemicals move through the supply chain, a reflexive fear of the term is one of our biggest obstacles to progress.”
This article distils the key takeaways and what buyers, designers, and brands should be asking right now.
What Is the Digital Product Passport?
At its core, a Digital Product Passport is a digital record attached to a physical product - For a printed textile product, this means the DPP would capture data on the substrate, inks and dyes used, the printing process and technology, chemical compliance, environmental impact (including water and energy use), supply chain traceability, and end-of-life instructions.
The Market Gap that Changed Everything
Future Fashion was founded in 2019, timed deliberately to coincide with a pivotal moment in global textile technology: the commercial launch of the EFI Reggiani BOLT Single-Pass digital printing system.
The founders recognised that single-pass architecture had fundamentally changed what was industrially possible - and that Pakistan's domestic market had yet to catch up.
Print is no longer defined by the inefficiencies that once characterised it…as advances in production processes and technology have significantly improved its environmental performance.
Taran Rai, Corporate Sustainability Manager at Epson explains why?
The story of what happens when young designers access digital technology is still being written.
What once was a theoretical sustainability goal seems to have shifted into an active regulatory reality.
Is the Textile Market Finally Recovering?
After a difficult few years, there are genuine reasons for optimism. Duncan was candid about the challenges: "The market for textiles has been very difficult over the last three years. I'm not going to hide the truth there. But the tide is turning.“
A profound shift is currently reshaping the sector
Changing consumer expectations demand greater design diversity, faster turnaround times, and sustainable manufacturing practices.
To thrive, interior brands must adapt their supply chains, bringing production closer to the end consumer and moving away from bulk manufacturing.
Digital textile printing offers a definitive solution to these operational bottlenecks.
Digital transformation doesn't announce itself.
It accumulates - one innovation at a time - until an entire industry looks back and realises the ground has shifted beneath its feet. That's precisely where textiles stands today.
The conversations happening now about AI, automation, sustainability, and digital product passports are not theoretical. They are shaping decisions being made on factory floors and in boardrooms right now.
“By leveraging advanced digital textile printing, Marylene Madou has successfully merged traditional craftsmanship with cutting-edge technology. Her approach offers a blueprint for how independent designers can scale their brands globally while maintaining a minimal environmental footprint.”
The textile industry is undergoing a vital transformation. As the insights from Techtextil and Texprocess reveal, the path forward relies on a combination of sustainable hardware, intelligent chemistry, and seamless digital workflows.
From Zimmer's industrial-scale energy reductions and Stratasys's on-demand 3D embellishments, to Kornit's single-step technical printing and the unified digital ecosystems of NedGraphics and Optitex, the tools for change are here. To stay competitive, brands and manufacturers must adopt these innovations, moving away from fragmented, wasteful processes towards a truly connected, circular economy.