Doubled speed, integration with online monitoring, and fault tracing to earlier processes make the USTER® TESTER 5-S800 a significant innovation.

With motor failures representing the single biggest cause of manufacturing downtime and significant associated costs to businesses, the author describes how an intelligent, data-driven approach to motor control holds the key to efficient, profitable production.

Quality requirements are becoming ever sharper, getting as low as 1 or 2 faults per 100 m on some technical styles. Seconds are practically worthless: if bad quality strays into the percentage area, you can say goodbye to profitability.

One way of constructing a physiologically functional bi-layer fabric is to use on the inside, a synthetic material with good moisture transfer properties in association with an outside material, which is a good absorber of moisture.

Fabrics from polyester microfilaments have been gaining greater importance due to their versatility, assert the authors, who reveal the outcome of a study on the dyeing behavior of microfilament polyester yarn.

Electrospun nanofibres have a large surface area and a small pore size in comparison with commercial textiles that make them appropriate for a wide range of applications like filtration, medical application, and protective clothing, says the author, who throws light on the electrospinning process and applications of electrospun nanofibres.

Innovations in technical textiles and nonwovens have been on the rise in the recent times. In fibres and yarns, Teijin has developed a false-twist yarn with long-lasting antistatic properties. Fibre Innovation Technology (FIT) produces a new flame retardant fibre based on GE Plastics polyetherimide resin which meets strict regulations on flame retardance, smoke and toxicity and has good dyeability.

GeoAfrica 2009, the first African Regional Conference on Geosynthetics, to be held in the exciting City of Cape Town, South Africa, from the 1st to 5th September 2009. The conference is being organised by the Geosynthetics Interest Group of South Africa (GIGSA), under the auspices of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS), and is supported by the Geotechnical Division of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering.

Lap FormAir is a machine integrating a number of quite interesting features: operating flexibility, end product quality and last but not least low investment and running costs.

NSC Nonwoven designs, builds and supplies turnkey nonwoven lines for needlepunching, spunlacing, thermobonding, air-through bonding and chemical bonding. The lines are equipped with a supervisory control assistance system, which includes production recipes, maintenance and assistance to line management. NSC nonwoven is a worldwide, major supplier of Excelle® cards, crosslappers, ProDyn®, drafters, needlelooms, winders and slitters-rewinders.

Fabrics for industrial applications have been globally identified as an area with a strong market potential. This market has a growth rate of approx. 3-4% per annum, which is far above the 1.5% for conventional fabrics.

India-based Neo Corp International has acquired UK’s Euro Plast in what is believed to be the first overseas acquisition by an Indian technical textile manufacturer. Euro Plast, a technical textil marketing company which has extensive business in UK, France and Germany, has an annual turnover of about $10-15m.

3M™ Nextel™ Continuous Ceramic Oxide fibres 312, 440, 550, 610 and 720 represent a major advancement in refractory fibre technology. This family of metal oxide fibres can be readily converted into ceramic textile products which meet demanding performance requirements in high temperature operating environments. Nextel™ Ceramic Textiles are typically used for insulation in aerospace, outerspace and industrial applications.

KlenzPod, a new wet wipe dispensing system that addresses the lack of adequate dispensing systems available for public use of wipes, received the inaugural WOW Innovation Award presented as part of the second annual World of Wipes (WOW) Conference, June 16-18, 2008 at The Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel in Chicago, Ill.

A new generation of Monforts stenters offering a wider range of finishing, relaxation and coating techniques made their Asian debut – including the flagship Montex 6500, the Montex 7000 TT and the Montex 6500 ‘Allround’ stenter.

At Hall E1, Stand D29, Xetma Vollenweider presented an overview of its range of products and services in the field of surface finishing systems for textiles. This included products in the technology lines of Soft Touch (brushing and emerizing), Plush Touch (raising), Even Touch (shearing), Level Touch (carpet shearing) and Clean Touch (cloth cleaning).

With the apparel market’s increasing attention to performance fabrics, SDL Atlas has introduced three new units that reliably test and measure behavior and characteristics of the latest performance fabrics. SDL Atlas product experts demonstrated their Hydrostatic Head Tester, Air Permeability Tester and MMT Liquid Moisture Management System.

Perfect circular knitting technology combined with the "Finest Terrot knitted fabrics" is the culmination of well-developed machine engineering designed to sharpen the competitive edge of our international customer base.

As the world’s leading manufacturer of innovative and quality weaving solutions, GTP Global Textile Partner presented its complete range of quality and performance- proven weaving accessories. This specialist of weaving accessories helped one select the best accessory to bring better fabric quality, higher productivity and significant cost savings.

Shanghai Crosrol Pacific Machinery Co Ltd, at Hall W3, Stand D01, launched its latest MK7 high production carding machine and new blowroom line. Crosrol has always been at the forefront of carding technology and is one of the leading high production carding manufacturers in the world.

BTSR International, a leading company in the development of innovative solutions for yarn control, offers the latest in BTSR Solutions.

The ITMA ASIA kick-off meeting of the Datatex marketing team was focused to set the stage of the NOW – Network Oriented World implementations and to celebrate the 30th license installed.

Fully responding the expectations coming from the most advanced textile sectors of the challenging Asian market, SMIT TEXTILE presented the new series of rapier weaving machines for flat, technical and terry fabrics: GS920 and GS920 F models.

The management of the design, sampling and production of low quantities per order but high value-added knitted fabrics is the new challenge of knitting companies and the core of their future performance.

Lawson Hemphill introduced the new entanglement testing software program called ACCU-COUNT ENTANGLEMENT, ACE during the ITMA Shanghai 2008 show. Lawson Hemphill has been the leader in providing the tools to count the entanglements in the yarns for many years.

Following up on the success of its presence in the past ITMA exhibition in Munich, both in the number of visitors and contracts obtained, Twistechnology of Spain tasted more successes at ITMA-ASIA.

BASF participated at the ITMA Asia + CITME 2008 exhibition, in which it was able to discuss with the visitors the wide range of ecological solutions for the textile industry under the three key aspects of ecology that are consumer safety, resource saving and climate protection.

NSC nonwoven (Asselin-Thibeau) is well known for such nonwoven equipments as the Excelle® cards, crosslappers, Prodyn® weight distribution regulator, drafters, needlelooms, winders and slitters-rewinders.

The effect of plasma treatment on the textile materials depends on type of gases used and the type of substrates used

A new method for objective evaluation of fabric pilling using digital image analysis was employed by the authors, who find the image processing algorithm (MATLAB), which was used, can effectively identify the pills from the background.