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The Textile Magazine
MAY 2012
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extend our production range.”
Stretch denim is the biggest
volume trend in the market, and in
Mexico Tavex is putting consider-
able emphasis on expanding the
stretch business. The strategy is
to emulate the premium European
stretches but manufactured much
closer to the US market.
The Montex 6500 is an eight-
chamber machine able to handle
material to a width of 200 cm
and was delivered and installed
in 2011 by Sattex, the Monforts
distributor for Mexico.
Mr. Avendano adds that the
Montex 6500 has features which
make the machine particularly
suitable for denim manufacture,
allowing the elimination of sev-
eral traditional process steps.
Montex is handling materials
widths of between 170 and 180
cm, at weights that range between
290 gm/m
2
and 460 gm/m
2
. “We
decided to split the production of
denim types between our existing
stenter, which is producing stand-
ard denim, and the Montex, which
is producing stretched denim. The
machines are working Monday to
Thursday on a 24-hour basis, with
two 12-hour shifts, and on Friday,
Saturday and Sunday they are not
working”.
On this basis, the two machines
between them are processing at
the rate of 17 million metres of
denim per year. During the period
March to December 2011, starting
from the time the Montex came
on-line, it processed 6 million me-
tres of stretched denim. So on an
yearly basis, production is evenly
divided between the two.
Mr. Avendano also says that
90 per cent of Tavex’s Mexican
production is going to the US, the
world’s largest market for denim.
Tavex’s total denim capacity at its
Mexican plants is more than 20
million metres per year.
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