Belts & felts specialist D&M’s worldwide expansion plan

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Dollfus & Muller, a manufacturer of wide-width technical textile belts and felts, was established in 1811 and has a history going back 200 years. From the beginning of the 19th century the company has been through many changes and worked in different business areas. It started manufacturing technical textiles in the 1850s. With only one manufacturing facility in France, covering worldwide operations, the company is today expanding in a global market and exports almost 90 per cent of its production worldwide.

The French company offers a wide range of products made notably of Nomex, Teflon, wool and polyester, such as endless needle punched felts used as machinery conveyors, pressure or water absorbent as bearing monofilament fabrics used as dryer conveyor belts or filter fluidization fabrics used as powder conveyors, endless cotton fabrics, and bakery conveyors. These products are well received, especially in the textile furnishings and tanneries segment.

For 200 years, Dollfus & Muller has been a reliable partner in providing top quality felts and belts to a variety of industries across the globe. The products are extremely durable, and the company attaches great importance to after-sales and service anywhere in the world either through direct personnel or the representing agents at different centres.

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Special brands

Dynajet is a brand of fire-retardant wide-width fabrics for ink jet printing. It works in close collaboration with printers in order to supply the best media that will be printed to manufacture light boxes, flags, banners, display systems, wall coverings for indoor advertising, and so on.

Dynajet is the special brand of textiles for digital printing and scenic decoration. The textiles that Dynajet manufactures or markets mainly in wide format are designed for digital printing or are fabrics for scenic decoration.

The rich properties such as light transmission, softness, lightness, handle, drape, surface and color performance of Dynajet textiles offer unique vision to the user industry.

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Indian market potential

India is a very potential market, and Dollfus & Muller has a very strong presence in the country. The company has been supplying its products to all the denim manufacturers in India such as Arvind, Raymond, Welspun, Partap and many others as well as to machine makers such as Dhall. Additionaly, the French company is very strong with its compacting felts for the tee-shirts and polo manufacturers and sells its quality products from Ludhiana to Calcutta and Tirupur.

India Textherm, and Transworld Marketing in Mumbai and Lords Consultancies in Tirupur, are the three agents for marketing the company textile belts and felts in India.

“D&M is very proud for having participated in the Tech-Textil 2013 held in Frankfurt. We are hoping to find some new markets for technical textiles”.

– David Fauconnier (Sales Director), D&M