Month: June 2014

With a specially designed production line, Oerlikon Neumag is addressing the growing need of manufacturers of polyester and polypropylene staple fibres to also be able to make small production units in a cost-effective manner.

Airjet loom is a very good alternative to other weft insertion systems, but its major drawback is its high power consumption, say SB Mhetre and Vishal C Yadavwho, who reveal some researches on main nozzle characteristics of airjet weaving machines.

Karl Mayer has recently introduced a new Multibar Textronic Lace series machine for economical lace fabric production. The MT 51/1/32 features more than 32 yarns in front of the fall-plate to enable unique and varied effects in the finished lace in addition to larger widths of lace bands.

At the start of the year, three companies in the Turkish textile stronghold in and around Kahramanmaras were awarded globally recognised Belcoro certification by Schlafhorst. Beyteks Tekstil San. Ve Tic. A.S of Ceyhan, along with Akarca Mensucat San. Ve Tic. A.S and Elif Iplik Tekstil Insaat Tic. Ve San. Ltd. Sti. of Kahramanmaras now belong to the exclusive club of companies able to supply certified yarns of the highest quality.

Italy-based Tonello S.r.l. has introduced Kit Batik 2.0, a fully automatic version of its Kit Batik technology that is installed on Tonello washing and dyeing machines to create special effects on denim and ready-to-dye garments.