Ensuring Quality And Quantity In Weaving

Anyone who wants to produce top quality woven goods in high volume, and wants to stay competitive in the bidding for orders, must first and foremost have their planning and organization under control. An additional criterion is thorough familiarity with the entire production process, from fibre to fabric, to ensure that fabric production is profitable.


A precondition of optimum production in the weaveroom is meticulous planning. It is at the planning stage that process parameters, sequences of operations and working conditions are defined, all of which are relevant to profitability. The basis for these is optimal installation of the weaving machines, with appropriate transport routes and equipment. Additionally, capacities must be planned and the necessary infrastructure and resources created, including buffer store, air conditioning, lighting, personnel, quality control etc. This article spotlights key points that it is essential to take into account in the planning and organization of a weaving facility.


Yarn Quality


High yarn quality ought to be a matter of course. But its importance has to be pointed out repeatedly, because 80% of weaving machine stoppages originates in upstream process stages. In non-verticalized mills, all yarns supplied should be inspected on receipt. Not only the uniformity of the yarn is important; damaged packages are a sign of poor transport quality, and on the weaving machine they not only impair productivity but also cause waste. If there are no yarn reserves in the weft packages the result will be a weft stoppage. Thread breaks in weaving are the largest cost factor in the entire production process, because they always involve a machine stoppage.

Proportion of the different departments in the total thread break costs

In the textile manufacturing process, thread break costs in weaving are far higher than in all other stages of production. Every stoppage prevented directly improves the company's profits.

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New Digital Textile Printing Studio Opens

After nearly five years in a space less than 75 feet square, University of Nebraska-Lincoln ‘s

TCD digital textile printer and related equipment have been relocated to new quarters in Room 227, the former storage center for the historic textile collection.

As the historic textile and historic costume collections are moved to what was once the International Quilt Study Center storage facility, space in the department is being released for other uses, and we'll continue to report on these as the various projects are finished up.

The new space for the printer operation, nearly 275 square feet, has an integral humidifying system that maintains an optimum temperature of 71 degrees and a humidity level of 55%, ideal for best printer performance.

In addition, the Jacquard steamer is now in closer proximity to the printer, and its move means that sessions with the digital printer will no longer mean distractions or interruptions in the classes that were often ongoing where the printer was previously located. The addition of a window to the studio door also means that visitors to the department will be able to more easily observe the printer in action.

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Spanish Textile Machinery Industry

Quick Flight to Industry Overview

The European Union has emerged as a one large scale exporter of textile machinery in the international scenario. Some other countable and creditable manufacturers and exporters of textile machinery include Italy, Germany and Spain. In all of them Spain has sprung out as an important manufacturer of textile machinery and has secured its place by the 11th rank world wide. Diversification and innovation played a major role in the retainable position of Spain. About 69 machinery companies gain financial credit worth 245 million Euros in the Spain. This sector evolves 2600 jobs.

Spanish textile machinery industry has flourished with the structure of small and medium sized companies with the strength of less than 50 employees. These companies are still facing very tough competition with the world leaders to achieve the international standards of price, design, quality and service. Weaving machine spare parts, knitting, sewing, accessories and spinning are the different categories included under the textile machinery sector of Spain. 90% of this sector of textile machinery of Spain is occupied by small and medium scale companies which has strength of less than 50 employees.
Now-a-days maximum no. of companies are outsourcing the manufacturers of parts for the workshops designed for special purposes. Some companies have specialization in product research and development and innovations and some have in machine assembly phases.
Technical textile has grown more in the last decade. Major change is seen in “traditional textiles” so changes play major roles in products also like modifying or diversifying products of machinery. The related sectors for this are agriculture, hygiene and medicine, chemicals, packing and packaging and automotive industry.

Research and Development is a Keyword for Growth
Spain is giving special attention on the Research and Development of the textile machinery sector
and has started new centers to give way to new innovation process. Spain’s machinery companies took guidance from these centers to provide most technologically competitive machineries and due to this Spain’s textile machinery are always in demand. The export of machinery in Spain is of 70% of its total production.
The most aimed destination for the Spanish exporters is European Union and it is two third of the total exports of the country. The exports in the countries like Latin America, North America and Middle East is also noteworthy. New destinations like USA, Mexico, France, Turkey and India have new developing markets which are the reasons for the rise in the demand of progress. These destinations are five most targeted destinations for exports of textile machinery in the year 2006.

Geographical Distribution and Production
The good research & Development and innovations lead Spain in the global market in the technical textiles. The investment by this sector is 2.30 billion Euros in research and development projects and 4.60 billion Euros in new facilities and capital goods. The production in different regions of Spain is 3% in Valencia, 64% in Catalonia and 32% in Madrid of total sales. There are only two companies in Madrid though its contribution is of 32%.

Progressive Structural Changes of the Sector
Dyeing and finishing is a very much important sub sector of Spain. This dyeing and finishing sector consists of 32 companies and is the leading sector of country.

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Yarn Quality Improved by ACP Quality Package

Preliminary Remarks

Today, the well-known 3-roller double-apron drafting systems of ring spinning frames permit to draft rovings up to a total draft of 80 and more under optimum conditions. The task of the break-draft zone is to introduce the sliding process of the fibres of the twisted roving. In the subsequent main draft zone, the fibre strand is guided between the top and the bottom aprons and drafted to the desired final count of the yarn.

This mode of operation is already very old and has hardly been modified in the last decades.

With the ACP Quality Package by SUESSEN it is now possible, however, to improve the drafting process in the main draft zone and consequently the values of the most important yarn parameters.

The Drafting Process on the Ring Spinning Machine

2.1 The Break-Draft

The purpose of the break-draft zone is to prepare the main draft. The fibres in the roving are stretched and extended up to a degree which allows them to shift in the main zone immediately after leaving the cradle clamping line.

The basic correlation for each individual staple length between the setting of the break-draft zone and of the break-draft of a ring frame drafting system is shown in Fig. 2.

A long break-draft zone with the smallest possible break-draft must definitely be preferred. It reduces very clearly the wear of top roller cots and aprons and the load on the draft gearing, especially in the case of long machines.

In addition, the total system is less prone to climatic modifications, variations in fibre length and fluctuation in the drafting resistance of the roving.

2.2 The Main Draft

As a basic principle, each of the two pairs of rollers in a drafting zone produces a zone of fibre friction by pressure1. The fibre condensation caused by this pressure does not only have a vertical effect, but spreads from both sides into the fibre strand (Fig. 3).

Both fields of friction are finally responsible for fibre guidance and the extent of regularity produced by the drafting process. The two fields of friction should not overlap, nor should their spheres of activity be too far apart.

It is beneficial to the draft and degree of regularity achievable, if within a drafting zone the field of friction of the back roller pair reaches as far as possible into the drafting zone to guide the fibres as long as possible. The front field of friction should be short and strong so that only the clamped fibres are drawn out of the fibre strand. This ideal is however restricted by relatively close limits in design as a result of the geometrical conditions.

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Neschen’s Revolutionary DyeSub Textile Print Media

Dye Sublimation (DyeSub) print technology, whereby Ink is sublimated into the textile fibre by vaporisation at high temperatures, is a proven, reliable technology bringing incomparable colour brilliance, durability and even washability to banners, displays and textile decorations.

Whilst DyeSub has mainly been used for decorative purposes, Neschen has taken the technology to higher, more accessible level with the introduction of a range of 16 dependable-quality substrates to offer fantastic new graphics and signage opportunities.

Neschen’s DyeSub range consists of polyester or nylon fabrics; 7 are available under the Transfertex brand, whereby the graphic is printed as a mirror image onto transfer paper and then sublimated into the textiles.

The 9 other products come under the Directtex brand and mainly for direct printing onto textiles, though the complete range can also be used for transfer printing.

Neschen UK Limited stands out from the crowd; a leader with comprehensive high-quality self-adhesive protection films, mounting products, printable inkjet media, innovative printable textiles and a stable of processing machines and presentation systems for graphic imaging & display, archiving, picture framing and a host of specialist needs from medical to construction.


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Staubli Delivers 300th DELTA 100/110 Drawing Machine

The delivery of the 300th automatic drawing-in system type DELTA 100/110 took place early 2008 and was installed at Nazar Textile Industry Co., located in Kahramanmaras, Turkey. Nazar is a producer of high fashion cotton fabric for shirting and outerwear whose products are mainly exported to European countries.

Meanwhile the system is fully established in production and in daily use to serve the weaving mill with drawn-in warps. The wide range of fabric patterns requires several style changes every day for which the DELTA 110 has the perfect capacity.

The DELTA 110 automatic drawing-in machine can be equipped to draw-in either healds with J/Ctype or O-type healds or a combination of both. The warp threads are draw in directly from a warp beam up to 4 m wide in healds, drop wires and the reed in the same operation and at a speed of up to 140 draws per minute. Depending on requirements the machine can be fitted with up to 20 harness frames or up to 16 heald carrier rods respectively, and up to 8 drop wire contact rails.

Drawing-in performance reaches 6 drawn in warps per shift of 8 hours, and naturally multiple shifts per day are possible. Automatic drawing-in has a long tradition in Turkey as this market is permanently asking for higher productivity and increase of automation to keep its competitiveness on the world market. No wonder the population of drawing-in machines DELTA 110 is growing every year – even in its 9th year after introduction.

Stäubli is continuing its efforts in developing innovative products to serve its customers in the textile industry.





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'Exempt Textile Sector From Ban On Used Machinery' – Mr Ismy, API

Recently the Indonesian government had announced to ban import of second hand machinery in the country. “This move on the part of the government is to help the domestic machinery industry as well as reduce energy consumption”, Mr Ansari Bukhari, Director General, Ministry of Trade and Industry, had said will announcing the same.

Since this decision may affect the textile industry which imports a sizeable amount of textile machinery, fibre2fashion.com spoke to Mr. Ernovian G. Ismy, Secretary General of the Indonesian Textile Association to get his views on the decision of the Ministry of Industry.

Mr Ismy said, “In our opinion the policy should be re-investigated since the local textile machinery industry is still unable to fulfill demand of machinery from textile industry and due to the ongoing crisis, some of the textile industry players are facing difficulties in purchasing the more expensive new machines.”

Contradicting the decision of the ministry, Mr Ismy added by saying that, “Not all used machines are in-efficient. Actually a few of the used machines are able to work for good periods of time and the biggest stumbling factor is that the textile industry in Indonesia lacks trust and support of the banking and financial agencies to fund purchase of new machineries.”



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Indian Textiles - A Rare Combination Of Tradition & Modernity

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India claims 1st position in terms of the installed weaving capacity in the world, but it does not have much importance in terms of quality weaving as the share of shuttleless looms to the total shuttle looms in India is just 1.62%, which is very meager in comparison to the other countries. So the sector requires modernization by way of replacing the old/ordinary looms with modern looms. This is the need of the hour in order to sustain / expand market share and in meeting the requirement of apparel industry for quality fabrics.


It is conspicuous to every person engaged in the textile business that the textile industry occupies a unique place in the economy of the country by virtue of its contribution to the industry output, employment generation and foreign exchange earning. It commands respect as the largest employer, next to agriculture, providing employment to about 35.00 million people, directly. It accounts for 14% of industrial production and 17% of export.


The textiles of India bear the imprint of the fine craftsmanship of the Indian weaver. The skill of weaving with deft fingers, drawing patterns and creating designs, is an art, which has been handed down through generations from father to son, from time immemorial. These finest gossamer fabrics woven from yarns of superior finish are now being manufactured more and more on powerlooms. The emergence of powerloom has transformed an art into a modern industry, employing more than 7 million workers. The combination of traditional art and contemporary modern designs, have given an unique character to the Indian powerloom textiles. The modernization process undertaken by the powerloom industry has widened the scope of products such as grey, printed and dyed fabrics and cotton made-ups into a variety of sophisticated finished lines of a wide range of widths and sizes. Besides, the industry is now in a position to offer fabrics not only of cottons but also of rich blends of cotton, synthetics and other fibers. The process of economic liberalization has enabled the industry to become globally competitive, not only in terms of price, but also of quality. It is therefore not surprising that the total exports from the sector has grown from Rs.1917.66 crore in 1996 to Rs.8296.15 crore in the year 2005-06.


The top ten major importers of powerloom fabrics and made-ups of 100% cotton are USA, UK, Germany, Italy, Bangladesh, France, Greece, UAE, Sri Lanka, and Spain.





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Optimax offers weavers a combination of great versatility and highly productive weaving.

Highlights Of The OptiMax Rapier Weaving Machine

• Optimized shed geometry in combination with guided gripper or free flight insertion system, for unequalled industrial speeds and maximum yarn friendliness


• Insertion with up to 12 colors


• Accurate, user-friendly machine setting using the keyboard or interactive display at insertion side


• Reed width of 190, 210, 220, 230, 250, 300, 320, 340, 360, 380, 400, 430, 460 and 540 cm


• Electronic setting of shed


• crossing


• Easy width changes


• Sumo main motor with direct machine drive is standard

Optimized Shed Geometry

In developing the OptiMax special attention was paid to the shed geometry. The short stroke of the sley and the frames and the redesigned rapier heads, allow the machine to weave with smaller shed opening. Less stress is put on the warp ends, resulting in increased warp friendliness especially in case of filament weaving. The optimized shed geometry leads to uniform fabric characteristics over the whole width. The location of the sley cams below the fabric allows heavier beat-up forces, so fabrics with real high cover factors can be woven with ease.

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India ITME - 2008: Views And Reviews Past The Show

India ITME, 2008 - biggest textile machinery show held in India concluded on 22nd November at India's Silicon Valley, Bangalore. The show has seen a great success in terms of participants as almost every leading machinery manufacturer attended the show. Many innovations have been introduced in the show for the visitors who had come from across the globe to visit the show.

The show which took place at Bangalore International Exhibition Centre initially had three A.C. exhibition halls planned which were spread across 40,000 square meters of exhibition space. But considering huge response and interest of companies in the show organizers were forced to add one more exhibition hall was added at last time.

This time there is a change in exhibition venue of the show by organizers. Previously ITME was organized in Mumbai while this time the Bangalore was organizers' choice as fair's venue considering good facilities this venue can provide. According to some in industry this became one of the reasons for less number of visitors for the show as most of people find this venue bit inconvenient to travel to when compared to Mumbai.

Terrot GmbH

Terrot is a leading, Germany based, supplier of circular knitting machine providing solutions for all high end requirements in this field to the world market.

Terrot participated in India ITME with its two special machines S296-1 Open width Single Jersey knitting machine which has USP of new compact Open Width Frame and mattress machine UCC572M which is electronically controlled Double-Jersey Jacquard machine. Both of them are already proven models in other countries and Terrot considering India as an important market for their products promoted these two machines in a big way through ITME.

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International Textile Machinery Fair from April 9 in Qingdao

China (Qingdao) International Textile Machinery Fair (QITMF) first launched in 2000, the Fair has been growing during the past 10 years from a regional textile fair to machinery-specialized fair based in Shandong Province, and extends to Northern China area.

Since the last fair, Qingdao Haiming Exhibition Ltd and Adsale Exhibition Services Ltd joint force to organize the fair to maximize the resources. Welcoming the 10th Anniversary and repeated collaboration in 2009, the show will further enhance the overseas exhibitors' and visitors' profile, as well as the service quality.

QITMF will contribute to the transformation of textile industry, in particularly, to meet the market needs of Shandong and Northern China, thus create business opportunities ultimately.

The fair will take place from April 9-11, 2009 at Qingdao International Convention Center, Qingdao, Shandong Province, PR China. Spectacular Wide of Variety of Exhibits for Your Textile Machinery Sourcing with specialized theme zones of:

-Knitting Machinery Zone
-Spinning, Dyeing & Finishing Zone
-Weaving Machnery Zone / Label Making
-Printing Machinery Zone

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India : Japanese Murata Machinery To Set Up Indian Subsidiary

Murata Machinery Ltd announces the establishment of its wholly owned subsidiary, MURATA MACHINERY INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED commencing operations from November, 2007.

Murata Machinery India will further enhance the operations of market support, installation and follow-up services for its textile machines, which have traditionally been handled by Murata Machinery’s authorized service partner, MMI SERVICES PRIVATE, LTD. (MMIS).

Following the liberalisation of trade in India in 1991, Murata Machinery has had a strong presence in India through the supply of its machinery and technology.

Murata has witnessed a dramatic growth of the sales of its textile machinery - Having increased more than ten-fold over the past five years, and comprising nearly 25% of the global sales of the textile machinery division of Murata Machinery in 2007.

Murata Machinery has always acknowledged the importance of the Indian textile industry, and its responsibility to provide reliable and high quality service and support to its customers.

With the remarkable growth of the Indian economy, Murata Machinery expects that together with its textile machinery market, its markets for machine tools, logistics and automation equipment will also grow significantly in the future.

This has motivated Murata Machinery Japan to fully fund the establishment of Murata Machinery India as a new umbrella company for the Indian market.



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Garmentech - Intl clothing machinery trade fair from Jan 13

8th international Garment & Allied Machinery and Accessories trade show is going to be held on 13-16 January 2009 at Bangladesh China Friendship Conference Centre, Dhaka. Zakaria trade and fair international of Bangladesh and Zak Trade Fairs & Exhibitions Pvt. Ltd. of India is jointly organizing this mega event attracting more than 250 international companies all over the world and expecting draw attention of more than 30000 visitors from Dhaka & neighboring region.

ZAK Garmentech Bangladesh has emerged as the premier international Apparel Technology Trade Show of Bangladesh. It has served as an ideal platform for the Bangladesh apparel industry to update and upgrade their technology.

Mr. Tipu Sultan, General Manager of Zakaria trade and fair international said “ Our country’s main export product is garments and this trade is rapidly progressing and modernizing. If we stand this trade is international market than we need new technology & for this reason the international apparel & technology fair Garmentech is held.”

More than 250 exhibitors of 30 leading Garments Technology manufacturing countries all over the world will attend with their latest technology related with sewing, knitting, Embroidery, Laundry, Finishing, Dyeing, Cutting Machines, CAD/CAM and leading Accessories and Support services sector.

The main objective to organize this fair is to provide the Bangladesh garment industry a form to develop new alternate sources of suppliers, make new contacts and to discover and capitalize on the new opportunities that will be brought to the industry by means of this trade fair.

It's a perfect meeting place for buyer and seller related with garments sector. Producer, exporter & importer of world famous garments machinery from USA, Europe, Canada, China, Japan, Germany, Italy, India, Korea will participate in the trade show which had already been conformed to the organizer.

This technology fair for the first time can accommodate more than 250 exhibitors, all leading names in the respective field under one roof, making it the largest technology trade fair in Bangladesh beating out own record.

At the 7th edition of ZAK Garmentech Bangladesh in 2008 had world's leading technology players and attracted over 20000 visitors related with ready made garments and textile industry from Bangladesh, India, China, Korea, Pakistan, Europe, Canada, Singapore, Taiwan, Honking, Sri-Lanka, Malaysia and many other countries participate with their technology & products.

It is not only helpful to create public awareness but also helpful to create new opportunities for our Garments sector with a great tune to protect our Garments and Textile Industry since 2002 ZAK Trade Fairs and Exhibitions Pvt. Ltd. are continuing to organize such a trade show.


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Roll of Technology in Fabric Design & Fashion Industry

Introduction

Technology has propelled the growth of human society in innumerable ways. From the basic needs of food, clothing and shelter to advanced robotics and health care, technology has rapidly assumed the status of an arguably indispensable and highly effective tool in the modern era. Clothing has always been both a necessity with regard to human civilization and a means of showcasing ones culture and interests. Social status, religious leanings, cultural diversity and professional status can all be amply reflected by ones clothes. A wide array of different styles of clothing is now possible, aided by powerful technological tools that supplement and shape the creative ideas of fabric designers.

Evolution of Fabric Design

In accordance with Darwinian principles, man is a remarkable example of adaptability. And a look at the way clothes have evolved only goes to illustrate this. In addition, the progress of mans concept of fashion has also transformed over the ages. Starting from merely covering ones body with natural fur to protect it from the vagaries of the natural elements in ancient periods of human existence to designing special suits and fabrics woven out of exotic materials to meet adverse environment requirements like space and desert surroundings, man has always shown ingenious capability to engineer requisite changes in the fabrics. The concept of fashion too has seen a marked shift with the variety of choices available in the present times. Of course, technology is a major driving force behind fashion trends.

The Role of Technology in Fabric Design and Fashion

One of the most significant outcomes of the famed Industrial Revolution was the mechanization of textile manufacture. The power loom and the mechanized cotton mill resulted in a huge increase in the quantum of production by shortening the time required for production manifold. In the more recent times, there has been a proliferation of novel materials designed, and this has enhanced both the quality and adaptability of fabrics. The so-called smart materials enable the production of clever fabrics, with high-end technology like atomic force microscopy and polymeric nanofibres going into the design, manufacturing and testing of these fabrics. Ranging from special applications like the design of suits for space travel, swimsuits and suits for military purposes to the usage of more durable and adaptable garments for daily use, these methods have proved to be extremely effective. Several research centres have sprung up to investigate these exciting possibilities. The role of computers is unarguably prominent in fashion technology. The visualization of the final design right at the conceptualization stage, down to the finest detail, making suitable modifications if so desired, automating several stages in the manufacturing process and, finally, executing quality control procedures - all of them involve computing at various levels of complexity. Be it creating an eye-catching design using CAD or running the computerized knitting and weaving machinery, automation is fast becoming the buzzword. Fashion courses nowadays invariably include a major technological thrust in the curriculum to enable prospective designers to be abreast with the latest trends.

Exciting Possibilities and Trends

How about having a single garment that one can use both in the summer and winter one that would change texture, colour and even shape in response to external environments? All these are gradually transcending from being mere fantasies to reality. Digital clothing that incorporates sensors in the very clothing that one wears and other fascinating possibilities lie in store - courtesy the largely interdisciplinary explorations into the field of fabric and fashion technology. At a more mundane level, one could most definitely be pleased by the thoughts of having clothes made to precise specifications at a much faster rate and with several times more durability. Technology is scaling tremendous heights and with it, so are all its applications. Textile and fashion design have in store lots of promises and continue to be a standing example of the prowess of technology. As Mark Twain puts it, the finest clothing ever made is a person's skin, but of course, society demands something more. So the quest for better clothing, better fabric and trendier garments continues unabated aided by technological advancements.

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Hair Severity: A New Yarn Hairiness Parameter

The conventional measurements of yarn hairiness are not its true representation. Based on extensive studies, Premier has introduced a new parameter - Hair Severity (HS). HS represents the disturbing hairs. The Hair Severity can be tested at 400 m/min in the Premier iQ Qualicenter- the worlds most intelligent evenness tester and process control equipment. The HS Statistics 2007 provides a useful tool for the mills to benchmark the HS levels achieved over different count and material.

Introduction


Hairiness denotes the extent to which fibres protrude from the yarn body. Hairiness is an important surface property which has a direct impact on the performance of the yarn in the subsequent processes. It also has a bearing on the feel and appearance of the fabric. Certain minimum amount of hairiness is desirable for converting the yarn into fabric. However, when the length of the protruding hair crosses a critical limit, it poses severe constraints during fabric formation in Weaving and Knitting. The fabric quality also gets degraded due to Pilling and Fuzzy appearance created by the longer hairs.


Hairiness is a highly variable parameter which is influenced by various factors like Raw material quality, Process parameters in Spinning preparatory, Ring frame and also at Winding. Controlling longer length hairs is of primary importance for a yarn to perform better in subsequent processes. Increased production rates and Compact Spinning technology necessitates precise measurement of yarn hairiness deviation.




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Drafting Aprons For Ring Spinning Machines

Aprons in the drafting system are, with the top roller cots and the ring travelers, those components having a strong influence on the quality of the yarn and the efficiency of the ring spinning machines.


Increases in output of the ring spinning machines, updated design of components of top weighting arms and nose bars have increased the demands put on aprons considerably. If one considers that over the last 15years the speeds of spindles have increased by about 40%, yet the lifespan of aprons whose working life is defined by the frequency of flexing, has remained practically the same, the improvements in polymer materials are obvious.

Construction Of Aprons


Synthetic rubber, mainly NBR based, is the most widely used material for the manufacture of top and bottom aprons. There are also leather, synthetic leather, PU and PU-coated materials. Synthetic rubber has become a leading material for this purpose because of its long life, a wide range of uses and because of its resistance to fibre finishing additives and abrasion.


A typical rubber compound for the outer or inner layer of an apron contains the base polymer as well as between 10 and 15 different additives, which also affect the various physical and mechanical properties of the various aprons.


Basically, aprons made of synthetic rubber are made in endless tubular form whereas leather or synthetic leather aprons are made open in strips and subsequently glued together to form an apron. The advantage of the tubular construction is the lack of a seam. The apron is uniform along its entire circumference.





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CSITC To Start Third Round Trials In January 2009

The ICAC Task Force on Commercial Standardization of Instrument Testing of Cotton (CSITC) announces the start of the third Round Trials in January of 2009. Participation in a CSITC Round Trial is not limited to test centers using Uster HVI equipment. CSITC evaluations are based on test results and are not dependent on the manufacturer, model or kind of testing instruments used.

The purpose of these trials is to encourage standardization in cotton instrument testing to promote efficiency in cotton production and marketing, and to help participating cotton test centers to ensure that their results be on the same level as other test centers around the world. Test centers enrolled in the trials will receive detailed information about their results to enable them to improve performance. Round trial results for each test center will not be reported to the public, but overall results for the round trials as a whole will be published.

The round trials are conducted four times a year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will ship a set of cotton samples before each trial to participating test centers with instructions to test the cotton six times each day for five days for length, uniformity index, micronaire, strength, reflectance and yellowness, for a total of 150 tests, and will collect the results. These results will be forwarded to the Fiber Institute of Bremen, Germany, who will analyze them and send evaluations to individual test centers.



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Textile Machinery Product Focus

RXI240e (Basic)
More than a million spindles working successfully

RXI240e (BASIC) Specifications:

Maximum no. of spindles	1200
Spindle gauge	70mm
Spindles per staff	8
Spindle Speed	Max 25,000 rpm (mechanically)
Spindle driving system	4 Spindle tape drive
Lift	160 / 170 / 185 mm
Spindle Type	With CS1 and CS1S Insert
Wharve Diameter	18.5 mm
Spindle Speed regulation	By Inverter
Spindle Taper	1:40
Draft System	3 line, 2 zone double apron
Bottom Apron type	Short Bottom Apron
Weighting arm	PK 2025 / PK 2035, PK 2130 / PK 2135
Yarn Count	Ne 10 ~ 120

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Chinese Textile Machinery Maker Unveils Latest Technologies

After the elimination of global quota system, the textile industry is booming at a rocket speed. The world is on a new path of industrial revolution. The textile hubs like China, India, Pakistan and many more are emerging rapidly among the western counterparts. Analysts are anticipating more growth with latest technologies in Textile Machineries. The textile machinery manufacturing hubs like China, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and India have already dived in immense competition to make and offer best technologies in textile machineries. The Chinese textile manufacturers are developing some of the best answer in technical aspects of textile industry, along with very competitive prices.

Yuyao Textile Machinery Co. Ltd. is among the most excellent textile machinery manufactures in the world from China, located in Yuyao City of Ningbo Municipality, Zhejiang Province, which is know as a celebrated place with splendid cultural legacy and features a good geographical position and a top convenient traffic facility.

Successful Voyage of “Yuyao Textile Machinery Co. Ltd.”

The company of today originated from the Ex-Yuyao Textile Machinery Plant which was established in 1970. More than 30 years history has aggregated a powerful economic strength and valuable experience in this industry for the company, making it capable of providing diverse solutions and best services in meeting the customers' needs and demands. Our business activity covers more than 100 domestic cities and regions. Our products have been the best sellers across the north and south territories to the Changjiang River and also are exported to the European, Asian countries, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions, receiving a unanimous good appraisal from the circle of this industry since many years ago.

The company has been confirmed to be among the provincial model enterprises, withstood the provincial, ministerial evaluations and ISO 9001certification for many times, in addition has been selected a designated production enterprise by the National Textile Material & Equipment Corporation. Our main products have been elected recommended products by the China Textile Machinery Association. Our company engages in the professional designing of the fabric testing and packing projects, in the building of the automatic heat shrink PE-FILM packing machines and serial fabric inspection machines, serial fabric rolling machines and the doubling and folding machines, all of which boast a high Sci-Tech content and stable performance, winning keen appreciations of the users, recognized as the most advanced textile machinery at home for the present time.




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A View Through The Lens : ITMA Asia + CITME 2008

Post quota era has brought sea changes in textile industry. To add to the competition resulted thereby, the urge for advance technology and state-of-the-art as well as globalisation remains the challenges for Asian textile makers. The obvious need to modernise operations in order to compete globally has spawned huge investment in quality machinery, especially, for China that has become a major manufacturing centre for textile products and the world's most dynamic market having one third of the global textile production capacity.


Envisaging this lucrative market opportunities for leading textile machinery manufacturers, a combined show ITMA ASIA + CITME 2008 came to existence to be held every two years in China, starting from 27 July 2008.


Sharing the objective behind support to this trade event, the policy maker and welfare activities planner in the textile trade of China, Mr Du Yuzhou, President of CNTAC (China National Textile and Apparel Council) comments: "For the 11th Five-Year Plan (from 2006-2010), China's textile industry will be focused on technical innovation and creation, development of Chinese own brands and increasing the added value of our products. All these must be carried out with advanced equipment. It is based on Chinas demand of advanced equipment and the outstanding achievements made by European textile machinery manufacturers, that we have decided to combine these two important events ITMA ASIA and CITME."


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Scope Of Collaborations And Joint Ventures In Indian Textile Machinery Industry

Technology is the key enabler for rapid growth of the textile engineering industry. Efforts should therefore be directed towards technical upgradation of the textile engineering industry, technology transfer, re-engineering, promotion of joint ventures, BPO and R&D efforts. Technology and brand play the most vital role in the decision of a customer to buy a machine. The other parameter, viz., productivity together with consistency of quality would be concomitant with technology. Factors like energy conservation, eco-friendliness, reduction in labour cost, facility of operation and services would influence demand.

Preamble


The willingness of foreign manufacturers to transfer technology, continuity of transfer, and cost of transfer are aspects to be considered while procuring new technology. In the regimented system prior to 1992, the Indian Textile Engineering Industry was abjectly dependent on borrowed technology. Consequently collaborations and joint ventures in India were largely influenced by the initiatives of the foreign companies. Very often the technology offered was one or two generations behind the latest technology available with the foreign collaborators. So long as the Indian textile industry was enjoying a protected domestic marked it could carry on with such second generation technology. With the opening up of the economy the situation has undergone a rapid change.

Technology transfer affected


The transfer of technology to the TEl after the dismantling of the control regime has been impacted adversely by the following factors:

In the first place, foreign collaborators have sought management control before technology transfer could be considered. Secondly, many Indian buyers found it difficult to infuse considerable fresh capital to absorb latest innovations and designs. Thirdly, because of the strident and sudden scaling down of customs tariff the foreign suppliers found it more lucrative to export machinery from their parent plant than to allow local producers to meet the domestic demand. Lastly, the volatile demand situation for textile machinery and accessories has come in the way of procuring new technology.

The foreign owners of new technology have therefore to be induced with fresh incentives. The primary bait for technology sellers would be royalty payment and large dissemination of technology on a continuous basis. Government has to be a prime mover of this initiative by offering tax breaks to the technology buyer to help royalty remittances. Tax relieves may also be offered on raw materials and other inputs which go into the manufacture of new technology machines by the domestic manufacturers.

How to obtain Technology


A combination of routes has to be vigorously pursued to obtain the latest technology for the rapid progress of the Indian Textile Engineering Industry. These include:

a) Joint Ventures with machinery manufacturers who may be interested in transfer of technology. In the quota free regime, the manufacturers proximity to user market would be advantageous and hence the machinery producers from abroad may be interested to expand their presence in India.

Since a large number of knitting machines of latest technology are being imported from Taiwan it would be advantageous to examine the feasibility of procuring such technology for the growing knitting industry. Access to new technology could also be explored with countries like the U.S.A., Italy, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.



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Oerlikon Neumag is the leading world-wide supplier of M&J Airlaid Technology. The core of the Airlaid Technology is the patented Fibre Forming System that enables the production of wide width webs based either on 100% pulp fibres or homogeneous mixtures of different fibres and powders. Typical raw materials are fluff pulp, Bicomponent bonding fibres and Super Absorbent Powder for absorbent core material.

Airlaid Technology

The M&J Airlaid Technology is extremely flexible with regard to which raw materials and fibre lengths can be used and combined in the same process. The Patented Forming technology enables the mixing of different short and long fibres and powders in the same forming head where the components are homogeneously mixed before formation. Due to the formation geometry this homogeneous mix is maintained during web formation, ensuring optimal use of all the components in the web. This means that webs can be engineered with specific end uses in mind. Whether it is single or multilayer products each layer can be designed to meet the needs at that particular place in the web, for instance acquisition, spreading and absorption layers. The ability to mix powders homogeneously into the web also means that bonding powders can be used in the process. A most important feature of the Airlaid Technology is the ability to produce products free of undefibrated material and lumps of rolled up fibres. These are removed from the forming head and recycled to the defibrators before the web is formed.



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Facts about Weaving Loom Types

The earliest art of hand weaving along with hand spinning remains a popular craft. There are different types of weaving looms and these include handloom, frame loom and back strap loom.

A loom is a mechanism or tool used for weaving yarn and thread into textiles. Looms vary in a wide assortment of sizes. They come in huge free standing hand looms, tiny hand-held frames, to vast automatic mechanical tools. A loom can as well pertain to an electric line construction like that of a wiring loom. The main task of looms is to clutch the twist threads under pressure to enable the progress of interweaving of the woof strands. The loom's system and exact form can differ to some extent; however it still performs the basic application.

There are many kinds of weaving looms to choose from, depending on what you plan to weave. When planning on buying a weaving loom, consider several things. These include how large a piece do you intend to weave; how much experience do you have with weaving looms; how much space is there for your looms; and how much time are you willing to spend on it.

Some looms are fairly small and simply mastered by their users. They can even be used by young children. Larger looms tend to be more complex but still have more detailed options for better usage. The size of the loom is the one to determine the width of whatever weave material you're going to select. The length is more controlled in the table looms.


Different Types of Looms


1) Hand Looms

The first and original loom was vertically twist-weighted types, where threads are hung from a wooden piece or branch or affixed to the floor or ground. The weft threads are manually shoved into position or pushed through a rod that also becomes the shuttle. Raising and lowering each warp thread one by one is needed in the beginning. It is done by inserting a piece of rod to create a shack, the gap between warp threads in order for the woof to easily traverse the whole warp right away.


2) Ground Looms

Horizontal ground looms permit the warp threads to be chained between a couple of rows of dowels. The weaver needs to bend forward to perform the task easily. Thus, pit looms with warp chained over a ditch are invented to let the weaver have his or her legs positioned below and leveled with the loom.


3) Back strap Looms

They are well recognized for their portability. The one end of this loom type is secured around the waist of the weaver and the other end is attached around a fixed thing like door, stake, or tree. Pressure applied can be customized by just bending back.



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Yarn Quality Improved by ACP Quality Package

1. Preliminary Remarks

Today, the well-known 3-roller double-apron drafting systems of ring spinning frames permit to draft rovings up to a total draft of 80 and more under optimum conditions. The task of the break-draft zone is to introduce the sliding process of the fibres of the twisted roving. In the subsequent main draft zone, the fibre strand is guided between the top and the bottom aprons and drafted to the desired final count of the yarn.

This mode of operation is already very old and has hardly been modified in the last decades.

With the ACP Quality Package by SUESSEN it is now possible, however, to improve the drafting process in the main draft zone and consequently the values of the most important yarn parameters.

2. The Drafting Process on the Ring Spinning Machine

2.1 The Break-Draft The purpose of the break-draft zone is to prepare the main draft. The fibres in the roving are stretched and extended up to a degree which allows them to shift in the main zone immediately after leaving the cradle clamping line.

The basic correlation for each individual staple length between the setting of the break-draft zone and of the break-draft of a ring frame drafting system is shown in Fig. 2.

A long break-draft zone with the smallest possible break-draft must definitely be preferred. It reduces very clearly the wear of top roller cots and aprons and the load on the draft gearing, especially in the case of long machines.

In addition, the total system is less prone to climatic modifications, variations in fibre length and fluctuation in the drafting resistance of the roving.


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INDIA: International Textile Machinery EXPO In Bangalore

For the first time Bangalore is hosting the prestigious International Textile Machinery Exhibition “8th INDIA ITME 2008” at Bangalore International Exhibition Centre, from 15-22 November. The exhibition is organized by India International Textile Machinery Exhibitions Society (India ITME Society). Hon’ble Union Minister of Textiles Shri Shankersinh Vaghela will be inaugurating the exhibition on November 15. Hon’ble Shri S.M. Krishna, M.P. will be the Chief Guest and Hon’ble Shri Shekhar Gulihatti, Minister for Textiles & Youth Services, Govt. of Karnataka will be the Guest of Honour.

The exhibition, held once every four years has attracted worldwide attention from participants and business visitors alike for the last 30 years. The Bangalore exposition is 8th in the series and is organized in the state-of-the-art newly built exhibition site which is giving a tough competition to other venues across the country. The Bangalore Exhibition Complex has 3 fully air conditioned halls with an area of about 42,500 sq. mtrs. In addition, the India ITME Society had to go in for an additional hall of 2,500 sq. mtrs. to accommodate spill over exhibits.

Shri Sanjay Jayavarthanavelu, Chairman, India ITME Society, who spearheads the arrangements of the exhibition said, “This world class exhibition on textile machinery and accessories has gained in magnitude and prominence over the years. All leading manufacturers of textile machinery and components from across the world have booked space in the exhibition to show their latest technology machinery. The participants include prominent manufacturers of textile machinery and components from Germany

, Switzerland, Italy, France, U.K., U.S.A., China, Turkey, Brazil and other parts of the globe besides the Indian manufacturers.”

The total number of exhibitors is about 750 of which Indian constitutes 440 and foreign 310. The net area for exhibitors in Bangalore is about 28,000 sq. mtrs. which is higher than the figure of about 25,750 for the exhibition held in Mumbai in 2004. The Society had to deny admission of about 100 exhibitors requiring 2500 sq. mtrs. because of scarcity of exhibition space.

Prominent Indian manufacturers will show their latest technology. These are latest spinning machinery including compact spinning of LMW, Blow room & other machinery from TRUMAC, Air Jet loom, Rapier loom of Alidhra Weavetech, Rapier loom of Dynamic, Laxmi Textile Stores, Draw texturising of Himson, Aalidhra, Warping & sizing machinery of Jupiter, Amritlakshmi, Sectional warping of Prashant Gamatex, Rabatex, processing machinery of Harish textile enterprises, Dhall, Krsna etc. besides important spares and accessories.

Similarly latest spinning machinery including compact spinning of Rieter, Auto coner from Murata, Japan and Savio, Italy, Spinning and weaving machinery from Toyota, Japan, Shuttleless Rapier loom of Dornier, Smit, Sultex, Picanol; Processing and finishing from Oerlikon, Then, Thies etc.

All arrangements like uninterrupted and adequate power supply, compressed air and water facilities, housekeeping, security, site management, computer registration, hostesses, food court leasing, catering, conference has been made.

The New Bangalore airport has been commissioned and it is about 38 kms. from the exhibition complex. We have appointed the Travel Corporation of India as the travel and hotel accommodation agent for the exhibition to render assistance to the exhibitors and visitors.

The Society is arranging special buses from key points of the city to the exhibition complex and back during the exhibition days.

India and countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia and Thailand are prominent markets for manufacturers of textile machinery and components. All the business visitors from textile mills in India and abroad are welcome to visit and benefit from the technological innovations and developments showcased in the exhibition. INDIA ITME 2008 will be an appropriate forum for their investment programmes.

Source : www.bharattextile.com

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Revolutionary Textile Processing Machine 'AIRO24' At ITME

The success of the new open-width continuous AIRO®24 from Biancalani confirms the leadership of the Italian company, that always believed in the power of its ideas. The proven capacity of innovation at Biancalani S.p.A., located in Prato-the italian area with the highest textile concentration - is deeply rooted into its experience, which has been growing throughout the many years thanks to the active role played by all its partners.

From the textile companies who trusted a concept, that later on proved to be a winning one, to the company members that were able to transform ideas into competitive solutions.
Junior cub of a renowned family, the young and powerful AIRO®24, born from twenty years of AIRO® experience, made its roar heard at the latest ITMA 2007 in Munich, revealing it's aggressive and mild temper, its strong and sparing character, and confirming the value of Biancalani experience and design skills within the traditionally trial-and-error scenario of Italian textile machinery.

Now you can have a look and touch the effects on fabric samples, obtaining more information about this new technology, meeting Biancalani people and their indian agent Bakubhai Ambalal staff at ITME Bangalore 2008 exhibition, Hall 2 - Booth B110.

Nothing in AIRO®24 was left to chance: from the design of straight and clean aerodynamic paths, symmetrical, even and neat, to the clever and flexible system with independent airflow-routing valves, to details that at first might seem of secondary importance, like the noise absorbing paneling and their bright color, with the logo composed by an arrow (representing the speed) and a circle (symbolizing continuity, also meant as absence of interruptions).

The machine owes its efficiency and its energy-savvy attitude to the aerodynamic path, that eliminates dispersions and resistances ensuring an even and balanced fabric movement and treatment, and therefore perfect uniformity and effectiveness of the AIRO® effect. This solution, realized by Biancalani and covered by international patents, allows to obtain remarkable energy savings by driving the air in a natural way, without any moving device that could have generated dispersions or increases in airflow resistance with consequent turbulences and possible uneven distribution of the fabric treatment.


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