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The Textile Magazine
MARCH 2012
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• Relocation of Textile’s head-
quarters to Shanghai:
Oerlikon
Textile executives, including the
CEO and CFO, will work out of
Shanghai. By the end of 2012, more
than 40 per cent of all senior man-
agement positions will be based at
Oerlikon’s new office there.
• R&D investment in Germany
and China:
In 2012, Oerlikon Tex-
tile will boost its R&D expenditures
in Germany to about CHF 60 mil-
lion (around CHF 80 million around
the world) and expand R&D capaci-
ties in China.
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Oerlikon Textile
at ITM 2012
Oerlikon Textile, market and
technological leader in the field of
textile machinery and plant, will be
displaying its strengths at ITM 2012
to be held in Istanbul during April
21-24.
The show highlights include the
Autocoro 8 rotor spinning machine,
the POY take-up winding machine
WINGS for polyamide 6, the BCF
best seller S+ and the energy-saving
Volkmann CT two-for-one twisting
machine, besides pertinent exhibits
for these products.
In addition, Oerlikon invites
visitors to a “virtual showroom” in
which they can familiarize them-
selves with complex installations
and process sequences in 3D.
“We aim to convince enterprises
in the key textile markets of Turkey
and the Middle East with our group
motto ‘Innovation has a name’,”
said Clement Woon, CEO of Oer-
likon Textile, regarding ITM 2012.
Five leading brands and their prod-
ucts will be on show:
Oerlikon Barmag, the market
leader for filament systems, is ex-
hibiting its 12-thread WINGS for
polyamide 6 for the first time and
setting new standards in processing
the demanding polymer to produce
good yarn grades. To prevail against
the strong competition from China
and India, Turkish filament yarn
manufacturers are focusing increas-
ingly on high-quality yarns for the
carpet and automotive sectors.
One information highlight for the
traditionally strong Turkish textur-
ing market is the ITMA innovation
eAFK, an automatic texturing ma-
chine, along with its manual sibling
eFK.
The market leader for artificial turf
filament systems is also showing
its latest development for artificial
sports turf: MoisTurf is the name
of the equipment for producing
hydrophilic monofilaments. Such
yarns are used as artificial turf pref-
erably in contact sports and ensure
that water is distributed evenly and
almost naturally on the yarn surface.
Oerlikon Schlafhorst, the market
and innovation leader in ring and ro-
tor spinning and winding, supplies
spinning mills worldwide with in-
novations for the optimum in qual-
ity, reliability and economic benefit.
The new Autocoro 8 is thus the first
and only rotor spinning machine
to spin a yarn at a rotor speed of
200,000 rpm. The new technology
forms the basis for productivity in-
creases of up to 25 per cent, machine
start-up in minutes instead of hours,
an excellent multi-lot capability and
much lower spinning costs.
The BD 448 is the longest semi-
automatic rotor spinning machine
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