Genel Archives - EURO TEXTILE

Aug172020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Rieter Wins Patent Dispute in China

The company takes consistent action against companies that infringe Rieter patents or designs and copy products or machines. Rieter protects its innovations and products with patents and registered designs. The company takes consistent action against patent and design infringements. In mid-July 2020, in a legal dispute, the Shanghai Intellectual Property Court of the People’s Republic of China ruled in favor of Rieter Ingolstadt GmbH (Germany). Rieter machines stand for outstanding quality, high operational safety, excellent performance and user-friendliness as well as unique design. In order to benefit from these characteristics, competitors copy the successful Rieter machine concepts and even adopt the coveted Rieter design. Rieter protects its innovations by means of patents an

Mar132020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Digitalize in Minutes with Truetzschler

Genel

Truetzschler's My Wires app, after the introduction of at ITMA 2019, got over 400 users from 22 countries. At Truetzschler, digital transformation is not only a buzzword. From intelligent machinery to digital mill monitoring and service offers, Truetzschler has developed a range of solutions that make processes easier and more efficient. One case in point is the new app My Wires, which facilitates to manage all tasks related to clothing management digitally. Within the first weeks after the introduction at ITMA 2019 in Barcelona, more than 400 users from 22 countries started to use the application actively. When it comes to track the wearing of their carding wires, many mills still rely on pen and paper. Employees manually note down every day how many days each carding machine has ru...

Feb172020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Chief Technology Officer Appointed to EFI

Genel

Former Xaar CEO Doug Edwards Joins EFI as Chief Technology Officer. Electronics For Imaging, Inc. has named veteran print technology executive Dr. Douglas Edwards as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Edwards replaces longtime technology leader Ghilad Dziesietnik, who recently retired after nearly 25 years with EFI - the last 14 as CTO. Edwards, who assumes his new duties today, has had an extensive career as a senior print executive and R&D technologist. Immediately prior to this appointment, Edwards was CEO of Cambridge, England-based Xaar plc, a leading developer of inkjet print head technologies for industrial printing, and Chairman of Xaar 3D Ltd - the company's 3D printing joint venture with Stratasys Ltd. Before joining Xaar in 2015 Edwards was President of Kodak's Digit...

Mar272019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Quality Counts – At Every Level of The Market

Fairs, Genel, Spinning - Yarn

USTER offers multiple resources for understanding quality management from fiber to fabric. In textiles, the two extremes of the market are poles apart – from mass-produced commodity products to ‘big-brand’ specialties where only the highest standards of material and styling apply. In between these opposites, of course, there are many layers of complexity. What all these dimensions have in common is clear: a need for consistent quality from yarn and fabric producers. Today’s challenging market environment means quality is a sustainable competitive advantage, and Uster Technologies is the unique source of the know-how and systems needed to deliver it. CEO Thomas Nasiou explains: “USTER has become a synonym for quality in textiles during the past seven decades. That is not just because

Feb202019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

SSM Appoints New Head of Sales and Chief Financial Officer

Genel

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

Jul182018 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Loepfe Invests ın Its Corporate Headquarters ın Swıtzerland

Genel

Today the company announced a substantial investment in the extension of its headquarters in Wetzikon, Switzerland. Construction of the new headquarters building, which will add two additional stories on top of the existing production building, started earlier this month. With a total of 2,500 m2 floor space it will have enough room for some 60 offices in combination with modern meeting facilities and a canteen for the employees. The building will accommodate the general management, R&D, the service teams, product management, financial management, and HR. “The new building will open up the opportunity for all departments within Loepfe to further grow, to work together much closer, to enjoy modern offices and labs and to offer customer and supplier trainings in state of the art facil

Jun82018 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Autocoro 9, VTC for İncreased Advantage

Genel, Textile

The new Vacuum Trash Cleaner (VTC) from Schlafhorst is an innovative unit for the Autocoro 9. It improves automated cleaning of the rotor spinning machine and thus increases its profitability. The VTC increases the raw material tolerance of the Autocoro 9, reducing spinning costs further. The spinning of recycled or coarse yarns generates a lot of fibre waste due to the high material throughput. The E3 (Energy, Economics, Ergonomics) optimised innovation counteracts this. It significantly reduces the manpower required to keep the machines clean in these applications. Efficient machine cleaning with minimum personnel costs The VTC is located in the middle of the machine, where it vacuums the dirt removal conveyor belt halfway. As a result, less fibre material accumulates on the be...

May292018 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

The World’s Widest Tricot Machine is Now Available on The Market

Genel, Knitting

KARL MAYER has extended its successful model in the HKS machine series, the HKS 3-M, by including a version having a wider working width. To complement the current machines having widths of 186" and 218" (472 ve 553 cm), a version having a width of 280" (711cm)is now available. The HKS 3-M, 280", is the widest tricot machine available on the global market, and its wider width delivers greater productivity and flexibility. Like all the HKS three-bar machines, this new machine targets a wide variety of end-uses, from car interiors, through furniture and sportswear, to coating/backing substrates and advertising media. Fabrics processed with different widths can now be produced on one machine instead of two, which used to be the case. The simultaneous production of webs can also be increas...

May282018 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Starlinger Acquires Barmag Spinnzwirn from Oerlikon

Genel, Spinning - Yarn

The Austrian Starlinger Group takes over the business unit Barmag Spinnzwirn based in Chemnitz (Germany) from Oerlikon. The integration of the related technologies for spinning lines for the production of tapes, monofilaments, yarns, and twisted yarns as well as texturing machines into the existing product portfolio holds significant potential for synergy effects in service, engineering, and sales. The business unit known as Barmag Spinnzwirn is a part of the Oerlikon segment Manmade Fibers that specializes in turnkey extrusion plants for the production of tapes and monofilaments such as artificial grass, baler twine, carpet backing, or geotextiles as well as in high speed winders and precision winding machines for textile and technical yarns and twisted yarns as well as texturing machi...

May252018 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Benninger Increases Demand for Automation Solutions

Genel, Textile

1.000 automation solution of Benninger Automation has been installed at Getzner Textil AG The traditional textile company Getzner Textil AG in Bludenz, Austria is known world-wide for its high-quality fabrics for a wide variety of applications. In the sustainable production of textiles, Getzner has for many years relied on the innovative process and system solutions of the Benninger Group with its headquarter in Uzwil, Switzerland. As part of the current project of the two longstanding partner companies, the Ben-ninger-Pad-Dry Hotflue was equipped with the 1,000 automation solution from Benninger Automation GmbH, Zell, Germany. This milestone was taken by Beat Meienberger, CEO of Benninger AG, as an oppor-tunity to thank Getzner for the long-standing, good business relationship an...