Precisely timed to the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) the Lindauer DORNIER GmbH presented itself at ITMA Asia with two main focuses. Scientific developments, customized solutions and industrialization of the textile industry for excellent products was one focus, and development of technical textiles and applicable technologies was the other.
The DORNIER system family of rapier and air-jet weaving machines offers any solution required for production of technical textiles as well as top quality clothing fabrics. The low-strain weft insertion makes it possible to insert extremely sensitive filling threads that are taken up contactless and without guiding elements, passed on and held securely by the positively controlled rapier head until interlacing in the open shed.
With both weaving machines a high or low warp density may be set up, thus enabling customers to weave fabrics with very high densities like, for example, aramide or conveyor belt fabrics as well as fabrics with very low densities like, for example, open weave or composite fabrics.
DORNIER presented its expertise for high-quality weav
ing: the rapier weaving machine P1 PTS 4/S C, nominal width 220 cm, with a heavy filter fabric for the technical sector, and the air-jet weaving machine A1 AWS 8/S G, also with nominal width 220 cm for demanding wool weavers in the clothing sector.
Just across the company’s stand, STÄUBLI showed the rapier weaving machine P1 PTS 16/J G, nominal width 190 cm, with a premium Jacquard fabric for the home textile sector. DORNIER’s new, pioneering and patented drive concept SyncroDrive is one of the significant components of the new DORNIER system family of rapier and air-jet weaving machines. The significance of DORNIER weave-by-wire will certainly be very clear on this Jacquard machine.
An electric control circuit to the separate drive of the Jacquard machine replaces the cardan connection between weaving and Jacquard machines. Realization of the dynamic close of shed adjustment while the machine is running meeting the demands from sophisticated weavers was shown.
“We strive for overall competence in the technical textile sector. This involves our technological knowhow for high-value solutions and also the intensive partnership with companies that implement the downstream processes.” This is how Peter D. Dornier, CEO of Lindauer DORNIER GmbH, sees the range of products for the Asian market, which focuses increasingly on technology and quality.