Vizoo’s CAST Receives
Texprocess Innovation Award 2026
Munich, Germany, April 2026 – Vizoo, a global leader in material digitization, has been awarded the Texprocess Innovation Award 2026 for its product CAST. With more than 700 customers in 50 countries, Vizoo has been setting industry standards for 13 years with its xTex material scanners. With CAST, the company is now responding to a true industry issue: the wasteful fabric sampling and selection process. CAST is rethinking how fabrics are shared, evaluated, and selected across the global textile industry.
Rethinking Fabric Communication
CAST enables the real-time, digital communication of fabrics between teams around the world. Consequently, a fabric mill in Asia can present materials interactively to a brand team in Europe, allowing decisions to be made without the need to ship physical samples. By simply placing a fabric on a scan surface, it gets streamed via an APP in high-quality on the viewers screen and allows instant visualization – and even AI enhanced output – on a product; making it easier to understand how it will look and behave in a final design.
Reducing Sampling, Time, and Emissions
Fabric sales and product sampling is one of the most wasteful, time- and resource-intensive steps in the fashion industry. Fabric mills report challenges that Designers struggle to imagine fabrics on a final product, excessive sample orders go unused, shipping costs and time escalates, and online meetings often fail to convey fabric qualities.
”CAST enables designers and brands to evaluate fabric collections remotely and collaborate much more efficiently. By shifting the early stages of material selection into the digital space, our customers can reduce the shipment of physical swatches by up to 80 percent—making the process much more sustainable and cost-efficient.
Renate EderManaging Director at Vizoo
Bringing Simplicity to Advanced Technology
What makes CAST unique is its ability to combine digital fabric communication, interactive & real-time product visualization, and ease of use in a single application. While many existing tools in the 3D and design space are complex and require specialized knowledge, CAST is designed to be intuitive and accessible, enabling a wider range of users to work with digital materials effortlessly.
CAST does not aim to replace physical fabrics entirely but rather merges the advantages of the physical and digital world. The tactile experience remains essential in many stages and, by enabling faster decisions earlier—focuses everyone on the value added steps in the process.
With CAST, Vizoo demonstrates how combining material expertise with digital workflows can make product development faster, more sustainable —without adding complexity.
A Clear Message to the Industry
”By digitizing the fabric selection process in a playful, efficient, and sustainable way, Vizoo GmbH offers more than a product—they offer a meaningful step toward a more responsible and innovative textile industry.
Walter WähltChairman Innovation Award Jury, Texprocess
“This recognition from Texprocess is a strong signal that the textile industry needs to look into more sustainable, digitally connected way of presenting and selling materials,” said Renate Eder. “Thirteen years after introducing the xTex scanner, we are proud to once again help transform the apparel industry with this new technology.”
CAST will be exhibited at the Texprocess 2026 in Frankfurt, Germany 21st-24th April. Reach out to info@vizoo3d.com and visit www.vizoo3d.com/CAST for more information.
About The Award
Presented at Texprocess in Frankfurt, the Texprocess Innovation Award honors unconventional ideas and visionary technologies for processing textiles and flexible materials. The award recognizes innovations in areas such as digitalisation, AI, process optimization, sustainability, and quality improvement.
About Vizoo
Based in Germany, Vizoo is the number one supplier of solutions for the physically accurate digitization of material swatches. Since 2013, automotive, apparel, footwear, home fashion brands and their suppliers have relied on Vizoo’s systems to digitize their material processes and create digital twins of physical material samples.
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