French textile machinery manufacturers will welcome their customers and potential customers at the INDIA-ITME. “They are not just participating in this show but have a long term approach of this strategic market” says Evelyne Cholet, the secretary general of their association, UCMTF. In 2007, for example, with the support of the Indian Textile Associations like the Textile Association of India (TAI) and the Federation of All India Textile Manufacturers Associations (FAITMA), UCMTF organised two very successful seminars in New Delhi (Hyatt Regency) and Mumbai (The Leela) during which six workshops analysed the market trends, the business opportunities and offered technical solutions for enhancing the competitiveness of the Indian textile industry. Evelyne Cholet adds “At INDIA-ITME 2008 the Indian textile producers will have one more opportunity to discover the state-of-the-art French offer, it is a major one as France is the 5th exporter of textile machinery worldwide with total exports of more than US$ 1 billion”.

Among the French exhibitors:

NSC fibre to yarn, N Schlumberger (Hall 3/Stand B-103)

NSC fibre to yarn will promote an innovating product range including complete spinning lines of the long fibres process: Combing, tow to top, recombing, worsted spinning preparation, semi-worsted units, hard fibre combing and spinning. Five trademarks (Cognetex, San’t Andrea Novara, N Schlumberger, Seydel, Thibeau) under one banner, NSC fibre to yarn.

RITM (Hall 4/Stand G-106)

RITM has 100 years experience in yarn machinery, it was previously known under the brands Verdol, ICBT and Rieter FYT.

Fine count processing: Texturing, twisting, covering, rewinding, assembling…

Industrial Yarn: The UT50 machine set a reference for two-for-one twisting machines for industrial yarns. 733 and 900 mm gauge. UTC60 includes direct cabling equipments.

Glass Yarns: New motorised spindles, improved doffing time, reduced chain yarn breaks and yarn external pollution, “Quick UNIX” operating system.

Tire Cord: The open pot technology, allows tremendous labour cost reduction.

Carpet Yarns: Twisting and cabling of synthetic filaments and spun yarns. CDDT 10, CDDT 20, CDDT 30.

M U S T, a monitoring Unit System for Textile machinery.

Laroche (Hall 3/Stand B103)

Airlay Type Flexiloft, which improved weight range, highloft and resiliency capability. It can run all types of fibres: Synthetic, natural, recycled, blends of fibres and solid particles.

Airfelt line, which offers a completely new compact line to manufacture semicured resinated felts for molded automotive parts and other applications.

Asselin-Thibeau, NSC Nonwoven (Hall 2/Stand A104 (with Rieter Perfojet)

System supplier for needlepunching, spunlacing, thermobonding, through-air bonding, chemical bonding, NSC Nonwoven offers two alternatives to its customers depending on their corporate strategies.

Axcess line with competitive running costs, attractive prices and low maintenance costs. It includes: Cards, crosslappers, drafters, needlelooms, Easywinders and Easyslitter-rewinders. Excelle Line for production and quality performances, ease of maintenance and minimum downtime. It includes cards, high speed crosslaper, drafters, needleloom, high-speed winders and slitter-rewinder.

Rieter Perfojet (Hall 2/Stand A104)

With more than 150 spunlace lines installed over the world, Rieter Nonwovens Systems is recognised as an innovative company able to supply complete spunlace lines, JETlace®, for the production of high quality of nonwovens dedicated for wipes, medical, or hygiene end-uses.

Rieter's expertise in the spunlace industry combined with the unique uniformity of the spunlaid web, PERFObondTM, provides a new nonwovens process called Spunjet which offers a new generation of fabrics with bulkiness, softness, drape, tensile strength and isotropic MD/CD ratio. The nonwovens producers benefit from the unique global know-how in nonwovens of a team of experts in engineering and processes.

Stäubli (Hall 2, upper level/Stand A106)

Stäubli is showing cam motions and dobby machines, electronic jacquard machines and harnesses, and weaving preparation systems products. All machinery will be demonstrated in operation and in various applications. Two rapier weaving machines, one equipped with LX1602, the other with LX 3202 jacquard machine are producing upholstery fabric. A new version of the electronic jacquard machine CX 180, equipped with 192 hooks, is configured to weave 4 ribbons of 35 mm and 192 threads each on needle looms. Furthermore on the Stäubli booth Schönherr Carpet Systems is showing exclusive carpet samples produced on the ALPHA 400 carpet-weaving machine, and new Stäubli Group member DEIMO is presenting its electronic control solutions for mainly textile machinery. Stäubli has its own branch in Mumbai with Stäubli India.

DOLLFUS & MULLER (Hall 1-LL/Stand A-110a; Hall 1-UL/Stand C-109)

Founded in 1811, Dollfus & Muller manufactures for the textile finishing: open mesh conveyor belts for Printing dryers, Steamers and Decatising machines endless felts for Compacting machines, Sanforising machines and Decatising machines satin wrappers for discontinuous decatising machines.

Among this full range of key textile finishing spare parts, Dollfus & Muller will display at INDIA- ITME: Its first class open mesh conveyor belts for printing dryers at the ATE booth Stand A-110 a, Hall 1-LL its high quality endless sanforising felts at the DHALL Stand C-109, Hall 1-UL.

AESA Air Engineering (Hall 2-LL/Stand C-102)

Air Conditioning, Humidification, Filtering & Waste Collection Systems, Tailor-made for the textile industry in energy efficient designs; Upgrading and renovation of existing plants.