Author: Textile Planet Magazine

Jan222019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Porcher Sport at ISPO 2019 With New Ultra-Light Avalanche Airbag

Porcher Sport elevate safety with new ultra-light avalanche airbag fabric. Porcher Sport, the Sports and Leisure division of Porcher Industries, is elevating levels of safety for skiers and snow boarders with a new ultra-lightweight avalanche airbag fabric that will be launched at ISPO 2019. Considered the lightest fabric on the market with a super low weight of just 132g/m2, Porcher Sport’s new performance fabric is proven to reduce the weight of avalanche bags by more than 12%. Treated with an in-house formulated PU coating that is designed to resist the harshest of conditions, the material also boasts an extreme tear resistance, more than 50% higher than other airbag fabrics. Easily repackable and compact, the fabric ensures the airbag can also be used for multiple deployments.

Jan182019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

DOMOTEX 2019 – A Trade Fair to Connect The Continents

Fairs

"The positive and optimistic outlook on the 2019 business year that was tangible in the trade fair halls proves the success of this year's exhibition", says Dr. Andreas Gruchow, board member of Deutsche Messe AG. The latest edition of DOMOTEX - the world's leading showcase for carpets and floor coverings (January 11 to 14)- has underscored its reputation as the sector's biggest and most important hub for business, innovations and trends. Over 1,400 exhibitors from more than 60 nations came to Hannover to kick off a successful new year of business. With close to 90 percent of all attendees having decision-making authority, the caliber of the show's visitors remained extremely high – a fact confirmed by exhibitors. Due to growing market concentration, DOMOTEX recorded a slight dip in atte

Jan182019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

The TM WEFT is Launched Successfully in China

Knitting

A well attended in-house event was held in Changzhou from15.-18.01.2019 to launch KARL MAYER’s new warp knitting machine with weft insertion. KARL MAYER has developed a new warp knitting machine with weft insertion, the TM WEFT, and successfully launched this new machine at an in-house show held at its Chinese subsidiary in Changzhou. Representatives from more than ten companies came every day between 15 and 18 January 2019 to attend the machine presentation, and these included knitters and weavers, as well as finishers interested in moving into textile production. The guests travelled from all over China, mainly from Jiangsu and Zheijiang, as well as from Shandong and Hebei. They were all impressed by the cost:benefit ratio of the machines on show. Two models of the TM WEFT, 247", E 24

Jan172019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

The Goal of Textile Exporters is To Be Among The Top 5 In The World

Textile

The Turkish textile and raw materials sector, which is the seventh largest supplier of the world and the second largest supplier of the European Union, has increased its target for 2019 by completing last year with 10.5 billion dollar of exports. Noting that they want to reach a double-digit growth in 2019, Mr. Ahmet Öksüz, President of Istanbul Textile and Raw Materials Exporters' Association (İTHİB), said that they will give a special importance to South America, Far East Asia and Africa as well as traditional markets in order to increase our market share in the world and to be among the top five suppliers in the world. Öksüz stated that they have created a business guaranteed scholarship system for students who prefer to study textile engineering in order to increase interest in tex

Jan142019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

USTER® SENTINEL is The Key to Optimized Yarn Production

Spinning - Yarn

With real-time performance information, USTER® SENTINEL offers mills the data to raise yarn production efficiency to the next level. Even with good human eyesight capable of reaching 5,000 meters, it’s still not possible to have a total overview of end-breaks along the full extent of the frame. Only an automated system can monitor if the spindles are all operating correctly. Since normal walking pace is about 4,000 meters per hour, an operative would typically need about one minute to arrive at an end-break at the last spindle on the frame. So, the spindle could be easily back in action again within two minutes – assuming, of course, that the operative knows exactly where to go… Ring spinning optimization It’s a fact that high-performance potential and enormous ring-spinning ma

Jan112019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Oerlikon’s Innovative BCF S8 Technology Opens New Market

Fairs, Industry 4.0, Spinning - Yarn

Oerlikon Neumag will be showcasing its innovative new development, the BCF S8, to a wide audience for the very first time at the Domotex for carpets and floor coverings that opens its doors in Hannover, today. The new BCF S8 platform technology offers manufacturers of BCF carpet yarns decisive arguments for responding to constantly rising cost pressures and the trend for greater efficiency and quality in fiercelycompetitive markets. World record: the system achieves never-seen-before spinning speeds and is able to simultaneously spin up to 700 filaments and produce fine titers of up to 2.5 dpf. This superlative performance is guaranteed by numerous individual innovations in the new platform and, for the first time, also in a new human-machine interface (HMI)-based control system, which ...

Jan72019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Sensient Inks Announces New Turkish Distrubtion Partner

Printing & Digital Printing

Sensient Imaging Technologies, a leading developer and manufacturer of digital inks, is delighted to announce that it has entered into a distribution agreement with Spot Uluslararasi Tekstil for the Turkish market. Founded in 1991 and based in Istanbul, Spot Uluslararasi Tekstil will help promote Sensient’s range of high quality digital textile inks throughout Turkey. “Spot Uluslararasi Tekstil is an experienced partner with a strong reputation for quality and service that matches the values of Sensient and the professional service and commitment we expect for our clients,” notes Jerome Jeanneret, Managing Director of Sensient Inks Europe. “We believe that this appointment will make Sensient a leading provider of digital textile inks for the Turkish markets and allow existing and ne

Dec272018 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Lancets – A Longstanding Device Now Perfected

Weaving

Lancets, or gauges, are thin metal strips used on face-to-face carpet weaving looms to ensure constant pile height. Before they were introduced on face-to-face looms they had been used on loop-pile looms (Brussels carpets). On loop-pile looms, pile loops are formed over a dummy weft resting on the lancet. Usually the dummy weft is removed afterwards. This way of weaving loop pile was invented by Müllers & Spindler of Dülken, Germany in 1894. Instead of a lancet, a binding warp thread was used to support the dummy wefts. Already in 1904 the use of metal lancets is described in the patent of Wilhelm Förster from Chemnitz, Germany. Before steel that could be rolled into thin metal strips was invented early in the twentieth century, thin metal (piano) wire was used. Oth

Dec242018 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Itema Exhibits Best-in-Class Weaving Innovations at DTG Dhaka

Weaving

Itema, the leading Italian manufacturer of best-in-class weaving machines, spare parts and integrated services, is exhibiting at DTG Dhaka (Hall 7 / 510) from January 9th – 12th at BICC. The Italian based Company will showcase its absolute worldwide best-seller, the Itema rapier machine R9500. The R9500 on show, courtesy of the Itema Customer Well Group based in Chittagong, will exhibit a shirting fabric which represents one of the most produced in the Bangladeshi weaving mills. The Itema target is to demonstrate to the industry the textile superiority, the real production performances and the excellent efficiency of the R9500 when it comes to weaving the widest range of fabrics, including shirting, apparel, bed sheeting. DTG is for Itema the perfect stage to allow the Bangladeshi

Dec212018 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Mahlo Starts Trade Show Year 2019 in Bangladesh

Spinning - Yarn

The Dhaka International Textile & Garment Machinery exhibition (DTG) is the perfect opportunity for Mahlo GmbH + Co. KG to make its products even more known in Bangladesh. From 9 to 12 January, the German machine builder showcases its measurement and control solutions for textile production at booth 820, located in the International Convention City Bashundhara. “Bangladesh is the second biggest exporter for Ready Made Garment in the world, and thus one of the most important markets in the textile branch”, says Mahlo’s Area Sales Manager Adnan Andac. Together with service partner Tootal Quality Resources Ltd., he is ready for questions and issues of the expert audience. In order for Bangladesh to keep its current market position, a shift to higher quality goods can be observed, so An