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Unter dem Namen PearlTech® präsentiert PERLON® - The Filament Company auf der diesjährigen Techtextil in Frankfurt a.M. vom 14. – 17. Mai  seine neueste Produktmarke: PearlTech® ist ein Monofilament, in das spezielle Partikel eingearbeitet sind. Die Größe und Form der Partikel ist variabel und unabhängig vom Grundpolymer.

Aktuell wird PearlTech® sowohl in einer PET basierten, als auch in einer PA – basierten Variante angeboten. Die Partikel werden der Polymerschmelze zugesetzt und sind über den gesamten Querschnitt gleichmäßig verteilt. Die neu erworbenen Eigenschaften bleiben folglich über die gesamte Lebensdauer des Monofilaments erhalten. Die in der Polymermatrix eingearbeiteten Teilchen ragen leicht aus der Monofilamentoberfläche heraus, wodurch PearlTech®  eine interessante Optik und eine veränderte Oberflächeneigenschaft besitzt.

PearlTech®  steht für eine verbesserte Widerstandsfähigkeit gegen Verschleiß, reduziert die Antriebsleistung von Maschinenelementen und verringert gleichzeitig die Anschmutzneigung der Endprodukte im Vergleich zu Standardpolymeren. Die Partikel haben keinen negativen Einfluss auf bspw. die Hydrolysebeständigkeit und bieten zudem die Möglichkeit, auf den Einsatz von Fluorpolymeren zu verzichten.

This September’s Cinte Techtextil China will once again provide a strong barometer of the state of the global technical textiles industry, and in particular which sectors in Asia as a whole, and China specifically, are performing well. Two of these for certain are Buildtech and Mobiltech, with a number of leading global and Chinese brands exhibiting to eager buyers from these sectors.

Cinte Techtextil China is Asia’s leading biennial fair for the technical textiles and nonwovens sector, and will feature an expected 500-plus total exhibitors from around 20 countries & regions from 4 – 6 September. The fair offers products and technologies for 12 application areas* which cover the entire industry.

Buildtech benefits from Belt & Road and other infrastructure investment

With a huge boom in national and regional infrastructure projects, the market for Buildtech products, especially geotextiles and construction textiles, is rapidly expanding. In particular, the government’s global Belt & Road project, as well as continued investment at home in highways, high-speed rail and more, is fuelling this expansion. According to CNITA, in 2017 China started 35 new railway projects, with additional private capital investment in this sector totalling some USD 53 billion that year. The same investment in highway construction increased 17.7%, while water conservation project investment by private firms reached a new record of USD 105 billion.

With this potential in the Asian market, it’s no surprise a number of new exhibitors will feature in the Buildtech sector at the fair, including FPC Technical Textile from Saudi Arabia, Kobe-cz from the Czech Republic, as well as Lenzing Plastics, while Johns Manville are one of the returning exhibitors this year.

• FPC Technical Textile (Saudi Arabia) produce high-end specialty fabrics including PVC coated fabrics and fibre glass PTFE fabrics, and will focus on the latter at the fair.
• Kobe-cz (Czech Republic) will showcase their nonwoven fabrics, mainly from glass fibre with temperature resistance up to 800°C.
• Exhibiting for the first time at the fair with their Plastics division, Lenzing (Austria) will feature their technical laminates for building industries, roofing membranes, vapour barriers, isolation facings and barrier packaging, as well as PROFILEN® PTFE yarns, films and fibres at Cinte Techtextil.
• Johns Manville’s (US) products on offer include polyester spunbond, PP & PBT meltblown, glass fibre nonwovens, micro glass fibre nonwovens, hybrid nonwovens, glass fibre needle mat and glass microfibers.

Mobiltech benefits from huge increases in automobile production in China

With new textile innovations and application possibilities spreading throughout the automobile industry, coupled with the fact China is the world’s largest auto producer, Cinte Techtextil is the place to see the latest products and technologies for this sector this September. Automobile production in China reached 29 million units in 2017, an increase of 3% year-on-year. Staggeringly, new-energy vehicle production grew by 53% last year, while SUVs and commercial vehicles increased 13.81% and 13.95% respectively.

With such strong growth in China, a number of leading international Mobiltech producers, as well as top domestic suppliers, will be at Cinte Techtextil this year, including:

• Abifor (Switzerland): their focus at the fair is on products designed for automotive, construction and other technical applications, in particular their specialty hot-melt powders. The company has its own production unit in Shanghai, and reports that an increasing number of domestic customers are starting to focus on more sophisticated products.
• SKS Group (Sweden): will showcase high performance single end yarn for automotive and industrial hoses, and single end cord for automotive and industrial belts.
• Swisstulle (Switzerland): will have a range of products on offer for automotive, rail and aviation uses, including sunshade materials, nets, tube reinforcements and new possibilities for luggage compartment covers.
• Windel Textile Far East (Germany): with production undertaken in China, this German firm offers textile greige, half-done and finished materials. They offer nonwoven, knitted and woven fabrics (substrates), and glass fibre solutions. At the fair, they will showcase substrates for adhesive tapes / wire harnessing tapes, and Maliwatt- and coagulated microfibre fleece for covering vehicle interiors.
• Protechnic (France): they will feature hot melt thermoadhesive nets, webs and films, as well as laminating process in automotive and other industrial applications at Cinte 2018.
• Kuangda Technology Group (China): having supplied products for global brands such as Volkswagen and Audi, this Chinese supplier will offer automotive interiors, including interior fabrics, seat covers and cushions at the fair.
• Shanghai Shenda (ShanghaiTex Group) (China): specialising in automotive interior textiles, they manufacture a full range of products including grey car carpet, moulding car carpet, head liners (warp-knitting and nonwoven), seat belt, seat fabrics and more, and have supplied the likes of Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Volkswagen and GM.

Cinte Techtextil China is organised by Messe Frankfurt (HK) Ltd; the Sub-Council of Textile Industry, CCPIT; and the China Nonwovens & Industrial Textiles Association (CNITA). To find out more about the fair, please visit: www.techtextilchina.com.

Exhibitor registration is open for Cinte Techtextil China, which will take place with an earlier date of 4 – 6 September this year. Asia’s largest biennial event for the entire technical textiles and nonwovens sector, the fair is held in a region that not only continues to grow strongly but is expected to do so for the foreseeable future, not least due to major government initiatives in China that are injecting billions of dollars of investment into the industry.

“It is due to the increasing opportunities in the Asian market that we are expecting more European exhibitors to feature at Cinte Techtextil China this year,” Ms Wendy Wen, Senior General Manager of Messe Frankfurt (HK) Ltd outlined. “As the fair attracts a diverse range of trade buyers, including from 12 different application areas such as Buildtech, Clothtech, Geotech, Medtech, Mobiltech and Protech, it is a unique opportunity within Asia for suppliers to meet with the entire industry and maximise the potential of their products across various end-uses and sectors.” While many new European companies are expected this year, some of the returning big brands already confirmed include Trützschler, Dilo and Barnet from Germany, Andritz from France, Stahl from the Netherlands, Itema from Italy and Picanol from Belgium.

Chinese and Asian technical textiles and nonwovens markets continue their upward trajectory
When it comes to technical textiles and nonwovens, the Asian region, and China in particular, is displaying impressive growth, which will remain the case in the coming years.

China overall

•  The total output of technical textiles and nonwoven products is estimated to reach over 22 million tons in 2020, accounting for 30% of global production, and double that of 2013.
•  In 2016, China’s technical textile exports were worth USD 23.61 billion. Nine major products surpassed USD 1.5 billion worth of exports each: medical & hygiene textiles, coated textiles, nonwovens, canvas & tarp textiles, ropes, synthetic leather substrates and package textiles.
• Growth will be seen especially in the following sectors in the coming five years               

                  Filtration & separation textiles
                  Medical & hygiene textiles
                  Geotechnical textil
                  Structural reinforcement textiles
                  Transportation textiles
                  Protective textiles

Nonwovens

• China accounted for 10.5% of global nonwovens imports in 2015.
• China alone will account for around 57% of the Asian consumption of nonwovens from 2016 to 2020.
• According to the China Nonwovens & Industrial Textiles Association (CNITA), the following nonwoven sectors will experience the highest growth in this period:

                 Environmental protection
                 Medical, healthcare and elderly care
                 Emergency services and public security
                 New-energy automotive
                ‘Belt and Road’ supporting industries

Man-made fibres

• China currently accounts for 65% of world market share of man-made fibres, with demand in the wider Asian region expected to remain strong in coming years thanks to growing populations and rising living standards in China and emerging Asian countries.
• The driving force is not only clothing, but also new applications such as the filtration, construction, protection and transportation industries.

Die Hochschule Niederrhein präsentiert ab heute ihre breitgefächerte textile Kompetenz auf der Techtextil 2017 in Frankfurt, der Leitmesse für technische Textilien und Vliesstoffe. Auf einem eigenen Stand präsentieren Prof. Dr. Eberhard Janssen und Prof. Dr. Lutz Vossebein den Fachbereich Textil- und Bekleidungstechnik, das Forschungsinstitut für Textil und Bekleidung und die Öffentliche Prüfstelle.

Von heute, 9. Mai, bis Freitag, 12. Mai, zeigt die Hochschule an ihrem Stand (Halle 3.1 Stand A39) neue Entwicklungen wie Durchstichsensoren, leuchtende Fassaden, 3D-Simulation oder Kernmantelverbundwerkstoffe. Daneben geht es auch um allgemeine Informationen zu den Studiengängen am Fachbereich Textil- und Bekleidungstechnik. Den 60 Quadratmeter großen Stand teilt sich die Hochschule Niederrhein mit dem Mönchengladbacher Unternehmen Textechno und dem österreichischen Unternehmen Lenzing Instruments, beides Hersteller von Mess- und Prüfgeräten für Fasern.
Außerdem ist Prof. Dr. Michael Ernst mit dem Virtual Lab des Fachbereichs in Halle 4 mit einem eigenen Stand vertreten und zeigt die nächste Generation der Produktentwicklung, die zunehmend digital geprägt ist. Die Bereiche Avatargestaltung mittels Body-Scanning-Technologien, Erfassung von Materialparametern für die Simulation, virtuelles Prototyping und die Implementierung der Technologien in einen industriellen Produktentwicklungsprozess stehen hierbei im Fokus und werden mit neuesten 2D und 3D CAD-Technologien umgesetzt.