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Feb202019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

SSM Appoints New Head of Sales and Chief Financial Officer

SSM has appointed Roman Haefeli as the new head of sales, and Marco Mori as chief financial officer (CFO) Increasing customer demands require increasing sales service responsibilities. To strengthen the worldwide team and to achieve complete customer satisfaction, SSM Schärer Schweiter Mettler AG is pleased to announce the appointment of Roman Haefeli as Head of Sales. As of January 1st 2019 Roman Haefeli has started as Head of Sales and member of the management board of SSM Horgen. Mr. Haefeli holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and many years of experience in research, development, operations and sales. SSM Schärer Schweiter Mettler AG has appointed Marco Mori as Chief Financial Officer. He has started as of Febru

Feb192019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Groz-Beckert Felting and Carding Specialists at The IDEA Miami

Nonwoven

Groz-Beckert will be presenting the Felting and Carding product areas at IDEA from 26 to 28 March 2019. IDEA Miami is one of the key trade fairs for nonwovens and technical textiles in the international nonwovens industry. Over 550 exhibitors, visitors and companies from 70 countries come together at the Miami Beach Convention Center. The experts from Groz-Beckert will be presenting the latest products and solutions for nonwovens production at booth 1224. The Felting product division presents the innovative HyTec® P jet strip for the spunlace industry. With it, all mechanical properties improve such as scratch resistance, bending stiffness and service life thanks to its significantly higher hardness. The acrylic exhibit shows three different versions of the new HyTec® P jet strip.

Feb142019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Machines, WEBSHOP and More

Fairs, Fibers, Textile

KARL MAYER Technische Textilien will present itself as competent partner of the composite industry at JEC World, 12.-14.03.2019 in Paris. KARL MAYER Technische Textilien GmbH is an important player in the composite sector, so that the participation in the leading trade fair, the JEC World, is a must for the company. At the upcoming exhibition to take place from 12. to 14. March in Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center, KARL MAYER Technische Textilien will be showing innovative solutions for producing high-quality reinforcement textiles on its information stand, Hall 5, Q 58: namely the COP MAX 4 as a flexible multi-axial warp knitting machine intended for the manufacture of multilayered, multi-axial structures with angles ranging between maximum +20° and -20° as well as the COP MAX 5

Feb132019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Complete E-control for Istanbul Boyahanesi

Dyeing – Finishing, Weaving

Through investment in new Monforts technology, Istanbul Boyahanesi is planning to increase its capacity for the commission dyeing and finishing of woven goods to a monthly 2.5 million square metres during 2019. The company is surely also the only dyehouse in Turkey to date with its own proprietary software for virtual control of all operations via smartphone or TV from the boardroom. The special app-based programme has been developed by co-founder and director Kemal Taşkin, who has a background in software engineering, and it provides real-time information on all machine parameters and operator activity. “I’am now developing it further and in the near-future it will also be able to provide financial forecasting for us right down to individual batch level,” he says. This develop

Feb112019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

French Association of Textile Machinery Manufacturers (UCMTF):”Turkey Among Our Most Important Market”

Associations, Textile

“Our Strategy is Exactly Same Than Our Turkish Customers’ Strategies” Besides France has significant role in history of Europe and World, is one of the most important countries of European Union. France, is the fifth largest economy in the World and taking the first place in many different industries and also the leading country of textile industry and fashion. France shows succesfull rate on Functional and Technical Textile Production in recent years and with that, Textile Machinery Production sector has remarkable reputation all over the world. As well as France Textile Endustry has three main section as yarn, weaving and fabric finishing, France is making production of Technical Textile Products increasingly. French Association of Textile Machinery Manufacturers (UCMTF) has

Feb112019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Berg Outdoor and Porcher Sport Awarded Golden Winner of ISPO Awards 2019

Sustainability & Recycling, Textile

Berg Outdoor, a valued customer of Porcher Sport, the Sports and Leisure Division of Porcher Industries, has been announced as the ISPO Awards 2019 Gold Winner for its GERES Zero Gravity Down Jacket within the Outdoor category. Berg Outdoor’s zero gravity down jacket represents the latest trends for sustainable produce in the outdoor sector. Made out of recycled (2nd grade waste) ultra-light parachute fabric and other recycled components it delivers a waterproof, highly insulated yet light weight outdoor jacket that is also easily packable. The top layer of the jacket uses Porcher Sport’s recycled ultra-light weight parachute fabric that has been treated with an in-house formulated PU coating that is both water repellent and designed to resist the harshest of conditions. Grade B sec

Feb82019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

ITMA 2019 Forums Draw Strong Industry Support

Fairs

Nonwovens, and chemical and colourant forums unveil key speakers. The world’s leading textile and garment technology exhibition, ITMA 2019, will be complemented by several key forums when it is held in Barcelona in June, two of which are the ITMA-EDANA Nonwovens Forum and Textile Colourant and Chemical Leaders Forum. Mr Fritz Mayer, President of CEMATEX, said: “As technological developments are happening at breakneck speed, and collaboration is becoming increasingly necessary in a globalised economy, the industry has to stay abreast of the latest developments and trends. Hence, ITMA will be staging several forums to help participants be ahead of the competition curve. “The forums also offer a valuable platform for various associations and professionals to connect and network with

Feb12019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

New Shoe Fabric Patterns and More

Weaving

KARL MAYER is extending the design portfolio of tricot machines with The COP 5 M-EL. KARL MAYER presented its five-bar tricot machine, the COP 5 M-EL, to the wider public at ITMA ASIA + CITME 2018 in Asia for the first time. The former COP 5 version has been combined with KARL MAYER’s EL pattern drive in this model to create a tricot machine capable of producing an extensive range of patterns. Its performance was demonstrated at the in-house show held at KARL MAYER (CHINA) at the same time as the fair and was a complete success. The visitors were particularly impressed by the possibilities it offered to produce shoe fabrics. A coarse machine gauge was developed at KARL MAYER to produce a multifaceted collection for this particular end-use. The articles in this collection for use in t

Jan312019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

China International Nonwovens Expo & Forum Returns for Third Edition

Fairs, Nonwoven

China is the world's largest producer and exporter of nonwoven fabrics, as well as having the largest consumer market for products made from nonwovens, making the upcoming biennial China International Nonwovens Expo & Forum (CINE – supported by Techtextil) the place to be for industry players from 3 – 5 June. This year’s event will relocate to a different venue, the Shanghai Convention & Exhibition Center of International Sourcing, located conveniently between Hongqiao airport and downtown Shanghai. “The nonwovens market has been one of the fastest growing sectors of the Chinese textile industry over the last decade, and we expect this to continue in the coming years,” Wendy Wen, Senior General Manager of the fair’s co-organiser, Messe Frankfurt (HK) Ltd, commented. “The demogra

Jan302019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

PİCANOL to Participate in TECHTEXTIL 2019

Weaving

Techtextil 2019 will take place from February 26 - 28, 2019, in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Picanol will be present with an information booth (Booth 1636). The history of Picanol is clearly intertwined with that of the American textile industry. Picanol set up its own organization - Picanol of America – on February 1, 1966. Since then, America has always proven to be a market of great strategic importance as Picanol has installed tens of thousands of weaving machines at American weaving mills. Over the years, the technical fabrics segment has become a very dominant area, which makes Techtextil an important fair for Picanol. Picanol will not only promote its rapier and airjet weaving machines at Techtextil 2019, but also the extensive range of services and support that it provides to