Being a leading manufacturer of carpet weaving machines, Van de Wiele of Belgium constantly strives for innovation and product quality. This has led to the development of its servomotor technology, 5m wide weaving, 3 rapier weft insertion, reed densities of 1,000 dents per metre in 10 colours, cut-loop qualities in density up to 500 dents per metre and other significant changes in carpet weaving technology.
Van De Wiele believes in creating a strong relationship with its customers and uses the inputs coming from them to further improve the weaving process.
The company has a rich history in providing customers with innovative solutions to manufacture woven carpets. Now, tufting machines are added to the portfolio of carpet machines. Through the acquisition of Cobble, the company wants to put its knowhow gained from weaving into tufting machines purely with an innovative approach.
For Axminster and Wire weaving, Van de Wiele provides the automated Smart Creel where traditional bobbins are replaced by binsets in which the yarn is stored according to the order size. This automated system reduces the labour cost, saves raw material and makes shorter production runs economically beneficial. SCC75 is the automated carpet-creeling solution for smart weavers.
A new area in which Van de Wiele is investing is extrusion as it believes that there are two ways of adding value to the carpet: on the one hand there is the weaving and tufting technique and on the other the quality of the yarn. The better the yarn quality, the better the carpet.
The company also believes that there is still space for improvements when it comes to BCF yarn extrusion, and heavily invests in developing more efficient extrusion lines to bring innovation to the extrusion process and providing its customers with state-of-the-art BCF extrusion lines.
Van de Wiele is proud to present at ITMA Asia the next generation velvet weaving machines: the Velvet Smart innovator. This new VSi range is the result of customer-based demand for high flexibility, faster speeds and full electronic control of the weave process with the ultimate goal of allowing velvet weavers to react immediately to changes in the market and always stay one step ahead.
With the VSi, Van de Wiele brings its technological experience gained from carpet weaving machines combined with the needs from the velvet industry to this new velvet weaving machine range where flexibility, reliability and full electronic management is key. The VSi is available in three executions: Smart Frame velvet (VSi22), jacquard velvet (VSi32) and technical fabrics (VSi42), with endless application possibilities in upholstery, automotive, clothing and technical fabrics.
Today, velvet weavers have to combine high design freedom and a diversified product portfolio with low production cost and shorter production runs. When combining the VSi32 with the Smart Creel for Velvet SCV75, those needs are met. Besides, manpower is saved, raw material wastage is kept to a minimum, colour changes are executed during weaving and the next production run can be prepared without ever stopping the machine.
The percentage of technical fabrics used in the modern world is increasing significantly with vast applications in different industrial domains: aviation, automotive, aerospace, construction, filtering, etc. The VSi42 is a machine specifically designed for weaving technical fabrics. The possibilities are endless and the full potential of technical fabrics is far from reached.
Van de Wiele is the key partner to offer and deliver the customer specific advanced machinery for all technical applications.