Thursday, Mar 11, 2010
Huntsman Textile Effects is a major sponsor of Plant Textiles, a new international event with a focus on sustainability in the textile industry.
Planet Textiles is jointly organized by Ecotextile News, Messe Frankfurt and the Society of Dyers and Colourists, and is dedicated to improving the environmental and social impact of the global textile and clothing supply chain. It is supported by leading industry organizations and international clothing retailers.
Planet Textiles will run alongside Interstoff Asia Essential (March 17th to 19th, Hong Kong), a leading trade show for eco-textiles and functional fabrics in Asia.
Huntsman TE will present a paper on Sustainability Improvement within a Textile Processing Mill. Using a real case study, Huntsman TE will explain how mills can measure and evaluate the different criteria such as water and energy savings, carbon footprint and the like. Huntsman TE will also show the results of their efforts and demonstrate the best way to be more sustainable.
Planet Textiles is the brainchild of John Mowbray, a pioneer of the public discussion on sustainability in the textile industry who also has been instrumental in furthering the cause and has organized conferences such as the RITE conference on sustainable textiles in London. According to Mowbray, the main thrust of Planet Textiles is to drive home the message to manufacturers in Hong Kong and China that sustainability is here to stay; to show them that brands and retailers are serious about sustainable change, and perhaps most importantly of all, to show the manufacturers in the Far East they are an important piece in the jigsaw.
Speakers at the event include brands such as Adidas, Patagonia and KIK along with Chinese officials, manufacturers and a few suppliers. With such a breadth of speakers, Planet Textiles is expected to attract a similar mixture of buyers, producers and suppliers from the supply chain and allow them to come together in under the eco-textiles message.
Visitors to Interstoff Asia Essential Spring (March 17th to 19th, Hong Kong) will be able to meet with some of the worlds industry heavyweights at one of the many tailor-made seminar programs offered at the exhibition. Besides sourcing quality fashion, functional and eco-textiles from 269 suppliers, a massive 65% increase as compared with 2009, attendees can listen to sustainable presentations, trend forecasts, technology updates and even join in the discussions.
The DiloGroup will participate at Domotex asia/ChinaFloor (March 23rd to 25th, Shanghai) with an information booth in the German Pavilion, presenting textile products that can be manufactured on its machines.
As the inventor of the well-established needle felt structuring and patterning machines DI-LOUR and DI-LOOP, the DiloGroup will present floor covering products made on their advanced production lines and needling machinery.
With the lines and needling machinery of DiloGroup, a wide range of floor covering products can be manufactured economically: e.g. needled floor covering, backing for tufted carpets, sport surfaces or synthetic lawns and door mats. In addition, DI-LOUR and DI-LOOP machines allow surfaces like velour, corduroy and structured while offering many other design possibilities.
Rib, velour and patterned needle felts can be durable floor coverings. These felts are produced at the best cost-value-relationship by means of DI-LOOP needling machines. Applications may be carpets, door mats and sport surfaces but the range of applications exceeds floor covering and includes e.g. automotive interior linings and wall coverings.
Random needle felt velour is an interesting product because of its excellent cost value ratio. Again, applications in the field of floor covering are carpets, door mats and sport surfaces. Major applications are also in the field of automotive, wall covering, plush for toys, shoe and jacket linings. DI-LOUR machines produce random needle felt velour with optimum performance. The Dilo advanced patterning allows many different designs such as colored patterns with diamonds and cross lines.
Oerlikon Neumag closed its 2009 business year with a major order in the range of tens of millions of euros for the manufacturer of textile machinery and plant engineering. The orderer of the new staple fiber production plant is the well-known Korean company, Hyundai Engineering that is responsible for an overall project for which Oerlikon Neumag will deliver the plants.
The order comprises of two production lines for staple fiber production, each with a capacity of 200 ton/day. Oerlikon Neumag will supply the fiber spinning plant and the entire fiber line equipment. In addition, the company will carry out supervision of erection works and commissioning. In the future, the plants will produce staple fibers from polyester that are also known as “cotton type”. In subsequent manufacturing processes, the polyester fibers will normally be blended with cotton and then spun as textile yarns.
The manufacture of the plant is planned for 2010 and commissioning for mid-2011.
Oerlikon Textile Components is looking forward to offering customers “Texparts Zero Underwinding”, a new concept with smart design that ensures the prevention of underwound yarn ends for precise functioning during all stages of a spinning cycle. “Texparts Zero Underwinding” is an imbedded part of Texparts Spindle Units.
During the autodoffing cycle, long yarn ends usually get wound up on the underwinding section of the spindle wharves. These wound yarn ends are often not carefully removed from the wharves, and are thus accumulated from one doffing cycle to the next. This leads to affected yarn quality, creates fly by randomly hurtling fiber material and results in extra energy consumption.
The “Texparts Zero Underwinding” system which can be integrated in the Texparts Spindles will set new standards by avoiding underwound ends and by overcoming the difficulties well known by the experts in the spinning mills.
Avoiding accumulated underwound yarn ends on the wharves is better than a later subsequent cleaning. Therefore, the new system was designed to prevent underwound ends. This has an influence on several factors during the spinning process.
The first factor is a reduction of the air friction and energy consumption per spindle unit. Savings of up to 10% can be achieved due to a spindle movement free of yarn rests. Moreover, no residual yarn and less fiber fly ensure a significant reduction of maintenance costs by eliminating subsequent cleaning. Another important factor is an extended spindle life time which can be achieved by avoiding an unbalanced spindle movement. Apart from that no yarn and fiber material is flung from the wharve area which leads to improved yarn quality and less ends down.
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