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News from ITMA 2007 - The International Exhibition of Textile Machinery
Issue 6 - September 18 2007
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Extraordinary
advances in
fibre
manipulation
Four record
breakers on
show from
Rieter
Finishing
touches from
Switzerland
Seamless
displays from
Santoni
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THE ITMA THAT
ALMOST WASN’T!
Vistors to the show this week may be
unaware that an incident on the eve
of the show opening almost led to the
enforced closure of eight of the halls.
Despite the seamless organisation and
years of meticulous planning by
Cematex, the VDMA and Messe
München, something completely
unforseeable led to a large-scale callout of the police, health and safety
inspectors and the fire brigade
In the early afternoon of September
12, a number of people involved in
moving wooden crates from overseas
on the site of the New Munich Trade
Fair Centre complained of coughing fits
and skin irritations from vapours.
Some also suffered nausea and
headaches. At around 6pm, further
cases occurred.
The symptoms disappeared after the
individuals had showered and changed
their clothes. In tests the fire brigade
and police did not identify any harmful
substances.
As a precaution, the affected parts of
the site and some exhibition halls were
temporarily closed. It is believed the
Advertising Sales team
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CEMATEX
The European Committee
of Textile Machinery
Manufacturers
For information about our
machinery and ITMA shows,
see our website at
www.cematex.com
Marcio and Simone Fabretti receive their prize from Franziska Ezold (left) of Messe München’s exhibition project
management.
BUSINESS AND PLEASURE
vapours came from a fumigant applied
to the wooden crates in compliance
with statutory regulations governing
their shipment.
Later, the fire brigade announced that
tests for the fumigant methyl bromide,
carried out on the wooden crates and
in the halls, had proved negative and
no further risk to health was
determined.
The Department of Health,
Environment and Toxicology at the
University Hospital Rechts der Isar
confirmed this, and all the exhibition
space was subsequently re-opened for
use in the early hours of 13 September
13.
The wooden crates were disposed of
immediately, as well as the packaging
material.
This just goes to show that – even
when everything has been planned to
the letter – there is always room for the
unpredictable...
One happy ITMA visitor can look
forward to a relaxing end to his stay in
Munich.
Brazilian Marcio Fabretti, production
manager at the synthetic-fabric
producer Jaguar Têxtil e Confecçöes
Ltda, in Sãu Paulo, proved he’s the
luckiest man at the show when his
name came out of a free draw,
organised by ITMA hosts Messe
München. He and his wife, Simone, will
get VIP treatment as they stay on for an
extra two days, to be entertained and
see the sights of the city. Marcio
entered the draw on the internet, from
his South American home.
The prize was provided by the
exhibition centre’s partners
Servicebroker, who will also act as
hosts.
For the exultant couple, it will be a
welcome chance to turn business into
pleasure. “We’ve been here since the
opening day, and we hadn’t had any
opportunity to see Munich properly!”
said Simone.
In addition to hotel accommodation
and evening dining, the prize includes
an excursion to see the sights of
Bavaria, with its stunning scenery, and a
visit to Munich’s famous Oktoberfest.
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MONNA LISA
GAINS A TURN
OF SPEED
Mr Lv Honggang pictured with staff at the CITME booth in the East Foyer.
DOUBLING UP
IN SHANGHAI
The joint strengths of Cematex and
CITME will ensure that next year’s
ITMA Asia + CITME 2008 show will
pull out all the stops to create a
must-attend event.
“ITMA is a very famous brand,
while CITME has been the show
closest to the largest buyer market
in the world,” said Mr Lv Honggang,
vice-general secretary of the China
Textile Machinery Association and
assistant director of of sales and
operations for ITMA Asia + CITME
2008. “In addition it will also attract
many buyers from other South-East
Asian countries.”
He added that the new exhibiton’s
venue, the Shanghai New Expo
Centre, already has nine halls, but
by next March will have an
additional two.
“Shanghai is the hub for all
regional textile activity in east
China,” said Mr Honggang, “and is
also increasingly international, with
many of the European companies
already based there, either through
joint ventures or branch offices.”
Maria Avery, Cematex general
secretary, added that ITMA Asia +
CITME would be held every two
years, contrary to rumours that it
would become an annual event,
and that Cematex would not be
lending any support to other events
in China.
Cematex is the European umbrella organisation of nine national textile
machinery manufacturers’ associations which are:
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Robustelli and its ink partner For.Tex
are showing a brand new version of
the Monna Lisa digital textile
production printer, containing
exclusively and for the first time the
new Epson Type-M drop-on-demand
printhead.
The new eight-colour machine can
deliver well over double the printing
speed of the established original, with
more than 96 sq m an hour at the
highest resolution of 720dpi. The
machine is equipped with 12 variabledrop Type-M heads and versions are
available with printing widths of
160cm, 180cm or 320cm.
The example on display at ITMA is
scheduled for delivery to Italian fabric
printer Nomega, where it will join an
installed complement of ten of the
earlier machines. For.Tex’s Paulo Crespi
said there were several more firm
orders for the machine, as well as
interest from countries as diverse as
Brazil, India and Indonesia.
Also being shown at the
Robustelli/For.Tex stand, No 226 in Hall
C2, is a 320cm-wide version of the
original Monna Lisa, the first example
of which was delivered to the Italian
printing-screen manufacturer
Fotoincisione Bergamasca, in December
Pictured with the new Monna Lisa is Riccardo
Robustelli
2006, where it is providing the basis of
a diversification into textile-printing
services. The company now has two
machines, using For.Tex nano-pigment
inks for the production of interior
fabrics, both on a commission basis
and with its own collections.
“Delighted, excited and really
looking forward to it.”
This was the reaction of Sylvia Phua,
CEO of Singapore-based MP
International, to the news that it
has been elected to be the
organiser of ITMA 2011 in
Barcelona.
“What makes it even more exciting
is that we are very familiar now
with the textile machinery industry,
both the exhibitors and the associations involved,” she added.
“What’s important is the mutual
understanding we have developed
through the previous shows. We are
a global service industry company
and over the past ten years have
worked very hard to gain the trust
of the community which is ITMA.
We are looking forward also, to
ensuring ITMA Asia and CITME, next
year in Shanghai, is a seamless
event.”
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WORLDWIDE
TESTING
SPECIALIST
European importers have successfully
relied for years when purchasing goods
from countries such as China, India,
Bangladesh and Turkey.
These include, for example, certification under Oeko-Tex Standard 100,
checking for compliance with legal
requirements in the target markets and
analysing other quality criteria such as
the finish, fit or comfort characteristics.
The recent media outcry resulting
from the product recall action by the
toy producer Mattel, and the
discovery of harmful substances in
babies’ bibs from China, has once
again sparked a debate about cheap
goods from Asia, causing deep
disquiet among consumers.
The fact is that responsible manufacturers in China do not inevitably supply
poor quality goods if they consistently
make quality a high priority and, for
example, have their goods tested by
recognised institutions.
For textiles, Germany’s Hohenstein
Institutes offer a wide range of
independent quality assessments and
certification processes on which
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Headquarters
All laboratory testing and certification
procedures are carried out at the
headquarters of the Hohenstein
Institutes in Bönnigheim, in order to
ensure a consistent quality standard
for customers. However, 16 agencies in
15 countries around the world also
help ensure that expert support is
available for interested companies
actually in the production countries
themselves.
Effective protection against possible
harmful substances in textiles is
provided by the Oeko-Tex Standard 100
which the Hohenstein Institutes helped
to develop 15 years ago – this is a
voluntary test and certification system
for textile fibres,
yarns, fabrics and
manufactured
end products of
all kinds.
Items that have
been tested
successfully can
be endorsed by
retailers with the
‘Confidence in
Textiles’ label,
which provides a
valuable guide for
purchasers of
textiles. However,
the prerequisite is
that all
components of
the product,
including
accessories such
as buttons, zips,
linings etc.
without exception
comply with the
requirements of
the list of criteria
which applies
consistently
worldwide.
The test criteria include legally
banned or regulated substances,
chemicals that are known to be
harmful to health and parameters
enabling consumers to take
precautions regarding their health.
Taken as a whole, therefore, they go
far beyond existing legal requirements.
The level of testing depends on the
intended use of the textile product in
question – the closer the skin contact,
the stricter the limits that are
prescribed. Baby items and textile toys
are therefore tested particularly
rigorously.
Random samples
Because Oeko-Tex certified starting
materials can be used at subsequent
processing stages along the textile
chain, random samples may be tested
at any time to ensure that the
required criteria are being met.
In addition, each year the test
institutes of the International OekoTex Association carry out product
inspections among retailers and take
random samples during production,
when the human ecology standards
that have been promised by manufacturers are checked.
The inspection service which is also
offered by the Hohenstein Institutes,
for example in China, India,
Bangladesh and Turkey, is not
confined to assessing finished
products but also, by taking random
samples locally, allows the various
stages of production and the flow of
goods to be inspected.
This extends from examining the
raw materials and accessories that are
used, through to monitoring
production and inspecting the
outgoing goods and ensuring that
they are carefully loaded into the
containers. Thanks to this comprehensive production monitoring and
quality control system, any
deficiencies are detected early, so that
subsequent costs to the purchasing
company arising from complaints are
effectively avoided.
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PIXELATING THE
SUB-MICROSCOPIC
US fibre specialist Hills Inc., exhibiting
here in Hall A3, is showing some
extordinary examples of what can be
achieved in terms of engineering the
composition of synthetic fibres.
The picture on the right shows the
ITMA 2008 logo positioned through
the cross-section of an individual fibre,
rather as the names of holiday resorts
can be put through a stick of rock (a
kind of candy for non UK readers).
Hills realised that as the sophisticated
structures of bicomponent fibres such
as ‘islands-in-the-sea’ – where two
individual fibres are extruded and the
‘sea’ is then removed – can be more
readily controlled, they can be treated
under sophisticated microscopes
rather like pixels are on a computer
screen.
“We have been exploring this
technology for the past 12 years said
Ben Shuler, Hills’ vice-president of
business development and project
management,
“and there
have been
special
applications
for military
uses and other
confidential
projects.”
Now, however, the first commercial
applications as logo security fibres are
being inroduced this year by a new
company, ARmark Security Fibers.
The company is custom-designing
them to help brand owners address
their authentication needs and to
combat the growing problem of
counterfeiting.
In addition to employing Hills
technology to brand these fibres,
ARmark, which is based in Glen Rock,
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The security designs needn’t be as
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capability of the Hills technology, but
they simply can’t be copied.
“ARmark has a Hills system with four
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EXTREME
STRETCH
Textile-chemical producer Tanatex reports
keen interest at ITMA in its new Easy Stretch
finish, which significantly enhances the
stretch and recovery of knitwear.
Easy Stretch is the result of a piece of
imaginative thinking, in which
Tanatex researchers
tested various
combinations of
their existing
softener
products to
discover what
effect they
would have on
elongation.
Using samples of
PA/elastane fabric,
a combination of
Persoftal Nano SIL and
Persoftal Ultra ultimately
provided the best solution,
with elongation increased by
20% in comparison with the untreated
knit. Tanatex says the effect on rib tricot and
sportswear is to give both extra comfort and
elasticity.
Tanatex used a modified version of the M&S
P14 testing method in order to evaluate its
results. “We tested the strain of the knit when
a load of 0.5 kg was reached,” said global
finishing product manager Johan Cleyman.
“On a non-treated knit the stretch after five
stretching cycles was 90mm. When we tested
the Easy Stretch finished knit we obtained a
strain of 120mm.
Mr Cleyman said it had later been discovered
that the addition of a small quantity of
polyurethane could increase the stretch to as
much as 160mm.
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Pictured (left to right) are: Walter Zweifel, Rieter’s head of sales in Thailand), Udomchai Chalermlarp-anan of
Nanyang Textile Group and Jürgen Müller and Peter Illi both of Rieter
PRESENT IN OVER 100 COUNTRIES
Rieter Spun Yarn Systems has just delivered its 700th RSB drawframe to Nanyang
Textile Group, a leading spinning and knitting company based in Thailand. Nanyang
is currently operating over 30 RSB drawframes.
Rieter has now installed more than 24,000 RSB/SB drawframes worldwide in over
2,100 spinning mills in around 100 countries.
MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE
Foreign fibres made of polypropylene or PE foils are still a massive problem for the
cotton processing industry. Enormous sums are spent annually by spinning, weaving,
knitting and finishing operations to compensate for damages caused by contamination with PP and residual foils.
Truetzschler’s Securoprop SP-FP is a new solution to this problem. An enhanced
version of the company’s proven Securomat SP-F technology and in addition to
coloured foreign parts it can also detect and separate white, colourless and
transparent polypropylene in the blow room, with an absolutely minimum loss of
good fibres. Truetzschler uses an entirely new patented technology to detect these
foreign parts – polarised light and CCD colour line cameras developed in-house.
The unit is on display at stand 321/412 in Hall 4.
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RECORD BREAKING
0N FOUR FRONTS
Rieter Textile Systems reports innovation on
four fronts in the spinning of short staple
yarns here in Munich.
Highlights at the company’s stand include the
new G 35 ring spinning machine, the new K 45
compact spinning machine, SB 20 double head
and SB D 11 single head draw frames, the new E
66/E 76 comber generation combined with the
new OMEGAlap combing preparation. New
versions and improvements of the C 60 card are
being presented along with a new integrated
drafting module.
The company’s latest R 40 rotor spinning
machine is being
supplied in the longest
version available with
500 units at the same
time and also the
fastest achievable
speeds of 330 metres
per minute and
160,000 rpm.
The company is also
showing the longest K
45 compact ring
spinning unit with
1,632 spindles running
with various options via
its Variospin with core
yarn. A third innovation
is the company’s latest
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fully-automatic comber, the fastest and most
productive available, running at speeds of 500
metres per minute for production of up to
74kg/hour of combed sliver.
Finally, the latest version of Rieter’s C 60 card
has an output of 220 kg/hour with a working
width of 1.5 metres.
Rieter is the leading systems supplier for
machinery for spinning short staple yarns, and
producing nonwovens or pellets. The company’s
current strategy is to innovate for further
customer benefit and to move East to be closer
to the growing markets.
Rieter’s top performance products reduce the
number of machines needed for production,
ensuring both quality and lower operation costs.
In all fields of activity, Rieter offers complete
systems. This approach offers quick return of
investment and independent consultancy for the
customer with a focus on the right solution
without compromise.
The specialists for components for the ring and
rotor spinning technology, Graf, Bräcker, Novibra
and Suessen, manufacture technology parts with
high precision for high performance and
convincing permanence for spinning mills, as
well as for OEMs. Graf aims to conquer a new
market field with its latest products for the
nonwovens industry.
Together with its partner NSC, Rieter offers a
complete systems supply to cover 80% of the
nonwovens market.
Rieter’s research and development focuses on top
performance products. It can be shown that the
increase of machine production lowers the specific
costs per kg of end product. Top performance
systems also reduce space needed, power
consumed and maintenance. In parallel Rieter can
demonstrate that the quality level not only has
been obtained but further improved.
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BUILDING ON DIGITAL
POTENTIAL
DuPont Imaging Technologies is previewing a next-generation, high-speed, variabledrop, two-metre-wide digital textile printer at its stand in Hall C2.
“Although this system is currently not a commercial offering, we are evaluating
several different ways to potentially deliver this technology to the industry,” said
Michael Lazzara, global product manager for the DuPont Artistri. “Being at ITMA
provides us with a rare opportunity to evaluate these options with the textile
printing marketplace.”
With print speeds up to 120 square metres an hour and variable drop size
capabilities, the prototype has been designed for production environments where
high speed and quality are important.
“This is one response to requests from customers and the industry for a highspeed, variable-drop, production-capable digital textile system that can print on a
broad range of textiles,” said Mr Lazzara. “The system builds on the extensive
experience we have gained in the global textile marketplace with our Artistri 2020
and 3320 printers and we want to clearly identify potential applications where this
system fits in,”
Also featured on the DuPont stand, Hall C2 417-516, is the recently launched
Artistri 3320 digital textile printing system.
ORGANIC OILS GROW IN
POPULARITY
Interest is growing in circular knitting machine oils suitable for organic labels, as
knitters become more conscious of environmental concerns.
Speaking to the ITMA Daily News, Ian Jameson, senior sales manager at UK-based
company Vickers Oils, said sales of oils which meet particular environmental
standards were growing. “Environmental
awareness has only really become an issue with
knitters over the last two years,” he said. “It
ties in with growing environmental awareness
in some developing countries.
“It has been said that you can tell the colour of
the fashions by looking in China’s rivers, but
they are becoming more environmentally
aware.”
Mr Jameson also said Vickers Oils, an environmentally accredited company, has produced
NPE-free oils for the last 10 years. “We
removed NPEs from our oils at the time as they
were to be banned from the EU.”
Buyers of Vickers Oils tend to be the bigger
knitting factories supplying export markets
which have the latest machinery.
Right: Ian Jameson, senior sales manager at Vickers Oils
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Ian Jameson, senior sales manager at Vickers Oils
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Pictured is Xetema
Vollenwider director
of sales and
marketing Karsten
Heinz with
assistants Alexandra
and Kathrin.
THE FINISHING TOUCHES
Xetma Vollenweider’s range of fabric
surface finishing systems being
shown in Hall C3 at stand 500
comprises Soft Touch (brushing and
emerizing), Plush Touch (raising),
Even Touch (shearing), Level Touch
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(cloth cleaning).
The new Soft Touch combines
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brushing and emerizing in a single
operation to produce high density
fabrics said to have an incomparably
softer feel which the company is
calling ‘Rose Petal’.
Using this combined technology, in
which brushing and emerizing rollers
are used alternately, much higher
production speeds can be achieved
than with competing single-line.
An increase in productivity can also
be achieved by combining the raising
and emerizing technologies in one
process, which the company refers to
as ‘Moss Touch’ due to the high
volume of the very short, dense pile.
As the the longest-standing
manufacturer of shearing machines
Xetma Vollenweider can draw on
more than 120 years of experience
and in addition to providing
maximum precision, its shearing
systems provide extended cutter
durability.
The pile preparation and shearing
system on display here in Munich is
engineered to achieve the maximum
possible production speeds and
producing shearing results and the
highest quality.
Also being introduced is the
compact Optiplush XT for manufacturers of velvets, plush fabrics and
long-pile articles, which is modular in
design so that several processes can
be easily integrated into a single
system.
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SAVIO SECURES
MAJOR ORDER
Italy’s Savio yesterday concluded a very significant order from India.
The client is the Ramco Group and encompasses 84 Polar I winders and 22 FlexiRotor 3000 OE spinning
machines.
Pictured above, from the left are SR Srirama Raja, director of Shri Vishnu Shankar Mills (Ramco), L. Cucchetto,
Savio’s general manager. V. Raju general manager of Rajapalayam Mills (Ramco) and G. Checchini, general
manager of ITEMA India.
IT Challenge
The giant Microsoft corporation is planning an assault on the textile and apparel industry,
with textile IT specialist Blue Fox Porini in the vanguard.
The Italian company, exhibiting in Hall A2 at stand 221, was chosen by the global corporation
as its partner for the development of sector-specific ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)
applications based on the flagship Microsoft Dynamics AX. The project began in 2005, and
the first applications are due to launch on October 1 in India, the USA, Belgium and Italy.
The applications will also feature at Microsoft’s convention in Copenhagen, in October.
GET SET FOR LESS SPACE
Germany’s Power-Heat-Set is launching an
entirely new heat-set process for carpet
yarns.
The company says its new, compact system
is ‘unparalleled’ in many of its advances, with
minimal energy consumption, a space-saving
design and greater cost-effectiveness.
Furthermore, says Power-Heat-Set, operation
and maintenance are made easier. Several
patents are pending.
The system, which uses a saturated steam
process up to 140°C, with integrated yarn
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cooling, requires a space of only 15m x 5m to
encompass creel, compact heatsetting and
winding machine. The machine
accommodates 24 ends, with a throughput of
up to 250kg/h and a yarn input speed up to
700m/min. Power consumption is up to
7kWh.
President and CEO Peter Resch said a heatrecovery unit could be added, providing a
further positive effect on the total energy
balance. The machine system can be seen in
Hall A5 at stand 300.
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SMALL BUT
PERFECTLY
FORMED
Easy to miss because of its
diminutive size is the L2B 100, on
the stand of the Greek-UK Intertrad
Group, Hall C1 at stand 371.
This is a lab dyeing machine with
almost all the features of a full-size
jet dyeing machine, and is
designed to achieve a high level of
lab-to-bulk transferability.
Manufactured by Talos Robotics,
the company behind the Robolab,
the L2B has a sample capacity of
between 15 and 30g and operates
at liquor ratios between 1:6 and
1:15. The temperature range is from 5-135°.
Intertrad says that until now, factors that dramatically affect the final shade
in bulk production, such as fabric movement, progressive additions,
controlled automatic rinsing, pH adjustment, and filling/draining, could not
be paralleled in lab procedures. The L2B 100 has been designed to a address
these deficiencies. Intertrad claims lab-to-bulk repeatability in excess of 95%,
and repeatability over 98%.
While it is perhaps the most visually arresting feature of the Intertrad stand,
the machine is perhaps not the main focus of the company’s efforts at ITMA.
Rather, it is promoting the benefits of its MentorSys consultancy and
software programme, aimed at guiding mills towards greater efficiency.
Intertrad experts will work with dyehouses anywhere in the world, analyse
their processes and recommend a programme of efficiency measures.
Technical sales director Glykeria Kostoula said that, uniquely, Intertrad would
tell managers exactly how much they could expect to save, and would then
work with them over an extended period as mentors.
Intertrad Group was formerly known as Sclavos International, and was the
distributor of Sclavos dyeing machines. It changed its name last year after the
relationship ceased and now only retains the Sclavos name it in its US
subsidiary, which, however, no longer sells Sclavos machines.
GTN BUYS SSM SINGEING MACHINE
Leading cotton singed and ready to dye yarn exporter GTN Textiles, based in
Alwaye, Kerala, India, today confirmed an order for 80 positions of the new
generation GSX-2 singeing machine .
The GTN Group employs more than 6,000 people and is headed by the Patodia
family.
Pictured from left to right are Arne Jaeger of GM SSM India, Rainer Roten CEO
of SSM, Beat Siegrist of Schweiter Technologies, B. K. Patodia, Mr Seksaria and
Umang Patodia.
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CONSTANT
CLOTHING
Garnett Wire’s metallic card clothing is
manufactured in the company’s factory in
Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, UK, with the
wire profile supplied by a sister company,
ensuring the process is controlled from
round wire to the finished product. This
has allowed Garnett Wire, which is at
stand 202 in Hall A4 this week, to build
up a strong reputation in the textile
carding industry for reliability, durability,
and service.
The company’s metallic card clothing is
supplied to some of the leading
companies in the woollen, worsted and
nonwoven textiles sectors throughout the
world.
It can supply carbon steel and
alloy/stainless steel products as required
by specialist textile producers.
The need for installation speed in order
to reduce down time is critical in today’s
manufacturing environment and Garnett
Wire has been in the forefront of
developing equipment that is simply
added to the carding machine to allow
the fitting of the metallic wires with as
little dismantling of the card as possible.
This equipment is designed to enable it to
be fitted to any type of carding machine.
TWO YEARS IN
SHANGHAI
The Chinese contact office of the Hohenstein Institutes in
Shanghai is looking back on two extremely successful years in
business.
Hohenstein Textile Consulting Co. Ltd. was founded at the
beginning of June 2005 as an advisory and intermediary
company and currently employs a number of highly-qualified
members of staff
under the
leadership of
country manager
Rachel Huang,
pictured right.
The range of
services on offer
from the
Hohenstein
overseas representative agency
covers a broad
spectrum of textile
quality tests,
ranging from
traditional material
tests through to
the evaluation of
processing and
fitness for
purpose.
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Pictured with the
Oerlikon Barmag team
is Alsafil CEO Patrick
Dallamano.
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TEXTURING MACHINE
ORDER FROM ALSAFIL
The Oerlikon Barmag MPS CoolFlex texturing machine has been
received with huge interest and the company is celebrating its
first sales success with this new machine during the show.
The machine is a model variant of the Multi Purpose Superflex
texturing machine launched in 2003 and Alsafil Spa, one of the
major Italian yarn manufacturers, this week signed a contract
for eight MPS machines, six of which are in the CoolFlex design.
“We procured eight MPS machines at the beginning of the
year,” said Patrick Dallamano, CEO and owner of Alsafil “We
have been convinced by this texturing concept for quite some
time now. The MPS CoolFlex has some special features, which
make it virtually the perfect machine for us. The decision to
purchase was an easy one.”
Equipped with the Oerlikon Barmag MPS texturing concept as
well as the automation supplied by Oerlikon Textile subsidiary
Autefa, Alsafil is currently the most modern texturing plant in
Europe.
The MPS - the 1,000th section was recently commissioned - is
widely regarded as a guarantee of success for quality-conscious
yarn manufacturers in the high-end market. Its standard
equipment is the Unitens online monitoring system, which
provides consistent evaluation of the yarn quality.
With more than 500,000 sensors in over 2,300 machines in 41
different countries, Unitens is the most-demanded system of its
kind.
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HARNESS-FREE
AIR-JET A HIT
Narrow fabrics machinery specialist
Jakob Müller of Switzerland reports
a number of sales during this ITMA
of its new MDLA 115 (taffeta) airjet loom.
This is the world’s first harness-free,
air-jet loom for high-quality,
jacquard-patterned labels with cut
edges. The new process, with direct,
individual warp thread control for
which a global patent has been
registered, replaces jacquard
machines, harnesses with comber
boards and retracting springs.
This allows simple access to the
weft, auxiliary and warp fibres from
the front and above. Weft insertion in
up to eight colours is carried out by
the patented three-pressure system,
which, in combination with the yarn
table, allows the
production of an
extensive range of yarn
qualities at the highest
insertion speeds.
Individual warp thread
control means that the
production of labels
with individual
numbering
(Münumbermaster) and
bar codes (Mübarcode,
visible or invisible) are
amongst the most
important applications
of the new machine.
Also attracting a lot of interest at
Jakob Müller’s stand (314 in Hall B4)
is the Müprint1 for manufacturing
printed textile tapes for high-quality
labels.
This semi-digital system provides
rotary printing for one- and twocolour labels. The system consists of
the Mücad-Print (label design
software), Müscreener (screening
drum production, 1 screen per
colour), Müprint1 (printing machine
for satin and taffeta tapes) and the
Mücleaner (printing drum cleaning
device). The Müprint1 has a
maximum printing width of 200 mm
and up to four tapes can be printed
simultaneously. An article change
takes a maximum of five minutes.
Pictured are Monarch’s management team and the company’s stand builders in Hall A1
MOZAMBIQUE PLAN
UK consultant Roy Parker is at ITMA this week to carry out a World
Bank feasability study on installing a complete spinning plant in
Mozambique.
“This will be a diifferent type of spinning plant,” he said. “I’ve been
talking to Rieter, Schlafhorst, Savio and Truetzschler with a view to
them putting together costs for a plant to produce 120,000 tons
annual of raw cotton lint adjacent to a ginning plant and surrounded
by farms owned by the company involved”
It is initially planned to have five spinning lines, 25% of which will be
the new Roller Air spinning technology which is being promoted by
Mr Parker.
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WATER
WIZARDRY
The latest Drycom moisture
measurement and control system
from Streat Instruments has been
designed to provide advanced
functionality and ease of use.
The new on-line system is modular,
allowing for flexibility in configuration, with a compact colour
touchscreen for operator interface
and trending of data and a costeffective OEM ‘black box’ variant for
seamless integration into OEM control
systems or existing plant SCADA
systems.
The popular off-line Labcom system
has also received a full upgrade –
again offering colour touchscreen
operator interface and advanced PC
connectivity and software.
Sensors are available to allow testing
of moisture from loose fibre through
to finished fabric and garments.
A number of new applications have
been developed for the Streat Drycom
system including:
● Carpet weight checks
Normally moisture tests of weight
check samples for carpets are
tedious, time consuming and
subject to weighing, drying and
operator error. Drycom provides
immediate, accurate and
non-destructive moisture results.
● Carpet backing
For synthetic carpets, the backing
process can be incredibly energy
intensive operation. Over or under
drying can result in quality
problems including de-lamination.
Drycom prevents these problems
and provides accurate and
immediate
information
to allow for
much better
control of the
process –
energy
savings
alone
provide
short payback
periods.
● Nonwovens
Nonwoven processors working
with hygroscopic fibres such as
cotton and viscose benefit
significantly from the
implementation of Streat systems.
Many major healthcare and
sanitary product manufacturers
use Streat systems to ensure
optimum product quality.
Spunlace processors working with
fibres such as cotton or viscose
(or blends with polyester) also
reap significant benefits.
The Factory Wizard range of products
starts with a simple plant monitoring
system to record parameters in the
mill such as temperature, humidity
etc., and goes up to a full plant
SCADA system.
The most popular entry level system
is basically a PC-based chart recorder
which replaces the conventional pen
chart recorders that were traditionally
offered to provide a hard copy record
of moisture and dryer control
parameters.
The new Streat Factory Wizard PCbased chart recorder system offered
Labcom Series 8 off-line
moisture measurement
system
by Streat Instruments offers offer
significant benefits including:
● Multiple inputs mean many more
plant variables can be recorded
and trended.
● Real time line graphs (trends) and
data screens on PC.
● Different screens can be assigned
to separate groups of inputs
(eg. in different areas of the plant).
● Batch and continuous recording.
● Batch reporting.
● All data stored to disk.
● Data can be recalled for historical
analysis and tracking.
● Total time run and downtime
reporting.
● Hard copy to printer as required.
● Alarm and event handling.
● Multi level passwords for security.
● User log on audit.
● Easily expandable to allow more
inputs or to upgrade to a full
SCADA system.
ScourWizard has been developed
specifically for wool scours but the
concept can (and has been) be
applied to a huge range of
industries.
All parameters from the scouring
plant (plant status, feedrate,
speeds, chemical addition,
temperature etc) are brought to one
central location to enable trending,
reporting and centralised recipe
based control
Moisture is a critical factor in
many application areas and
processes. By measuring the
moisture significant benefits can be
obtained.
● Further information:
[email protected]
Streat Drycom moisture sensors on
bleached cotton dryer
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BELCORO
ASSURANCE
Oerlikon Schlafhorst's Autocoro S
360, the first rotor spinning
machine equipped with
DigiPiecing, offers top productivity
performance with 360 spinning
positions, take-up speeds of up to
230 m/min and rotor speeds of up
to 130,000 rpm.
Its spinbox is the market-leading
Corobox SE 12. With its Twin Disc
bearing and the Magnetic Rotor
Positioning System (MRPS), it
guarantees maximum productivity
and Belcoro yarn quality for a
large range of yarn counts, raw
materials, blends and applications.
The Autocoro S 360 offers the
optimum prerequisites for Belcoro
certification. Spinning mills can
consequently derive the maximum
benefit from the Belcoro brand
and from the advantages of the
most sought-after rotor yarns in
the world.
DigiPiecing provides double
quality assurance with digital
SDTU Single Drive Take Up, SDSI
Single Drive Sliver Intake and
Corolab XQ. These guarantee
piecings that are indistinguishable
from the parent yarn -100 %
digitally controlled, 100 % digitally
checked. The result is maximum
piecing precision, infinitely
reproducible on each single
spinning position. The
marketleading Corolab XQ digital
yarn monitoring system in the
Autocoro S 360 guarantees consistently checked yarns.
The intelligent operating concept
on the Autocoro S 360 saves
inspection patrols - each spinning
position indicates its production
Oerlikon Schlafhorst sold the first ten new Autocoro S360 machines to Pallipalayam Spinners in Erode,
India,. here at ITMA.
status by a coloured LED signal,
visible even at a distance. In
addition, all machine settings are
entered centrally,
securely and simply on the
Informator touch screen. With EVA
(Electronic Vacuum Adjustment),
the Autocoro S 360 additionally
ensures a constant spinning
vacuum, reducing the number of
yarn breaks and the energy
requirements.
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Left to right: Havertex/Beck general managers Andreas Kirschbickler, Oliver Beck and Simon Balconi and
Salvatore Giustolisi, also of the company
SINKER-FREE FINE FABRICS
There are almost 70 Swiss exhibitors here at ITMA 2007 with combined space of
around 7,900 square metres.
The current climate for Swiss textile machinery manufacturers is still very good
indeed, reports Dr Lukas Sigrist of the organisation.
The global value of Swiss-exported textile machinery climbed by 10% in 2006 to
reach a total value of Sfr 2.1 billion.
Pictured at the swissmem booth yesterday are Katharina Reichner, Dr Lukas
Sigrist and Sabine Küchle.
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Havertex, the manufacturer of Beck
circular knitting machines plans to
expand its production by 30-40% in
the next year, according to general
manager Oliver Beck.
He said the company’s stand had
attracted a lot of interest from
Europe, South American, the US and
Indian customers, with big orders
coming in.
The company’s display includes the
Havertex Beck BSM 2100 circular
knitting machine, which enables very
fine gauge fabrics to be knit without
sinkers, said general manager Simon
Balconi. “It makes it possible to knit
very special fabric which is like a
second skin and is very soft,” he
added.
The 62-gauge machine has been
successfully running in factories for
six months. “There are no vertical
lines in the fabric because there is no
space for sinkers in this kind of
gauge,” said Mr Beck.
The machine on display was an
open width 2100mm equipped with
a Memminger navigation system.
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Mannequins showing garments produced by
Santoni's seamless knitting machines in its fashion
and technology area
SEAMLESS
OUTERWEAR
HIT AT ITMA
Santoni is showcasing the latest
circular knitting technology for
seamless outerwear garments at its
stand and as well as interest from
European manufacturers, has
attracted many South American,
Indian and Far Eastern visitors.
The company has a large fashion area
on its stand, featuring mannequins
kitted out with the wide range of
outerwear that can be knitted on its
machines.
Sales area manager Marco Poddine
described how the latest machines can
knit outerwear in one-third the time
taken by a flat knitting machine.
“These garments are normally
manufactured using flat bed machines
but the garment takes longer to
produce.”
Finer gauges are also possible using
circular knitting machines enabling
manufacturers to meet the latest
trends towards fine gauge garments.
New models on Santoni’s stand
designed to make such garments
include the SM9-MF. “This has a totally
redesigned knitting head compared
with the previous model and modular
feed. It can be customised. For
example a customer can order a
machine with six feeds on the cylinder
and three on the dial or maybe a 12feed cylinder depending on what they
make.”
The machine on display at ITMA is an
18-gauge machine which will be in
production by the end of this year or
early next year, according to Mr
Poddine. “By the end of next year we
will have a 20-gauge machine
Right: Charles Jacob, Vignoni sales manager with
the Vignoni Iris striper
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available. This will be suitable for fine
lingerie production and also outerwear
and silk knitting for high quality
markets such as Italy, Germany, Austria
and Japan.
Also showcased is Santoni’s bestselling SM8-TOP2 in 40-gauge. “This
follows customer requests for light
fabric, soft, high quality underwear or
fabric to make ladieswear,” he said.
The machine can also be used for
swimwear and activewear. “It produces
garments with high stretch but
without being transparent,” he
explained.
Mr Poddine also showed ITMA Daily
News a bra and sports skirt knitted by
the company’s SM4TL2 model. “The
bra can be knitted completely and it is
only necessary to join the straps,” he
explained.
The sports skirt was also complete,
including pants with joining only
required at the gusset.
Santoni’s SM8-TOP1V was also on
display with a maximum speed of
150rpm possible in production, said
Mr Poddine. “Its only limitation is it is
only suitable for manmade fibres, not
cotton.”
Santoni’s large diameter circular
knitting arm, Vignoni had five
machines on display in its section of
the stand. Among these, adding a
blaze of colour to the display was the
Vignoni Iris, single jersey striper
machine with 48 feeds and up to six
colours/feed.
Charles Jacob, sales director of
Santoni explained how the machine is
user-friendly. “For the first time there is
no cam or actuator for colour
selection, the striping device is truly
electronic. You can change colour
quickly wherever and whenever you
want.”
Another breakthrough is the holdingdown jacks system on the Atlas model,
which has no sinkers. The system stops
the fabric from rising when the needle
rises, explained Mr Jacob. “In fine
gauge fabrics there are problems with
vertical lines and enlarged stitches
when using machines with sinkers. The
only solution is to form the stitch
directly on the cylinder. When doing
this it is difficult to stop the fabric.
“Our technical people developed a
solution - a holding down jack which
holds the fabric down when the needle
is up to avoid the fabric going up with
the needle.”
The holding-down jack system
facilitates stitch knock-over, allows
work at 88 knit feeds in 30in and
makes knitting restart fast and easy
after press-off, according to the
company.
FAULT DETECTION IN 3D
Carpet weavers will benefit from new software packages designed to help
them tackle weaving faults and allow customers to view products on-line.
Iranian-based Booria CAD/CAM systems has developed software which shows
a three dimensional view of a carpet cross section, allowing manufacturers to
easily create their own weave sets, explained Gholamreza Salamati, the
company’s marketing manager.
“Design information is transferred to Carpet Weaver software helping the
technician convert the design into data for manufacturing purposes. It can
create all weave sets.”
Technicians can see the weave in graphical format and eliminate mistakes
before manufacture or create their own effects. “Usually, manufacturers use
predefined weaves but with this software they can easily vary carpets. It
eliminates the boundaries in carpet weaving,” he said.
Key customers for the software include Turkey, Iran and the US.
The company has also developed Web Builder software which provides
opportunities for carpet manufacturers to present their carpet galleries online to customers, said Mr Salamati. “This
could allow on-line shopping and
ordering and allows the manufacturer to
offer different levels of service for
different customers such as gold, silver
and platinum. These could offer different
levels of discount for different customers,
for example.”
The software allows offers different
report options such as top sellers and
new designs and scope to present
technical information for each carpet, as
well as options to view it in 3D.
Finally, the company has invented
Robotuft software, making it easier to
prepare carpet designs for hand tuft
robot made carpets, added Mr Salamati.
Gholamreza Salamati, Booria marketing manager with
Robotuft software
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Diary of Events
Dates
Event
September 2007
13 – 20
16 – 17
17 – 17
18 – 21
24 – 27
26 – 28
27 – 30
ITMA 2007. New Munich Trade Fair Centre. Munich, Germany.
Contact: Munchen Gmbh. Tel: + 49 89 949 114 28.
e-mail: [email protected]
The Off Price Show. Trade event for discount and clearance clothing,
footwear, sportswear and accessories. Olympia, London, UK.
e-mail: [email protected] Website: www.offpriceshow.co.uk
Texworld worldwide fabrics ‘Rendez-vous’ International meeting place
for the textile industry. Paris, Le Bouget.
Website: www.interstoff.messe.frankfurt.com/texworld
Le Cuir a Paris 2007. Leather & Fur Fair. Paris Nord – Villepinti.
Tel: 0033 (0) 48 63 30 30. Fax: 0033 (0) 48 63 33 70
INTC 2007. Joint INDA and TAPPI conference. International Nonwovens
Technical Conference. Renaissance Waverley Hotel , Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Contact: Deanna Lovell at INDA Tel: 001(919) 233-1210.
Fax: 001 (919) 233-1282. e-mail: [email protected] Website: www.inda.org
EDANA OUTLOOK 2007. Personal Care Products. Conference Hotel,
Cascais Miragem, Cascais, Lisbon, Portugal. Contact: Natacha Defeche,
Marketing Manager. Tel: 0032 2 734 93 10. Fax: 0032 2 733 35 18.
e-mail: [email protected] Website: www.edana.org
Milanovendemoda. Fieramilanocity.
Website: www.milanovendamoda.expocts.it
October
03 – 05
03 – 05
04 – 06
08 – 08
09 – 11
10 – 12
10 – 13
10 – 13
16 – 18
22 – 24
22 – 24
24 – 25
24 – 25
29 – 31
29 – 01
IFAI EXPO 07. Speciality fabrics show. Las Vegas, USA. Contact: IFAI.
Tel: +1 651 222 2508. e-mail: [email protected]
Interstoff Asia. Esential-Autumn, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition
Centre, Hong Kong. Website: www.interstroff.messefrankfurt.com
Balkan Gate Apparel & Textile Exhibition. Ready made and knitwear.
Textile yarns, accessories and auxiliary materials for tailoring. Inter Expo &
Congress Centre, Sofia , Bulgaria. Website: www.bgateexpo.com
Medical Textiles Network and Biocomplicity. The importance of Medical
Textiles with respect to use, protective, performance, costs, societal
benefits and enviromental impacts. University of California,
Davis CA, USA. Website: www.thefibersociety.org
2007 Fiber Society Fall Conference. Papers on fundamental research
related to the science and engineering of fibres and fibrous materials are
being solicited for the conference. University of California, Davis , CA , USA.
Contact: e-mail: Pam [email protected] Website: www.thefibersociety.org
Textextil India. Mumbai India. Contact: Messe Frankfurt
Tel: 0049 69 7575 5889. Fax: 0049 69 7575 6541.
e-mail: [email protected] Website: www.messefrankfurt.com
Texworld India. Bombay Exhibition Centre, Western Express Highway,
Goregaon (East), Mumbai India.
Website: www.interstoff.messefrankfurt.com/texworldindia
SibFashion–SibTextile. Novosibirsk Russia.
Contact: Tel: 007 (0) 3832/255151. Fax: 007 (0) 3832/259845.
e-mail: [email protected] Website: www.sibfair.ru
The Link with India International Conference. Renaissance Mumbai.
Hotel & Convention Centre, Mumbai India.
Contact: INDA. Tel: 001 (919) 233-1210. Fax: 001 (919) 233-1282.
e-mail: [email protected] Website: www.inda.org
Shanghai International Nonwovens Conference & Exhibition.
Intex Shanghai. Shanghai, China.
Contact: Tel: 00852 2827 6211. Fax: 00852 2827 7831
SINCE 2007. International Nonwovens conference and exhibition Intex
Exhibition Centre, Shanghai.
Contact: CNTA Science & Technology.
Tel: +86 21 6464 558 2147. Fax: +86 21 6481 2993.
e-mail: [email protected]
ECMOD 2007. Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, UK.
Contact: Tel: 0044 (0) 1271 866112. Fax: 0044 (0) 1271 866040.
e-mail: [email protected] Website: www.ecmod.com
Nonoparticles for European Industry II. Olympia Conference Centre,
London. Contact: Gemma McCulloch. Tel: 0044 (0) 1786 447520.
Fax: 0044 (0) 1786 447530. e-mail: [email protected]
Website: www..nano.org.uk/conferences
Yarn Expo. Shanghai, China/ International Trade Fair for Fibres and Yarns.
Shanghai International Convention Centre, Shanghai China.
Website: www.interstoff.messe.frankfurt.com/global
Intertextile Shanghai. Apparel Fabrics. Shanghai New International Expo
Centre, Shanghai, China. Contact: Tel: 0086 21 2890 6666.
Fax: 0086 21 6856 6777. e-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.imessefrankfurt.com
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