THURSDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2018
11:30-12:00 Strategic Direction of the Industrial Printing Space
This presentation covers the strategic direction of the industrial printing space and attempts to identify key trends and opportunities in this sector. This sector is taken to cover: • Wider Industrial printing • Décor • Textile • Signage • Package Printing Speaker: Stewart Johnston, Head of Consultancy for Europe, Middle East and Asia – Smithers Group
13:00-13:30 Gift and Promotional Products Opportunities in The Market 2017
Speaker: Jiraboon Vityakraisign, Primeminister – Thai Gifts Premiums and Decorative Association
14:00-14:30 The 3rd e-commerce revolution hits the textile industry
In this session, you will become familiar with the E-commerce revolution and its impact on the fashion industry. You will also learn on related trends, such as print on demand, and the challenges they bring to the supply chain of the textile market. Speaker: Amit Dayagi, Product Marketing Manager – Kornit Digital
14:30-15:00 What makes Chemica heat transfer materials successful in Asia and the world.
We will enhance the expertise of Chemica, a leader in this field since 1983, its global presence (Europe, USA, Hong-Kong, Mainland China). Its strong network from distributors to famous brands trusting our quality. Speaker: Benoit Lombard, Director for Asia-Pacific – Chemica and SEFA Companies
15:00-15:30 Think before you print
The presentation explores digital textile printing on polyester. It will provide a general overview of the digital textile printing market with a case study history following customer’s questions: “which is the right technology for printing on polyester”? Marco will provide an overview of the different technology that you can use for printing on polyester (direct and transfer printing) and offer a detailed benchmarking: dye sub vs disperse dye from an environmental perspective, considering: water, energy and ink consumption and how it is possible to consider digital ink as eco-friendly. Speaker: Marco Girola, Marketing Specialist – JK Group S.p.A.
15:30-16:00 The True Cost of Sublimation
What does it really cost you to sublimate a product? Ink is one part of the equation, but so is transfer paper, printer throughput, setup time, the substrate and of course your overhead. As a Business Owner you need to thoroughly understand your operational and production costs, so that you can maximise your output without sacrificing quality. Tune in for an in-depth look at how all the pieces of the sublimation production puzzle fit together so you can work towards higher margins and lower costs. Speaker: Vik Patel, Director of Business Development – Sawgrass
16:00-16:30 Squeegee Innovations from a market leading Polyurethane Manufacturer
An insight into the manufacturing world of premium polyurethane and why more and more screen printers enjoy the cost saving and quality ensuring benefits of using this material Speakers: Bruce Bai, Sales Director Asia – Watts Urethane Products Ltd and William Barker, Sales & Marketing Director – Watts Urethane Products Ltd
16:30-17:00 Hybrid Printing for interior decoration
Based in Bangkok, Bodhi Tree Decor is a popular design firm and manufacturer of wall accents for commercial and residential interiors. Cholakarn will offer her insight into how she secured contracts for leading boutique and commercial hotel brands in the Asia Pacific region. What effects can be achieved with both screen and digital printing techniques that can create a unique selling point for your business and put you ahead of your competitors? Speaker: Cholakarn Visutipitakul, Marketing and Creative Director – Bodhi Tree Décor
11:30-12:00 The future of printing, the Digital Textile Ecosystem
EFI has assembled a unique solution for the fast-fashion market. From design to print to cut-and-sew, to the finished garment, the workflow makes it easy to collaborate globally and reduces the cost of both sample making and the manufacture of small-lot apparel. This presentation will explain how EFI’s Digital Textile Ecosystem is revolutionising the fast-fashion market by reducing the need to ship expensive samples around the globe, speeding up the design and manufacturing process. Speaker: Michele Riva, Sales and Marketing Director – EFI
13:00-13:30 Hybrid Digital Technology – (merging screen print and digital)
An introduction into the rapidly evolving HYBRID Technology that results from merging the best of screen print and best of digital technologies together. The course will be touching on key topics such as terms of inks and ink chemistry, methods for accurate alignment of both digital and analog images and ensuring the fabric, art and print techniques and applications are compatible. By taking the best features and benefits of the 2 technologies, we have an opportunity to create enhanced embellishment techniques and potentially elevate the current level of garment decoration on the market. Speaker: Mark Gervais, Director of Screen Print – Ningbo Shenzhou Knitting Co., Ltd
13:30-14:00 Strategic Direction of Textile Printing
This presentation covers the strategic direction of the textile printing space and attempts to identify key trends and opportunities in this sector, especially within the ASEAN region. Speaker: Stewart Johnston, Head of Consultancy for Europe, Middle East and Asia – Smithers Group
14:00-14:30 Market Prospect or Waterless Textile Printing and Dye-sublimation on Cotton
Speaker: Kilhun Lee, CEO – D.gen
14:30-15:00 Heat Transfers in the Garment Manufacturing Market
Marco will be discussing the new production trends in garment manufacturing and demonstrating the best practices of heat-transfer materials starting from single colour application, up to multilayer designs. All the attendees will have the opportunity to work with Siser products creating new decorations using plotter cut and digitals films. Mr. Marco De Rossi will show all the tricks and tips on how to print, cut and heat apply proposing new ideas and solutions. Speaker: Marco De Rossi, Managing Director – Siser (Asia/Pacific) Pte Ltd
15:00-15:30 Trends of on-demand packaging for online shopping and online food delivery in Thailand
Taking a look at: • Market outlook : Market size, Market segmentation • Existing packaging • Packaging trends and customer needs Speaker: Supanee Sawangnet, Food Packaging Solutions Sales Manager – Thai Paper Co.,ltd. (SCG Packaging)
15:30-16:00 How to grow your personalisation business with Dark T-Shirts and Mugs.
Personalisation of dark T-Shirts, Mugs and other surfaces is a huge business opportunity in a very competitive environment. Learn what it takes to stand out from the crowd in order grow your business. Let’s have a look three easy ways to win new business and which technologies can help you to stay ahead of your competition. Speaker: David Kandelhardt, Founder – Ghost GmbH
16:00-16:30 The world is going always working towards more automation, what sublimation heat press printing can follow it?
Speaker: Roberto Francesconi, Executive Manager – Monti Antonio Spa.
16:30-17:00 Strategic Direction of the Industrial Printing Space
This presentation covers the strategic direction of the industrial printing space and attempts to identify key trends and opportunities in this sector. This sector is taken to cover: • Wider Industrial printing • Décor • Textile • Signage • Package Printing Speaker: Stewart Johnston, Head of Consultancy for Europe, Middle East and Asia – Smithers Group