March 02, 2018
Wearables News Briefs - March 2018
Terry Town (asi/90913) welcomes Bob Heintz as director of national sales.
Alphabroder (asi/34063) and Prime Line (asi/79530) celebrated employees at 17 locations from coast to coast in a unified initiative for National Employee Appreciation Day on March 2.
Hirsch Solutions has hired Chris Jaeger as national product manager, industrial print division. Jaeger has been in the printing and textile industry for more than 20 years.
The PAS Store offers the Hoop Tech GEN 2 cap frame, a redesigned version of the HTP Dream frame, offering versatility and ease of use.
Brother DTG offers a new oversize platen, exclusively for GTX direct-to-garment printers. The 16-inch-by-21-inch platen is designed for printing jumbo-sized artwork on extra-large garments.
Penn Emblem (asi/77120) released a review of its 2017 charity efforts, which included creating patches to support breast cancer awareness, Alzheimer’s awareness and relief for victims of Hurricane Harvey in Houston.
Transfer Express offers AquaTru screen-printed transfers, which give the lightweight look and feel of water-based screen prints in a heat transfer that’s ideal for decorating performance wear and sublimated garments.
Stahls’ has named Ben Robinson as vice president of its Hotronix division. Robinson has been with Stahls’ for more than 25 years, advancing from production manager to sales manager to general manager.
Dalco Athletic offers full-color dye sublimation patches that can be decorated with customers’ artwork.
Workhorse Products is hosting a beginner’s workshop on T-shirt printing April 21-22 at its facility in Phoenix, AZ.
Atkinson Consulting has released a new downloadable ebook, Shop Basic Info Pack, by decorating industry coach Marshall Atkinson.
World Emblem (asi/98264) has launched DomeX technology, a FlexStyle emblem that offers brands a wide variety of colors and textures, including a 3-D visual effect, within the same emblem.
Hirsch Solutions (asi/14982) offers the MHM Synchoprint S-Type Xtreme, a high-speed, high-volume automatic printing press, which combines an AC indexing system with a high-power AC electric print head. Hirsch also offers the Kornit Storm Hexa direct-to-garment printer, a six-color plus white industrial digital inkjet printer.
Storm Creek (asi/89879) welcomes Evan Maguire, principal owner at Maguire Marketing Agency, as its newest territory sales rep. He will cover the states of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Wyoming.