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ITM 2022, which will be held at Istanbul Tüyap Fair and Congress Center on 14-18 June 2022, will be the first and largest international textile machinery exhibition to be held after a 3-year break. The leading brands of world textile technologies will launch their latest machines at ITM 2022.
The latest ITM Exhibition hosted the world textile industry with 1200 exhibitors from 64 countries and 60,000 visitors from 94 countries. ITM 2022 Exhibition in cooperation with TEMSAD and in partnership with Tüyap Tüm Fuarcılık Inc. and Teknik Exhibitions Inc. plans to set new records as one of the most important global organizations to be organized after the pandemic outbreak period.

The textile industry, which is among the leading sectors in Turkey's exports, demonstrated its power to the whole world, especially during the pandemic outbreak period. Achieving an increase of up to 40 percent in exports of textiles and raw materials, Turkey also broke records after records in medical textile, technical textile, and indoor textile exports.

Ranking in the top three in the most important market for the European textile machinery manufacturers, Turkey also attracted attention with its production performance during the troublesome pandemic outbreak. Many European machinery manufacturers, who spoke highly of Turkey's performance, announced that their machinery sales to Turkey increased in 2020 and 2021. Turkish textile companies, which increase their production capacity because they were unable to keep up with the demands, continue their new investments and modernizations.

Leading brands of textile technologies such as Picanol, Itema, Toyota, Saurer, Rieter and Trützschler are among the companies that will exhibit their latest innovations at the ITM 2022.

• Erlebnisformate in Frankfurt am Main für die nachhaltige Cross Sector-Community

Neues Datum, neues Format, neues Umfeld: Die Neonyt, Community-Plattform für Mode, Nachhaltigkeit und Innovation, öffnet sich vom 24. bis 26. Juni 2022 auch für den Endkonsument*innen-Markt und verstärkt mit dem neuen „Neonyt Lab“ ihren mehrdimensionalen Sustainability-Ansatz: nachhaltiges Sourcing und Processing entdecken, textile Vorstufen kennenlernen, fertige Modekollektionen hautnah erleben und direkt kaufen. Unter dem Claim „New patterns“, neue Muster, entstehen in der vorletzten Juniwoche innovative Erlebnisformate für die nachhaltige Cross Sector-Community, Branchen-Newcomer*innen und alle Interessierten.

Als Trendplattform und Treffpunkt der nachhaltigen Textil- und Modebranche will die Neonyt im Sommer 2022 das Thema Sustainability in einer zentralen Location in Frankfurt am Main auch für Endverbraucher*innen erlebbar machen. Die Community erwartet Fashion Show, D2C-Trade Show, Konferenz und Showcases, Content Creator-Programm und Networking Space: Neonyt Lab lädt Brands, Konsument*innen, Einkäufer*innen, Designer*innen, Trendsetter*innen und Modeinteressierte ein, sich zu informieren und auszutauschen.
 
In derselben Woche, in der auch das Neonyt Lab stattfindet, treffen sich in Frankfurt am Main außerdem internationale Branchengrößen aus allen Bereichen entlang der globalen textilen Wertschöpfungskette: Das erstmalig parallel stattfindende Trio aus Heimtextil Summer Special, internationale Fachmesse für Wohn- und Objekttextilien, Techtextil, internationale Leitmesse für technische Textilien und Vliesstoffe, und Texprocess, internationale Leitmesse für die Verarbeitung von textilen und flexiblen Materialien, soll vom 21. bis 24. Juni 2022 Kreativität und Hightech, Anwendungsvielfalt und Know-how bündeln. Gemeinsam zeigen die Messen, etablierte Konferenzformate und die Community-Events der Neonyt die Bandbreite an textilen Möglichkeiten – von der Faser bis zum Recycling.

TEXO AB, a member of TMAS, the Swedish textile machinery association, is currently seeing a surge in demand for its Compfelt weaving looms for press felt base fabrics.

“These are far from standard machines,” explains TEXO President Anders Svensson. “Off-the-shelf industrial weaving machines generally range in their working widths from 1.9 to 3.2 metres, with those purpose-built for technical applications such as geotextiles extending to wider widths of six metres and beyond. Meanwhile, one of the machines we have recently successfully delivered and commissioned has a working width of 23 metres and is not even the widest of the many such machines the company has engineered and delivered worldwide since its formation.”

A second recently-delivered line has a more modest working width – in relative terms – of 13 metres.

Paper machines
The demand for such machines comes from the suppliers of paper machine clothing (PMC) to paper mills, who in turn operate colossal machines for paper manufacturing.
On of the largest paper making machines is currently believed to be located on Hainan Island off the southern coast of China and is 428 metres long – roughly the length of four football pitches. Naturally, such machines require equally large-scale components, which is where TEXO comes in. All paper machines require a regular supply of PMC fabrics which are employed in three separate areas of the paper machine – the forming section, the press section and the drying section.

Press felts
TEXO Compfelt weaving machines are specifically employed for the production of endless (tubular) woven base fabrics for the press section of paper machines, where water is mechanically removed from the newly formed sheet of fibres. In the simplest press, the sheet is carried by the PMC fabric between two rolls, where water is squeezed out by the application of load and pressure. This can also be assisted by the use of vacuum and heat. The PMC fabrics here need to be replaced regularly, with a maximum lifespan of six months.

Press felts have become increasingly sophisticated over the years, consisting of complex woven base structures which are subsequently combined with nonwovens via needlepunching on equally huge machines. The woven base fabrics are primarily made from polyamide for its strength and hygroscopic and elastic properties.

Dobby harness
“A major refinement of the machine has been the ability to equip it with up to 24 dobby harness frames to meet the demand for sophisticated structures from the PMC manufacturers. Although the PMC business represents a small proportion of the total cost of manufacturing paper, it can have a significant impact on the quality of the paper, the efficiency of a machine and machine production rates.”

Another significant development has been that of a self supporting base pre-filled with concrete, which has eliminated the need to dig out foundations in a plant to support the machine.

Retrofits
TEXO’s looms are built to last, but technology moves forward, and the company is also currently active in the retrofitting of existing machines built as far back as the 1970s.

Integration
TEXO has also just integrated its offices and production centre at its base in Älmhult, Sweden, to create a unified 5,000 square metre site.

Reifenhäuser Cast Sheet Coating – Spezialist für Gießfolien-, Glättwerks- und Extrusionsbeschichtungsanlagen – zeigt auf der ICE (International Converting Exhibition) Europe ein neues Produktionsverfahren für kostengünstige Folien-Vlies-Verbunde mit herausragend niedriger Grammatur. Die internationale Leitmesse für die Veredelung und Verarbeitung von Papier, Film und Folie findet vom 15. bis 17. März 2022 in der Messe München statt.

Die Corona-Pandemie und aktuelle Versorgungsengpässe haben die Abhängigkeit der Unternehmen von globalen Lieferketten offengelegt. Diese Situation ist zugleich Warnsignal und Chance, die lokale Halbzeug-Produktion grundsätzlich zu stärken. Insbesondere für den Anwendungsbereich medizinischer Schutzbekleidung hat Reifenhäuser Cast Sheet Coating jetzt das zukunftsweisende Produktionsverfahren „Ultrathin Coating“ entwickelt, mit dem Kunden besonders leichte Folien-Vlies-Verbunde kostengünstiger und dadurch wettbewerbsfähig produzieren können. Die zum Patent angemeldete Technologie reduziert die Folien-Grammatur um 66 Prozent, der Materialeinsatz im Gesamtverbund sinkt um 28 Prozent und die Kosten werden um bis zu 34 Prozent reduziert, verglichen mit herkömmlicher Halbzeugfertigung. Die signifikante Kostenersparnis wird dabei unter anderem durch den Verzicht auf Hotmelt-Kleber erreicht, was gleichzeitig die Anlagenwartung deutlich vereinfacht.

Mark Borutta, Sales & Marketing Specialist bei Reifenhäuser Cast Sheet Coating, erklärt: „Wir erleben derzeit einen nachhaltig wachsenden Mehrbedarf für medizinische Schutzbekleidung verbunden mit einer Rückholstrategie für lokale Produktionskapazitäten. Vor diesem Hintergrund erzielen Produzenten mit ‚Ultrathin Coating‘ einen schnellen Return on Invest und hohe Profitabilität – auch bei einer Produktion innerhalb Europas.“ Die Vlies-erfahrene Schwesterfirma Reifenhäuser Reicofil –führender Hersteller von Vliesstoffanlagen – hat die Entwicklung unterstützt.

Auch wenn Hersteller bereits medizinische Schutzausrüstung produzieren und den Coating Prozess künftig intern abbilden wollen, statt die notwendigen Verbundstoffe zu importieren, lohnt sich der Aufbau einer eigenen Fertigung. Die Investition in Ultrathin Coating amortisiert sich in beiden Fällen zumeist in weniger als 12 Monaten. Der verringerte Materialeinsatz reduziert außerdem den Verbrauch von fossilen Rohstoffen und zahlt damit auf die gesteigerte Nachfrage nach umweltbewussten Produkten ein.

Baldwin Technology Company Inc.—a one-stop source for high-performance coating, curing, treating, cleaning and inspection solutions—will feature pioneering new technology for optimizing converting, printing and film-extrusion processes at ICE Europe, which will be held at the Munich Trade Fair Centre in Germany from March 15 to 17.

Baldwin’s innovations can help customers meet the burgeoning demand for film and packaging amid the many economic and logistical headwinds challenging the industry. In addition, Michael Stürmer, Baldwin’s Director of Strategic Accounts, will present “Back to the Future: The 100-year-old processautomation solutions the corrugated industry has overlooked, until now!” at 11:30 a.m. March 17 during the International Exhibition for the Corrugated and Folding Carton Industry, held in the same location as ICE.

Baldwin provides converters with expertise and a broad range of market-leading innovations that offer superior print results, and enhance the economic and environmental efficiency of print production processes. Solutions on display at ICE will include automated cylinder cleaning systems, corona surface pretreatment systems, LED-UV curing and IR-drying systems, hot-air dryers, rotary spray systems, and technologies for color management and defect detection, all of which increase productivity, reduce waste, improve working conditions and provide full control of producing flawless products.

Groz-Beckert stellt vom 28. bis 31. März 2022 die Produktbereiche Felting und Carding auf der IDEA in Miami, USA, aus. Groz-Beckert präsentiert neueste Produkte und Lösungen zur Herstellung von Nonwovens.

Ob Wasserstrahlverfestigung, klassische Vernadelung oder Service: Der Bereich Felting gibt den Messebesuchern einen Einblick in das Angebot für die Nonwovens-Industrie. Für Spunlace-Kunden zeigt Groz-Beckert den HyTec® P-Düsenstreifen. Ein Düsenstreifen mit einer hohen Härte und Kratzbeständigkeit.

Im Bereich der klassischen Vernadelung ist die patentierte GEBECON®-Filznadel eines der Highlight-Produkte von Groz-Beckert. Sie bietet dank ihrer Geometrie optimierte Bruchbiege-Eigenschaften bei hoher Flexibilität.

Die Besucher haben die Möglichkeit einen virtuellen Rundgang durch die Technikumsanlage im Groz-Beckert Technologie- und Entwicklungszentrum (TEZ) in Albstadt, Deutschland die Stapelfaservernadelungslinie (SVL) zu erleben.

Im Bereich Carding steht auf der IDEA alles im Zeichen der Groz-Beckert InLine Garniturenserie. Dank eines neuen und patentierten Fertigungsverfahrens hat Groz-Beckert diese neue Serie von Ganzstahlgarnituren entwickelt, die Kunden aus der Vliesstoffindustrie eine verbesserte Prozesssicherheit und damit eine höhere Anlagenverfügbarkeit bietet. Gleichzeitig entspricht das neue Fertigungsverfahren den Unternehmensprinzipien, umwelt- und ressourcenschonend zu produzieren.

Die Garnituren zeichnen sich durch eine kontrollierte und präzise Härtung der Garniturzähne, eine Reduzierung der Fußhöhe von verketteten Ganzstahlgarnituren auf 1,3 mm und eine gänzlich zunderfreie Oberfläche ohne Grat aus. Anhand eines Exponats auf dem Messestand werden die Unterschiede zur herkömmlichen Produktionsmethode deutlich. Es zeigt einen eindrucksvollen Vergleich zwischen den neuen Groz-Beckert InLine Garnituren und der Vorgängergeneration.

Als erste Sondergeometrie der Groz-Beckert InLine Garniturenserie wurde die SiroLock™ plus Arbeiter- und Abnehmergarnitur entwickelt. Zusätzlich zu den Vorteilen der Groz-Beckert InLine Garnituren überzeugt die SiroLock™ plus durch eine effektivere Faseraufnahme, -kontrolle und -abgabe. Die Funktion und Arbeitsweise der SiroLock™ plus kann auf der IDEA mittels Augmented Reality erlebt werden.

• Mimaki’s Newest Product Series to Transform the Sign Graphics and Textile Markets with Improved Efficiency and Quality 
• Mimaki to launch the 330 Printer Series and the new entry-level cutting plotter series, the CG-AR

Mimaki Europe today announces a brand-new large format inkjet printer series, the 330 Series, including the JV330-160, CJV330-160 and TS330-1600, as well as a new range of CG-AR cutting plotters. Launched during the company’s Global Innovation Days event, the 330 Series leverages Mimaki’s cross-platform strategy, to offer a high-end yet cost effective printing solution across several sectors. Similarly, the CG-AR Series offers users new workflow enhancing, entry-level cutting plotter technologies available in three sizes. Both launches align with Mimaki’s objective to grow both its high-end and entry-level product range, to further encourage and support customers expanding and improving upon their printing services and product offering.

Introducing Mimaki’s latest printers – the 330 Series

Following on from the success of the 100 and 300 Plus Series, the 330 Series was developed to offer mid- to high-end printing models, focusing on high image quality and productivity. As a company renowned for its high-colour range, Mimaki’s newest printers can achieve high resolution, durable prints for both the Sign Graphic and Textile industries. 

The eco-solvent inkjet printers, the JV330-160 and CJV330-160, deliver the high-standard of colour required for indoor and outdoor sign graphics through the new “Deep Color Natural” input profile, offering eye-catching and vivid solid colours, natural skin tones as well as deep reds and neutral greys. With printing speeds of 21.0m2/h during standard mode while using 4 colours, this printer is ideal for print jobs that require quick delivery. The in-built cleaning mechanisms and monitoring features ensure an efficient workflow and allow for longer running times.

Both models feature a newly designed unwinding system that allows three rolls of media to be loaded simultaneously, greatly reducing the time and manpower required to change print media. One operator can bring the desired media into position simply by turning the media changer. Another standard feature is an “XY slitter” - a highly precise cutting technology, which provides in-line X-axis and Y-axis sheet-fed cutting. This eliminates the unwinding and rough cutting from the workflow, helping printers to significantly speed up and streamline the post-process, with less interference needed.

The print-only model JV330-160 as well as the integrated printer and cutter CJV330-160 will be available globally in April 2022.

In addition to the Sign Graphics solutions, Mimaki has also released the TS330-1600, a sublimation transfer inkjet printer, for the textile industry. Enabling both high production and high image quality, and equipped with new functions to improve stable operation, the TS330-1600 can achieve a printing speed of 69m2/h in Draft mode with a 4-colour ink set, with the fastest mode reaching up to 135m2/h. The newest cleaning mechanism applies a cloth wiper that removes unwanted ink from the nozzle surface, reducing ink splatter and improving the overall upkeep of the machine.

Increasing efficiency with entry-level CG-AR plotting cutter series

Alongside the 330 Series, Mimaki has also launched the CG-AR Series plotting cutters. Available in three different sizes (CG-60AR, CG-100AR and CG-130AR), these plotters go above and beyond current entry-level options available today. Recognising customer demand of shorter delivery times, these cutters provide increased speed and accuracy, all with user-friendly operability. In addition, the cutters have the ability to handle a diverse range of materials, such as PVC, fluorescent and reflective sheets.

BB Engineering GmbH (Germany) delivers a melt filter for recycling PET flakes to polyester manufacturer Indorama Polyester Industries (Thailand). Indorama will be using the type NSF38 filter in its recently assembled recycling system in order to produce rPET granulate from flake PET bottle waste. The NSF38 filter enables continual filtering – in other words, the system switches from one filter to the other during the process without the need for conversion shut-downs. The filter allows the processing of consumer waste for example, in the form of shredded PET bottles into new, high-quality rPET granulate. This granulate is subsequently processed into manmade fibers in spinning systems.

The NSF38 is a switchable filter with a filter surface area of ap-prox. 16 m2 on each side, with throughputs of between 1,000 and 1,900 kg/h. The filter inserts each contain 19 pleated filter candles (60 x 1,000mm Ø). The filter medium comprises a sin-tered metal fiber nonwoven with a filtration fineness of 25 μm. This ensures that the melt remains free of contaminants and gel particles, which in turn enables the production of high-quality end products.

Over 600 delegates from 58 countries subscribed to the latest VDMA textile machinery webinar on sustainable dyeing held on February 3rd, 2022 – a record since the monthly online series started in June 2020. The webinar, entitled ‘Resource-saving in Textile Processing – Continuous Dyeing and Washing’, involved the three companies Monforts, DyStar® and Goller.

In outlining the capabilities of Monforts Thermex hotflue lines for the Econtrol® continuous dyeing process, the company’s Textile Technologies Engineer Jonas Beisel observed that the current industry focus is very much on cleaner processes and products in accordance with the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) commitments of the major fashion brands, and with further regulations to be expected.

Cellulosics
Econtrol® is a continuous process for the dyeing of woven cellulosic fabrics that has already been well proven on the market, with over 150 Monforts Thermex lines already in operation at mills worldwide.

Reactive dyestuffs are fixed into the fabric in a one-step dyeing and drying process with a controlled combination of steam and air. The entire pad-dry process takes just two-to-three minutes at a temperature of between 120-130°C and a relative humidity volume of 25-30%.

Benefits
The Econtrol® pad-dry process has a number of immediate benefits. Compared to the common pad-dry-pad-steam process, no salt is used and no steamer is required for a separate fixation step.

Compared to the pad-dry-thermofix process, no urea is used and no smoke or deposits are generated, and unlike with the cold pad batch process, direct feedback of the dyeing results ensures no batching time is necessary and guarantees good reproducibility from the lab to bulk production.

Complementary services and systems
Complementing the Monforts presentation during the webinar, Bertram Seuthe, Global Business Development Manager at DyStar, outlined the importance of specific Levafix® /Remazol® reactive dyes and Dianix® disperse dyes for sustainable dyeing processes such as Econtrol®, Cadira® Continuous and CPB knit. In these processes Sera® auxiliaries are also employed for optimised wash-off results.

Guido Seiler, Area Sales Manager at Fong's Europe, also introduced the latest developments of the Goller brand for the washing process, which can reduce water consumption by between 10 to 20%, as well as reductions in both heating energy and waste generation, depending on the specific fabric construction and required shade.

Der internationale Technologiekonzern ANDRITZ erhielt von Yanpai Filtration Technology Co., Ltd. (YANPAI®), China, den Auftrag zur Lieferung von vier Nadelvlieslinien für den Standort Tiantai. Die Inbetriebnahme der Linien ist vom dritten Quartal 2022 bis zum dritten Quartal 2023 vorgesehen.

ANDRITZ liefert maßgeschneiderte Nadelvlieslinien für die Produktion von hochwertigen Nadelfilzen für Filtermedien. Die Ausrüstung für die Trockenvliesbildung (Krempeln und Kreuzleger) inklusive der acht PRO 25-80 aXcess-Kreuzleger für ein kontrolliertes, gleichmäßiges Bahngewicht wird im Werk von ANDRITZ Wuxi hergestellt. ANDRITZ Asselin-Thibeau, Frankreich, liefert die 16 eXcelle-Nadelmaschinen. Die Nadelvlieslinien sollen eine hohe Produktionsleistung sicherstellen und die erforderlichen Stillstandszeiten minimieren.

YANPAI zählt zu den führenden chinesischen Produzenten von Vliesstofffiltern für die Entstaubung und Luftreinigung sowie von Filtergeweben für die Fest-Flüssig-Trennung. Gegründet 1990, war YANPAI Vorreiter bei der Entwicklung neuer Filtrationsgewebe für die Industrie. Heute betreibt YANPAI Fertigungsstätten in China und den Vereinigten Staaten.