Author: Textile Planet Magazine

Oct132022 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Oerlikon at the K 2022

Sustainable solutions for the entire process chain The Swiss Oerlikon Group’s Polymer Processing Solutions division will be presenting itself at the K 2022 under the banner of ‘Feel the Flow. Keep Control’. The leading international trade fair for the plastics industry is taking place in Düsseldorf, Germany, between October 19 and 26 this year, with around 200,000 visitors expected. Oerlikon will be presenting a broad range of products and services focused on manufacturing and processing plastics. Innovative solutions and technologies concentrating on such topics as raw material preparation based on modern polycondensation and extrusion systems, the latest recycling technologies, efficient hot runner systems, innovative coating solutions, sustainable manufacturing processes for fil

Sep272022 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

The 61st anniversary of the Dornbirn GFC Congress took place face to face this year after a long break

Fairs, Fibers

61st Dornbirn GFC Global Fibre Congress Board Members of Lenzing and Indorama, the biggest global players from the fibre industry, the CEO of Paboco, the most innovative company in the packaging industry and a highly reputated professor from Oxford University opened the congress. Further, top companies from the digital sector like Servicenow and PwC showed us how they would support to create a sustainable future for the industry. Key topics were innovation, sustainability & circular economy and the and the final panel discussion “CEO Panel” with the above leaders showed us the way forward and how current and future challenges would be managed. 93 Expert Lectures from Universities and Research Institutes An active matchmaking was granted as Dornbirn GFC, RW

Sep262022 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

ITMA ASIA + CITME 2022 rescheduled to November 2023

Fairs

ITMA ASIA + CITME 2022 has been rescheduled to November 2023 due to the uncertain pandemic situation in China. Show owners CEMATEX and Chinese partners, the Sub-Council of the Textile Industry, CCPIT (CCPIT-Tex), China Textile Machinery Association (CTMA) and China Exhibition Centre Group Corporation (CIEC) advised that the new show dates will be announced shortly. Mr Ernesto Maurer, President of CEMATEX, stated: “Due to the present circumstances in China, we have decided to reschedule the combined show to next year when the pandemic situation is expected to stabilise. As the exhibition features the participation of overseas exhibitors and visitors, we believe it is in the interest of the industry that we postpone the exhibition to allow greater participation at the most important te

Sep202022 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Unique waxed cotton finishing with new Monforts line

Dyeing – Finishing, Technical Textiles

Monforts has installed and commissioned a new Montex finishing range at the Baltic Works of Halley Stevensons in Dundee, Scotland, to further boost the weatherproofing specialist’s highly flexible operations. The range, with a working width of two metres, was built at the Montex assembly plant in Austria and consists of a Montex®Coat coating unit in knife execution for paste and foam coating and a Montex 8500 6F stenter. Unique know-how Founded in 1864, Halley Stevensons has amassed unique technical know-how and manufacturing experience in the art of waxed cotton for weatherproofed fabrics and is able to provide international orders in custom colours and finishes to very low minimum quantities where required. The company exports worldwide and its premium brand customers include Be

Sep132022 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Finishing Line for HEATHCOAT FABRICS LIMITED from BRÜCKNER!

Dyeing – Finishing, Technical Textiles

HEATHCOAT FABRICS – the journey continues HEATHCOAT FABRICS partnered again with BRÜCKNER Textile Technologies / Germany and their sales partner ADVANCED DYEING SOLUTIONS to install a state-of-the-art BRÜCKNER finishing line for industrial textiles. HEATHCOAT FABRICS are at the leading edge of textile engineering. They have a proud heritage spanning over two centuries and are a global market-leading technical textile manufacturer with internationally recognised expertise in texturising, weaving and warp knitting as well as dyeing and finishing. HEATHCOAT’s highly specialist products are manufactured for use in the automotive, healthcare, defence, and aerospace industries, to name a few, contributing to some of the most innovative fabric-making projects in the world. BRÜCKNER worked e

Sep92022 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

A Unique Inspection Technique for Finding Patterned Fabric Defects

Testing, Textile

Seeing beyond the patterns with Shelton Vision A ground breaking and unique new fabric inspection technique for accurately detecting the most subtle of defects on patterned fabrics during high speed production has been developed by BTMA member Shelton Vision, of Leicester, UK. The patent-pending system has been integrated into the company’s WebSpector platform – already the most powerful plain fabric inspection system on the market – and validated through factory trials on a purpose-built full scale in-house demonstration system with sophisticated fabric transport capabilities. As a result, a first system has already been ordered by a manufacturer of both plain and patterned fabrics, including camouflage, in Colombia. This follows the successful conclusion of a 21-month Innova

Sep82022 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

MONFOTRS at ITMA ASIA + CITME 2022

Dyeing – Finishing, Textile

Focus on machines for high-performance at ITMA ASIA + CITME 2022 Monforts will highlight its technologies for special technical textile applications at this year’s ITMA ASIA + CITME which takes place at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai, China, from November 20-24. From its headquarters in Mönchengladbach, Germany – home also to the Advanced Technology Center which offers customers and potential customers the opportunity to carry out extensive trials in real production conditions – to its Montex factory in St Stephan, Austria, where special machines have been manufactured for more than 35 years, Monforts continues to stake its reputation on a commitment to being always helpful, accurate, fast and reliable. “Diversification is the key in today’s competitive

Sep72022 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Uster solution gives nonwovens producers total confidence in demanding applications

Fibers, Nonwoven

Zero-tolerance contamination control Drylaid nonwovens producers operate to the most stringent quality levels – with zero-tolerance standards for defects bigger than 1 mm. In this nonwovens segment, end-product quality depends absolutely on the efficiency of contamination sorting, early in the process. Uster’s exclusive solution ensures best-possible initial inspection and removal of contamination. Nonwovens applications such as medical, hygiene and cosmetics demand two non-negotiable rules: zero-tolerance and reliability. Contamination control is the supreme discipline in producing nonwovens for sensitive applications. The Uster contamination sorter masters this essential job with ease and security. It ensures customer satisfaction and a perfect experience for the final consumer – w

Sep72022 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Symposium in Indonesia by Swiss Textile Machinery Association

Associations

Free trade deal boosts export potential! The time is right for Swiss textile machinery companies to grow their export business with Indonesia – one of the world’s top 10 textile producers. A free trade agreement between the two countries came into force in 2021, and market analyses show that there is scope for a significant increase in business in textile and textile machinery sectors. This was the background to a successful symposium in the Indonesian capital Jakarta last month when Swiss Textile Machinery Association members presented their products and innovations to an invited audience of 200 delegates from Indonesian textile companies. The symposium audience was welcomed by Philippe Strub, of the Swiss Embassy in Indonesia; Ignatius Warsito, from the Indonesia Ministry of Ind

Jun22022 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

BRÜCKNER at ITM 2022 & TECHTEXTILE FRANKFURT

Dyeing – Finishing, Nonwoven, Technical Textiles

You can find out further solutions in a personal meeting with BRÜCKNER at the ITM in Istanbul from 14 - 18 June in hall 14, booth 1406B or at the TECHXTEXTIL in Frankfurt from 21 - 24 June in hall 12.0, booth B60. BRÜCKNER's answer to the current challenges in the textile industry Who would have thought after the last ITMA 2019 in Barcelona that the world would change so drastically in a very short time, that a virus would force the whole mankind to stay at a distance and that Europe now also has to experience a war. Add to this the global supply chain problem, extreme price increases in many areas and general uncertainty about the future development of the markets. Such times of crisis are challenging, but also reveal opportunities. The German machinery producer BRÜCKNER used exact