A View Through The Lens : ITMA Asia + CITME 2008

Post quota era has brought sea changes in textile industry. To add to the competition resulted thereby, the urge for advance technology and state-of-the-art as well as globalisation remains the challenges for Asian textile makers. The obvious need to modernise operations in order to compete globally has spawned huge investment in quality machinery, especially, for China that has become a major manufacturing centre for textile products and the world's most dynamic market having one third of the global textile production capacity.


Envisaging this lucrative market opportunities for leading textile machinery manufacturers, a combined show ITMA ASIA + CITME 2008 came to existence to be held every two years in China, starting from 27 July 2008.


Sharing the objective behind support to this trade event, the policy maker and welfare activities planner in the textile trade of China, Mr Du Yuzhou, President of CNTAC (China National Textile and Apparel Council) comments: "For the 11th Five-Year Plan (from 2006-2010), China's textile industry will be focused on technical innovation and creation, development of Chinese own brands and increasing the added value of our products. All these must be carried out with advanced equipment. It is based on Chinas demand of advanced equipment and the outstanding achievements made by European textile machinery manufacturers, that we have decided to combine these two important events ITMA ASIA and CITME."


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Scope Of Collaborations And Joint Ventures In Indian Textile Machinery Industry

Technology is the key enabler for rapid growth of the textile engineering industry. Efforts should therefore be directed towards technical upgradation of the textile engineering industry, technology transfer, re-engineering, promotion of joint ventures, BPO and R&D efforts. Technology and brand play the most vital role in the decision of a customer to buy a machine. The other parameter, viz., productivity together with consistency of quality would be concomitant with technology. Factors like energy conservation, eco-friendliness, reduction in labour cost, facility of operation and services would influence demand.

Preamble


The willingness of foreign manufacturers to transfer technology, continuity of transfer, and cost of transfer are aspects to be considered while procuring new technology. In the regimented system prior to 1992, the Indian Textile Engineering Industry was abjectly dependent on borrowed technology. Consequently collaborations and joint ventures in India were largely influenced by the initiatives of the foreign companies. Very often the technology offered was one or two generations behind the latest technology available with the foreign collaborators. So long as the Indian textile industry was enjoying a protected domestic marked it could carry on with such second generation technology. With the opening up of the economy the situation has undergone a rapid change.

Technology transfer affected


The transfer of technology to the TEl after the dismantling of the control regime has been impacted adversely by the following factors:

In the first place, foreign collaborators have sought management control before technology transfer could be considered. Secondly, many Indian buyers found it difficult to infuse considerable fresh capital to absorb latest innovations and designs. Thirdly, because of the strident and sudden scaling down of customs tariff the foreign suppliers found it more lucrative to export machinery from their parent plant than to allow local producers to meet the domestic demand. Lastly, the volatile demand situation for textile machinery and accessories has come in the way of procuring new technology.

The foreign owners of new technology have therefore to be induced with fresh incentives. The primary bait for technology sellers would be royalty payment and large dissemination of technology on a continuous basis. Government has to be a prime mover of this initiative by offering tax breaks to the technology buyer to help royalty remittances. Tax relieves may also be offered on raw materials and other inputs which go into the manufacture of new technology machines by the domestic manufacturers.

How to obtain Technology


A combination of routes has to be vigorously pursued to obtain the latest technology for the rapid progress of the Indian Textile Engineering Industry. These include:

a) Joint Ventures with machinery manufacturers who may be interested in transfer of technology. In the quota free regime, the manufacturers proximity to user market would be advantageous and hence the machinery producers from abroad may be interested to expand their presence in India.

Since a large number of knitting machines of latest technology are being imported from Taiwan it would be advantageous to examine the feasibility of procuring such technology for the growing knitting industry. Access to new technology could also be explored with countries like the U.S.A., Italy, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.



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Oerlikon Neumag is the leading world-wide supplier of M&J Airlaid Technology. The core of the Airlaid Technology is the patented Fibre Forming System that enables the production of wide width webs based either on 100% pulp fibres or homogeneous mixtures of different fibres and powders. Typical raw materials are fluff pulp, Bicomponent bonding fibres and Super Absorbent Powder for absorbent core material.

Airlaid Technology

The M&J Airlaid Technology is extremely flexible with regard to which raw materials and fibre lengths can be used and combined in the same process. The Patented Forming technology enables the mixing of different short and long fibres and powders in the same forming head where the components are homogeneously mixed before formation. Due to the formation geometry this homogeneous mix is maintained during web formation, ensuring optimal use of all the components in the web. This means that webs can be engineered with specific end uses in mind. Whether it is single or multilayer products each layer can be designed to meet the needs at that particular place in the web, for instance acquisition, spreading and absorption layers. The ability to mix powders homogeneously into the web also means that bonding powders can be used in the process. A most important feature of the Airlaid Technology is the ability to produce products free of undefibrated material and lumps of rolled up fibres. These are removed from the forming head and recycled to the defibrators before the web is formed.



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Facts about Weaving Loom Types

The earliest art of hand weaving along with hand spinning remains a popular craft. There are different types of weaving looms and these include handloom, frame loom and back strap loom.

A loom is a mechanism or tool used for weaving yarn and thread into textiles. Looms vary in a wide assortment of sizes. They come in huge free standing hand looms, tiny hand-held frames, to vast automatic mechanical tools. A loom can as well pertain to an electric line construction like that of a wiring loom. The main task of looms is to clutch the twist threads under pressure to enable the progress of interweaving of the woof strands. The loom's system and exact form can differ to some extent; however it still performs the basic application.

There are many kinds of weaving looms to choose from, depending on what you plan to weave. When planning on buying a weaving loom, consider several things. These include how large a piece do you intend to weave; how much experience do you have with weaving looms; how much space is there for your looms; and how much time are you willing to spend on it.

Some looms are fairly small and simply mastered by their users. They can even be used by young children. Larger looms tend to be more complex but still have more detailed options for better usage. The size of the loom is the one to determine the width of whatever weave material you're going to select. The length is more controlled in the table looms.


Different Types of Looms


1) Hand Looms

The first and original loom was vertically twist-weighted types, where threads are hung from a wooden piece or branch or affixed to the floor or ground. The weft threads are manually shoved into position or pushed through a rod that also becomes the shuttle. Raising and lowering each warp thread one by one is needed in the beginning. It is done by inserting a piece of rod to create a shack, the gap between warp threads in order for the woof to easily traverse the whole warp right away.


2) Ground Looms

Horizontal ground looms permit the warp threads to be chained between a couple of rows of dowels. The weaver needs to bend forward to perform the task easily. Thus, pit looms with warp chained over a ditch are invented to let the weaver have his or her legs positioned below and leveled with the loom.


3) Back strap Looms

They are well recognized for their portability. The one end of this loom type is secured around the waist of the weaver and the other end is attached around a fixed thing like door, stake, or tree. Pressure applied can be customized by just bending back.



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Yarn Quality Improved by ACP Quality Package

1. Preliminary Remarks

Today, the well-known 3-roller double-apron drafting systems of ring spinning frames permit to draft rovings up to a total draft of 80 and more under optimum conditions. The task of the break-draft zone is to introduce the sliding process of the fibres of the twisted roving. In the subsequent main draft zone, the fibre strand is guided between the top and the bottom aprons and drafted to the desired final count of the yarn.

This mode of operation is already very old and has hardly been modified in the last decades.

With the ACP Quality Package by SUESSEN it is now possible, however, to improve the drafting process in the main draft zone and consequently the values of the most important yarn parameters.

2. The Drafting Process on the Ring Spinning Machine

2.1 The Break-Draft The purpose of the break-draft zone is to prepare the main draft. The fibres in the roving are stretched and extended up to a degree which allows them to shift in the main zone immediately after leaving the cradle clamping line.

The basic correlation for each individual staple length between the setting of the break-draft zone and of the break-draft of a ring frame drafting system is shown in Fig. 2.

A long break-draft zone with the smallest possible break-draft must definitely be preferred. It reduces very clearly the wear of top roller cots and aprons and the load on the draft gearing, especially in the case of long machines.

In addition, the total system is less prone to climatic modifications, variations in fibre length and fluctuation in the drafting resistance of the roving.


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INDIA: International Textile Machinery EXPO In Bangalore

For the first time Bangalore is hosting the prestigious International Textile Machinery Exhibition “8th INDIA ITME 2008” at Bangalore International Exhibition Centre, from 15-22 November. The exhibition is organized by India International Textile Machinery Exhibitions Society (India ITME Society). Hon’ble Union Minister of Textiles Shri Shankersinh Vaghela will be inaugurating the exhibition on November 15. Hon’ble Shri S.M. Krishna, M.P. will be the Chief Guest and Hon’ble Shri Shekhar Gulihatti, Minister for Textiles & Youth Services, Govt. of Karnataka will be the Guest of Honour.

The exhibition, held once every four years has attracted worldwide attention from participants and business visitors alike for the last 30 years. The Bangalore exposition is 8th in the series and is organized in the state-of-the-art newly built exhibition site which is giving a tough competition to other venues across the country. The Bangalore Exhibition Complex has 3 fully air conditioned halls with an area of about 42,500 sq. mtrs. In addition, the India ITME Society had to go in for an additional hall of 2,500 sq. mtrs. to accommodate spill over exhibits.

Shri Sanjay Jayavarthanavelu, Chairman, India ITME Society, who spearheads the arrangements of the exhibition said, “This world class exhibition on textile machinery and accessories has gained in magnitude and prominence over the years. All leading manufacturers of textile machinery and components from across the world have booked space in the exhibition to show their latest technology machinery. The participants include prominent manufacturers of textile machinery and components from Germany

, Switzerland, Italy, France, U.K., U.S.A., China, Turkey, Brazil and other parts of the globe besides the Indian manufacturers.”

The total number of exhibitors is about 750 of which Indian constitutes 440 and foreign 310. The net area for exhibitors in Bangalore is about 28,000 sq. mtrs. which is higher than the figure of about 25,750 for the exhibition held in Mumbai in 2004. The Society had to deny admission of about 100 exhibitors requiring 2500 sq. mtrs. because of scarcity of exhibition space.

Prominent Indian manufacturers will show their latest technology. These are latest spinning machinery including compact spinning of LMW, Blow room & other machinery from TRUMAC, Air Jet loom, Rapier loom of Alidhra Weavetech, Rapier loom of Dynamic, Laxmi Textile Stores, Draw texturising of Himson, Aalidhra, Warping & sizing machinery of Jupiter, Amritlakshmi, Sectional warping of Prashant Gamatex, Rabatex, processing machinery of Harish textile enterprises, Dhall, Krsna etc. besides important spares and accessories.

Similarly latest spinning machinery including compact spinning of Rieter, Auto coner from Murata, Japan and Savio, Italy, Spinning and weaving machinery from Toyota, Japan, Shuttleless Rapier loom of Dornier, Smit, Sultex, Picanol; Processing and finishing from Oerlikon, Then, Thies etc.

All arrangements like uninterrupted and adequate power supply, compressed air and water facilities, housekeeping, security, site management, computer registration, hostesses, food court leasing, catering, conference has been made.

The New Bangalore airport has been commissioned and it is about 38 kms. from the exhibition complex. We have appointed the Travel Corporation of India as the travel and hotel accommodation agent for the exhibition to render assistance to the exhibitors and visitors.

The Society is arranging special buses from key points of the city to the exhibition complex and back during the exhibition days.

India and countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia and Thailand are prominent markets for manufacturers of textile machinery and components. All the business visitors from textile mills in India and abroad are welcome to visit and benefit from the technological innovations and developments showcased in the exhibition. INDIA ITME 2008 will be an appropriate forum for their investment programmes.

Source : www.bharattextile.com

Revolutionary Textile Processing Machine 'AIRO24' At ITME

The success of the new open-width continuous AIRO®24 from Biancalani confirms the leadership of the Italian company, that always believed in the power of its ideas. The proven capacity of innovation at Biancalani S.p.A., located in Prato-the italian area with the highest textile concentration - is deeply rooted into its experience, which has been growing throughout the many years thanks to the active role played by all its partners.

From the textile companies who trusted a concept, that later on proved to be a winning one, to the company members that were able to transform ideas into competitive solutions.
Junior cub of a renowned family, the young and powerful AIRO®24, born from twenty years of AIRO® experience, made its roar heard at the latest ITMA 2007 in Munich, revealing it's aggressive and mild temper, its strong and sparing character, and confirming the value of Biancalani experience and design skills within the traditionally trial-and-error scenario of Italian textile machinery.

Now you can have a look and touch the effects on fabric samples, obtaining more information about this new technology, meeting Biancalani people and their indian agent Bakubhai Ambalal staff at ITME Bangalore 2008 exhibition, Hall 2 - Booth B110.

Nothing in AIRO®24 was left to chance: from the design of straight and clean aerodynamic paths, symmetrical, even and neat, to the clever and flexible system with independent airflow-routing valves, to details that at first might seem of secondary importance, like the noise absorbing paneling and their bright color, with the logo composed by an arrow (representing the speed) and a circle (symbolizing continuity, also meant as absence of interruptions).

The machine owes its efficiency and its energy-savvy attitude to the aerodynamic path, that eliminates dispersions and resistances ensuring an even and balanced fabric movement and treatment, and therefore perfect uniformity and effectiveness of the AIRO® effect. This solution, realized by Biancalani and covered by international patents, allows to obtain remarkable energy savings by driving the air in a natural way, without any moving device that could have generated dispersions or increases in airflow resistance with consequent turbulences and possible uneven distribution of the fabric treatment.


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