The Swiss-based Loepfe Brothers Ltd. displayed its redesigned Loepfe YM Zenit FP yarn clearing and on-line quality monitoring system, and MillMaster, the centralized quality data-collection system at ITMA 2011.
Mr. Silvano Auciello, Sales Manager, Gebrüder Loepfe AG, said: “Today many spinners seek a data processing system which monitors and documents the quality sustainability on-line. Our various solutions for quality and productivity monitoring on looms also attracted quite a good crowd”.
Loepfe Brothers specializes in electronic quality control systems for the textile industry and is operating on a global scale. Founded in 1955, the company today is a leading supplier of optical yarn clearers for winding machines. With a workforce of 170 employees all its products are exclusively manufactured in the state-of-the-art facilities in Wetzikon, Switzerland.
The company comprises two business groups, YARNMASTER Spinning Solutions develops and offers complete solutions for yarn clearing systems for winding and open end spinning machines, and WEFTMASTER Weaving Solutions develops and manufactures textile electronics and components for weaving machines.
“Loepfe YM Zenit FP builds on an experience of well over a million pieces of LOEPFE YarnMaster clearers installed worldwide. Further our brand new and highly effective Polypropylene detection sensor P2 which was exhibited for the first time drew the attention of all cotton spinners worldwide. In today’s very quality conscious yarn market the detection of foreign matters and mostly the polypropylene fibres is very much persuaded. LOEPFE, being a pioneer of foreign matters detection, again sets the benchmark with the sensor P2”, Mr. Silvano observed.
“Loepfe has been operating in the Indian market for over three decades. The Indian market proves to be a very important not only in terms of quantity but also in quality. In these years we registered a big leap in technology applied and quality demand from our Indian customers”, he added.
Asked about the response for the company products, he said: “The response in general was fairly good. The interest shown by our Indian customers was very high and of a very good quality. This could be observed for the last couple of ITMA’s. However, the attendance from India was much higher than expected. We interpreted this fact as a sign of the trust of the Indian entrepreneurs set in the growth of the Indian textile industry. This again leads us to the conclusion that a temporarily slump should not be overestimated”.
Loepfe had a good start in 2011 with a booming intake of orders. However, mid-2011 the company experienced a slight slump in orders. Now the overall condition is improving.