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Inkjet Technologies to improve functionalities for smart textiles

30 Jun '08
5 min read

Besides the importance of inkjet for the coating and finishing of fabrics TenCate also sees opportunities for synthetic turf, and composites activities.

Coating of these materials on a nano-scale can create new functionalities. For synthetic turf it can create better sliding performance, a more natural look and feel and for composite materials it can add sensoring and monitoring of the material. R&D projects in these areas have been started.

TenCate will not explore opportunities outside its core markets. Through Xennia, which will commercialize its solutions through leading OEM's, it will indirectly benefit form developments in other sectors.

Xennia will continue its operation as before the acquisition, but will be able to benefit from the global network of TenCate.

Inkjet technology has been given a special position as an innovative technology by the national Dutch Innovation Platform.

TenCate has formed an alliance with the existing consortium (High Prints), with leading Dutch industrial parties like Océ, in order to join forces in this technological area in connection with open innovation.

TenCate will apply this technology only for its core activities in functional materials. Other industries will be enabled to apply the knowledge base of Xennia / TenCate on a license basis.

In the current year Xennia will give a limited positive contribution to the results of TenCate. Results are estimated to grow substantially in the coming years.

Inkjet technology has the potential to have significant impact on profitability for the protective fabrics activities in particular, over the next five to seven years.

Additional information regarding inkjet technology: Inkjet is increasingly seen as more than a printing technique, although until now it is largely associated with desk-top printing.

The important benefits of inkjet to an industrial environment will be to:
• Simplify manufacturing processes
• Increase productivity
• Reduce operating costs
• Mass customization
• Flexibility of design and creation of miniature devices

Xennia:
Xennia is a world leading independent industrial inkjet technology company. It has integration, chemistry, engineering and hardware knowledge and creates inkjet solutions for several industrial applications. The company supplies high performance XenJet printers and proprietary inks.

Xennia has an extensive portfolio of chemistry formulations (inks / fluids), like ceramic, conductive materials, textile pigment and dyes, metal solutions and dispersions, magnetic materials and UV cure inks.

Xennia has built a vast accumulated knowledge during a decade of inkjet development and holds several patents. It includes ink formulations, application processes, system and component design.

The company has strong partnerships with leading companies in the market, like Xaar plc, Hewlett - Packard and FujiFilm Dimatix (print head manufacturers). Besides the industrial shareholders TenCate and Xaar, the management holds 16% of the share of the company. Xennia is located near Cambridge (UK).

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