Kornit Digital LTD. showcased the Kornit Apollo platform, offering the ultimate in high-throughput digital production at scale. The company also introduced the Kornit Atlas MAX PLUS system for decorated apparel, now incorporating smart curing, flexible pallet sizing, and autonomous calibration for the highest quality, consistency, and productivity.
The solutions were displayed at ITMA 2023. According to Johnny Shell, Principal Analyst at Keypoint Intelligence, Kornit’s expanded ecosystem comes at the right time for the market, ‘These technologies offer a unique way forward for businesses to potentially expand into new markets and realistically adopt short-run, made-to-order apparel. More recent advancements such as Kornit Apollo are true engines of this transformation, empowering decorators to re-think how they’ll do business. These advancements will only continue to propel digital technology to the forefront of preferred apparel decoration methods.’
Enabling digital production to go mainstream, Apollo allows customers to become more agile, drive revenue opportunities, shift to localised production, and ease complex workflow processes. It offers large-capacity and high-quality-driven players the opportunity to adopt digital versatility and a quick time to market. It is expanding beyond screen printing to achieve vertical or horizontal expansion and robust business opportunities based on current operational models.
The Apollo platform is built on field-proven and industry leading Kornit MAX technology and is the most comprehensive, streamlined single-step solution for nearshore short and medium-run apparel decoration. Empowering customers to sidestep the hazards of complex supply chains, it also offers unmatched speed and agility in digital decoration. It is designed from the ground up to decorate 400 unique garments per hour. Automated loading and unloading, integrated smart curing, and inline garment type adjustment yield higher output and reduced labour for optimised profitability.
The platform helps fulfiller and brand supply chain managers gain ultimate visibility into their production – ensuring consistency and operational control across multiple systems and locations. This pairs with on-demand production strategies to continuously fulfill orders of multiple sizes, strengthen supply chains, and shorten fulfillment times. The solution fulfills the ultimate promise for brands to never run out of bestsellers and end backlogs of marked-down inventories.
‘The fashion and textile industry has remained at a crossroads, aware of its limitations but lacking a clear solution for moving from wasteful and inefficient production models,’ said Ronen Samuel, Chief Executive Officer at Kornit Digital. ‘Offering a true platform for agile, high-throughput digital production on demand, Apollo transforms what apparel producers and brands can do. It empowers them to meet the creative inspirations and ever-changing demands of a global community with capabilities to fulfill those expectations with quality, consistency, sustainability, and the necessary profitability to scale no matter what unforeseen trends await.’
The new Atlas MAX PLUS system takes Kornit’s proven Atlas MAX platform to the next level, bringing increased productivity of 150 garments per hour. With integrated Smart Curing, Rapid Size Shifter pallets, and autonomous calibration, the offering takes smart production capabilities a step forward introducing production flexibility, consistency, and the highest quality available.
Also displayed at ITMA 2023 was the recently introduced Kornit Atlas MAX POLY, transforming professional and recreational sportswear, teamwear, and licensed gear to inject new life into apparel with unmatched design freedom leveraging Kornit’s MAX platform. The Atlas MAX POLY is the most efficient specialty system for polyester decoration, covering also blends, tri-blends, and other synthetic fabric combinations. The solution delivers colorful and vibrant prints using innovative neon inks while supplying retail-grade quality and durability.
The Kornit technology ecosystem is led by an unmatched number of patents for its innovative processes and inks for wet-on-wet fabric and garment decoration. The company continues to advance these innovations across applications, systems, and chemistry. Kornit owns approximately 79 issued patents within the United States and other countries, with approximately another 80 provisional or pending US and non-US patent applications.
The company also announced enhancements to the Kornit Presto MAX system for digital fabric decoration on demand.
Designed with the fashion and home décor industry in mind, the enhanced solution presents breakthrough capabilities for transforming virtual concepts into brilliant custom fabrics, supplementing best-in-class digital efficiency and quality with industry-first brilliant white printing on coloured fabrics. The new NeoPigmentTM Vivido ink breaks barriers to achieve darker, deeper blacks and colours and establish new fashion standards with a pigment-based process. Kornit’s patented solution offers a streamlined and completely dry process for the most sustainable fabric decoration. Bringing together richer, deeper blacks with lower ink usage and better hand-feel is the unique combination necessary for sustainable fashion fulfillment – which Kornit pioneered and continues to lead.
At ITMA 2023, Kornit also displayed an end-to-end partner ecosystem – underscoring how integrated solutions ensure a smooth transition towards a digital infrastructure and enable long-term business growth. Highlighting the power of partnership alongside Kornit was Greentex.co, a top supplier of textiles and apparel leveraging digitally enabled, eco-friendly waterless printing. The company also showed Presto MAX with fabrics highlighting the depth of black inks. Working alongside Kornit, Zünd demonstrated how its modular cutting systems is the foundation for an end-to-end ‘eco factory’, completing top-of-the-line fashion decorated by Presto MAX with their digital cutting solutions. Pentek Textile Machinery joined to display the possibilities for inline, sustainable softening of fabrics for unique and demanding applications.
According to recent Kornit Impact Reports, fashion production is plagued by wasteful practices. The industry is responsible for severe ecological damage with overproduction of approximately 30 percent of manufactured garments and nearly 20 percent of global wastewater. Presto MAX is designed to address these challenges, offering a sustainable, single-step process meeting the highest quality standards of the world’s top fashion and home décor brands. Powered by Kornit MAX technology, the sustainable, on-demand textile decoration system allows producers to create more with less, shrink carbon footprints, and tap into new markets.
‘When we first unveiled our industry-leading Presto MAX in 2021, the intent was to change the world of fashion and textiles forever, tapping into the power of on-demand digital decoration to set new standards for sustainability and creative fulfillment,’ said Ronen Samuel, Chief Executive Officer at Kornit Digital. ‘We’re proud to highlight how Kornit anticipates the needs of an industry facing new opportunities sparked by digital transformation, while addressing mandates to cut waste and overproduction. Continuous innovation across our production systems, as well as supporting automation technologies, software, and partnerships, ensure customers achieve the highest possible return on investment, receive best-in-class support for their operational and business needs, and prepare to capitalise on trends shaping fashion and textiles for years to come.’
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