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Mar92020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments
Swiss Innovation for A Sustainable Finishing Industry

Swiss Innovation for A Sustainable Finishing Industry

Dyeing – Finishing
How Swiss Textile Machinery members can minimize the environmental footprint of the finishing industry? Since antiquity, humans have been exploiting color to enhance both our personal appearance and the world we live in. Dyed and printed textiles are a prime example, with a huge global coloration industry developing over the centuries. However, the massive consumption of water and energy required by many finishing processes, as well as the toxicity of some chemicals, has increasingly caused grave concern to environmentalists and the wider public. Conversely, responding to these worries has been the catalyst for innovation among eco-responsible companies in the Swiss Textile Machinery Association. Green-tech denim dyeing Washing processes, solvents and dyes in manufacturing account...
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Mar52020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments
New Orders for Rieter from Egypt

New Orders for Rieter from Egypt

Spinning - Yarn
The Cotton & Textiles Holding Company and Rieter signed additional contracts related to the modernization program for the Egyptian textile industry. The total volume of the contracts sums up to around 210 million Swiss Francs, including the contracts which had been signed at ITMA 2019 in Barcelona and which represent a volume of around 180 million Swiss Francs. Rieter expects the full amount of orders to be booked as order intake in the first half year of 2020. So far, 165 million Swiss Francs have been booked. Order volume is around 30 million Swiss francs Chief Executive Officer of Rieter, Dr. Norbert Klapper was very pleased at the signing ceremony: “The next step of the program we agreed upon today underlines the strong partnership between the Cotton & Textiles Holding
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Mar22020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments
Ease of Color Separation with BCF S8

Ease of Color Separation with BCF S8

Nonwoven, Spinning - Yarn
Oerlikon Neumag promised more flexibility in the color pattern design of carpets with the latest carpet yarn system BCF S8 at DOMOTEX 2020 in Hanover. Multi-colored carpets are becoming increasingly popular and the desire for significantly more flexible color mixing variants for product differentiation is increasing. Oerlikon Neumag has focused on this and developed the BCF S8, a platform that leaves nothing to be desired when it comes to the color separation of tricolor yarns. Over 200,000 different shades out of three colors The core component in this process is the new, patent-pending Color Pop Compacting Unit (CPC-T) for an even more flexible and even color separation. Individually controllable air pressures per color in the CPC-T provide a pre-tangling, which results in an a...
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Feb292020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments
Loepfe At ITME Afrıca 2020 with Quality Control Solutions

Loepfe At ITME Afrıca 2020 with Quality Control Solutions

Spinning - Yarn
ITME Africa took place for the very first time in Ethiopia on February 2020. Loepfe displayed its newest products in the Swiss Pavilion. Africa’s continuously growing textile industry offers exciting possibilities. Especially Ethiopia is not only farming its own cotton, but has also made major investments in the development of the entire textile value chain. Textiles meeting the corresponding quality requirements are manufactured for the local market and for international trade. Another example is South Africa which has entered the technical textiles sector and manufactures a wide range of textiles with different requirements on technologies and quality assurance. YarnMaster PRISMA Just the right moment to present Loepfe’s comprehensive portfolio of quality control solutions to th
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Feb262020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments
Kornit Offers New Solutions to The Changing Needs of Digital Printing

Kornit Offers New Solutions to The Changing Needs of Digital Printing

Printing & Digital Printing
Textil del Valle South America selects Kornit Digital for direct-to-garment printing. Kornit Digital, a worldwide market leader in digital textile printing technology, today announced that Textil del Valle South America, a vertically integrated garment manufacturing company based in Peru, has chosen to implement Kornit’s digital direct-to-garment (DTG) printing technology at its 1.1 million-square-foot facility in Lima, Peru. Textil del Valle services many of the world’s most prominent apparel brands, including global leaders in sports and athleisurewear. “Kornit’s sustainable print technology provides the last piece of the puzzle, so we have the ‘full package’ for manufacturing the garment itself, imprinting it on demand based on the customer need, and shipping it ourselves, all
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Feb232020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments
Benninger AG Acquires LAB-PRO

Benninger AG Acquires LAB-PRO

Dyeing – Finishing, Knitting, Spinning - Yarn, Weaving
Benninger AG expands its product portfolio in growing markets. Benninger is the world's leading manufacturer of technologically advanced textile finishing and tire cord machinery for the global textile, tire and conveyor belt manufacturing markets. Benninger offers complete solutions for all major textile finishing processes, with a special expertise in the field of continuous open width processing of woven, knitted and technical textiles with minimum resource consumption. LAB-PRO GmbH was founded in 2003 by Thomas Widmer and Thomas Gerhard. With their excellent market and product knowledge, they have succeeded in building up a complete range of world-leading technological products for discontinuous wet finishing within 17 years. Especially the jet dyeing machines and jiggers from LA...
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Feb212020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments
Operating Costs: A Vital Factor in Investment Decisions

Operating Costs: A Vital Factor in Investment Decisions

Spinning - Yarn, Textile
Textile mills need to calculate more than the immediate benefits, says Sivakumar Narayanan, Executive Vice President Uster Technologies.  When market demand is relatively low, textile mills have to perform a balancing act, involving many delicate choices. The deployment of capital and management of personnel levels are critical, not only to current profitability but also to long-term business success when an upturn arrives. When the going gets tough, customers become more demanding, especially regarding quality and value for money, making markets ever more competitive for suppliers. At such times, investment decisions might tend to focus on quality improvement as a key criterion. But there is often a temptation to snatch at a narrow range of perceived benefits, for instant gains:
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Feb172020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments
Chief Technology Officer Appointed to EFI

Chief Technology Officer Appointed to EFI

Genel
Former Xaar CEO Doug Edwards Joins EFI as Chief Technology Officer. Electronics For Imaging, Inc. has named veteran print technology executive Dr. Douglas Edwards as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Edwards replaces longtime technology leader Ghilad Dziesietnik, who recently retired after nearly 25 years with EFI - the last 14 as CTO. Edwards, who assumes his new duties today, has had an extensive career as a senior print executive and R&D technologist. Immediately prior to this appointment, Edwards was CEO of Cambridge, England-based Xaar plc, a leading developer of inkjet print head technologies for industrial printing, and Chairman of Xaar 3D Ltd - the company's 3D printing joint venture with Stratasys Ltd. Before joining Xaar in 2015 Edwards was President of Kodak's Digit...
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