Aditya Chandavarkar is the Founder & CEO of Inkjet Forum India founded in 2010. Inkjet Forum India is a fresh initiative to organize conferences and educational programs to help the Indian digital printing industry to understand technological developments, markets and application requirements. This forum brings together more than 15 years of experience in organizing events & comprehensive knowledge of printing inks & technology to create a competent knowledge sharing platform. He also organizes the “Inkjet India” annual conference series on UV inkjet printing, digital textile printing & novel inkjet applications.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Science from University of Central Lancashire, Preston and a Master of Science degree in Biotechnology from University of Manchester, UK.
In addition to overseeing operations at Inkjet Forum India, he is also a Director at Silversheen Inks & Coatings Pvt. which manufactures speciality screen printing inks & auxiliaries for the graphics industry and coatings for varied applications. He was the instrumental in the appointment of Silversheen Inks & Coatings Pvt Ltd as the authorised distributor for graphic and industrial inkjet inks and associated ancillary products by Chimigraf Ibérica SL, Spain for the Indian subcontinent. |
Biju Thomas is the Founder and CEO of the Mermaid Group. Comprehending the inevitability of fabric and the significant impact of digital fabric printing, Mr. Thomas established his first venture in Dubai under the ‘Go Green, Go Fabric’ banner in 2005, thus becoming the pioneer in Digital Fabric Printing in the UAE. With a Mechanical Engineering degree and his igniting passion for fabric Mr. Thomas heads Mermaid Digital Printing LLC (Dubai), Gallery Mermaid Interior Solutions LLC (Dubai), Mermaid Advertising Ideas LLC (Abu Dhabi), Gallery Mermaid Concept Interior Pvt. Ltd. (Bangalore), Mermaid Print Concepts Pvt. Ltd. (Bangalore), Mermaid Polymers Pvt. Ltd.(Kerala).
For Mr. Thomas, his ventures are not a mere investment of finances but an investment of his extensive knowledge of fabrics, machinery, inks, accessories and other resources pertaining to digital textile printing.
Mr. Thomas is also the partner at You & Eye Advertising which deals with outdoor signage.
www.mermaiddigital.com
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Caroline Sonneville is in charge of the development of the international business for technical textiles at Fedustria, the Belgian Federation of the textile, wood and furniture industries. She has a masters degree in Public Relations and has been working for the federation for twelve years : the first three years as Press & Communication Manager, the last nine years as Export Promotor Technical Textiles.
Her key activity at the federation is the provision of economical services to the member companies of Fedustria such as : support in customs regulation and rules of origin; follow up of the technical textiles business worldwide; organization of individual or corporate prospecting trips; organization of a Belgian Pavilion at international tradefairs for Technical textiles, organization of networkevents and B2B conventions.
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Charlie Taublieb is a technical screen-printing consultant with over 30 years in the industry. Charlie has worked in all aspects of the industry from designing facilities to resolving technical problems. He owned an automated screen-printing company in Brooklyn, NY and a screen-printing supply house in Denver, Colorado. He has consulted with small and large start-up companies as well as existing companies worldwide and is recognized as an expert in the field. Taublieb has been conducting workshops and seminars for over 25 years including ones for the Imprinted Sportswear Shows, FESPA, SGIA Shows, DAX Shows and others in the US and abroad. He is a contributing writer for several industry publications in the US and overseas including IMPRESSIONS Magazine. Taublieb is a member of the Academy of Screen Printing Technology. He can be reached via e-mail
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After completing a Masters in Law at the University Leuven, Dan went on to achieve an EMP MBA at the Universidad Comercial de Deusto Bilbao, ESC Nantes, Strathclyde Graduate Business School, Glasgow. Dan began his professional career in print in 1994 with an entrepreneurial start up with X-Treme NV Belgium. In 1997 he became partner of X-Cape SA Teambuilding Outdoor Adventure in Florenville and for the last 11 years as Owner of the highly regarded X-Treme Inflatables BV Netherlands with now at group level 15000 3D references (mainly inflatables). In his spare time Dan enjoys participating in multiple sports and spending time with his wife Suyin and 2 lovely daughters of 3 and 4 years old |
Danny Segers is CEO at Bio Racer. Bio Racer is world leader in personalised Cycling Team Wear with over 6.000 teams in portfolio.
Bio Racer is official partner of the Belgian, Dutch, German and Luxemburg national teams. They have chosen Bio Racer as their partner based on innovative products, fasted time trial skinsuits, flexibility and design capacity. One big country is currently in negotiation.
More details can be found on www.bioracer.com |
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Dirk De Locht was born in Belgium in 1967. Dirk is the Product Manager Digital Printing and Military Applications for CONCORDIA TEXTILES Belgium. He holds a Bachelor in Actuarial Science and a Master in Applied Economical Science, he first became involved in print in 1992 where he began his career as a Sales representative of Copiers & Printers for OCE Belgium. Later he moved to TIS Technical Coated Fabrics Belgium where he held the position of Export Manager for Northern & Eastern Europe. He then held various Managerial roles at SIOEN for their North America / Asia / Eastern Europe/ Northern Africa regions. Dirk has been with CONCORDIA TEXTILES Belgium since 2008. He was the Business Development Manager prior to holding his current job as Product Manager Digital Printing and Military Applications. |
Ed Levy is president of Digitize4u, Inc., a custom embroidery and digitizing operation and consulting firm. Levy also hosts www.embforum.com, which is a professional group for Tajima DG/ML by Pulse users.
With more than 20 years experience, Levy has owned screen-printing, embroidery and digitizing businesses. In 2001, Levy began consulting and founded EmbForum, a professional Tajima DG/ML by Pulse software users group. He is a sought-after consultant and trainer with clients in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Barbados, and Jamaica. As a prominent industry educator he presents a wide range of seminars for industry events, is a pioneer in webinar education. He also serves on the advisory board of Stitches.
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Italo Mariani is Marketing & Sales Director at J-Teck3, Italian chemical manufacturer of waterbased digital inks for textile printing.
He has a large knowledge of the International Digital Printing Market because of frequent travels all over the world and strong business relationships with the main market players.
After his graduation in Marketing & Economics at the prestigious Bocconi University in Milan, he was employed at Avery Dennison first in Italy and then in US as Market Specialist.
Then, back to Italy he was Sales Manager at MacTac Italy before being appointed International Sales Director at Manoukian, a role covered by Italo for seven years.
In 2003 he founded J-Teck3 together with Enrico Grasselli. With the focus purely on digital, the company is now a world leader in the research for new products and technologies to serve the advanced digital market. |
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Award-winning author and International Speaker Jimmy Lamb, has over 20 years of product decoration business experience. Mr. Lamb has extensive knowledge in many facets of digital decorating and embellishing including business startup, applications, techniques, marketing, sales, mobile, digitizing, production and management. He has owned and operated a successful production facility, started a retail franchise operation and has provided production solutions to a variety of Fortune 500 corporations involved in customization, decoration and embellishment. In 2011 he was ranked as number 26 in the list of the 75 most influential people in the decoration industry by Stitches Magazine. His articles appear regularly in various industry magazines and he is a frequent speaker at Industry Events and Trade Shows domestically and internationally. Mr. Lamb currently serves as the Manager of Education & Communications for Sawgrass Technologies. |
John is an independent digital textile printing consultant and technical editor of Digital Textile magazine. He was 2009’s joint winner of the Henry E. Millson Award for Invention, for the development of the first commercially available inkjet printer for textile fabrics, in the late 1980s and early ‘90s. The award is presented annually by the American Association of Textile Chemists & Colorists (AATCC).
John directed the team at ICI that developed the reactive-dye colorant formulations and textile pretreatments for the first commercially available textile-inkjet system. During the 1990s, he also was active in a number of European-funded research projects (EU Brite Projects) with Stork BV and other European partners, which further developed the technology.
Later, he was involved in the development and co-ordination of inkjet-ink and media solutions with the major print-head manufacturers, system integrators and machinery manufacturers, developing industrial digital-printing solutions and, in particular, textile-inkjet print systems. He also worked on digital textile inks at BASF.
John has written more than 70 papers on colour physics, coloration, and both conventional and digital textile printing, and holds six patents in inkjet printing. He is a Fellow of the Society of Dyers and Colourists (FSDC) and was awarded its silver medal for developments in the textile-printing industry, in 1996. |
John Scrimshaw is an editor at World Textile Information Network (www.wtin.com), formerly World Textile Publications Ltd – the world’s biggest textile publisher. Initially handling magazines in the apparel and fashion-technology sectors, he assumed the editorship of the long-established International Dyer magazine in 2001 and was responsible for piloting the spin-off Digital Textile magazine at ITMA 2003. Digital Textile operated as an electronic-only magazine until its relaunch in print at the start of 2009.
In addition, John acts as editor of ITMA Daily News/Textile Daily News – published at the ITMA and ITMA Asia + CITME shows – and of the IMPACT Special Reports on sustainability in the textile industry. He is also a regular contributor to the online WTiN Executive Intelligence service. |
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Mr. Josep Domingot is the Vice President of Business Development at AnaJet, responsible for all worldwide international business, private brand, national accounts and strategic business alliances. He has extensive experience as a Senior Vice President of Business Development and Marketing for the European markets with Panasonic for many years, and member of the European International Association from Japan under Matsushita Electric Corporation. In recent years, he successfully built the US business for a major Spanish manufacturer, Porcelanosa, as the General Manager of its US operations. Mr. Domingot earned his BA degree from the University of Barcelona and an MBA from the University of the Americas. He is a multicultural manager, speaking several languages. He has lived and worked in Spain, Germany, Japan, and United States. |
Mark Gervais is Director of Screen Print for Ningbo Shenzhou Knitting Co Ltd, China. Mark has worked passionately for 34+ years in the Screen Printing Industry. His Screen Printing career began printing PCB’s (printed circuit boards) for Apple Computer in 1977 and continued for over 10 years. In 1987, he had made the move into Textile Screen Printing which is where he still is today. In those 24 years, Mark worked for 17 years with various large scale printing operations on the West Coast and also 3 of the major Plastisol Ink manufactures, with 4 of those years as an Asian Regional Sales Manager. Mark has been working and living in China for the past 7 years with almost 3 of those years at Ningbo Shenzhou Knitting Co, Ltd.
His passions lie in working with Graphic Print Development and determining how designs are separated, engineered and printed and also a Designer of Printing Operations with facility lay-out to establish process controls and procedures and efficient automatic machine operations and quality. |
Dr Martial Blanc has a PhD in Surface Physics. With a strong scientific background and a deep interest to follow technical projects from their conception in the laboratory all their way down to their commercialization, his professional carreer has grown from an application engineer role, until becoming the Sales & Marketing Director at Sensient - Specialty Inks business unit.
Immediately after having completed his PhD at the EPF Lausanne in the field of surface physics in 1998, Martial has been literally consumed by the digital sublimation printing industry when he joined the chemical company ECS SA as an Application Engineer with the assignment to teach and promote the use of digital sublimation inks, recently developed by the ECS' R&D laboratory for the industrial sublimation printing market.
Since then he has progressively taken increased responsibilities in the same company which is now part of the Sensient Technologies Corporation based in Milwaukee, USA. After completing his MBA at the Business School Lausanne in 2007, he is today Technical and Business Development Director, and has lead the company to become one of the leading and most innovative manufacturers of digital textile inks in the world.
As a privileged observer of the textile printing industry, Martial has witnessed the evolution and growing importance of digital technologies, and has participated actively, via the development of innovative inks such as the ElvaJet SE 100, to the growth in sublimation printing from a minor printing technique in the conventional textile printing to the largest segment of digital textile printing.
More details about Sensient Inks Europe and their products can be found on www.elvajet.com |
For the last twenty-two years, Mike has worked in a variety of capacities at [TC]² and has provided guidance to hundreds of sewn products companies. With thirty-four years of experience in apparel manufacturing, research and development, operations and corporate management, he leads the company’s initiatives to develop next-generation supply chain technologies, and work with companies to implement currently available technologies and business processes. He and the [TC]² staff deliver an extensive array of programs and provide consulting services to individual companies. These services span such topics as 3D product development, sizing for fit, production scheduling, industrial engineering, ergonomics, full package production, simulation, lean manufacturing systems, sustainable technologies, and the digital supply chain. He holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Applied Mathematics and Philosophy from North Carolina State University, an MBA from Duke University and a Ph.D. in Technology Management from North Carolina State University. In 2009 he was appointed an Adjunct Associate Professor at N.C. State University.
Dr. Fralix is also active in several industry organizations. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the AAFA, Vice Chairman of SPESA, a member of the Executive Committee of IAF and serves on the Board of Trustees for C-CAA. He also is the President of the AAFA Education Foundation, President of the Georgia Soft Goods Education Foundation, and Past Chair of the AAFA Human Resources Leadership Council.
Dr. Fralix’s key message is that tomorrow’s soft goods industry leaders are going to thrive through the use of digital technologies and processes that are integrated across continents. From product development to delivery and logistics, these companies will implement systems that: enable the shortest cycle time from concept to market, provide the most rapid and efficient response to consumer demand, and offer the best value for the investment.r. |
Mike Horsten - Marketing Manager - Mimaki Europe BV
Mr. Horsten responsibilities are to expand the Mimaki brand name, marketing digital printing and cutting solutions and to expand the Mimaki brand into becoming the industry leader in not only the Sign Graphics markets but also the Industrial printing products and the new expanding textile and apparel world.
Mike has more than 25 years of production and International marketing experience. With inspirational ideas how to make vendors and suppliers work together to achieve a greener digital printing world.
Horsten was founder of one of the first Green Textile printing companies in the Netherlands. He was the one of the principal architects in changing a silkscreen industry to a digitally clean textile printing business in 1999 with the transformation of Silkscreen technologies in to Dye sublimation technology. In Co-Developing the Digital Dye Sublimation technology with other industry leaders, Mike was ahead of the game.
Mike was also one of the co-founders of the ColorGATE Rip software company in 1998. With a vision on how to make user friendly applications for the graphic industry he made a name for himself. As one of the first to sell HP Plotters and laminators back in 1994, Mike explored this new generation of HP products to change them into large format printing solutions, photo enlargers and to use these new machines as Pre-Press Proofers. This was the start of a new breed of Digital Print Service providers.
Before this he was employed at Sun Microsystems as European Marketing Director, Product Marketing Manager for MacVONK and A-Line technologies.
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Mike Wozny is a Strategic Product Manager for EFI VUTEk, a leading manufacturer of superwide digital inkjet printing solutions, based in Meredith, NH. With close to 20 years of experience in the printing industry, Mr. Wozny’s key responsibility is to drive the development of innovative superwide digital products for the company. In addition to leading strategic product development discussions and managing a VUTEk product line, Wozny spends a significant amount of time with customers around the world to address their business needs and help drive the adoption of superwide printing technology. Wozny holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration from New York Institute of Technology. |
Philippe Six, 42 year old, is a graduate in marketing and management, he works at Fedustria (previously named Febeltex) for the last 8 years.
Fedustria represents the textile, woodworking and furniture industry’s companies. In Belgium, these sectors account for 45,600 jobs in 2,285 companies and generate a turnover of 11.2 billion €. The role of the federation is triple: lobbying and defence of the sector, promotion and services to the companies members. As economic advisor for the French speaking members (Walloon and Brussels regions), Philippe is the link between the companies and Fedustria, providing help and advices in the field of economic development, exportation and innovation. Philippe is also involved in some European (“Interreg”) projects and is one of the imitators of the project “Visualtex”.
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Scott Fresener has been in the industry since 1970 and is the co-author of How To Print T-shirts For Fun And Profit and The Encyclopedia of Garment Printing. He has also produced dozens of video and DVD training programs, created automated separation programs called T-Seps and FastFilms, and is considered a pioneer in the direct-to-garment printing segment. Scott is the former CEO of U.S. Screen Print & Inkjet Technology, and currently Director of T-Biz Network International, LLC. Scott is a popular speaker at trade shows around the world, has contributed hundreds of articles to leading trade magazines, and has served as a consultant to small and large shops worldwide.
In 1979 he and his wife Pat founded The U.S. Screen Printing Institute. In 1996 he received the industry's highest honor, the SGIA’s Parmele Award, which recognizes lifetime contribution to the industry. Scott is also past Chairman of the Academy of Screen Printing Technology and was on the Board of Directors of SGIA. He also runs the popular website www.T-BizNetwork.com. For questions or comments email Scott at
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Dr Simon Daplyn Joined Xennia in 2008 and is the Ink Products Specialist, responsible for product management, customer implementation and commercialization of the inks portfolio offered by Xennia from a commercial standpoint. As part of the textiles group Simon has a particular focus on textile solutions for decoration and functional finishing. Previously Simon was involved in the R&D group overseeing developments of a number of industrial inkjet solutions.
Before joining Xennia Simon graduated with an MSc in Colour and Polymer Chemistry from the University of Leeds before gaining a PhD for work on Inkjet Printing onto Textiles from the same university. Simon then went on to work for Nanojet Ink based in Newcastle upon Tyne where he was Technical Manager of textile ink developments. |
Suyin Aerts is a Belgian woman of 37 with a Chinese first name who is very passionate about communication in all it's ways.
After a successful career as an international ballet dancer and an actress for national Belgian television, she made a huge career switch by working for ten years in the fashion industry. In the function of National Sales Manager she managed the showroom in Belux for Marithé + François Girbaud which is a very creative, innovative, high end, French fashion label.
After finishing a Masters in Industrial Business Policy degree in 2006 magna cum laude (Business administration and Project Management) she joined about four years ago the X-Treme team initially as CFO. She combines this financial function since 2009 with sales and marketing.
Suyin is a very supportive person who loves to network and meet people. She also runs a busy household with husband Dan Vandevoorde and has two lovely girls of 3 and 4 years old.
Whether you're chasing heart or fortune, whether you're building a household or a firm, the highest quality of life comes down to this: How much love did life make you feel? |
Thomas Poetz is the founder and Chairman of 3P InkJet Textiles AG - today 3P InkJet Textiles AG belongs to the Verseidag Indutex Groupe witch is part of the Jagenberg Holding.
3P showed the first prepared fabrics for inkjet printing during the CeBit show 1997 in coop with HP on the HP 2500. Since than 3P has developed for the different inks.several fabrics with the right properties for a lot of different applications. 3P received quite a few awards for there product quality during the last years. NASA decided to use the 3P fabric in there space shuttle mission. 3P partnered with Universities and Textile Institutes on a few R&D projects supported by the German Government.
Over the last 15 years Thomas Poetz is a frequent speaker world wide talking during conferences about the advantages of digital textile printing for soft signage, interior design - public and residential - and solution for online garment printing - getting high qualified jobs back to our countries with digital inkjet technology - just in time production. |
Yves Luyckx is married with 4 children and holds a Postgraduate degree in International Business management. Previously active as Export Manager in textile industry.
Since 2004 active as Sales Manager at Sioen Industries. Responsible for commercial activities in Belgium, UK & Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Baltic states.
Synopsis Sioen Industries is the world market leader in coated technical textiles, European market leader in technical apparel and specialist in fine chemicals. Thanks to its vertical integration, Sioen is a full service provider with an extensive portfolio of products and activities: spinning, weaving and coating, manufacturing of clothing and production of fine chemicals. Our sense of innovation translates into new products, updated production processes and cost-effective improvements. Printing textiles is undoubtedly one of the many cornerstones of the PVC coating department. We have been one of the pioneers when it comes to developing the right coated textile for printing and have since then been regarded as one of the flagship suppliers within the industry. For Sioen Industries it is of the utmost importance to bring our extensive knowledge of the printed textiles market and the adapted needs of the customer together with our R&D and several production techniques to truly deliver the right product for the right application. Feeling the market’s heartbeat, exploring the new tendencies and keeping a close eye on both threats and opportunities make us what we are today. During this presentation it is our intention to share the results of our own survey which deals with technological, sociological,, geographical and ecological trends and changes for a better understanding of the future market needs. |
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