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| Issue date:01/08/2006 |
| ATA Journal for Asia on Textile & Apparel - Aug 2006 Issue |
| Source:Journal for Asia on Textile & Apparel |
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AGM Jactex
Jacquard/Harness and weaving accessories
AGM Jactex AG was established 10 years ago by a management buy-out from then AGMueller. Over these 10 years a number of new product lines have been added to the product range.
For jacquard/harness accessories, AGM Jactex provides harness cords of all kinds, comber boards, guiding boards, endless Jacquard papers, springs with healds, harness springs with micro seal, pulley cords, shrink sleeves and so on. For weaving accessories, rapier tapes of all kinds, dobby foils and foils for color changers and roller coverings are offered.
Every year, the company budgets a substantial amount on product development. Special machines are being built in-house and outside based on the company's specific requirements.
Benninger
Machines for weaving preparation, textile finishing, tire cord and automation
Benninger's new warping machine ERGOTEC |
The company supplies high quality textile machines for optimizing processes from weaving to finishing. Benninger is an international group of companies based in Uzwil, Switzerland with subsidiaries in Germany, Italy, Russia, China, India and the US, and has an annual turnover of than CHF240 million with around 650 employees.
Since its founding in 1859, the Benninger Group has developed a wide range of products from weaving preparation, textile finishing systems, tire cord impregnation systems, to automation.
Striving to provide the best service to its international customers, Benninger has a global sales network with wholly owned sales offices and service centers in Italy, Germany, China, India and the US, as well as further service centers in Benelux, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil, Pakistan, Thailand, Indonesia and Russia.
Cavitec/Santex Nonwoven
Equipment for coating and laminating, hotmelt, powder scattering, fusible interlinings, nonwoven thermobonding
Cavitec line for simultaneous tri-laminate hotmelt lamination of breathable membranes |
The Cavitec and Santex Nonwoven are brand names of Santex Group International, a Swiss textile machinery manufacturer. Other brands of the group are SperottoRimar of Italy and Santex of Switzerland. In coating and laminating, the extensive machinery range covers different coating methods for hotmelt, powders and pastes.
For fusible interlinings, the proven Caivdot powder dot, paste dot and double dot systems are offered. Caviscat scattering machines and lines with high scatter uniformity are available for powders, pellets, chips, up to widths over six meters. The Caviflex hotmelt coating and laminating machine can be supplied with exchangeable coating modules for the five coating systems rotogravure, screen print, multi roll, slot die and spray coating. This allows the utilization of different coating methods in the same processing line.
The core activities in nonwoven are oven technologies, namely Santatherm, the double belt ovens for thermobonding and drying, and the Santaframe stenter frames with aero-surf nozzles for drying and heat setting.
Ciba Specialty Chemicals
Introducing High IQ
For the textile industry, Ciba Specialty Chemicals manufactures a broad range of chemical and dye products that enhance the performance properties and color of finished textiles and materials. It serves more than 10,000 customers in 80 countries.
The new High IQ brand encompasses a number of intelligent effects and effect combinations |
The month June is marking the launch of the world's first comprehensive global branding program for innovative, value-adding colors and effects that meet consumer needs. "High IQ", launched by Ciba, encompasses a number of intelligent effects, including Lasting Color, Cool Comfort, Sun Protection, Freshness and Easy Care.
High IQ is aimed at helping key decision-makers in the textile value chain to source garments that provide consistently high quality, performance and value for money.
The program will help dyeing and finishing mills to produce fabric to clearly define specifications. Hangtags carrying concise benefit statements will be distributed free of charge to licensed mills and/or garment makers for all fabrics that conform to the specifications. High IQ ensures that garments carrying the new hangtag consistently meet top performance standards.
Previously, Ciba Specialty Chemicals has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its textile effects business to Huntsman Corporation.
Clariant
A new concept for continuous dyeing
Clariant, a key supplier in the field of specialty chemicals, has developed the new Drimaren HF-CD ternary combination to solve continuous dyeing problems on cotton. Typically the problems of tailing, two-sidedness, poor laboratory to bulk reproducibility, and bulk continuity, are well known issues, especially in pale to medium depths of shade. In addition, poor pad liquor stability is also a concern. This new range of dyestuffs has the same affinity factors and has both high reactivity and good washing off properties which enables it to solve all of these continuous dyeing problems.
Clariant has more than 135 years' experience in the textile business, offering textile chemicals and dyes together with comprehensive expertise and services.
It is represented on five continents with over 100 group companies, and employs about 23,000 people. Headquartered in Muttenz near Basel, it generated sales of around CHF 8.2 billion in 2005. Its businesses are organized in five divisions: textile, leather & paper chemicals, pigments & additives, functional chemicals, life science chemicals and masterbatches.
TWIN C Power heald frame |
Grob Horgen
Heald frame and warp stop motion
Grob Horgen's TWIN C Power heald frame incorporates aluminum profiles and high performance carbon fibers, and is resistant to the loads produced by weaving machines at high operating speeds, catering to the stringent requirement of shedding motions. The heald frame features:
maximized frame stave bending strength
a design with two high-performance carbon profiles in the same frame stave (patent pending)
unlimited use of the performances potential of all types of shedding motions
wide weaving widths without the need of intermediate supports
optimized functionality with heald vibration dampening system
compatibility with commonly-known automatic drawing-in machines
Another product, Warp Stop Motion KFW 5600, facilitates a geometry for warp yarn guidance with precise and gentle monitoring of individual ends. A modular design provides multiple execution alternatives ranging from a cost effective model to a model with enhanced electronics. Individual models can be equipped with either a single function connecting part or a multiple function connecting part, providing optical thread breakage indication with Programmable- Signal-Processor (PSP) — adaptable to both the right and left weaving machine sides according to requirements.
Habasit
Transmission belts, spindle tapes and conveyor belts
Yarn manufacturing requires a wide range of power transmission belts, spindle tapes and conveyor belts. Habasit's TC-tangential- and flat belts are suitable for high speed machines and can cope with small pulley diameters. Combining the benefits of polyamide and aramid belts, they save energy because they are more flexible in longitudinal direction than the traditional polyamide power transmission belts. They have good reverse bending properties as well as a high quality friction cover and are easily joined without glue.
"Flexproof" finger joints |
Employing "Flexproof" finger joints, they also provide a high and uniform internal adhesion between the different layers.
W-Polyester spindle tapes are suitable for ring spinning frames with spindle speeds above 20,000 rpm because of the knocking free Flexproof joining system. There is no disturbing fiber fly accumulation due to the permanently antistatic properties and the impregnated friction covers.
W-8 spindle tapes with four spindles drives the energy consumption on the spinning machine up to 7% if compared with machines equipped with traditional polyamide spindle tapes.
Founded in 1946, Habasit is one of the leading companies in the belting business for the textile, wood, paper, food, automotive industries and materials handling. It has 26 affiliated companies, in more than 70 countries, and more than 2200 employees with a turnover of CFH 450 million in 2004.
Yarn Master Zenit |
Loepfe Brothers
Monitoring solutions for spinning and weaving
The company offers various types of monitoring systems. The Yarnmaster Spectra is the yarn clearing and quality control system for the winding sector. The Yarnmaster Zenit can detect and clear synthetic foreign material, regardless of the color of yarn or of the foreign material, for example white and transparent polypropylene can be identified from unbleached yarn.
Millmaster Easy Standard Pro is a central and bidirectional online quality management system for all YarnMaster data. It provides complete monitoring with comprehensive analysis and evaluation of the quality and production data. Millmaster Visual visualizes online the yarn quality acquired by YarnMaster in the textile fabric.
Weftmaster is an equipment for the weaving sector, providing weft stop motions, short weft detector, weft thread brakes, projectile brake, knot detector, weft feeler, fusible fabrics cutters, yarn stop motions for different applications.
Rieter
Introducing RSB-D 40 autoleveller drawframe
Rieter Group develops and produces systems for the textile and automotive industries. The group generated sales of CHF3,160 million in fiscal year 2005, with the textile systems division accounting for CHF1,109 million.
RSB-D 40 autoleveller drawframe |
With the new RSB-D 40 autoleveller drawframe and the SB-D 40 drawframe without levelling, Rieter has achieved a quantum leap in drawframe technology with delivery speeds up to 1100 m/min. Improved accuracy in scanning, enhanced levelling dynamics and novel drafting system suction significantly improve the quality.
Production rates of up to 1,100m/min are achieved in mill operations with this new generation of drawframes. Delivery speeds can be raised by some 10% for all materials.
A revolutionary feature is the CLEANcoil sliver coiler, which enables man-made fiber slivers to be coiled with hitherto unequaled running times without cleaning.
AUTOset, the automatic setting of the autoleveller saves many manual tests in the laboratory. The spectrogram fault diagnosis system AUTOhelp shows failure reasons in gearing plans on the machine display and guarantees quick troubleshooting. Energy consumption is reduced up to 10% compared to the predecessor. Finally an electronic instruction manual, including videos, ensures user-friendliness of the drawframe.
Santex Group
Santex Group includes Santex that was founded in 1982, Sperotto Rimar founded in 1980 and Cavitec founded in 1996. The group spreads its activities in three main fields, which are: textile finishing technology, nonwoven, and coating and laminating.
The textile field covered by Santex and Sperotto Rimar brands:
knits—lines for the dry finishing of all kinds of knitted fabrics made of cotton and their blends;
wool—machines for dry finishing like steaming and decatizing;
continuous dry cleaning—a highly appreciated, extremely ecological technique that allows synthetic and wool fabrics to eliminate oils, waxes and residues required for the subsequence wet processeses;
Nova Eco Knit |
denim finishing lines—dry finishing line for all denim qualities which includes sanforizing process.
The nonvowen field, covered by the Santex Nonwoven brand, focuses on thermobonding, heat setting, drying and finishing of nonwovens of many varieties.
Cavitec is the brand name which covers the fields of
laminating, impregnating, coating, and scattering of area-measured materials (both traditional and technical textiles);
manufacturing of pre-preg on the basis of glass fiber, carbon fiber, synthetic fiber, and their woven fabrics.
Saurer
Staple and manmade fiber production, nonwovens and embroidery systems
Saurer supplies total solutions along the textile value chain for staple and manmade fiber production, nonwovens and embroidery systems.
From Barmag, VarioFil S compact spinning system is a new edition following the concept of the VarioFil, which enables spun-dyed polypropylene, polyester and polyamide yarns to be manufactured in smaller quantities.
New Fehrer NL11/Twin-SE Carpet Star |
From Neumag, solutions for BCF carpet yarn, synthetic staple fiber and nonwoven production are offered. The product range comprehends S5 for highly sophisticated BCF carpet yarn production, S3 (monocolor), S5 variomelt (tricolour) for smaller-scale production, new Fehrer NL11/Twin-SE Carpet Star and so on.
The CompactTwister from Volkmann features VTS-10 high-speed spindle, the 2x6" "TwinPack" direct feed for acrylic knitting yarns, the all-electronic, freely programmable servo traversing gear, storage of up to 100 yarn recipes and individual cross-wound twist packages.
Allma offers a fancy yarn twisting machine range for yarn and spinning effects. The simple thread run and the programming system, which ensure that the operator can change over to a different batch in a very short time, are the new features in the machine range.
Schlafhorst's highlights are the fully automatic 360-408 with 408 spinning positions, the semi-automatic BD 380 and the manual rotor spinning machine BD 280 as well as the friction spinning technologies DREF 2000 and DREF 3000. The Autoconer 338 winding machine is able to produce dye packages of high quality at high winding speeds.
Zinser supplies roving frames and ring spinning machines. One highlight is the optional effect yarn device FancyDraft that allows, in combination with the electronic drafting system drive ServoDraft, the making of fancy yarns.
Saurer Embroidery highlights the Epoca embroidery machine which is now equipped with new features like laser cutting device as well as sequins and soutache device.
PW2-W Fastflex with Digitens |
SSM, Schärer Schweiter Mettler
Yarn processing and winding machines
SSM manufactures machines used in textile processes and its competencies are the yarn handling process during the winding operation as well as the downstream packaging processes. The machines are used in assembly winding, dyeing and rewinding, singeing, air covering, elastane processing, air jet texturing and false twist texturing, and sewing thread.
SSM's latest development is PW2-W Fastflex with Digitens, a precision package winder with mechanical speed up to 2,200 m/min. The Digitens, a new technology for tension control during winding, helps improved winding performance and package quality by 35%.
SSM was the combination of Schärer, Schweiter and Mettler. More than 150,000 spindles have been installed during the last decade.
SSM is part of Schweiter Holding, a top ranking company in the Swiss stock exchange. Besides textile machinery, Schweiter Holding is also active in producing machines for semiconductors and coating machines for glasses and lenses.
New universal jacquard machine DX 110 |
Stäubli
Shedding machines and weaving preparation equipment
Stäubli supplies cam motions, dobbies, shedding machines for technical fabrics, jacquard machines and harnesses, automatic drawing-in machines, warp tying equipment, mulitlayer leasing machines, handling equipment for weaving equipment, carpet weaving machines by Schönherr.
Founded in 1892, Stäubli is now a multinational company with production facilities in several countries. Besides textile machinery, the company also supplies industrial robots and connector systems.
Sultex
Machines for projectile weaving, rapier weaving, and air-jet weaving
Under the brand name Sulzer Textil, three weft insertion systems are developed — projectile, rapier, and air-jet. All played a crucial role in increasing industrial production of high-quality fabrics. More than 220,000 Sulzer Textil shuttleless weaving machines are now in service, producing a wide variety of fabrics.
The latest P7300HP projectile weaving machine |
The development and construction of the machines takes place at the Technology Center at the headquarters of Ruti (Canton Zurich) while the Logistics and Assembling Center is in Zuchwil, near Solothurn. Tailor-made solutions for the production of extra-wide and heavy technical textiles are available from the "Customized Weaving Technology" unit.
Since 2002, Sultex Limited has been an independent member of the Italian ITEMA Group. The group, comprising nine product brands, ten companies, and a workforce of 2,600, had a turnover of 605 million euros in 2005. To expand its market share, the group budgets around 4-5% of turnover annually on research and development.
Textilcolor
Textile auxiliaries for pretreatment, dyeing and finishing, and other special applications
Textilcolor AG offers competent, individual services to customers in 42 countries. The laboratories for technical development and application located in Sevelen are equipped with the latest technological instruments. Technicians offer quick and efficient solutions to customers problems.
The product range of Textilcolor includes textile auxiliaries for pretreatment, dyeing and finishing, and auxiliaries for special applications.
Headquarters of Textilcolor |
One of the latest products is Softycon ASH: a functional silicone microemulsion based on a weakly cationic amino-glycol-modified polysiloxane. Softycon ASH gives the textile material a soft handle with good elastic resilience, and with its hydrophilic character it supports the moisture transport away from the skin through the textile. The wearing comfort of sports and leisure wear is increased, especially when the textile is moisted.
Softycon ASH is washproof and maintains its hydrophilic effect after several washing cycles. In case of cellulose fibers the hydrophilicity is not negatively affected. Due to the good alkali stability up to pH 10 and because of the good running stability and stability to shearing forces the product offers a high process safety. Processing costs caused by the stripping of the silicone finish will not arise because overdyeing of Softycon ASH is possible. The product can be applied by the exhaust and the padding method.
Uster Technologies
Quality controlling systems for testing fiber, yarn and fabric in the textile industry
Uster Technologies supplies quality control systems for testing fiber, yarn and fabric in the textile industry. It achieved a sales value exceeding CHF 143 million in 2005. With 470 staff members, Uster has production sites in Uster (Switzerland), Knoxville (US) and in Suzhou (China) and 50 sales and service agencies worldwide.
Uster Tester 5 with additional sensor unit |
Uster Tester 5 is the yarn inspection system, and tests parameters such as yarn evenness and yarn imperfections, and at 800 m/min with the S800. Together with the worldwide benchmarks, Uster Statistics, and the opto-electronic sensors, the Uster Tester 5 guarantees modern, systematic and comparable yarn testing in the laboratory.
Since the market launch at ITMA 1999, one million positions of Uster Quantum 2 yarn clearers have been sold worldwide as of 2005. The yarn clearer is integrated with the Computer Aided Yarn clearing (CAY), online hairiness monitoring, vegetable filter, splice classification, and the polypropylene detection.
Meanwhile, knowing the exact quality of every cotton bale is importance when marketing and purchasing cotton. Equipped with enhanced moisture measurement technology, the Uster HVI 1000 fiber classification system provides measurement of important cotton quality parameters in high speed and accuracy. Sampling is completely automated, eliminating potential human errors.
The Contexxor Compact indirect conditioning and heat setting machine |
Xorella
Contexxor Compact indirect conditioning and heat setting machine
The Contexxor Compact indirect conditioning and heat setting machine is the newly developed machine that offers a high degree of versatility for steaming and conditioning a wide range of yarns and fibers, natural and man-made fibers and their blends as well as micro fibers. Fabrics in rope form that require steam treatment can also be handled. The standard capacity range goes from 200 up to 1200 kg; other capacities are available upon customer's request.
The Contexxor Compact offers simultaneous vacuum and pressure conditions with temperature ranges from 50 ℃ to 110 ℃. A Siemens OP 270 process controller with a large screen as well as the improved energy saving system Eco Plus has been incorporated. The accuracy of the digital temperature control is ±0.5 ℃. The temperature is increased gradually at adjustable rates, suitable for all kind of yarns. There are no condensate spots and contamination. The OP 270 Micro process controller automatically at high accuracy and repeatability controls the steaming process.
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