Mohawk is North America’s largest privately owned manufacturer of fine papers and envelopes for commercial and digital printing. With an aim to cater the needs of the growing market for display graphics, the company recently announced its expansion of its already popular wide-format inkjet
portfolio with a new addition of Mohawk Printable Textiles and Canvas, Engineered by Aurora, for the latex, UV, and solvent printers.
The items included in the newly launched line will be manufactured in the United States by Aurora Specialty Textiles Group. The Aurora group is a North American-based, global leader in the manufacturing of high quality textile substrates for printing. Mohawk and Aurora Specialty Textiles Group are both well established companies and are quite famous in the USA market. They share a longstanding history of manufacturing excellence and for producing the best-in-class products.
“Mohawk is pleased to partner with Aurora to expand our wide format product offering. Aurora offers a best-in-class portfolio of printable textiles and canvas that allows Mohawk to truly serve as a one-stop-shop for our customers’ wide format printing needs,” said Mike Madura, vice president, Digital Solutions, Mohawk.
“Aurora is very excited to partner with Mohawk in providing the North American paper distribution channel with access to a full range of printable textiles engineered to perform on today’s newest digital printing equipment. Our partnership combines Aurora’s textile coating and finishing
manufacturing expertise with Mohawk’s market-leading knowledge in serving the digital needs of the North American paper distribution channel,” said Mark Shaneyfelt, director of sales & marketing, Printable Textiles, at Aurora.
The collaboration makes Mohawk the exclusive distributor for Aurora Specialty Textiles Group throughout the North American merchant channel.