Monday, February 28, 2011

2010 as recovery year for Italian textile machinery manufacturers

2010 as recovery year for Italian textile machinery manufacturersPreliminary 2010 data drawn up by ACIMIT (the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers) show a decisive recovery under way for Italy’s textile machinery sector, in the wake of a 2009 which had been marked by a conspicuous drop in production. In terms of value, Italy’s textile machinery production recorded an 18% increase with respect to 2009, from 1.9 to 2.3 billion Euros. Exports drew a similarly favourable increase, at +19%, reaching a value of just under 1.8 billion Euros.

Obviously, these gains in sales and orders are a physiological consequence of the minimum levels of the previous two-year period. However, it does underscore a general reprise in demand for textile machinery across many geographical areas, materializing during the first part of 2010. The demand for Italian machinery was mostly driven by the world’s major markets, with sales showing double digit growth percentages in China, India and Turkey. Overall, Italian exports obtained positive performances on all primary textile manufacturing markets; Asia and South America representing the driving forces for global demand.

The domestic market also recorded a more dynamic trend compared to the 2008-2009 period. Domestic demand jumped by 27% on previous year, for a turnover of close to one billion Euros. “These preliminary closing data are no doubt encouraging - commented ACIMIT’s President Sandro Salmoiraghi - but a deep sense of uncertainty remains regarding the global scenario.”

Effectively, a study conducted by ACIMIT over the first quarter of 2011 shows that forcasts for orders remain Cautions, drawing a picture that is rather stationary with the respect to the last quarter of 2010, both for the foreign and domestic markets.





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Friday, February 25, 2011

Belgian textile machinery road show in India

Belgian textile machinery road show in IndiaThe Belgian Textile Machinery Association SYMATEX organizes a road show in India.

From February 28 to March 4 2011, a delegation of the Belgian textile machinery industry will meet key decision makers of the Indian Textile Industry. The roadshow will visit Ludhiana, New Delhi, Mumbai, Coimbatore and Bangalore. Some key Belgian companies participating in this roadshow are Bekaert, Bonas, Picanol and Van De Wiele. The Belgian delegation will interact with the Indian textile industry to select effective technologies that meet Indian industrial needs.

The Belgian textile technology industry will present its newest developments in the areas of flat and pile weaving technology, jacquard technology, weft feeders, finishing machinery, weaving accessories, textile inspection and control systems, textile industry automation, carding technology, extrusion and filtration technology. Belgian textile technology developers will also show the latest technologies for the production of clothing fabrics, interior textiles (upholstery, carpet …) and technical textiles.

Answers to Indian industrial needs


The participating Belgian companies will interact with the Indian textile industry to select effective technologies that meet Indian industrial needs. Belgian technology providers will support the Indian textile industry in the achievement of its strategic goals to reduce raw material waste, energy and water consumption and to increase competitiveness. Some key Belgian companies participating in this roadshow are Bekaert, Bonas, Picanol and Van De Wiele.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Event on German Technology for the Vietnamese textile industry

On initiative of the VDMA Textile Machinery Association, the conference and exhibition “German Technology for the Vietnamese textile industry” will take place in the New World Hotel in Ho-Chi-Minh City on 6 and 7 April 2011.

The symposium is officially supported by the German Ministry for Economics and Technology as well as by AGTEK, the Association of Textile and Apparel in Ho-Chi-Minh City.

The two-day event themed “Innovation for successful business” will present machinery and technology solutions comprising all fields of the textile chain. In about 20 lectures, German textile machinery manufacturers will report about their latest developments and technical innovations that enable textile producers in the region to enhance their position in the world market.

Decision makers from the Vietnamese textile industry have the unique chance to find out about current developments and technical innovations to meet the increased request for quality products. The use of modern textile technologies results in lower production costs as well as reduced energy consumption and material use.

Throughout the last years, Germany has been one of the main exporters to Vietnam. After two difficult years, the exports picked up again in 2010. From January to November 2010, German exports of textile machinery to Vietnam increased by almost 84 % to 27 million EUR compared with the respective period in 2009. The Vietnamese demand for German textile technology has been particularly strong since August 2010.





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Monday, February 21, 2011

Exempt MMF from import duties – CITI

The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) has placed its Pre-Budget Memorandum for 2011-2012 for the perusal of the Finance Minister of India, Mr Pranab Mukerjee.

CITI has recommended that it is important to exempt duties imposed on imports of man-made fibres (MMF) to help the textile sector source the raw material in large volumes at affordable prices.

CITI has pointed out that, globally MMF is the most dominantly consumed textile fibre and the ratio between man-made fibres and cotton fibre consumption is 60:40 globally while in India it is 41:59 (2009-10).

The recommendation adds that the share of man-made fibre based textile products in India’s export basket from the textile and clothing sector is even lower.

CITI has suggested that, optional excise duty for textile products may be continued at a uniform rate of four percent for all products, irrespective of the fibre content, along with which, excise duty on MMF should also be reduced to four percent.

It has further recommended withdrawal of all anti-dumping duties on MMF and not consider levying fresh anti-dumping duties to remove the anomalies in consumption pattern as well as help increase exports of MMF products from India.


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Thursday, February 17, 2011

New wool press comes up with higher efficiency

A wool press designed as well as built in Mosgiel has been launched in the market. It is the first no-tramp wool press that has come up in New Zealand after several years. Shearing Services will be selling the machines and P&W Engineering will be manufacturing them.

The 60 percent hike in wool prices in the current season has once again diverted the focus on wool and wool growers as well as wool contractors are replacing their shearing machines. There has been a shortage of a wide variety of machines in New Zealand particularly after the receivership of a wool press producer from Australia around three years ago.

There has been a gap of around two to three years when no new wool press has come up in the market. The launching of Micron wool press designed as well as built in Mosgiel and the effective Magnum wool press at this time in the New Zealand market is a timely gesture. This will provide an opportunity to the wool contractors to install the new equipment.

Both the Micron and Magnum wool presses are of better quality with larger and stronger rams, joints and pumps. The machines are more efficient and their yield is also higher. The wool presses have been designed in such a fashion that they can be easily transported into the sheds and plugged in to begin their operations with nominal set of connections.

The designers have used high-quality specifications which have been provided by domestic as well as foreign suppliers. Further, the suppliers have also promised to provide the machine parts immediately whenever required. As far as their prices are concerned, they will be comparable with other machines available in the market.


Wednesday, February 16, 2011

CNTAC President to address ITMA-ITMF World Textile Summit

One of the most powerful men in Chinese textiles, Du Yuzhou, President of China National Textile & Apparel Council (CNTAC), is to address international industry leaders at the ITMA-ITMF World Textile Summit later this year.

Mr Du, President of China National Textile & Apparel Council (CNTAC) is one of a trio of speakers newly announced by the organisers of the Summit, which will take place in Barcelona, Spain, on September 21. He will outline China’s strategic ambitions for its textile industry and report on progress in its extensive modernisation programme.

The challenge of technological change and the drive for product innovation will be among the themes explored by both Loek de Vries, president and CEO of the technical textile leader TenCate, and Thomas Babacan, CEO of the world’s biggest textile machinery manufacturer, Oerlikon Textile, and COO of the OC Oerlikon Group.

TenCate, with an annual turnover of more than €1 billion, is a Dutch-based multinational with extensive interests in advanced textiles, composites, geosynthetics and artificial turf. Oerlikon Textile, part of the Swiss-based Oerlikon Group, has a turnover of €2 billion, making spinning, embroidery and nonwovens machinery through its Oerlikon Schlafhorst, Oerlikon Saurer, Oerlikon Barmag, Oerlikon Neumag and Oerlikon Textile Components business units.


Tuesday, February 15, 2011

BERNINA 830LE comes with exclusive Alphabet Collection

BERNINA of America is pleased to announce that its 830 Limited Edition (LE) is now available at dealerships in the U.S. and Canada. Only 4,000 of these unique machines will be made and each features a special design, engraved with its own production number.

830LE customers can also celebrate this momentous occasion by gaining access to an exclusive two-day retreat in the Chicago area where they'll experience a VIP reception and inspiring workshops, while learning new techniques and creating engaging projects. Each 830LE machine also comes with an exclusive Alphabet Collection and Embroidery CD with 1,000 unique designs, a limited edition collector's tin and a specifically designed USB stick.

"We are very proud to offer the BERNINA 830LE," said Martin Favre, president of BERNINA of America. "The 830LE is the crown jewel of all machines and showcases the amazing capabilities of our 8 Series, while offering sewers the opportunity to own a machine that is as unique as their creativity and projects."

Inspired by creative sewers and designed by Switzerland's leading engineers to outperform any other home sewing machine, the BERNINA 830LE features include:

Most Space. No matter what type of sewing you do, the BERNINA 830LE gives you all the space you need to always be at your most creative. An expansive 15-inch extended arm reaches a full 12 inches to the right of the needle. Plus, the 12.8-inch diagonal space and 5.12-inch height provide the 830LE with the highest degree of maneuverability of any home sewing machine.

Blazing Speeds. The BERNINA 830LE boasts up to 1,100 sewing stitches per minute and up to 1,000 for embroidery. Sturdy construction keeps your machine steady. Even at those high speeds, the 830LE doesn't vibrate, it hums with quality. And the slide-speed control makes speed easily adjusted.


Friday, February 11, 2011

Italian textile machinery will be presented at two seminars

ACIMIT, the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers, and the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade, will organize two technological seminars in Pakistan. The two events will take place in Karachi (March 14th) and Lahore (March 17th).

The following 7 leading Italian manufacturers of textile machinery will present their latest technology developments at the Pakistani textile companies: Loris Bellini, Comez Gestioni, Corino Macchine, Jaeggli Meccanotessile, Mario Crosta, Roj, Simet.

For 2010 Pakistan confirms itself as one of the major destination for Italian exports of textile machinery. In January-October 2010 Italian sales in the Pakistani market totalled a value of Euro 35.5 million (+228% on the same period of the previous year). Among the Asian markets Pakistan is the third one, only behind China and India.

Italian sales in Pakistan for the first ten months of 2010 are divided into spinning (44% of the total), finishing (22%), weaving (15%), accessories (13%) and knitting (6%).

These technological seminars fall into the many initiatives already carried out as part of the ongoing promotional activities organized by ACIMIT and Italian Institute for Foreign Trade over the years in Pakistan. The promotional activities include training courses organized in Italy for Pakistani textile operators and technological seminars occurring in the Country.


Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Presentation of Terrot S4F348 at Dhaka Textile & Garment Exhibition

The 8th DHAKA TEXTILE & GARMENT 2011 (DTG 2011) with the ultimate aim to offer an ideal platform to demonstrate new products and exploit business opportunities is set to be held in February 13~16, 2011 in BICC. The organizers have received a lot of space reservation demand during DTG2010, and they are all confident that DTG2011 will be successful and thriving as previous years.

Venue: BICC, Bangabandhu International Conference Centre, Agargaon, Shere - Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Date: February 13- 16, 2011, 12:00 to 20:00 hours

Terrot as one of the world brand leader is among the exhibitors at DTG 2011. Together with our partner Terrot Bangladesh we would like to invite you to visit our booth 701 where we will exhibit machine model S4F348.

Terrot Single-Jersey machines offer a wide range of different yarns together with up to 4 needle tracks which enables large variety in fabric structures.

Machine features S4F348


The machine series combine the traditional attributes of functional safety and outstanding reliability with further advanced Terrot striper technology. The benefit: Maximum processing variety with nearly unlimited pattern- and colour possibilities – especially for sensitive yarns- due to the combination of the Terrot-Striper-System with different kind of bonding structure technologies. By using the multi-colour technology, it is possible to process up to 8 yarn colours in a single length of fabric. A never afore attained extend of universality includes the further processing of even the most sensitive yarns and threads. Beside the customary use of cotton yarns,

• Acetate, CA
• Core spun yarns
• Modal, CMD
• Polyester filament, PE
• Polyamide, PA
• Viscose, CV

can all be produced with typical Terrot process reliability. The technology of the thread change takes place with one lay-in finger for every colour thread. Every lay-in finger is equipped with a combined clamping device as well as a cutting device which guarantees very precisely clamping and cutting of the threads. Therewith this striper technology is in comparison to competitors able to process all current thread qualities, and in particular he for striped fabric used synthetic yarns that are in line with the trend.


Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Express Logic’s ThreadX powers Bernina 830 Sewing System

Express Logic Inc, the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), announced that Bernina International AG has selected Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS for use in its advanced, state-of-the-art Bernina 830 sewing and embroidery product.

The new Bernina 830, considered to be the world’s most innovative sewing and embroidery system for home users, is highly programmable, delivering touch-screen programmability, graphics scalability, and other advanced features.

Bernina, one of the world’s largest sewing machine manufacturers and the world’s only privately held sewing machine company, chose Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS to meet the high-technology demands of the 830. ThreadX is designed for microcontroller-based applications and features a small memory footprint as small as 2KB, so it can reside in even the most limited on-chip MCU memory.

ThreadX provides preemptive, real-time, priority-based scheduling for optimum responsiveness and high performance and includes services such as thread scheduling, message passing, resource allocation, synchronization, and interrupt management. ThreadX also provides Preemption-Threshold™ technology that can be used to minimize context switches, while still maintaining system schedulability.


Monday, February 7, 2011

Tatham’s TS System - driving costs down worldwide…..

Tatham, manufacturer of specialist technology for the textile industry, is offering a variable machinery drive system designed to cut energy consumption by up to 50%. Tatham’s TS System is intended to offer the latest drive control technology to help customers achieve significant energy and operational savings.

Contrary to fixed speed motors, which always operate at full speed, variable speed drive systems use drive converters to adapt to their operating requirements. The Tatham designed system only draws the amount of power necessary at that particular point, thereby significantly reducing operating costs.

A variable-speed drive converter also eliminates the current spikes generated during acceleration and torque surges, ensuring less wear on the mechanical system components. This soft starting and stopping reduces stress on the complete drive mechanical transmission line, increasing the machine’s operational lifetime.

Specifically designed for the textile industry, the TS variable speed drives are used in carding machines, crosslappers, needlelooms, spinning and twisting frames. The range also includes TS and TSe weight control technology and crosslappers.

Jim Kelly, senior electrical engineer, said: “A TS drive system will directly replace any mechatronic DC drive or standard DC drive, with the latest AC variable speed drives offering the most practical solution both technically and economically. The drives are completely synchronised and do not require feedback devices, allowing finite control of the machine at all speeds.”


Friday, February 4, 2011

Almost three-fold increase in Rieter Textile Systems orders

The recovery in the textile machinery and automotive markets that had started in the second half of 2009 continued in 2010. Despite the usual seasonal effects at Automotive Systems in the second six months, demand over the course of the year as a whole was at a considerably higher level than in the previous year.

Orders received by the Rieter Group in the 2010 financial year totaled 3’170.0 million CHF. Compared to the previous year’s figure, this corresponded to an increase of 64% (1’935.1 million CHFin 2009). The trend in order intake was dynamic throughout the year. The steep rise compared with the previous year was due primarily to very strong demand at Textile Systems.The 32% increase in sales by the Rieter Group was less than the growth in orders received due to the low order volume in the previous year. Sales were slightly higher in the second half of the year than in the first six months and totaled 2’585.8 million CHF (1’956.3 million CHF in 2009). Exchange rate trends adversely affected both key figures, especially in the second half. In local currency terms, orders received and sales increased by 68% and 36%, respectively, in the year under review. Based on exchange rates prevailing in 2007, consolidated sales would currently already be 2.9 billion CHF again.

Rieter Textile Systems:
almost three-fold increase in orders received
The world market for spinning machinery and components recorded a strong recovery with a broad regional base in the year under review, following two years of conspicuously weak demand. The main markets for Rieter were China, India and Turkey. There was also a large volume of demand from Bangladesh, Brazil, Indonesia, Pakistan, South Korea, and also the USA. The upswing was driven by investment demand for replacements and expansion as well as strong growth in textile consumption in the major Asian markets. Rieter Textile Systems successfully exploited the positive trend due to its strong market position, increasingly also in machinery and technology components which are adapted to local needs in emerging markets.


Thursday, February 3, 2011

Wanjie Group places order for PSF spinning plant

Wanjie Group Co. Ltd. based in China has ordered for a complete polyester staple fibre (PSF) spinning plant from Oerlikon Neumag based in Germany. The Germany-based company will extend engineering services apart from the machinery.

The plant is likely to be installed in the Shandong Province towards the end of this year and the manufacturing is likely to start by the middle of 2012. As per Oerlikon Neumag, Wanjie Group has the highest market share of staple fibre production that is meant for textile usage in the Shandong Province. The Chinese market is extremely competitive for the plant manufacturers.

China is one of the most rapidly growing economies of the world and through this order, the Germany-based company is likely to strengthen its hold in the Chinese market. Oerlikon Neumag has a very high export share for synthetic staple fibre plants. With such projects coming from China, the company can learn how to be competitive in the international market from its trading partner.


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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

ATME-I to continue with Techtextil North America in 2012

American Textile Machinery Association (ATMA) and Messe Frankfurt USA have agreed on the inclusion of American Textile Machinery Exhibition–International (ATME-I) with Techtextil North America every even year starting in 2012. The two exhibitions successfully co-located last May in Atlanta.

Techtextil North America
Georgia World Congress Center
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
April 24 – 26, 2012

ATME-I will provide textile machinery, equipment, products and service suppliers a broad textile and apparels industry base to showcase their products and services. American Textile Machinery Association (ATMA) traces its beginning and that of ATME-I to the International Cotton Machinery Exposition in Atlanta in 1881.

The agreement between Messe Frankfurt USA and ATMA follows the launch earlier last year of Texprocess Americas incorporating SPESA EXPO.

David Audrain, President of Messe Frankfurt stated that “We are extremely pleased with ATMA's decision to continue the successful relationship begun last year. Building on the launch of Texprocess Americas we believe that the expansion of Techtextil North America to include ATMA's ATME-I creates the most important co-location of textile industry events in the Americas. Our goal is to give buyers the best value for their time investment, which means providing them with the most comprehensive selection of manufacturers at our respective shows.”

Speaking on behalf of ATME-I, American Textile Machinery Association (ATMA) Chairman and President of Argus Fire Control, Mike Viniconis commented: “After delivering a strong and well-attended ATME-I 2010 this past May, co-located with Techtextil North America and SPESA Expo, ATMA is pleased to again provide in Atlanta a dynamic platform for broadly defined textile industries in 2012.