Textile Machinery Trade Fairs: Through The Eyes Of Textile Industry

Trade fairs and events are mainstay for the textile machinery companies market promotion. Various trade fairs and events are organized every year by organizers like ACIMIT, TMMA, CSMA, JASMA, CITME etc. Some fairs like ITMA, JIAM exclusively focuses on textile machinery sector while some other includes machinery as an integral part of textile industry. Such fairs have become potential hub of meeting for buyers and sellers. Unique Selling Preposition of such fairs is that manufacturers can display their machinery to the buyers directly and buyer can examine and negotiate on the spot for different parameters. Buyers can also compare different machines at the same place for their prices, applications and technologies used.

Textile machinery manufacturers and visitors attend such fairs with different expectations and perceptions. Decision to visit fairs/event depends on many factors like geographical location of the fair, visitors profile, past experience with the fair, reputation of the fair within industry etc. Fibre2fashion got the opportunity to know views of eminent personalities in machinery manufacturing industry. Mr. S. R. Gandhi (Dalal Engineering) says We prefer to participate in only those fairs which are only for Textile Machinery.

Amongst Machinery manufacturers fraternity, for companies like Dalal Engineering, ITMA is the most preferable trade fair. For ITMA, Mr. Rainer Thum (Head Marketing - Spindelfabrik Suessen GmbH) quotes Infrastructure in Munich was better than anything they had seen before, including Singapore! We had very good customer attendance, much more than we had anticipated. A major problem for many of our customers was the difficulty in getting visas. Overall it was a very good show.

Our company participates in about 10-15 fairs every year, mainly in Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand etc. Usually we choose only one fair in one country each year according to the reputation, scale and our experience of last fair, expresses Mr. Wang Xiao hu (Vice President) China Texmatech Co., Ltd.

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New Stenter From Monforts With Attractive Price Performance Ratio

A new stenter, the Montex JV is introduced by A. Monforts Textilmaschinen which has been designed and engineered in Germany and is produced in Monforts joint venture facility, Monforts Fong’s Textile Machinery Ltd. in China. With each model being built under Monforts control in cooperation with its partner, world leading name, Fong’s, quality production is assured.

The new Montex JV incorporates proven Monforts technology with all service and spare parts activities undertaken from Germany, ensuring direct customer contact. The Montex JV stenter is marketed outside China solely through Germany. As an additional stenter in the German manufactured Monforts range including the Montex 7000 Series, the JV offers an attractive price performance ratio but does not include all the options available with Montex 6500 and 7000 Series units.

Competitively priced and built to German quality standards, the Montex JV offers an attractive option for standard finishing techniques. Designed for both woven and knitted fabrics, the stenter is available in configurations from 4-10 treatment chambers, working widths of 60cm-240cm and stenter speeds of 5-100m/min. Standard features include Monforts proven TwinAir system with separately controlled top and bottom air flows to ensure reproducible fabric results at all times.




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* New ISO standard introduced for safer dry-cleaning machines: ISO published a new International Standard, providing safety requirements for dry-cleaning machines. Laundry and dry laundry cleaning frequently use perchloroethylene or combustible solvent which are potentially dangerous to health. ISO 8230:2008, Safety requirements for dry-cleaning machines, will help manufacturers and designers to eliminate or reduce risk associated with these substances. The standard has 3 parts. Part 1 of ISO 8230, Common safety requirements, deals with all significant hazards arising from the use of dry-cleaning machine, both intended use and foreseeable abnormal situations, and includes commissioning, use and maintenance. Part 2, Machines using perchloroethylene, deals with the hazards specific to the use of perchloroethylene (PERC), the most commonly used dry-cleaning solvent, including inhalation of vapours, to perc contact with the skin or eyes of the machine operator and those of other personnel and members of the public, as well as to water and ground contamination. Part 3, Machines using combustible solvents, deals with all significant hazards related to dry-cleaning machines and which require specific action by the designer or manufacturer to eliminate or reduce the risk.


* Govt of India allocated Rs.14 Bn to steer clear backlog in TUF Scheme: The Government of India has been concerned about the impact of the global financial crisis on the Indian economy and a number of steps have been taken to deal with this problem. Considering already dwindling demand in textile industry, Government in its new relief package announced an additional allocation of Rs.1400 crore to clear the entire backlog in TUF Scheme.


* Oerlikon Schlafhorst consolidated German production plants: The Business Unit Oerlikon Schlafhorst has reorganised its three locations, Mnchengladbach, bach-Palenberg and Ebersbach, within the scope of the current restructuring program "Simplify Oerlikon Textile". The entire production of the three locations will be concentrated in bach-Palenberg. Mnchengladbach will focus on marketing functions; Ebersbach will retain its central research and development tasks.


* LMW announced to set up green field machine manufacturing facility, China: Lakshmi Machine Works Ltd this year announced that the Board of Directors of the Company at its meeting held on May 19, 2008, inter alia, has approved the proposal for the establishment of a green field project for the manufacture of Textile Spinning Machinery in China through a wholly owned subsidiary Company.


* Changes at SSM HACOBA Textile Machinery: SSM implemented a number of changes at SSM Textile Machinery and its subsidiary SSM HACOBA in Wuppertal. This encompassed relocation and integration of business activities of Hacoba in Wuppertal, Germany, into the existing operational organization at SSM Textile Machinery's headquarters in Horgen, Switzerland in order to bring smooth integration into the current work processes at SSM Schrer Schweiter Mettler AG in Horgen.


* Fleissner expanded its Management Team: Dr. Dieter Zenker (42) was appointed General Manager of Fleissner GmbH in Egelsbach near Frankfurt/Main on 1st July 2008.


* Fritz Mayer appointed as new chairman of VDMA: Fritz P. Mayer, Managing Partner of Karl Mayer Textilmaschinenfabrik GmbH, has been elected Chairman of the Textile Machinery Association within VDMA on June 6 in Berlin. Mayer succeeds to the office Johann Philipp Dilo, who has led the Association since 2005.






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Angles Textil Installs Capstone C1000 System

Capstone Turbine Corporation (www.capstoneturbine.com), the world’s leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, announced it has shipped its first C1000 megawatt scale product. The system will be installed at ANTEX (Angles Textil S.A.), www.antex.es, located in Spain.

ANTEX is an independent Spanish textile group whose activity centers on the broad world of synthetic yarns. It has eight industrial plants in Spain and one in Brazil. In the past, ANTEX had installed a cogeneration system using a reciprocating engine running on heavy fuel.

Capstone’s C1000 system will run on Liquid Natural Gas (LNG). The customer will utilize the electrical power and usable exhaust heat to produce steam and hot water which will be used in the industrial process. This project will showcase the new C1000’s advantages such as modularity, reliability, part load efficiency, lower maintenance costs, ease of installation, and smaller footprint versus traditional reciprocating engines.

The ANTEX project was developed by DISTEC, a company based in Girona, Spain, under the umbrella of “Micropower Europe.” Micropower Europe is a network created by Verdesis Suisse SA, with headquarters in Switzerland, of various European companies specializing in the development, marketing, application, sales and servicing expertise in the power generation industry using Capstone MicroTurbines®. For the Spanish and Austrian/Swiss markets, the network is represented by the Barcelona-based Micropower Europe S.L.

“Shipping our first C1000 system is a major accomplishment enabling Capstone to enter the megawatt scale marketplace,” said Darren Jamison, President and Chief Executive Officer of Capstone Turbine Corporation. “We continue to be very impressed with the early market acceptance of the C200 and the C1000 family of products. As of the end of our second quarter of fiscal year 2009, we had 49 C200’s and 29 C1000’s in backlog totaling 187 equivalent C200 engines,” added Jamison.

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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.

b) Proposals for the establishment of latest looms have to be explored. With the altered perspective of countries like Italy, Germany, Switzerland, USA and Japan towards Indian economy, it would be worthwhile to seek collaborations with the textile machinery makers of those countries to hollow out their operations to India, particularly in the weaving and processing sectors. Countries like Korea, Taiwan and Japan have developed electronics in a big way and efforts to procure the technology should be promoted.

c) Technology transfer may be encouraged through reengineering. Countries like Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan have benefited greatly by resorting to retrofit. India is currently importing a large quantity of used machinery, some of them with improved technology. An institutional arrangement could be set up to re-engineer and disseminate imported technology through a nodal agency.

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New Hot Knives Can Cut High-Tech Vectran Fiber

High-tech organic fibers such as aramids are used in a variety of nonwoven and fabric applications where strength, toughness, abrasion resistance and resistance to cutting are important parameters. In safety applications such as personal protective equipment, gloves, chain saw chaps, protective apparel and others, the resistance of the material to blade cuts is essential to success of the product.

Now the downside – during cut-and-sew operations to assemble the final net shape, resistance to cutting by knife blades can be a problem and can increase production time and costs.

One of the more recent entries into the market for protective materials is Vectran, a liquid crystal polymer fiber made by Kuraray. Vectran fiber’s unique properties provide a number of benefits over aramids including superior strength, abrasion resistance and cut resistance. Vectran fiber can provide product designers and engineers with an alternative to aramids for applications from composites used in aerospace to flexible coated fabrics and protective apparel.

While cutting thick Vectran fabric samples for laboratory testing, Kuraray noted a rapid degradation of cutting speeds as blades dulled due to the hard nature of the LCP polymer used to produce the fibers. Because of the difficulty experienced in cutting Vectran, Kuraray turned to the German-based equipment manufacturer, HSGM (Heissschneide- Geräte und -Maschinen) to make recommendations for possible heat cutting of Vectran. Material samples were sent to HSGM’s testing lab in Walluf, Germany.

In heat cutting, the blade of the cutting tool is heated to a temperature above the zero-strength temperature of the fiber. After several cutting trials, HSGM was able to cut Vectran fabrics at a good speed and produce a welded edge, when using the proper heat settings and recommended blades.

“We found the Vectran very difficult to cut by conventional means,” said Stephan Herrmann, general manager, HSGM, Germany. “However, because of the fiber’s unique thermal properties we were able to soon find the right combination of heater and blade design. Comparing hot cutting of Vectran to hot cutting aramids, Vectran could be hot cut easier and a little bit faster.”






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Mercerising

Substrate Type : Woven
Substrate Composition : Cotton, Blends

Product Information:

Novel wet on wet mercerization with add-on application of caustic and total dimensional stability with unique stretching zone.

Salient Features:

1) Flex-nip for add-on of caustic.

2) Diffusion compartment for swelling of cotton fabric with grooved stainless steel rollers.

3) Length / width stretching zone for stretching fabric length and width wise.

4) Counter current washing and pH control.

Washing

Substrate Type : Woven, Knitted-Open
Substrate Composition : Cotton, Polyester, Polypropylene, Nylon, Viscose, Acrylic, Blends

Product Information:

• Under liquor roller vat


• Washer


• Washer with accumulated fabric


• High efficiency squeezer consisting of one S-Roll


• Accumulator type washer

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