BASF & Stork Digital Launches Co-Branded Pigment Ink at ITM 2006
02 Jun '06
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Comments Dr. Gernot Diehlmann, head of BASF´s Ink Jet business: “With Stork's excellent reputation and extensive system integration expertise, we have found an ideal partner for the further evolution of digital textile printing." This collaboration signifies the first step towards a long-term partnership between the two corporations, with the aim of further enhancing the joint textile pigment ink programme.
Fred Boes, managing director of Stork Digital Imaging, comments: “Our machine knowledge coupled with BASF's know-how in pigment ink forms an ideal strategic fit. We are delighted to be pooling our resources in this way, and look forward to building a long standing relationship that will help us both deliver enhanced solutions to the textile printing industry.”
The product range of BASF's Performance Chemicals for Textiles business unit includes products and concepts for weaving, pretreatment, optical brightening, analog and digital printing, coating and finishing, as well as dyeing auxiliaries. Our products are manufactured and marketed worldwide. We are one of the leading suppliers in these fields. Further information on our products may be found at: www.basf.com/textile.
BASF is the world's leading chemical company: The Chemical Company. Its portfolio ranges from chemicals, plastics, performance products, agricultural products and fine chemicals to crude oil and natural gas.
Stork Digital Imaging is part of the Stork Prints Group and is the leading provider of system and application know-how in digital printing processes for the textile and graphic arts industries. The head office is based in the Netherlands, with sales offices worldwide. The Prints Group has a total workforce of 1,415 and, in 2005, had a total turnover of EUR 200 million.
Stork U See: the digital textile standard. Stork U See is a standard whose components together ensure that exact reproductions can be made of each file at different print houses, in different locations, all over the world.
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