ITMA Asia in Shanghai will take place just before the “first birthday” of the new Saurer Group. This is the first time for the group to gather all business units under the Saurer umbrella on one booth. It will display novelties of all business units; a new Zinser ring spinning frame and a new generation Schlafhorst BD rotor spinning machine, as well as new features of Schlafhorst winding and Saurer embroidery machines, which are new products from the Jintan preparation side. As always, the components brands will display several new innovations.
As a part of its philosophy of innovation and sustainability, Saurer has created a new label: E3 – the triple-added value that will also be launched at ITMA Asia.
The new Saurer Group is one of the world’s largest textile machinery and component manufacturers, with sales of around 1 billion Swiss francs and 3,800 employees. The group has nine locations in Germany, two in Switzerland and six in Asia, close to the main textile markets of the world.
In the last nine months since separation from the Oerlikon Group, the new Saurer Group has been reorganizing itself and decentralized the organization. The result is only a small corporate overhead and strong business units, enabling important decisions to be made close to the customer and implement them fast.
Furthermore, Saurer has launched a comprehensive program to increase customer satisfaction, which already is bearing the first fruits. All in all, Saurer is focusing on what is most important in the business: the customers. This is also clearly visible in the number of new machines, features and components Saurer is bringing to ITMA Asia in June.
Ground-breaking innovations in productivity, product lifetime and service are borne out of the group’s passion for its products. With constant focus on customers’ needs, the Saurer Group strives for excellence in all areas. As part of the philosophy of innovation and sustainability it is proud to launch the new E3 label for Energy, Economics and Ergonomics at ITMA Asia.
Energy: One of the most important cost factors in the manufacturing industry today is the cost of energy. Therefore the group customers rightly demand products with optimized energy consumption.
Economics: Labor costs increase worldwide. To maximize customers’ profitability, Saurer offers high quality, productivity enhancing machines with attractive automation options.
Ergonomics: How to optimize operating conditions of a machine and time needed for settings and adjustments. What is the ideal workflow? These are all questions for which Saurer products provide the ideal solution.
Schlafhorst, the market and innovation leader
Schlafhorst is presenting itself at ITMA Asia as a pace-setter for the industry. Both Autocoro and BD rotor spinning machines from Schlafhorst are in a class of their own. The company’s flagship, the Autocoro 8, can now extend its profitability gains to considerably more spinning positions.
With rotor speeds in practice that eclipse those achieved previously, and new automation solutions, the Autocoro 8 delivers sensational advances in productivity. The new BD generation increases economic efficiency and guarantees the best packages in the semi-automatic segment with new piecing technology.
Significant investment in automation is currently the cutting-edge topic in automatic package winding. Therefore Schlafhorst presents at ITMA Asia + CITME the Autoconer X5, type V, first time with the most intelligent material flow technology FlowShare FX. This is the optimum expansion for the previously tried and tested FX technologies for top package quality – Speedster FX, PreciFX, Autotense FX, Ecopack FX, Propack FX and Variopack FX – which will be also presented at the exhibition. With the modular Autoconer machine concept with individually configurable automation aggregates, Schlafhorst offers made-to-measure solutions for customized process automation.
The new ZinserImpact 72 will be presented to customers for the first time at ITMA Asia. The exhibition booth in Shanghai will feature the new ZinserImpact 72 compact spinning machine in a linked system with the Autoconer X5. It is equipped with the world’s most intelligent, self-cleaning compact technology Impact FX.
The Zinser family of short-staple ring spinning machines is rounded off by the new machine generation ZinserRing 72 and ZinserImpact 72. They offer maximum production, durable yarn quality, a wide range of automation options and maximum profitability, thanks to proven, highly regarded cutting-edge technology.
Customer support
Companies that purchase textile machines from Schlafhorst secure an economical innovation path to the future. The German textile machinery manufacturer implements technological innovations so that they can be retrofitted to existing machines. With its original parts, modernisation kits, technology kits and service kits, Schlafhorst assumes responsibility for innovation throughout the product life cycle and ensures that even customers with older machine generations always benefit from technological advances.
With 20 service centres and three technology centres, Schlafhorst offers its customers dynamic customer support worldwide.
Allma Volkmann’s competence in twisting
Allma and Volkmann will be presenting innovative products and solutions for the sectors of staple fibre yarns, carpet yarns, tyre yarn, technical and glass filament yarns.
E³ stands for Saurer’s product philosophy with the concept of triple-added value: energy, economics and ergonomics. Energy efficiency is an absolute must for every company. The twisting and cabling machines from Allma and Volkmann speak for themselves with their low energy consumption and efficient use of resources. Allma and Volkmann machines excel with their high cost-effectiveness, which is achieved through faster production speeds, a reduction in the outlay for investment and air-conditioning and low operating and maintenance expenditure.
CompactTwister with E³ technology
In the CompactTwister, the company presents its high-performance twisting machine for staple fibre yarns with E³ technology, which impresses with its triple added value through the factors of energy, economics and ergonomics. It is possible to achieve savings in energy of up to 40 per cent, thanks to the eco-drive concept and the eco-spindle technology with adjusted spindle combinations.
Productivity of the CompactTwister is 30 per cent higher, thanks to faster delivery speeds of up to 120 m/min. Operating costs are reduced on account of lower expenses for energy, floor space and maintenance.
The ergonomic benefits of the CompactTwister are better operating convenience due to improved winding geometry, central adjustments and handling aids as well as a reduction of about 50 per cent in noise emission. The CompactTwister covers all number ranges and, due to high yarn and bobbin quality, provides optimum conditions for the utmost in added value, both today and tomorrow.
With its pioneering technology, the CableCorder CC4 cabling twister provides energy savings of up to 50 per cent in the tyre cord cabling process. As energy costs constitute by far the greatest block of expenses in the overall cabling process, these savings represent a revolutionary cut in production costs for producers of tyre cord.
Cutting energy consumption also reduces the heat load in the production facilities, which in turn leads to a reduction in the costs for air-conditioning. Greater cost effectiveness is further improved by 50 per cent less thread breakage, better quality and high machine efficiency. The added value for machine operators comes from a decrease in noise emission in the workshop and shorter operating times due to simple handling of the machine.
Embroidery – Textile creations for the future
Saurer Embroidery is the global market leader for embroidery production systems. It represents the accumulated experience of many generations combined with today’s knowledge and skills to benefit the future of textile production. The brand embodies textile manufacturing tradition combined with state-of-the-art technology to deliver a symbiosis of knowledge and skills, quality and reliability.
Epoca 6 pro, the successful embroidery machine
Epoca 6 pro opens new dimensions with regard to adjustability and performance. It is a machine which is custom-tailored for an era where orders are getting smaller and smaller but the demands and requirements are growing continuously. In addition, the orders need to be produced with fewer personnel and in a considerably shorter time. Epoca 6 pro fulfils these requirements.
The new concepts for drives, configuration and thread-cut guarantee maximum productivity and abso-lute reliability. The average production speed for the Epoca 6 pro is up to 30 per cent higher, while retaining absolute reliability and top quality for embroidery. The unique options for adjusting the machine set the benchmarks in shuttle embroidery. The innovative, rapid thread-cut, which is fitted with the new individual actuation and secure thread trap system, results in minimum yarn waste. This means that the most complex patterns can be produced economically with extremely different yarns.
SoutacheHead is the new Saurer soutache system with application heads. You can embroider one-of-a-kind patterns using the innovative soutache head and keep the areas being embroidered conveniently in view while maintaining full flexibility. The motor-driven application heads mean that you can achieve production speeds of up to 500 rpm.
It is easy for users to position and gain access to the heads, with the result that downtimes during production and retooling are drastically reduced. The multi-functional soutache wheel allows the most diverse materials to be processed: from the finest soutache cord, a huge variety of braid widths, right through to technical yarns.
EmStudio, the embroidery software, integrates each stage, from drawing, punching and visualisation to optimising production and analysing operational data and archiving designs on one platform. You will find optimising production and quality simple and efficient with the new iSed – the intelligent Saurer editor.
iSed has been reprogrammed from start to finish and now offers every modern option for operation, right through to multitouch. It is especially easy and effective to operate, achieving significant improvements in efficiency when editing.
Components of high quality
Saurer Components brands are a byword for high-quality, reliable components. Experts all over the world, be it in the filament industry or in staple fibre spinning mills, favour Saurer Components products and solutions. At this year’s ITMA, the components will be represented not through innovations but also by proven products. The team at site is looking forward to present you the Saurer Components comprehensive range designed for the customers’ need for production of high quality yarn.
To name some well-established highlights presented on the Saurer booth, the world’s most versatile Texparts PK 2630 SE and the Texparts PK 2630 SHE weighting arms designed to fit on all the available spinning frames, and Accotex cots and aprons vital supplementary elements on drafting systems, as well as Accotex J-460 that offers polymeric solutions.
The Heberlein TexJet-ATY range, a breakthrough in cleaning cycle extension in ATY production, covers the customer’s first choice in high speed but still energy-efficient and quality controlled DTY production, Temco PU Discs, Temco Nip Roller Units and Fibrevision Unitens monitoring system.
Saurer Daytex expertise in sanforisation will be represented in hall N5, booth D11. Daytex Shrinkage belts meet customers’ demand for gentle material treatment by seamless design and lacking of sharp edges for an extended belt service life.
Saurer Jintan’s role
At ITMA Asia, Saurer pre-spinning business unit Saurer Jintan will be presenting for the first time the new JSC326 carding machine with up to 50 per cent productivity increase.
Carding area has been increased with 60 per cent compared to the traditional machine, thanks to a wider and raised cylinder. This results in an increase of the output by 50 per cent under the same carding conditions. A new type of length and short auto-levelling (auto-adapting adjusting) ensures constant sliver output with easy weight adjustment.
The independent frequency converting transmission has now a removable cover plate, which allows easy speed setting and gives technological flexibility. In consequent feeding, the carding length can be adapted to different fibre lengths.
The length of the licker-in waste collecting area outside the machine can now be easily adjusted. Synchronous belt with removable cover plate made out of high accuracy extrusion aluminium alloy is easy to disassemble. Ergonomics has also been improved with easy operation icon interface.