Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Monofilament Extrusion Lines By Starlinger GmBH

Starlinger has built its position as world market leader in tape and textile yarn extrusion. To further develop this headship company has launched two new monofilament extrusion lines. The starEX 1500DM - doublehead mono - and the starEX 1500DEM, with two parallel extruders for simultaneous production in two different colours, complement the extrusion technology successfully introduced several years ago with Starlinger's starEX G, M, and TM series.

The monofilament fibre market is a growing sector both in quantity and in scope. Trends in modern stadium construction and the demand for sports surfaces that perform regardless of season and weather conditions are greening the market for artificial turf: Improved technology has vastly increased its popularity both as a sports surface and in public and private landscaping. Fibre quality, especially colour uniformity, is particularly critical in the production of artificial grass. Starlinger's expertise in extrusion and mixing/dosing technology meets the stringent standards for this and other technical applications. Monofilaments are also used in shade nets, anti-hail nets, and other agrotextile applications, as well as in geotextiles and technical textiles, in safety belts and webs, ropes, brushes, and raschel or leno bags, as structural reinforcement in concrete, and for filtration in paper.


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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Electrospinning Past Present And Future

Courtesy: NovaComp Inc. 2006


In recent years, the term "nanotechnology" has spread across the globe like wildfire. Millions of dollars in research grants and investments are being devoted to making products less than 100 nanometers in size. Unlike many other aspects of the traditional textile industry in the United States which is said to be on death's door, "nanotechnologies" are generating quite a bit of interest. Within the past decade, it has been "rediscovered" that you can produce extremely small fibers (nano-fibers) using a process called electrospinning.


Electrospinning is not by any means a new discovery. Its roots go back to the early 1930's when the first patent was issued. Simply stated, Electrospinning is a process that uses the electrostatic attraction between a charged polymer and a grounded or oppositely charged collection plate to produce extremely fine fibers ranging in diameter from a few nanometers (<10)>50). Recent developments have shown that it can be performed on polymers in both the molten state as well as in solution.


The polymer is held in a syringe or other type container as shown in Figure 1.


The charge can be applied directly to the syringe so that when polymer passes through, the polymer receives a surface charge similar to that applied to the syringe. As the voltage to the system is increased, the electric field's strength being generated eventually becomes greater than the viscoelastic properties and surface tension of the polymer and a tiny cone, often referred to as a Taylor Cone is formed.


Further increasing the electric field's strength will deform the Taylor Cone until a fine fiber is extruded from the cone's apex. When working with solutions, this strand will continue as a stable jet for a short period of time before the instability or whipping region occurs as seen in Figure 1. This region further decreases the fibers diameter as the solvent evaporates from the solution leaving an extremely small fiber. It is important to note that due to a much higher viscosity and lack of solvent evaporation, fibers electrospun from the melt do not undergo an instability region and as a result have much larger fiber diameters.



Electrospun fibers produced have typically been collected as a random nonwoven mat seen in Figure 2 and most the applications being developed today reflect this configuration. However, advancements in collection techniques continue to be a major focus of research and as a result, it is possible to collect aligned continuous fibers that be twisted to form yarns composed of nanofibers.





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Friday, September 12, 2008

SEL Manufacturing To Invest Rs 500 Crore In Integrated Textile Park

The park would be set up in 100 acres of land and would generate employment for about 10,000 people

Apparel firm SEL Manufacturing said that they will invest about Rs500 crore for setting up a textile park in Himachal Pradesh.

The park would be set up in 100 acres of land and would generate employment for about 10,000 people, SEL Manufacturing said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).

Further, the company has sought approval under the Union Textile Ministry’s Scheme for Integrated Textile Park (SITP), which aims at providing the industry with infrastructure facilities for setting up units.

As per the SITP scheme, the Ministry of Textiles would implement the project through special purpose vehicles (SPV), which would provide manufacturing process for the technical textile products, involving wipes, diapers and surgical clothing.

The scheme would facilitate textile units to meet international environmental and social standards.


Source : simmobilez.info

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Capability Of Indian Textile Machinery Accessories And Components Industry

The Indian textile engineering industry, which is more than five decades old, is ranked first among the capital goods sector of the engineering industry. The textile engineering industry has expanded rapidly and its annual installed capacity is Rs.38, 000 million per annum, employing more than 50,000 workers. Though the utilisation of capacity has increased to 72% as compared to 55% in the preceding year, there is ample scope for increasing the capacity utilisation.

The entire range of textile machinery including the latest generation machines are produced by the industry. Many units manufacturing textile machinery are under technical collaborations and some are both under technical and financial collaborations facilitating transfer of updated and new technology to the Indian entrepreneurs. The latest technology thus obtained from abroad and developed indigenously has enabled the industry to compete in the international markets both in quality and prices.

The continuance of the economic reforms and the liberalisation in trade have facilitated a number of foreign entrepreneurs to establish joint ventures in India both for production of textile machinery and equipments and to meet the needs of export markets at competitive prices.

The production of textile machinery and parts & accessories during the last six years is given below:

Production of Textile Machinery, Parts & Accessories

Value Rs. in Million

Year

Production of Machinery

Production of Accessories

Total

2000-01

9846

3240

13086

2001-02

7840

2885

10725

2002-03

9013

2738

11751

2003-04

10815

2591

13406

2004-05

14080

2764

16844

2005-06

18801

3323

22123

2006-07

24594

3396.8

27990.8

2007-08 (P)

26306.8

3780.9

30087.7

There are about 600 units in the industry manufacturing textile machinery, components, accessories and attachments and they are situated in important centres of India. The components and accessories sector is catering to the requirements of not only the leading Indian textile machinery manufacturers but also of almost all composite and spinning mills.

This section of the industry consists of units of varying sizes. Spinning machinery components and accessories like, spindles, rings, ring travelers, cots and aprons and weaving accessories like, reeds, healds, etc. are manufactured by and large by small and medium scale units on the basis of technology evolved by themselves though some of the units started production under technical collaboration.


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Saturday, September 6, 2008

Textile-Machine Exports Stagnate

The exports of the textile machinery are estimated to be remain steady at Rs 485 crore in fiscal 2007-08 as against Rs 489 crore in fiscal 2006-07 as the demand for textile machinery has come down, according to the Textile Machinery Manufacturers’ Association (TMMA).

Exports remained stagnant over the last 3 years due to high domestic demand and tough competition in the export market. “The textile machinery industry did not do well in 2007-08. The slowdown in the textile industry during 2007-08 affected the growth of the textile engineering industry (TEI) considerably, as it has come down from 26% to only 7%. There is likely to be negative growth during 2008-09,” Sridhar Varadaraj, chairman, TMMA said.

The production of textile machinery, parts and accessories, has increased from Rs 2,799 crore in 2006-07 to Rs 2,997 crore in 2007-08, recording an annual growth of 7% over the previous year and a capacity utilisation of 79% during the year. Import of textile machinery reduced from Rs 9,434 crore during 2006-07 to Rs 7,500 crore during 2007-08, thanks to good demand from weaving, knitting, processing and garment sectors.

The earlier spurt in demand from the textile industry had triggered the TEI to develop and expand the machinery- manufacturing capacity, particularly in the spinning machinery sector.

Units in the industry were striving to step up production and shorten the delivery period, he said. “The present demand recession has put the TEI in the back foot. There is a need for sustained demand,” Varadaraj said.

Source : www.financialexpress.com

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Pakistan - Textile Machinery Imports Down By 42 Percent

Importers said that imports of textile machinery declined by 42 percent during the first month of FY09, due to persistent crisis in textile sector and high cost of doing business in the country. Also said that industrialists are reluctant to import machinery under the current circumstances and have adopted wait and see policy after the negligent attitude of the government for last one year.

"Despite several assurances given by federal ministers and the government, there is no relief in sight for the ailing textile industry, importers said. Industrialists are not expanding their operations and units due to uncertain situation and are waiting for a long-term textile policy, they said.

They said that textile industry is in crisis for last two years and the main problem is high cost of doing business. The power, gas tariffs are also being increased frequently which adds to the woes of the industry, they added.

According to official statistics released by Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) during the first month of current fiscal year 2009, country's textile machinery import has declined by 42.24 percent.

The overall textile machinery imports stood at 23.63 million dollars in July 2008 over the imports of 40.911 million dollars during the same period of FY07, depicting a decrease of 17.281 million dollars during the first month of current fiscal year.

Imports of textile machinery also show a decline of 26 percent, as compared to June 2008, as during June overall textile machinery imports stood at 32.101 million dollars. "If the present government does not announce any relief package for textile industry, there will be further decline in the imports of textile machinery in near future," importers said.

During FY08 the country's textile machinery imports declined to 438.270 million dollars from 502.898 million dollars in FY07, depicting a decrease of 64.6 million dollars in last fiscal year.



Source: Business Recorder