TMT/OKi printer with new white toner for textile sector

TheMagicTouch, global pioneers of the digital image transfer process for the past 20 years, announce the arrival of yet another significant milestone for the garment decoration and promotional gift industry.

Introducing the exclusive new OKI C711WT Colour-Plus White LED Printer with white toner added to the CMY colour process. This unique innovation with the new toner delivers very good opacity and therefore a very high ‘White’ factor for non-fabric hard surface applications such as folders, mugs, binders, leather and PU surface products as well as garments and textiles.

In conjunction with the release of the new printer, TheMagicTouch has upgraded their award winning WoW7.2 transfer media to seamlessly fit the new white toner technology. Now reduced to a simple 2 step process the new WoW7.5 in conjunction with the C711WT becomes the perfect, affordable, solution for all garment decoration regardless of fabric colour or type, without any cutting or weeding involved. With a minimum application temperature as low as 110°C/230°F it perfectly overcomes the potential scorching mark of a heat press on the new popular ‘high tech’ performance fabrics and garments. 

“We will deliver the printer with an added value beyond the factory standard” says Jim Nicol, Managing Director of TheMagicTouch in the UK. He added “By using our unique print utility software “SpaceControl” with the C711WT enables the user to print ‘white-only’ with the click of a button. Most important, the SpaceControl software will allow total control over the white toner i.e. where and how much is printed.”

The new white toner also extends a new lease of life to existing transfer papers allowing the decoration of any colour materials, products and substrates. Now CPM papers can decorate dark colour mugs, diaries, leather, PU products, phone and gadget covers, binders and various types of folders with ‘white’ as the extra colour included in the design. New ‘white’ also extends to the tattoo paper for skin and nail decoration as well as the CL media stock for the production of stickers and decals with opaque full colour definition for the sign industry.

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DTG Printing & Rhinestone Machines Offers By Coldesi

Silk screen printing and tee shirt embroidery designs has become a lucrative business for garment printing business owners. But for a business to grow, a company must have the right equipment that is reliable and can handle the large demands posed by customers. ColDesi INC is here to help these business owners by offering the required machines.

ColDesi INC has always offered embroidery machines and direct-to-garment (DTG) supplies to retailers. But now, business owners can obtain DTG printing machines and rhinestone machines as the type of services that they offer to customers. Garment printing business owners can choose from single-head to multi-head embroidery machines, digital DTG printing machines, and CAM machines for rhinestone printing.

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Textile Overstocks - Global Marketplace for Excess Stocks

Fibre2fashion, which recently launched “Textile Overstocks”, an exclusive marketplace dedicated for liquidation of textile surplus stock and apparel overstocks, has received an overwhelming response from the global textile manufacturers, garment producers and textile trading community.
Fibre2fashion is a global B2B platform, which has been serving the worldwide textile, apparel & fashion industry since more than a decade through its various trade and knowledge services; has launched ‘Textile Overstocks’ in its continuing endeavour to provide niche and value-added services.
Textile Overstocks is a specialized global trading platform to clear textile and clothing inventories, in the form of wholesale lots, overstock, excess stock, liquidation stock, clearance stock, closeouts, refurbished, obsolete stock lots, bankrupt stocks, cancelled stocks or even surplus merchandise.
All featured stock offers and advertised clearance deals come from direct manufacturers, retailers, liquidators, wholesalers and merchants who are registered and approved to trade and sell on “Textile Overstocks”. It facilitates the sellers to sell their surplus stock quickly, securely and efficiently.
As a B2B platform for the sellers, “Textile Overstocks” offers the power of a niche marketplace, where buyers from across the globe regularly scout for regular and wholesale deals. This platform is backed up by the large repository of buyers exclusively for the textile stocks.
Services offered for sellers:
1) Lead based
2) Mandate based


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DSI UV inkjet printer Demo - Labelexpo Americas

Stork Prints will be demonstrating its unrivalled expertise in many different aspects of digital and rotary screen printing for labels and packaging at the Labelexpo Americas, 11-13 September in Rosemont, Illinois, USA (Hall A, booth 529). Due to its successes in Europe and the first sale in North America, the show’s highlight will be the UV inkjet label printer DSI with several live demo’s per day. 

Stork Prints is a pioneer in digital printing and active in the digital printing industry for over 25 years and has over 4000 inkjet systems installed worldwide. Other products include Stork Prints’ famous rotary screens and the brand new gravure sleeves program. 

One of the main attractions at our stand will be the DSI UV inkjet printer. The Stork Prints DSI UV inkjet label printer is the modular concept for short and medium run digital label printing. In fact, the DSI UV inkjet printer takes modularity to the next level in 3 aspects. Firstly there’s modularity in the configuration: stand-alone digital printing or a complete line with in-line (semi-rotary) converting. 

This versatile unit is ideal for markets ranging from food and personal care to beverages, wine and spirits, household goods and outdoor applications. 

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Cotton swab machines leaders join forces

Falu AG of Switzerland and Bellini & Meda Srl of Italy are pleased to announce that they have joined forces in the area of the cotton swab business.

Falu will assume responsibility for customers, markets, distribution and product design under the brand name Falu, Bellini & Meda will assume responsibility for manufacturing components, modules and assemblies for the cotton business.

Bellini & Meda will continue its food machine business in its own right and will remain a specialist in the field of food packaging machines.

The cooperation between Bellini & Meda and Falu represents a pooling of expertise of two major players in the business. United by a common industry background, the new alliance combines a large customer base as well as a complementary product portfolio.

Swiss based Falu AG, pioneer in cotton swab machines, has gained considerable experience by building machines for more than 45 years. Falu machines are reliable and have a long life expectancy. Its reliable after-sales service offers a wide availability of spare parts, even for old-timer FALU machines.

Italian based Bellini & Meda has been in production, development and sales of cotton swab machinery for over 25 years. Equipped with a modern production machine park, the company focuses in the future on its manufacturing strength and will supply Falu with its expertise and a wide range of parts, assemblies and machinery as an independent company.

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Faux Real launches humorous & outrageous apparel line

 Faux Real, the novelty shirt showcasing one-of-a kind 3D printing techniques launches a new line of entertaining apparel featuring t-shirts with images sure to garner a double take, this August at STREET/MAGIC in Las Vegas August 20 - 22.

Showcasing a line of both men’s and women’s styles, Faux Real T’s are the perfect combination of quirky, funny, and scandalous pictures for consumers who want to stand out from the everyday fashion crowd.

Adding to the current best selling, black and white "tuxedo shirt', and the “1970’s Hairy Chest”, a shirt printed with a peace sign necklace and aviator sunglasses over a suede vest, are shirts just in time for Halloween and Christmas. A few of the new additions include "Zombie", "Red Smoking Jacket", and assorted styles and colors of the classic "Ugly Christmas Sweater" are available in both men's and women's styles.

Faux Real photorealistic apparel is a novelty line that is sold Nationwide in gift shops, boutiques, and catalogues across the nation. Faux Real offers themed shirts for a wide variety of special occasions.

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Web Processing develops hot-melt carpet-backing machine

Web Processing (M/C) Ltd. - a United Kingdom-based manufacturer of coating, laminating, flocking and prepregging machinery for the textile, paper and plastic industries, and a Cygnet Tex-Web company - has developed a carpet-backing machine that enables manufacturers to manufacture fully recyclable floor coverings and thereby decrease the volume of commercial and domestic carpet sent to landfills.

The Hot-Melt Carpet-Backing Machine applies a thermoplastic adhesive that replaces traditional difficult-to-recycle carpet-backing materials such as latex, polyvinyl chloride and bitumen. According to the company, carpet backed with the adhesive may be recycled at more than 90 percent of industrial and household recycling plants.

"Our Hot-Melt Carpet-Backing Machine has been developed in close collaboration with carpet manufacturers and adhesive suppliers and is being heralded as a major step forward in the campaign to make the flooring market more ecologically-sustainable by creating products that are completely recyclable," said Roy Conway, technical manager, Web Processing.

"We have invested over a decade of experience in carpet manufacturing to engineer a machine that surpasses previous green credentials for the industry."

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ParAid Textile invests in latest hi-tech machinery

Telford-based ParAid Textile Services, which specialises in the design and assembly of straps, harnesses and other sewn products, has significantly boosted its infrastructure and expanded its workforce, following its investment in the latest hi-tech machinery.

The new Genesis 2300 conveyorised textile cutting machine is manufactured by Blackman & White Ltd and is known for its speed and cut accuracy. One specific feature of the machine is its optical recognition camera which allows it to cut individual pattern graphics precisely and quickly.
The purchase will allow ParAid Textile Services to bring all its fabric cutting and preparation in-house instead of outsourcing. The new machine will also allow the company to offer an additional bespoke cutting service to new and existing customers.

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Indonesia trims budget for textile machinery upgrade

Indonesian Ministry of Industry has announced a reduction in the budget allocated for machine upgradation programme, which ams at enhancing the competitiveness of textile, leather and footwear industries.

Industry Ministry’s Textiles and Miscellaneous Industries Chief, Ramon Bangun, said the Ministry would cut the budget allocation for the programme by 4.6 percent from last year’s Rp 152.5 billion to Rp 145.5 billion this year.

The reduction in budget allocation followed a need for budget efficiency required to balance the delay in fuel price rise.

Mr. Ramon informed that a sum of Rp 34 billion, which is equal to 23.37 percent of the Ministry’s total budget allocation for restoration of aging industrial machinery, has been released to 32 companies by May 2012.

The Ministry originally sanctioned the aid for 100 firms, but so far it has disbursed the amount only to 32 firms, he added.

Mr. Ramon said the Ministry was also assessing another 18 firms for the programme, and added that more than 173 firms were asked to benefit from the programme this year.

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Lakshmi Machine Works net profit dips in FY12

Lakshmi Machine Works Limited (LMW), a leading textile machinery manufacturer in India, has posted net profit of Rs. 1.37 billion during fiscal year 2011-12 ending March 31, showing a 17 percent decline compared to net profit of Rs. 1.66 billion registered during fiscal 2010-11.

However, LMW’s net sales increased by 17 percent year-on-year to Rs. 21.13 billion during last fiscal over its net sales of Rs. 18.04 billion reported during fiscal 2010-11.

The Coimbatore-based company’s exports too grew to Rs. 3.21 billion during last fiscal, as against its exports worth Rs. 2.84 billion during the previous year. Last fiscal’s figures include exports of machinery parts worth Rs. 730 million made by the company to its China-based subsidiary.

For the January-March 2012 quarter, LMW’s net profit declined to Rs. 69.9 million, as against its net profit of Rs. 444 million reported during the same quarter of earlier fiscal.

Similarly, income from operations of the company slipped to Rs. 5.02 billion during the fourth quarter of last fiscal from Rs. 5.35 billion achieved during the last quarter of 2010-11.

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Walmart to sell UK-designed clothing in Chile

Retail giant Walmart is set to begin selling UK designed apparels in its stores in Chile on a trial basis.

The new range of clothing has been designed in the UK by Asda’s George business.

Currently, Walmart stores in many countries offer garments under the George brand, but these are made locally.

Walmart will experiment selling UK designed apparels at its 47 stores in Chile. The new range will be appropriate for the climate in that country, which follows southern hemisphere seasons.

George at Asda said, it is an important experiment and hoped it would be a success for both kidswear and womenswear segments.


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Expansion of SGS Egyptian Textile Testing Laboratory

SGS has announced the opening of its new premises in Cairo offering a complete suite of facilities and services, enhanced in capacity and capability, for the testing of textile and leather goods. The relocated testing laboratory is able to serve clients in local and international regions who are seeking access to the Egyptian textile market.

With significant increases of textile exports and the newly enforced inspection certificate requirement for imported textile and leather products, the demand for consumer product testing services has been rising in Egypt. SGS has relocated its existing Egyptian textile testing laboratory, founded in 1996, and is now able to provide textile testing solutions which will satisfy this need. 

The Egyptian textile industry is an attractive business proposition and its proximity to European markets gives manufacturers a logistical advantage. With low-capital cost and a high-labor intensive industry, serviced by a ready workforce, there is strong potential in the local consumer markets and the further area of exports. 

Egypt has seen a substantial increase in its textile product exports with values in 2010 reaching nearly 0.3 million US dollars. With export values of textile products reaching record numbers, exports increased 52% compared to the same first six month period of the previous year. 

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French industrial group acquires SwissTex France

Reyes Groupe, a French industrial group, has announced acquisition of all assets of another domestic firm SwissTex France SAS, under the new name Verdol.

Previously known as RITM SAS, SwissTex supplies twisting and cabling machinery and extrusion lines to the filament yarn market.

It also engages in processing yarns prepared from natural, artificial, synthetic and mineral fibres, and supplies textile yarns that cover twisting and cabling, covering and winding, as well as other types of technical yarns.

Reyes said it has worked with SwissTex for over 25 years and it is well aware about the products, expertise and even complementary skills of Verdol. Reyes believes that such knowledge would help it enhance the technological, commercial and financial strength of Verdol.

Making the acquisition announcement, Christophe Reyes, CEO of Reyes Groupe, and Jean-Claude Gnonlonfoun, General Manager of Verdol, said new resources would be put at the disposal of Verdol and its teams to bring improved service and wipe out past failures.


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Oerlikon Textile to tap key Turkish textile markets by ITM

Oerlikon Textile, market and technological leader in the field of textile machinery and plant, will be showing its strengths on an area of approx. 400 m2 at booth B210 in hall 2 during the ITM, which takes place in Istanbul on 21-24.4.2012. Show highlights include the Autocoro 8 rotor spinning machine, the POY take-up winding machine WINGS for polyamide 6, the BCF best seller S+ and the energy-saving Volkmann CT two-for-one twisting machine.

Oerlikon Textile will show pertinent exhibits for these products. In addition, Oerlikon invites visitors to a “virtual showroom” in which they can familiarize themselves with complex installations and process sequences in 3D.

“We aim to convince enterprises in the key textile markets of Turkey and the Middle East with our group motto ‘Innovation has a name’,” said Clement Woon, CEO of Oerlikon Textile since 1 January 2012, regarding the ITM 2012. Five leading brands and their products will be on show:

The market leader for filament systems is exhibiting its twelve-thread WINGS for polyamide 6 for the first time and setting new standards in processing the demanding polymer to produce good yarn grades. To prevail against the strong competition from China and India, Turkish filament yarn manufacturers are focusing increasingly on high-quality yarns for the carpet and automotive sectors. One information highlight for the traditionally strong Turkish texturing market is the ITMA innovation eAFK, an automatic texturing machine, along with its manual sibling eFK. The market leader for artificial turf filament systems is also showing its latest development for artificial sports turf: MoisTurf is the name of the equipment for producing hydrophilic monofilaments. Such yarns are used as artificial turf preferably in contact sports and ensure that water is distributed evenly and almost naturally on the yarn surface.

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Maharashtra govt earmarks Rs 908mn for textile sector

In its effort to attract more investments in the textile sector, as proposed under the state textile policy, the state government of western Indian state of Maharashtra has sanctioned a sum of Rs. 908.3 million for the textile industry, Finance Minister Ajit Pawar said while presenting the state’s annual budget for 2012-13.

The Minister said the new textile policy contains proposals for additional interest subsidies for the projects selected under the Textiles Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS).

Besides, a sum of five billion rupees has also been apportioned for providing electricity to powerloom industry at subsidized rates, he added.

The state’s budget for next fiscal sets aside a sum of Rs. 14.8 billion for industrial promotion subsidy (IPS) in Maharashtra. This amount, however, is lower than Rs. 24 billion worth of government’s spending on IPS during 2011-12.

In his budget presentation, the Finance Minister assured the legislature that the state government would increase the allocation for IPS, if required.

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French textile machinery leaders to exhibit at Turkey fair

French machinery manufacturers have been actively preparing ITM 2012 which is taking place in Istanbul, April 21-24. They are used to come to ITM and, more generally, to Turkey which they consider a strategic market. Their latest regional collective action took place last October 2010 in Gaziantep (Turkey) and Alepo (Syria) where they organized two conferences, in Gaziantep mainly focused on the carpet industry which is so important in this fast growing city of Eastern Turkey.

For Evelyne CHOLET, the French Textile Machinery Manufacturers Association’s (UCMTF) Secretary General, “next ITM will be a major opportunity to meet once more our customers, communicate, at the highest level, about their needs to compete successfully on the ever changing global market, to introduce must-have new products, to have highly reliable, low cost and eco-friendly processes”.

The collective, highly visible, actions are in addition to each company permanent organization, through local agents and offices.

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India biggest market for Chinese textile machinery

“India is the largest overseas market for Chinese textile machinery and is also the biggest reason for Chinese producers looking forward to setting up shop in India”, a top official of a Chinese textile machinery association told fibre2fashion.

At a recent road show in Ahmedabad, to promote ITMA Asia + CITME 2012, fibre2fashion caught up with Mr Zhao Xiaogang – Director, China Textile Machinery Association (CTMA) and the Indian representative of the event – Mr Sooraj Dhawan.

CTMA which is the co-host of ITMA Asia + CITME 2012 will be held from June 12 to 16, 2012 in Shanghai and will have around 1,400 textile machinery exhibitors, up from 1,300 in 2010, with the number of visitors expected to cross the 100,000 mark.

“India sends the largest contingent of visitors among all countries to ITMA shows, which was clearly visible even at ITMA 2011 in Barcelona”, Mr Dhawan said.

Mr Zhao said, “The Chinese textile machinery producers are gung-ho on the Indian market and are looking for joint-venture partners in India to set up textile machinery manufacturing plants in India”.

“I would sincerely advise all Indian textile machinery exhibitors participating in the event to put up posters, preferably in the Chinese language indicating that they are open for tying up with Chinese machinery manufacturers”, Mr Dhawan added.

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Chinese textile machinery producer may dock in Gujarat

China Texmatech Co. Ltd. (CTMTC), one of the largest Chinese textile machinery producer, importer and exporter, has yesterday concluded feasibility studies to set up a production base in Gujarat – India.

Mr. Wu Xiuhua, Vice President of CTMTC, who had earlier visited Gujarat with an official delegation from CTMTC in November, confirmed the same to fibre2fashion.

Fibre2fashion had earlier reported in November 2011 that the officials from CTMTC were on a visit to Gujarat and had also met the Chief Minister of Gujarat – Mr Narendra Modi and senior officials of the Industry Ministry.

“Our technical team recently visited Gujarat and has completed the feasibility studies including scouring for potential sites. They will present their report at our head office after which we will take the final decision, sometime around June 2012”, he added.

He said it was too preliminary when quizzed about the investment and the type of machinery they will manufacture.

When asked the reason for selecting India and Gujarat in particular, he said, “India has the second biggest textile industry in the world and the sector is also growing, which presents a very good opportunity for us.

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Orders for Italian textile machinery sector up in Q4

Orders for Italian textile machinery manufacturers were on the rise again during the last quarter of 2011 after two quarters of fall down. The results were gathered by the quarterly survey conducted by The Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers (ACIMIT).

Overall orders for the period from October to December 2011 rose up 28% over the previous quarter, at a value of 90.2 points. The most significant increase regarded orders in foreign markets (+32%), whereas on the domestic market orders were up 15%.
“We’re still far from the levels achieved in 2010,” comments Sandro Salmoiraghi, President of ACIMIT, “but this recovery, compared to the mid months of 2011, confirms the dynamic nature of our manufacturers.”

“Despite the current difficult conditions in global markets,” Salmoiraghi says “our manufacturers have managed to catch the business opportunities available in major foreign markets, especially China, Turkey and India, as well as the United States and Brazil.”

The situation on the domestic market remains more difficult to resolve, however. The revival in investments recorded over the past three months is certainly a positive sign, but the gap remains large with current trends abroad.

The expectations of Italian machinery manufacturers for the first quarter of 2012 remain cautious, above all regarding the domestic market. “Economic uncertainty, combined with increased difficulties due to the danger of a credit crunch, are stopping investments of our Italian customers,” ACIMIT’s President concludes.

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Toyota Industries takes majority stake in Uster

The Board of Directors of Uster Technologies AG has noted that Toyota Industries Corporation has, as expected, increased its equity stake in Uster Technologies AG through the previously announced acquisition of the shares held by Groupe Alpha. On completion of this transaction, Toyota Industries Corporation will own 50.34% of all publicly owned shares in Uster Technologies AG.

The Board of Directors has also noted Toyota Industries Corporation’s confirmation that it will make a public offer for all outstanding shares in Uster Technologies AG within the statutory deadline. The independent members of the Board of Directors continue to recommend that shareholders do nothing for the time being about the announced offer, but wait until the Board delivers its official response to this offer.

The Uster Group is a leading manufacturer of products for quality control in the textile industry. The Group provides high-tech systems and services that help ensure optimization of quality at each individual stage of textile production; from the raw textile fibre, such as cotton, wool or synthetic filament yarns, to the final finished fabric.

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Aussie firm installs wool coring machine at Katanning

Westcoast Wools has recently installed a four-tube Jetco automatic wool coring machine, the first and only WA wool testing site outside the Perth metropolitan area.

The purchase of the machine costing more than Au$ 60,000 is expected to prove beneficial for woolgrowers in the South West, as they can now get their wool tested at Katanning, without a need to drive all the way to Perth.

The machine was in great demand and several buyers were in pursuit of the same following its limited availability. After fall of the wool industry, these machines are now produced only in South Australia and that too in limited quantity.

Like other companies, Westcoast Wools was also in quest for this machine for the past two years, particularly for the reason that now there is only one firm producing the same in the entire eastern region.

Previously too, Westcoast Wools had a wool coring machine at Katanning, but the same is now in need of revamping. For this reason, the company discontinued coring at Katanning, which compelled it to take all wool to Fremantle.

Though the process did not consume more time, it strained the Fremantle warehouse. Now, the company believes that installation of the new machine at Katanning would ease some of these issues and also help in offering reduced cost benefits to farmers.

The new installation is believed to help the Great Southern woolgrowers to save at least Au$ 10 to Au$ 12 per bale in freight charges by trucking wool to Katanning instead of Perth.

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Ho Chi Minh Uni student Le Nguyen receives Rieter Award

This year Rieter had again presented their popular Rieter Award to a student in Vietnam, after a break of 4 years. This time the Rieter Award was presented to Ms. Le Nguyen Bao Quyen, from the Ho Chi Minh University of Technology. Ms. Le had made her thesis about none woven, another very interesting branch in the diversified field of textile applications.

Ms. Le could enjoy the Rieter Award week in Switzerland and Barcelona middle of September this year together with all the other Award winners from all over the world.

The hand over of the crystal and the certificate has been done on the occasion of the Rieter Symposium in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The event was held on 25 October 2011 where over 100 persons from 36 customers of the southern part of Vietnam were attending. The hand over ceremony was attracting the audience very much and it was appreciated well that Rieter is supporting young students in this field.

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T-shirt Magic invests in high technology equipment

The Australian direct to garment printing market is predicted to continue its exceptional growth in 2012 according to comments from Greg Stone, Director GJS Machinery.

“Last year we predicted that 2011 would be a tipping-point in direct to garment technology in Australia and we are very pleased to see that through our close relationship with Brother Australia that this prediction has become a reality with tremendous interest in these products throughout the year and more and more people realising the true potential that exists in this now proven technology,” Stone said.

“We even worked over the Christmas holiday break installing garment printers for customers due to the exception demand,” he added.

The latest GJS Machinery customer to take advantage of the benefits of direct to garment printing is Alexandria-based printing firm T-shirt Magic who installed a Brother GT-782 garment printer over the Christmas break.

“At T-shirt Magic we invest in high technology equipment to ensure that we stay a leader in garment manufacture” said Andrew Sprason, Managing Director, T-shirt Magic Australia. “Our choice of a Brother GT-782 white ink garment printer future-proofs our business and ensures that we are equipped to handle customised short runs and one-off jobs that would otherwise be impossible with other printing methods.”

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Five Thread Overlock Thread Breakage Detector

Overlock, also known as "serging" or "serger stitch", can be formed with one to four threads, one or two needles, and one or two loopers. Overlock sewing machines are usually equipped with knives that trim or create the edge immediately in front of the stitch formation. Household and industrial overlock machines are commonly used for garment seams in knit or stretchy fabrics, for garment seams where the fabric is light enough that the seam does not need to be pressed open, and for protecting edges against raveling. Machines using two to four threads are most common, and frequently one machine can be configured for several varieties of overlock stitch. Overlock machines with five or more threads usually make both a chainstitch with one needle and one looper, and an overlock stitch with the remaining needles and loopers. This combination is known as a "safety stitch". Household overlock machines are widely used.

Five thread overlock machine is used to hem the raw edges of the fabric, this ensures the prevention of loosing threads from the edges. The five thread overlock machine is superior over the three thread overlock machine, because it has two needles and two loopers for secure stitch.

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Texprocess Americas to address most pressing issues

2012 Texprocess Americas Symposium developed by leading industry experts to address the most pressing issues. The latest in product development, technology, and international trade updates for the sewn products industry will be presented by industry experts and leaders.

from around the world during the 2012 Texprocess Americas Symposium being held April 24 - 26, 2012 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Held concurrently with the exhibition, the symposium will contain nine sessions with more than 42 presentations in a variety of formats that will cover a wide range of topics including sourcing to the European market, sourcing in the Americas, global market outlook, manufacturing technology and international trade updates.

Sourcing to the European Market

Recent European free trade agreements offer new opportunities for both regional sourcing and by extension, apparel brand marketing on a duty-free basis. Learn how sourcing in Central America, Mexico, Colombia and Peru can position U.S. Brands in the European market more competitively.

Sourcing in the Americas

Spiraling Asian labor costs, global raw material and energy costs, faster fashion and leaner retail inventory demands are driving reemergence of regional sourcing throughout the Americas. Don’t miss this dynamic panel of experts sharing their thoughts and strategies on the new sourcing landscape.

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Textile industrial cloud production equipment launched

Shoou Shyng Machinery Co Ltd launched a new series of textile industrial cloud production equipment and each equipment contains a huge information system.

Like artificial skin needle punching machine, high-temperature oxidation alumina fibers double-site needle punching machine, 6000 g/m2 super thickness glass fiber needle punching machine, aerospace industrial ceramic fiber needle punching machine, green felt production equipment, Lightweight of automotive interior production line, the V-lap production equipment for heat-proof and Fire-Resistive material in aviation industry and bullet train.

Shoou Shyng’s needle punching machine which has special design is the most elaborate machine in the world.

These needle punching machines combine the technology of biotechnology and medical treatment to put in use in high-tech industries for improve human health, the quality of medical treatment, human safety and also to reach the goal of energy saving and carbon reduction.

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New KARL MAYER ML series upgrades the production of lace

On the one hand, standard lace is one of the essential ingredients in the successful repertoires of lingerie and clothing manufacturers. On the other hand, these delicate fabrics are among those textiles that are subject to the rapidly changing trends of the fashion world, which make increasingly stringent demands of the production technology. Above all, the demand is for the efficient production of even short runs, short changeover times and flexible patterning possibilities – and all this must be achieved for the lowest possible purchasing price.

KARL MAYER has reorganised the set-up of its ML series of machines so that it can optimally support those customers who operate on the fast-moving lace market with its extreme cost constraints.

As of the first quarter of 2012, all the electronic Multibar Lace machines can be bought from KARL MAYER China, and machine types ML 41, ML 34 and ML 46 will be available.

This shift in production should enable the KARL MAYER Group to network all its regional centres of excellence in the best possible way. Whilst the production, quality assurance and development departments at the company’s headquarters, with their many years of know-how and expertise in the manufacture of fully electronic Multibar Lace machines, will always be on hand, the Wujin site will profit from its geographical location close to the market and its advantageous business conditions.

All the models in the ML machine series are equipped with the KAMCOS computer platform, electronic guide bar control, and the high-performance, high-precision string bar system for patterning. These features place the Multibar Lace machines at the cutting edge of KARL MAYER’s lace production technology.


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Solar machine to revolutionize Indian silk reeling

The traditional tiring technique of reeling silk, under which first cocoons are soaked in a pot and then yarn is spun manually, is likely to come to an end with the launch of the Solar Multi Muga Reeling cum Spinning Machine.

The new machine is so devised that it can simultaneously carry out the reeling as well as spinning jobs for different varieties of silk like Mulberry, Muga, Eri and Tasar without any laborious human effort.

The new machine is a brain child of Mr. Manoharmayum Manihar Sharma, an innovator and a master craftsman of Adarsh Kartha (Marked) Industries based in Nongmeibung Pung Makhong, near Imphal, the capital of Northeast Indian State of Manipur.

The machine designed by Mr. Manihar uses a solar plate to operate, which has a capacity to charge 17 volt to 15 watt on a usual sunlit day.

In the absence of sunlight, the machine has a 12 volt-2 amp charger attached to it, which acts as a back-up to support its operations.

With five reeling heads, the normal dimensions of the machine are 28x 20x 12, and each of the reeling heads has a separate electric switch. Thus, even when one reeling head is switched off, the other heads can still operate normally.

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