MA Textiles Expands into Digital Rroduction with SPGPrints

MA Textiles, one of Pakistan’s leading textile printing manufacturers, is enhancing its service flexibility and design offerings after installing an SPGPrints JAVELIN digital printer at its Shahdara facility near Lahore. The installation is the first JAVELIN to go into full production in the country.
 
MA Textiles was looking for a digital solution to meet today’s rapidly changing demands. The JAVELIN printer uses scanning print technology.
 
“Digital printing is able to handle shorter runs and faster job changeovers, and this was something we knew we needed,” said Mr. Naveed, CEO, MA Textiles.
 
“First, we print a significant amount of cotton. Working with cotton results in the formation of lint that can clog nozzles of the printheads. With SPGPrints’ patented technology, ink is circulated in the printhead. This makes the printheads more durable and longer-lasting,” he said.
 
The JAVELIN digital printer uses Fujifilm Dimatix Samba printheads. The ink circulation function inside the printheads is part of SPGPrints’ Archer technology that enables variable ink drops (from 2pL-10pL) to be fired up to 4mm from the substrate. This enables the use of a very wide range of textiles because the high jetting distance means that thicker, coarser and piled textiles can be printed, without damaging the print head.
 
MA Textiles is a family business that began as a dyeing house in Karachi. As it added customers, it also added printing and finishing services. Its products include towels, home textiles, apparel and fabrics. Each of the company’s departments is capable of cutting and stitching up to 15,000 meters per day.
 
The addition of the JAVELIN will give MA Textiles a digital printing capacity of two million linear meters per year.
 
“We are planning to bring our digitally printed textiles to the retail market at the end of 2017. Our dyeing customers have reacted with enthusiasm to our digital printing investment, and the value it brings them,” he noted.
 
 
July 20, 2017