The interplay of profound system understanding, global customer proximity and superior development and manufacturing expertise is the focus of Schaeffler Group Industrial’s presentation at ITMA 2007.

A new era has begun for SML customers after the Munich ITMA with the SML launch of a couple of improvements on its spinning line product range. Both SML BCF spinning lines, monocolour and tricolour, have been totally reworked, which provides several new, additional advantages.

Garnett Controls Ltd presented recently a brand new generation of their successful suite of control systems. The popular Rollaweigh and Microweigh feed control systems, which have become industry standards in recent years have been redesigned with new electronic interfaces and enhanced engineering design.

Garnett Group’s another company, Streat Instruments of Christchurch, New Zealand has also launched a new generation of their moisture measurement and control systems. Streat products are designed to assist users to optimise production processes and maximise productivity, quality, operating efficiencies and profitability.

Garnett Group company, Wira Instrumentation Ltd has also introduced a number of new instruments to enhance their expanding range of testing and quality control equipment for the textile and nonwoven industries.

Highlighting the shortcomings in terms of quality of the fabrics produced by the local, weaving and processing industries.

Lower cost of operation, improved durability and wear and development of new attributes for textiles are the key benefits that plasma based manufacturing of textile can bring.

Increasing environment consciousness, newer legislations to preserve environment and human rights, scarcity of water and energy has driven R&D efforts in search of safe substitutes of the dyes and auxiliaries, and in this customer driven market, specific needs of customers such as flame retardancy, anti bacterial property, stain repellency, etc have further created challenges.

Nanotex protective treatment is the latest in textile finishing with wider application and has been proving to be a useful tool in improving the performance of textiles.

The Indian Government has chalked out a plan to promote Domestic Technical Textile Sector. This information was given by the Minister of State for Textiles, Mr EV K S Elangovan, in the Lok Sabha recently.

Dilo, Germany offers multi-purpose web-forming and needling line, consisting of the following Alpha components: feeder, card, crosslayer and needle loom. These complete line components are also available individually.

The second ‘Sustainability Report: Absorbent Hygiene Products’ released by EDANA, the Brussels-based international association representing the interests of nonwovens and related industries, shows that the overall environmental impact of absorbent hygiene products is small and is decreasing as a result of the actions of the industry.

Dr Boris Bauer of Hohenstein Institutes, Bonnigheim, Germany, and Bernd Gulich of Saxon Technical Research Institute, Chemnitz, Germany, were in India recently and shared their views on the new developments in the field technical textiles with Automotive Products Finder, and especially from the point of view of their application in automobiles.

Cormatex’s newly designed machine, developed for the manufacturing of airlaid nonwovens, Lap Formair is based on a new aerodynamic fibre batt formation system, ready for subsequent needle punching or thermobonding processes, giving the final product a fibre density which is perfectly even both longitudinally and across the whole machine width.

Garware Wall Ropes Ltd manufactures various technical textile products, of which GarmatTM/Geomat (Mulchmat) is a high performance product specifically engineered for solving difficult erosion control problems.

Drawing on many years of experience, Grimm-Schirp Technologie (GST) collaborates very closely with its customers and work in constant development mode. Its R&D team is continually exploring new production and refinement processes and testing new technical advances.

Fleissner, the leader in hydroentanglement machinery, has developed a new web bonding technology with steam.

Conventional fibres may dominate the technical textile markets but the high performance fibres are needed in some specific applications.

The research regarding Shape Memory Polymers (SMP), combining its super shape memory properties and improved strain resistance, continues its rapid growth and application in various fields.

Benchmarking those key processes for performance improvement in terms of cost,quality, time, efficiency and response time as the case may be in a systematic manner and attaining them are in the domain of business process metrics.