Based in Como at the heart of the Italian textile design industry, Aleph specialises in direct-to-fabric (DTF) and paper printers, with its Laforte range of textile printers capable of speeds ranging from 140sqm/hr up to 1,000sqm/hr.

The firm focuses on environmental and social responsibility, with devices designed to make low use of resources like water and energy.

Taking the new moniker Durst Como, Aleph will emerge as a “new centre of excellence for digital textile printing”, according to Durst.

Aleph founders Alessandro and Roberto Manes, currently CEO and CTO of the firm respectively, will take on roles in Durst. Alessandro Manes will become the manufacturer’s director of global sales for industrial textile manufacturing, and Roberto Manes will become director of development for textiles, leading the firm’s research and development.

Roberto Frigerio, general manager of Aleph, will become managing director of Durst Como with a mandate to expand the site.

“Durst Como will be our innovation centre for the textile future – a hub that unites technology, software, and passion,” says Christoph Gamper, CEO and co-owner of the Durst Group.

Durst will display machinery from the rebranded Aleph at the Fespa Global Print Expo wide-format trade show from 6-9 May in Berlin, under the new name of ‘Durst LF Series Graphics’.

Using water-based inks, the print systems will be “developed further from the Aleph Laforte platform” for indoor and outdoor use with water-based inks, and high-speed sublimation print on paper or directly on polyester with sublimation inks.