Zimmer Machinery Announces Merger With Patterson Group

Zimmer Machinery announces the merger with The Patterson Group of Charlotte, NC. Bob Patterson, founder and principal of The Patterson Group has a long career in the field of sales of capital textile finishing machinery sales.

He started his career in textiles in 1972 as an engineer with the American Artos company, a subsidiary of the German company Artos. After American Artos closed in 1981, he joined the sales team of Zima Corporation in Spartanburg, SC and was responsible for the Babcock carpet finishing machinery. He later had tenures with Keiltex Corp. and PSP Marketing until forming his own company in 1992.

Over the past 16 years he has represented various European and American companies in the U.S. and Canadian textile finishing market. He brings, many years of experience and a portfolio of some well known and respected machine suppliers such as Cibitex , Jaume Anglada Vinas, Ehwha Glotech and Daroitex to Zimmer Machinery.

CIBITEX, is an Italian finishing machinery manufacturer specializing in sanforizing and mercerizing machinery, that has been active on the U.S and Canadian market through The Patterson Group since 1993. During this span they have had good success in both knits and wovens with one well known company on the West Coast having nine shrinking machines in one plant.

JAUME ANGLADA VINAS, is a Spanish finishing machinery manufacturer holds all the patents for the TURBANG continuous open width tumble dryer. This unique machine offers superior quality enhancement for all types of upholstery fabric, flocked fabric, artificial leather and towels.




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Wear & Tear of a Spinning Front Line Rubber Cot

Wear & Tear of a Spinning Front Line Rubber Cot and Factors Affecting it in Terms of Usage, Abrasion Resistance of That Rubber Compound, Traverse Length, Traverse Rate, Shore a Hardness, Top Arm Loading, Fibre Volume Handled and Frictional Properties of the Processed Material

Abstract


In general yarn quality is influenced by:

* Quality of raw material
* Opening & cleaning operations at Blow room & Carding
* Speeds & Settings kept at various stages of yarn production and its functions.
* Process control techniques and parameters kept at spinning
* Humidification, (temperature and humidity)
* Labour force training and their skills.
* Maintenance of production equipment and vital components.


Drafting components have a significant influence on yarn quality and production costs in ring spinning. Especially spinning top roller covers i.e., cots and drafting aprons.





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Turkish Carpet Industry Invests In French Machinery

The production of traditional and modern style carpets in the fast growing Turkish city of Gaziantep is about 300 millions square meters in 2008. The process includes state of the art spinning and weaving machines, much of them from France.

Gaziantep, the Turkish cluster for carpet manufacturing - Turkey has a long tradition of carpet craftsmanship. In the South-East of the country, a little more than one hour fly from Istanbul, close to the Syrian border, a 1 million people city, Gaziantep, has grown to become the capital of the machine made carpet industry. Modern housing and manufacturing plants are built at such a speed that the city looks really different every few months.

The textile industry and particularly the carpet manufacturing are responsible for a good part of this exceptional growth explains I.Yalçin Konukoglu, the President of the Gaziantep carpet makers Association.

He explains “in Gaziantep and its close vicinity, there are 189 carpet mills which employ directly or indirectly more than 30 000 employees. These mills represent more than 80% of the Turkish carpet industry and 70% of them are vertically integrated, they spin their own yarns and weave the carpets. Not long ago they were running about 3 000 locally made weaving machines, less than 200 are still in use but 650 modern weaving machines have been erected giving the area an annual capacity of 300 millions square meters.”

President Konukoglu analyses the success of these companies, small or big: “their entrepreneurship spirit with a clear and consistent strategy to go after the mass market worldwide, offer good quality, maintain low production costs and sell at reasonable profits; follow the fashion trends on the different markets worldwide”. One main trend has been the shaggy carpets (long hair), it is here in Gaziantep that it has been developed.






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Textile Machinery Product Focus Of RETECH

Being more than 35 years in the business of components for production process of synthetic filaments, godet rolls in various configurations, complete stand-alone draw stands are the core competence of RETECH.

Among growing demand in various other highly sophisticated equipment for thermal and mechanical treament of synthetic filaments, RETECH has realized the need of the markets and therefore has developed the brandnew ABSR, Air Bearing Separator Roll. Particularly these days, higher speed, higher temperatures simultaneously running at lower maintenance cost have been the ultimate targets for the design of a new separator roll.

Outstanding creative technology, combined with micro precision engineering, especially available in Switzerland, was able to develop and manufacture our advanced ABSR separator roll.





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