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The Textile Magazine
DECEMBER 2011
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PETIT Spare Parts has acquired
worldwide exclusive rights to deal
in original spare parts for the “fine-
fibres” machines of the ARCT,
ACBF, ICBT, Rieter ICBT and
RITM brands.
The measurement of the real ten-
sion of yarn is of paramount impor-
tance to optimize the quality of the
yarn during the manufacturing proc-
ess. FIL Control brought a solution
for detecting “big” yarns (400 to
10,000 dTex), thanks to a new prod-
uct Meters Yarn Tension (MYT)
with a wide tension range: 100cN to
10,000cN. It also permits to detect
drifts in the manufacturing process
of yarns and to improve mainte-
nance of machines.
Nonwovens
The main innovation here was the
new generation of Airlay type “Flex-
iloft +”. This fifth Laroche Airlay
generation is designed to produce
uniform mats from all types of fibers
from 2 to 60 mm length, whatever
the fineness, as well as from non-
fibrous particles.
The main improvement of this
new generation is in the capabil-
ity of this machine to produce very
resilient lofty fiber mats which will
permit notably to produce ther-
mobonded products with uniform
density of less than 10 kg/m3 and
with thickness of up to 300 mm after
the thermobonding process. Also a
big improvement has been made to
produce mats of fibers from 250 up
to 10,000 gsm with a capacity up to
1T/h/m as well as the ability to proc-
ess 100% shredded paper or 100%
wood fibers.
LAROCHE is particularly proud
to have sold the 10th JUMBO/
EXEL Tearing Line to its main cus-
tomer in Spain “ALCOCERTEX”,
as well as other recycling lines to
countries such as Indonesia, Paki-
stan, Mexico, etc.
NSC Nonwoven
Asselin-Thibeau was much satis-
fied with customer response. The
machinery manufacturer received
an excellent welcome for the Ex-
celle Isoweb TT card as well as for
the ACS Profile crosslappers and the
new SDV-2 needle loom for velour
applications.
Excelle Isoweb TT card is the in-
line card solution to obtain the 3/1
MD/CD strength ratio on the final
product, even at high speeds of over
250 m/min.
ACS is the crosslappers solution
for high-speed production capaci-
ties. Even with both card web con-
densed, ACS is enabling the Asselin
crosslappers to run an inlet speed of
well over 100 m/min.
With the parallel card web, speeds
are over 150 m/min. The ACS also
enhances the final fabric perform-
ances, such as contributing to ob-
tain a MD/CD ratio for strength and
elongation, close to 1/1. Automotive
appears to be one of the key applica-
tion fields.
For Jean-Philippe DUMON, Sales
& Marketing Director, the affluence
of customers was huge, specially
customers with real projects from
India, Pakistan, the Middle-East
and Gulf countries, North and Lat-
in Americas. The attendance from
Europe and Asia was as expected,
with a limited number of Chinese
customers. Several contracts were
signed during ITMA, but the com-
pany cannot give names for the mo-
ment to respect the confidentiality
requested by the customers.
Andritz Perfojet
Andritz Perfojet and Andritz
Küsters presented their latest de-
velopments in wetlaid, spunlace,
Mr. Desiderio Catala, Alcocertex, Mr. Robert Laroche CEO and Mr. Charles
Junker, Sales Manager, Laroche
ITMA 2011