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Apr132022 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Swiss Textile Machinery members drive filament yarn production for the expanding world of technical textiles

Associations, Fibers, Spinning - Yarn, Technical Textiles

What innovations are made of… Swiss Textile Machinery members drive filament yarn production for the expanding world of technical textiles High-performance yarns now offer almost unlimited possibilities for replacing traditional raw materials in a vast range of technical applications. Often tailor-made, these filament yarns go way beyond the conventional idea of ‘textiles’ – finding new uses in sectors such as automotive, aviation, maritime, medical and construction, among many others. Machines and technology from Switzerland are in the forefront of many such developments, producing the yarns which are the basis for these innovations. Technical textiles are everywhere in our daily lives today, even if we may not always realize it. Some are in more obviously textile products, from

Nov92020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

VDMA textile machinery webtalk on 12th November 2020, 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm (CET)

Associations, Dyeing – Finishing, Textile

"Sustainable denim production: latest finishing technologies” Sign up HERE and be part of this important Event. No participation fee. Volker Kunzmann, Area Sales Director, FONG’S EUROPE will present highly efficient and innovative wet finishing solutions for denim by combining modular systems adapted to the product and customer’s and local specifications. Title of the presentation: “Denim Finishing combined solutions” www.fongs.eu Hans-Gerhard Wroblowski, Area Sales Director SEA, Head of Productmanagement – Denim Sales, A. Monforts Textilmaschinen will speak about advanced denim finishing technologies with a focus on ecological and economical energy consumption. Furthermore, a new yarn dyeing process will be presented. Title of the presentation: “Customized Solutions for Den

Oct72020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

KTM 2020 – HAS PROVEN ITS SUSTAINABILITY AT TURKEY AND EUROPE

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One of the most important centers of the textile sector in Turkey, Kahramanmaras, hosted KTM Fair for the sixth time. Since 2014, it has become one of the most important meeting platform for the textile sector as a whole Kahramanmaras International Textile Machinery Exhibition (KTM), it continues to introduce new textile technologies to the textile industrialists and representatives in Turkey. The organizer of KTM fairs, ECR Fuarcılık General Manager Ümit Vural said, "We would like to thank our participants who showed interest in the International Textile Machinery Fair KTM2020, in which we organized on September 24-26, by taking all necessary health and safety measures during the Covidien-19 period, at the time of struggle as the whole world experiencing. International KTM fairs have n

Oct12020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Hugues Schellenberg new UCMTF President

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The French Textile Equipment manufacturers’ Association, well known as UCMTF, as elected a new President following the retirement of Bruno Ameline who has chaired the association since 2004. Hugues Schellenberg who has been on the board for 10 years, has been unanimously elected to succeed him. He is the CEO of Dollfus-Muller of Heimsbrunn in the French province of Alsace. An engineer, Schellenberg got an MBA from Montpellier University in Southern France. As President of UCMTF, Schellenberg will represent the French association on the board of Cematex, the owner of ITMAs. After his election, Schellenberg initiated a standing ovation to thank Bruno Ameline for his outstanding job during his 4 terms of tenure (16 years). He stated “it is a great honor but a stressing responsibility

Aug212020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

VDMA Continues Technology Webtalks

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Energy efficiency in textile dyeing and finishing will be the topic of VDMA’s next edition of Textile Machinery Webtalks on 27 August 2020. Efficient energy management is of increasing importance in textile dyeing and finishing. Innovative machine designs with minimal water and energy consumption as well as the recovery and use of the heat energy produced in the processes represent valuable potential savings for any modern company. The presenters at a glance: Ludger Sommer, Thies, will show how to manage heat energy in wetprocessing. Benjamin Schnabel, Brückner Textilmaschinen is going to demonstrate how to make one of the most energy consuming processes in textile manufacturing more sustainable, eco-friendly and cost effective. Fabian Buckenmayer, PLEVA Sensors and Contr

Jul212020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Unity is Strength

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The Swiss Textile Machinery Association has been crisis-proof for 80 years. When an organization reaches its 80th anniversary, there is a strong chance that it has survived several crises over those years. In the case of Swiss Textile Machinery, the association was actually born out of a crisis situation. Looking back over its history today inspires optimism that current and future challenges will be met with equal success. Past experience provides hope for the future... In 1940, a year after the start of World War II, events far away from the battlefields began to impact on the local machinery industry in Switzerland. One problem was a lack of skilled workers – through military service call-ups – and another was a shortage of raw material, much of which was diverted to weapons produ

Jul132020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

VDMA Continues Technology Webtalks for The Textile Industry

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Topic of the second edition is “Technologies for the production of nonwovens for respiratory protection masks (FFP masks and surgical masks)” On July 15, the “Textile Machinery Webtalk – powered by VDMA” continues. Topic of the second edition is “Technologies for the production of nonwovens for respiratory protection masks (FFP masks and surgical masks)”. Participants from 24 countries already registered. Time: 15 July 2020, 2 pm - 4 pm (CEST). The presenters at a glance: Automated masks manufacturing with integrated inline quality control, Edgar Mähringer-Kunz, General Manager, IMSTec GmbH www.imstec.de Auxilium FM – High-speed Surgical Mask Production Machine Sven Weissoertel, Business Area Manager, Winkler+Dünnebier www.w-d.de Ways to certification and appr

Jun252020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

New President of Cematex

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Ernesto Maurer has been appointed as the new President of Cematex, the European Committee of Textile Machinery Manufacturers. Ernesto Maurer has been appointed as the new President of Cematex, the European Committee of Textile Machinery Manufacturers. His four-year term of office will cover three major events in the pivotal ITMA series of textile technology exhibitions scheduled for Europe and Asia. Maurer was elected at the Cematex General Assembly, on June 12. He is President of the Swiss Textile Machinery Association since 2015, serving during the same period as a member of the Cematex Board of Directors and its 1st Vice-President for the past four years. Also elected at the General Assembly were 1st Vice-President Mikael Äremann (TMAS, Sweden) and 2nd Vice-President Charles B

Mar312020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Cematex Elects Permanent Secretary General

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Cornelia Buchwalder, Secretary General of the Swiss Textile Machinery Association, has been appointed as the permanent Secretary General to Cematex. A new Secretary General has been chosen by Cematex, the European Committee of Textile Machinery Manufacturers. Cornelia Buchwalder has served on an interim basis since June 2019, following the retirement of Maria Avery, and was elected to the permanent position by the Cematex Board on March 12. Buchwalder has a wide knowledge of the global textile equipment sector, having managed the Swiss Textile Machinery Association since 2013 and been closely involved in organising participation at the major global trade shows and various international events. Her experience takes in the ITMA exhibitions in Europe at Milan (2015) and Barcelona (2019)...

Feb52020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

A Modernized Logo for UCMTF

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The French Textile Equipment Manufacturers’ Association, the well-known UCMTF which groups about 35 companies, is introducing a new modernized logo. “Our Maisons are proud of their traditions and state of the art technologies, our new logo has been designed to show both” states Christian Guinet, the new UCMTF Secretary General since last September. In fact the traditional planisphere has been changed by a new one which seems to be made of textile ribbons; the blue, white, red colors are those of the French flag. The new logo will be seen in the main international textile machinery fairs and in the textile magazines as France is the sixth textile machinery exporter with world leaders in such fields as long fibre spinning (wool, acrylic …), yarn twisting and control (including techn