Country: Germany

Aiming at providing solutions for the technical textiles industry, German manufacturer of flat knitting machines, Stoll will be presenting designs and applications of its flat knitting technology at Techtextil trade show next month in Germany.

According to the company, the new cluster concept for TT sport, TT med, TT home, and TT mobility will be unveiled at the international trade show along with the new CMS 330 HP W flat knitting machine for TT sport. This machine is suitable for the manufacturing of shoe uppers, orthopaedic supports, and textile accessories with complex shapes. The compact model also boasts of a high production speed, exceptional value for money, and options for inlay techniques, intarsia patterns, and plating effects.

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The main focus of the manufacture will be on the CMS 330 HP W machine which fits in with Stoll’s innovative portfolio of flat knitting machines. “No other manufacturing process for textiles combines complex structures, functionality, and aesthetics quite like Stoll’s flat knitting technology,” the company claims.

It’s pertinent to mention here that with a network of subsidiaries, sales and service centres and numerous agencies, Stoll offers a fully integrated service package. With innovative developments and state‐of‐the‐art production, Stoll is making a multitude of knitting trends possible which according to the company will be evident at this upcoming Techtextil.

“The digital revolution is here, and that’s good news for the fashion industry. Cutting-edge digital design tools will help garment manufacturers cut costs by millions of dollars, increase throughput, reduce waste and – most importantly – stay competitive in the age of “fast fashion”,” – a message Gerber Technology, a leading technology provider in apparel and fashion industry, will deliver at the upcoming Texprocess 2017 in Frankfurt, Germany.

In today’s generation, everyone in fashion industry, from major players to small startup labels, is talking about the industry’s digital transformation. And this shift is driven by a more tech-savvy customer base, a faster “fast fashion” cycle, and the need to solve massive inventory and returns issues.

Themed “Embrace Your Digital Reality”, Gerber will demonstrate to industry leaders how easy it can be to connect systems, allowing data to flow seamlessly from design and development all the way through their supply chain, leveraging software and IoT technologies to enhance visibility and efficiency through its presentations – Changing the Game – Extending the Boundaries of Supply Chain Visibility;  Software Solution – Process – The Human Factor: How to Get Everybody on Board; Smart Factory: Technology Enabling Digitization of the Apparel Industry; and Technology and its Impact on CSR.

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Mike Elia, President and CEO of Gerber Technology says, “Everyone is in a different place when it comes to technology. But we believe that Gerber can help all companies work to embrace these new solutions and move forward. Our goal is to make these technologies easy to buy, easy to consume, and easy to use even if you’re a small- or medium-sized company.” 

Besides, the company will also showcase YuniquePLM® product lifecycle management software, as well as AccuMark® the industry-leading pattern design, grading, marker making and production planning software, AccuMark 3D and AccuPlan™. In cutting room solutions, GERBERspreader™ XLs series and Gerber Paragon® line of multi-ply GERBERcutters®, which can process the order with a simple barcode scan, will be the highlight at the event.

Uster Group, the Switzerland-based leading high-technology instrument manufacturer of products for quality measurement and certification for the textile industry, will display USTER® TESTER 6-C800 at the upcoming May edition of Techtextil trade show in Frankfurt, Germany.

USTER® TESTER 6-C800 provides fast, accurate filament yarn testing against the most stringent specifications and standards such as yarn evenness, thus protecting filament producers against customer complaints and claims. The capacitive sensor provides more accurate and reliable test results than ever before.

Typically, filament yarns show a CVm value around 1, so that even small deviations in evenness are likely to cause noticeable defects in the fabric. For this vital parameter, spinners have for decades been depending on the USTER CVm value, now recognized as the defining global standard for evenness.

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Additionally, the USTER® TESTER 6-C800 operate at the test speed of 800 m/min. Running on the automatic setting, the high sample throughput rate gives even better detection of quality exceptions, resulting in lower labor costs and improved control of quality for the business.

Furthermore, it offers three new unique features to help yarn producers increase efficiency and improve quality. Measurement of intermingling – saves time and prevents variations in subsequent fabric appearance; an automatic twist scan facility – assists filament quality monitoring by making twister settings easier; and Knowledge Based System (KBS) – quickly traces the cause of a quality problem on the spinning machine, with no need for extra settings or input from the machine supplier, via a single click on the spectrogram display.

During the Texprocess trade fair in Germany from May 9th to 12th 2017, the Texprocess Forum will be held for the fourth time. At this international conference, experts from science and industry will present the latest textile-processing trends and knowledge in over 30 lectures and panel discussions.

The main themes of the 2017 Texprocess Forum are digitalization and Industry 4.0 (with SPESA, Lectra, Human Solutions, Hohenstein Institute and Gerber Technology), quality management (TÜV SÜD, Takko Holding and Datacolor) and sustainability (with Bayern Innovativ). The programme includes: Textile finishing, Digital printing, Sustainability, and Product-lifecycle management.

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The session named Technology enabling digitization of the apparel industry will be held by Dave Gardner, Managing Director, Spesa, Philippe Ribera, Lectra (France), and Mike Fralix, Textile Clothing and Technology Corporation [TC]².

Andre Wissenberg, Vice President, Oerlikon, Ger Brink, Professor Smart Functional Materials, Saxion University, and Fernando Pimentel, President, ABIT, will present Accounts of companies implementing industry 4.0.

New business in the fashion industry enabled by industry 4.0 technology will be presented by Rosanne van der Meer, Founder, The girl and the Machine, and Lutz Walter, R&D Manager, Euratex.

Additionally, a separate lecture block will focus on the use of digital textile printing for finishing and functionalising technical textiles (with Mimaki, Zimmer Maschinenbau and Coldenhove).

German dyeing, bleaching and drying equipment manufacturer, Thies GmbH & Co. KG, is all set to showcase (primarily) its ‘iMaster H2O’ machine, ‘HT-Jigger’ and ‘iCone’ technology at Techtextil trade show in May this year in Germany.

According to Thies, ‘iMaster H2O’ has the capacity of between 100 and 2000 kg. This enables flexible design of the treatment process and decreases the chemical consumption and the use of textile auxiliaries to a necessary minimum. The machine can carry out pre-treatment, bleaching, and dyeing processes – as well as efficient rinsing and cleaning processes at varying liquor ratios, the company reports.

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Additionally, the ‘iCone’ technology as well as the ‘HT-Jigger’ technology will also be up on display at the trade show. Thies states that using ‘iCone’, the companies can bleach and dye fibres, flakes, yarns, cables and belts whereas, ‘HT-Jigger’ is helpful for dyeing fabrics, nonwovens and space fabrics.

Thies can be visited at Hall 3, Booth F23 during the course of Techtextil.

Leading technology provider in apparel and fashion industry, Gerber Technology has announced to introduce AccuMark 10.3 through a webinar on 11th and 13th of April, 2017. The one-hour long webinar will include training sessions on pattern making, grading, production planning.

Gerber says that the earlier version of AccuMark – 10.1, included features like pattern design acceleration, simplified grading systems, maximize material utilization, enhanced communication features, optional software components like AccuNest, AccuPlan, AccuScan, AccuMark 3D Visualization Software, and a wide range of operational hardware components, while the latest 10.3 version will provide the market with new and improved features of AccuMark.

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At the webinar, training sessions on AccuMark 3D and AccuPlan will also be conducted. The technology provider intends to provide its users an all-round experience from pattern development to finished garment.

It is pertinent to mention here that AccuMark 3D allows its user to visualize the sample in a 3D format. It includes features like generation of virtual samples, acceleration of development time, and increasing the production efficiency. On the other hand, AccuPlan is Gerber’s production management tool, which is beneficial in boosting productivity. Additionally, it helps to reduce production cost, and can respond quickly to change in demand. These software along with other Gerber products like cutters, digitizer & plotters, spreaders certainly aim to change the production scenario in the industry.

For the first time, the European Digital Textile Conference will be held by the World Textile Information Network at Texprocess, scheduled from 9-12 May in Frankfurt, Germany, to focus on digital printing.

The subjects to be covered in the lectures include direct yarn colouring in the embroidery plants (Coloreel, Sweden), plasma pre-treatment for textiles before digital printing (Grinp, Italy) and chemical finishing for textiles using inkjet printing technology (Efi-Reggiani, USA).

In addition, German Institutes of Textile and Fibre Research Denkendorf (DITF) and other textile companies, Texprocess will present the complete interlinked textile production chain – the Digital Textile Microfactory. The digital-printing station will show large-scale inkjet printing in the form of sublimation printing on polyester and pigment printing on cotton and blended fabrics. Numerous exhibitors, including Brother, Epson, Ergosoft and Mimaki, will also be showing digital printing technologies.

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“We are expanding our programme on the subject of digital printing in response to the growing demand for digitalised technologies for processing garments, technical textiles and flexible materials. This programme is of particular interest to manufacturers of technical textiles and companies that process textiles,” commented Michael Jänecke, Head of Brand Management, Textiles and Textile Technologies, Messe Frankfurt.

UCMTF, the French Textile Machinery Manufacturers Association, is all set to participate at the upcoming May edition of Techtextil trade show in Germany with its group of around 30 companies. During the course of the four-day exhibition, UCMTF members will place an emphasis on their current and prospective partnerships with international technical textile manufacturers.

The French machinery manufacturers at Techtextil mostly consist of SMEs which can provide tailor-made technical manufacturing equipment to suit the specific needs of customers.

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Bruno Ameline, President, UCMTF, underlined, “What makes us part of the technical textiles community is the fact that we have to invest for the future, in R&D, in the organisation of the services our customers need wherever they are located, utilising the increasing expertise of our teams.”

The association claims that it does not compete on mass markets machinery rather it focuses on niche markets and designs special machines for specific applications. The size of its group companies makes possible an integration of the association’s marketing and R&D departments and to showcase all these expertise, UCMTF has a clear vision to en-cash Techtextil platform.