Fashion
Emtec to showcase sustainable textile solutions at Saigontex 2026
The global textile industry is under increasing pressure to develop products faster, more efficiently, and more sustainably, while ensuring consistent quality. Besides color, design, and price, hand feel and wearing comfort are among the most important purchase criteria for consumers. However, these properties are traditionally evaluated subjectively, often leading to misunderstandings along the supply chain, unnecessary sample production, long transport routes, and avoidable waste of resources.
At Saigontex, GOIN will showcase emtec’s TSA Tactile Sensation Analyzer with its Virtual Haptic Library, enabling objective measurement and digitalisation of textile hand feel.
It quantifies softness, smoothness, friction and thermo-haptic behaviour, reducing reliance on subjective assessment.
The solution supports faster innovation, improved supply-chain communication and lower environmental impact.
The TSA enables the objective quantification and digitalization of textile haptic properties, including surface softness, surface smoothness, friction, stretch & recovery, compressibility, and thermo-haptic behavior. Test results are stored in a cloud-based Virtual Haptic Library and can be accessed globally for research and development, quality assurance, incoming inspection, complaint management, sourcing, and sales.
By digitally comparing development samples with existing reference fabrics, companies can significantly shorten development cycles – from several months to just a few weeks – while reducing the shipment of physical samples. This leads to lower material consumption, fewer courier transports, reduced CO2 emissions, and a smaller environmental footprint overall. At the same time, standardized digital data improves communication across international supply chains and minimizes costly misunderstandings.
“The digitalization of textile hand feel creates transparency and efficiency throughout the entire value chain and makes a measurable contribution to more sustainable textile manufacturing,” emphasizes Tony Nguyen from GOIN International Viet Nam Co., Ltd. He invites all visitors to Saigontex 2026 to meet him and the entire GOIN-team at Hall A, Booth 1H10 to see how the TSA Tactile Sensation Analyzer with the Virtual Haptic Library supports sustainable product development, accelerates innovation cycles, and helps the textile industry move toward more resource-efficient processes.
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Fibre2Fashion News Desk (KD)