A.T.E. has entered the world of digital printing with a tie-up with the world leader Zimmer Maschinenbau GmbH (Zimmer Austria), which, with sites in Klagenfurt and Kufstein, manufacturers a range of machinery for textile and carpet finishing covering digital printing systems, flat screen and rotary screen printing, coating, steaming, washing and drying.
A.T.E. will work for Zimmer’s digital printing systems for textiles and carpets, which will be handled by its processing and carpet machinery division respectively, for the markets of India and Bangladesh.
Zimmer Austria offers all elements out of one hand: complete lines, high-quality, reliable and safe software. In addition to the complete application know-how, Zimmer has a showroom having the facility for conducting digital printing trials at Kufstein.
While Zimmer has established its leadership position in carpet printing, its recent introduction of Colaris for textile printing has been well accepted by the market as is testified to by the growing number of satisfied customers across the globe.
As the printing market is shifting from conventional technologies to digital, due to change in taste of consumers, these machines will play a key role in the Indian textile printing industry. For printers who are looking for high production digital textile printing machine with flexibility for short and long runs, the Colaris has become the right choice since one can easily print up to 200 linear metres per hour. The Colaris which was exhibited at ITMA 2011 Barcelona demonstrated its production capacity and thus won the appreciation of most of the visitors at the Zimmer Austria stall.
In the case of carpet/bathmat digital printing system, Zimmer Austria offers the ChromoJET digital printing machine series. This is a unique printing system suitable for medium to heavy substrates mainly for carpets, rugs, carpet tiles and bathmats with no limitation of design repeat up to the commonly used 16/24 colors. This technology is used by all major printed carpet producers across the globe.
The first machine with 4000 mm width has been sold to a leading firm in north India.