Aus der Branche

Monforts Textilmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG will be providing information on its extensive range of coating and finishing technologies for the production of nonwovens and technical textiles at the forthcoming Techtextil India exhibition.

“India is already a very important market for Monforts and there are exciting prospects ahead for Indian manufacturers of technical textiles, who are well positioned to capitalise on growth opportunities,” says Monforts Head of Denim Hans Wroblowski, who will be at the Monforts stand in Hall 4, booth C52 at the show. “India has one of the largest working-age populations in the world and a complete textile value chain for both natural and synthetic fibres.”

In addition, he adds, India’s government, through its Ministry of Textiles, has been actively promoting the growth of technical textiles through various programmes based on investment promotion, subsidies, the creation of infrastructure and the stimulation of consumption.

As a result, India’s Ministry of Textiles is forecasting that the growth of technical textiles in the country will be over 18% annually in the next few years, from a value of US$16.6 billion in 2018 to US$28.7 billion in 2021.

Value addition

High value-added technical products such as wide-width digital printing substrates, carbon fabrics for high-performance composites, filter media, flame retardant barrier fabrics and heavy-duty membranes are now being coated on Monforts texCoat ranges and finished with the company’s industry-leading Montex stenters.

“Since we acquired the technology that our coating units are based on in 2015, we have made a lot of refinements,” says Hans. “All of these developments are reflected in higher coating accuracy and the resulting quality of the treated fabrics. At the same time, our latest multi-functional coating heads offer an unprecedented range of options, with a wide range of modules available.”

The texCoat user interface is now equipped with the unique Monforts visualisation system and the magnetic doctor blade has greater power reserves. Options include a carbon fibre-reinforced composite coating drum with a more scratch-resistant surface and maximum rigidity and remote control which simplifies exact adjustment for the operator.

Montex stenters in special executions are meanwhile ideal for the drying and finishing of both technical woven fabrics and nonwovens and characterised by high stretching devices in both length and width.

“The European-built Montex range of stenters has earned its leading position in the technical textiles market due to the overall robustness, reliability and economy of these machines,” Hans concludes. “Whatever the intended end-product – and we continue to discover potentially new areas in which technical textiles can be utilised all the time – we have the machine specification and know-how to turn ideas into reality. In India we also benefit from the strong sales and service support of A.T.E. Enterprises.”

Texchtextil India takes place alongside World of Composites at the Bombay Exhibition Centre in Mumbai from November 20-22.

It’s well-known that the astonishing success of China’s economy over the past decade has sent wages soaring and made it difficult for the country’s textile manufacturers to find and retain trained machine operators, while operating in a highly competitive market where optimised production and full resource efficiency are of paramount importance.

In direct response to this situation, A. Monforts Textilmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG has introduced a range of new Industry 4.0 technologies aimed at simplifying machine operation while providing easy access to all data and instant or remote assistance.

At the forthcoming Shanghaitex 2019 textile machinery exhibition, which takes place from November 25-28 in Shanghai, Monforts specialists will be at stand A10 in Hall W and look forward to discussing the company’s latest developments in this area with valued Chinese customers.

They include the latest Qualitex full touch panel control system, with its digital twinning capability and Smart Check and Smart Support apps, reinforced by the comprehensive Monforts Smart Sensor machine monitoring programme.

The new Monforts yarn dyeing technology is being made commercially available at exactly the right time for fabric differentiation and cost efficiencies, if the initial market reaction at ITMA 2019 is anything to go by.

A revolutionary new system for yarn dyeing based on the proven Econtrol® dyeing system for fabrics will be introduced by A. Monforts Textilmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG at ITMA 2019 in Barcelona, Spain, from June 20-26.

This latest CYD denim processing technology integrates new functions and processes into the weaving preparatory processes – spinning, direct beaming, warping and assembly beaming, followed by sizing and dyeing – in order to increase quality, flexibility, economic viability and productivity.

“Denim finishing is a field in which Monforts has an undisputed lead and we have been working closely with our many partners in the key denim manufacturing countries of China, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Mexico and Brazil to develop new advanced solutions,” says Monforts Head of Denim Hans Gerhard Wroblowski. “The CYD system has been developed in response to a very strong market demand.”

A. Monforts Textilmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG will demonstrate a range of new advances made possible by Industry 4.0 techniques at ITMA 2019 in Barcelona, Spain, from June 20-26.

At stand D101 in Hall 2, visitors will discover the possibilities of ‘digital twin’ capability – now being made available for all Monforts machine systems – and that by exploiting the latest advanced sensor technology, comprehensive technical machine data can now be virtually mapped in the cloud in real time. The data can be easily accessed using the new Monforts Smart Support and Smart Check apps for an instantaneous status overview. All specifications relating to machine performance and the production process can be mapped, to enable vastly simplified and targeted analysis for controlled planning and production. Insights harnessed from such analysis can be used to optimise the actual production process. At the same time, potential sources of error can be anticipated and eliminated, enabling improved machine availability while considerably minimising downtime.

Parts prediction
In addition, the digital twin system provides information on the individual wear parts of a system, such as, for example, converters or gears. “Operators and mill managers are informed by Smart Check sensors when maintenance or the replacement of key components will be required, well ahead of time,” explains Monforts Vice President Klaus A. Heinrichs. “Direct access to the integrated Monforts webshop allows users to instantly order such parts when they are needed, virtually preventing machine downtime.” On request, Monforts can also virtually monitor machine performance and pro-actively alert customers to the need for preventative action. In such cases, however, data is only ever called from the cloud by Monforts when customers have given their full consent, in the interests of data security. Data from Smart Check, for example, can even be used to analyse a system’s energy requirements, allowing machine operation to be optimised by tailoring production runs to the peaks and troughs of electricity costs.

Berlin / Frankfurt am Main – Regina Brückner, Geschäftsführende Gesellschafterin der Brückner Trockentechnik, ist neue Vorsitzende des VDMA Fachverbands Textilmaschinen. Die Unternehmerin aus Leonberg wurde im Rahmen der Mitgliederversammlung des Fachverbands in Berlin gewählt. Komplettiert wird die neue Führungsspitze durch Verena Thies, Thies Textilmaschinen, und Fritz P. Mayer, Karl Mayer Textilmaschinenfabrik, die zu Vize-Vorsitzenden gewählt wurden.

Regina Brückner erklärte nach ihrer Wahl: „Ich freue mich, mit Frau Thies und Herrn Mayer zwei Stellvertreter an meiner Seite zu haben, die sich gut ergänzen. Herr Mayer ist eine Unternehmerpersönlichkeit mit jahrzehntelanger Erfahrung, die er mittlerweile als Vorsitzender des europäischen Textilmaschinenbau-Verbandes CEMATEX einbringt. Frau Thies hat schon früh Verantwortung im Familienbetrieb übernommen und ist seit 2009 für die Traditionsfirma Thies im internationalen Textilmaschinengeschäft tätig.“

Dem neuen Vorstand für die Wahlperiode bis 2021 gehören an:
Regina Brückner (Vorsitzende), Brückner Trockentechnik
Verena Thies (Stellvertreterin), Thies
Fritz P. Mayer (Stellvertreter), Karl Mayer Textilmaschinenfabrik
Johann Phillip Dilo, Oskar Dilo Maschinenfabrik
Peter D. Dornier, Lindauer Dornier
Arno Gärtner, Karl Mayer Textilmaschinenfabrik
Roland Hampel, A. Monforts Textilmaschinen
Dr. Janpeter Horn, Herzog
Markus Kleindorp, Memminger-Iro
Martin Küppers, Saurer Schlafhorst
Georg Stausberg, Oerlikon Textile
Andreas Lukas, Andritz Küsters
Benjamin Mayer, Mayer & Cie.     
Eric Schöller, Groz-Beckert
Heinrich Trützschler, Trützschler

Mönchengladbach ist Textilstadt – auch über die „MG zieht an“ hinaus, die bundesweit größte textile Recruitingmesse, die derzeit am Campus der Hochschule Niederrhein stattfindet. Schon am Sonntag ist nur wenige hundert Meter weiter südlich des Campus im TextilTechnikum im Monfortsquartier das Projekt „fashion & fiction“ zu sehen, ein Brückenschlag zwischen Mode und Literatur, zu dem Studierende der Hochschule Niederrhein ihre kreativen Ideen geliefert haben.

Zentrales Element ist eine Hörstation, über die man Textpassagen zahlreicher Autoren hören kann. Es geht um modische Beschreibungen von Jane Austen und Gottfried Keller über Gustave Flaubert und Irmgard Keun bis hin zu Brigitte Kronauer und Joachim Meyerhoff. Mode ist seit jeher Teil der Literatur. Sie dient Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftstellern als Medium der Charakterisierung, der Differenzierung und der historischen Verortung. Mit anderen Worten: Modebeschreibungen regen die Fantasien der Leser an.
Studierende des Fachbereichs Textil- und Bekleidungstechnik haben dies getan – und Illustrationen und Objekte geschaffen, die ihnen zu bestimmten Textpassagen eingefallen sind. Die Ausstellung verdeutlicht daher zum einen die Vielfalt der Fantasien, die durch Mode-Beschreibungen angeregt werden. Zum anderen zeigt sie auch die Vielfalt der textilen Ausbildung an der Hochschule Niederrhein. Zu sehen sind Druckerzeugnisse aus der Kollektionsentwicklung, experimentelle Strickmodelle und Mode-Illustrationen.
Der Auftakt zu „fashion & fiction“ ist am Sonntag, 21. Mai, 13 bis 17 Uhr im TextilTechnikum. Dort ist die Ausstellung bis zum 18. Juni zu sehen. Die Hörstation wird nach Mönchengladbach auch in anderen Städten – auch solchen, die einen besonderen Bezug zu Textilien haben – zum Einsatz kommen. „Überall dort, wo die Menschen Zeit haben, kann die Hörstation zum Einsatz kommen“, sagt Dr. Karlheinz Wiegmann, Leiter des Museums Schloss Rheydt und Initiator des Projekts. Vorstellbar wären zum Beispiel Arztpraxen oder öffentliche Bibliotheken. Wer Interesse hat, kann sich beim Museum Schloss Rheydt direkt melden.