At ITMA ASIA + CITME 2018, the highlights of exhibits in Hall 5 & 6 include washing, dyeing, finishing, printing, digital printing machinery, measuring equipment, software, chemical
auxiliaries, etc.

Brighi (Booth:
H5 B05)
Brighi Tecnologie Italia will show automation technologies
for the field of home textile, upholstery, automotive, laundry and packaging.
In the pillow manufacturing line, the machines automate
the complete process from the raw material in carded fiber to the cover
filling, sewing, labelling and packaging of finished pillows into handle bags
or big sacs for any kind of purposes and styles in less than 50 square meters
space.
The line is composed of some standing alone machines that can be
integrated in the system at any time. The line and its software Brighi are ready to
adjust to customer requirements. Upgrades are available for the line by remote
so that managers can easily interface with production.
Another important
feature of the line is that only one dedicated operator is required to manage
it.
Carù
(Booth: H6 C54)

Italian manufacturer Macchine
Carù S.r.l. will introduce its new version of sueding
machine Easy-Supreme Touch 6.2 with innovative features atITMA ASIA 2018.
The new machine can use abrasive brushes and diamond emery in combination. With the
machine, up to 6+2 combinations
of sueding rollers and brushes can be used. Additional two brushes or two sueding rollers can be installed as optional for a total of eight sets.
The machine is characterized by its high sueding efficency due to the
considerable number of contact points. Three approaching units independently
adjustable, set the distance between fabric and brushes (or sueding rollers).
The seam passage, which follows an automatic progressive sequence, stops the brushes to let the seam
pass without damage it.
In addition, the machine can be programmed according to the kind of fabric processed. Fabric stretching
is controlled by load cells and obtained by the means of two distinct motorized
rollers drived by inverters.
Corino
(Booth: H6 C20)

Corino Macchine will exhibit the advanced version of
"Super-N", an automatic weft straightener for
all woven fabrics capable of correcting all types of distortions, diagonal,
curved, sinusoidal and asymmetric.
Thanks to a simple but
effective physical principle, the weft yarns are brought back to their original
position by tensioning them transversally after the fabric selvedges have been pinned on the circumference of
2 big wheels.
Its mechanical way of working makes it an efficient weft straightener for
woven fabric because the distortions removal is not influenced by the limits of the optical weft straighteners.
Furthermore, it is a user-friendly, low maintenance and highly reliable machine. The over 1.100 units already sold worldwide in more than 40
countries testify to the success of "Super-N".
Super-N is part of a family of pin wheels
weft straighteners, of which three more models form
part: "N-Max" combines the pin wheels system with the optical one; “Jumbo-N” is for wide fabric
width; and "Little-N" is a compact version for installations in very small
workplaces.
Danti
Paolo (Booth: H6 C53)
Danti Paolo Company, an Italian textile
finishing machine manufacturer, will introduce its new development in Peaching machines for knitted fabrics.
The Peaching machine S1000 MK2 is equipped
with 6 abrasive brushes in Ceramic or Carbon and has been specially designed to
process knitted fabrics. A very sophisticate system for fabric tension control
ensures that the fabric is processed correctly without excessive stress, and, at the same time, allowing a production capacity up to 50% higher than other Peaching
machines.
A Peaching machine S1000MK2 has been
recently installed in Chinese company Guangdong
Yinrun and received positive feedback with
its high performances.
The machine also has the possibility to
mount diamond emery rollers and a combination of diamond emery rollers and
abrasive brushes. The electronics from Siemens provides remote troubleshooting by smartphone.
Dollfus
& Muller (Booth: H6 D16)
With more than 200 years’ experience,
Dollfus & Muller is a leading manufacturer of endless felts and dryer belts
for the textile finishing and nonwovens factories.
The company has
particularly improved the compacting felts for knit finishing with major
evolutions. The compacting felts bring
a special care to the fabrics. Thanks to its
smooth surface, they have an excellent guiding and the
compacting rate in relations with its new exclusive compacting felt design. In addition, the Dollfus & Muller sanforizing
palmer felts are ideal for denim producers.
Furthermore, the company manufactures durable printing dryer belt qualities. These durable
printing dryer belts are specially designed
for pigment printing of bed sheeting.
Dollfus & Muller has its exclusive
print open mesh belt specially designed for the production of fine fabrics,
scarves and flags.
These belts have special non-marking surfaces onthe particles and the back side.
FIMAT (Booth:
H6 C22)
FIMAT S.r.l. will present a new compact
automatic dosing system - Colour Kitchen MONOLITH.
Along with reduced dimension and starting time, the
new system has self-supporting mono-block which is easy to be placed. Moreover,
the foundations and frameworks are not required anymore.
Followed by the positive experience of
MONOLITH, the idea for a new compact monoblock Thickeners Automatic Preparing
Unit was born, namely TETRAGON. This system
automates the process of printing pastes preparation using a weighing system on
loading cells, and realizing recipes with both liquid and powder auxiliaries. With new software tools, a fully computerized system controls the whole process
to set colors for production.
For the nickel screens used
in the rotary printing, Fimat has realized a system for the recovery, besides the traditional complete line of photoengraving machines.
The rotary screens recovery system (mod. SSS) allows the recovery of the screens and
thus saves money. The final performance of the process
is exceptional: if the screen to be recovered does not present mechanical
damages before the process, it will result as new.
In addition, the screen
washing machines (mod. SWK – SWM) allow simultaneous
washing of 4 screens with a
considerable saving of time and of water consumption.
Monforts (Booth:
H6 D05)

The potential of
Industry 4.0, in combination with the drive to reduce waste and minimise raw
materials usage, has led to some significant new developments by Monforts.
Visitors will learn
about the company’s new Qualitex
800 control system, along with the Web-UI app and the remote visualisation of Monforts
technologies via smart phones and tablet devices.
The Qualitex 800 has all the intuitive
features operators will be familiar with from touchscreen devices and makes navigation extremely easy for operators, cutting down the time required for
becoming familiar with a new system and allowing complete control of all
machine parameters.
Resource
efficiency is being addressed via the new technologies such as the
company’s Eco Line for denim, based on two key technology advances – the Eco
Applicator for minimum application of the selected finishing chemicals and the
ThermoStretch.
As an
alternative to conventional padding, especially for wet-in-wet solutions, the
Monforts Eco Applicator can significantly reduce the amount of finishing
chemicals required prior to the stretching and skewing of the denim fabric.
In many
textile mills globally, the cost of energy for running integrated manufacturing
lines – especially those for fabric finishing that can involve numerous
sequences of heating and subsequent drying – is now eclipsing the cost of
paying people to operate them.
The
ability of the Eco Applicator to significantly reduce energy costs has
seen it rapidly accepted on the market.
The
Monforts ThermoStretch unit meanwhile carries out the skewing (weft straightening),
stretching and drying in a continuous process.
The Eco
Line system reduces energy requirements and losses, increases thermal transfer
and keeps the drying energy on the textile material longer. As a result energy
savings of up to 50% are being achieved.
At the show,
the company’s specialists will be on hand to explain how its new coating heads are being tailored to drying technology for maximum benefits.
For an unprecedented range of options,
Monforts now offers multi-functional coating heads for both its industrial
texCoat and Allround coating units. Module options include those for screen
printing, magnetic coating and knife coating, either integrated into new lines
or retrofitted into existing installations.
In addition, the company’s system has the shortest fabric
path from the coating unit into the stenter and all of these options are
available in wider widths.
Noseda (Booth:
H6 C25)
Noseda srl will present some innovative and environmental-friendly products, as well
as its new technologies. Using consolidated
know-hows in the technical and
sportswear fields, the company offers a wide and complete range of
dyeing machines for yarns and fabrics.
With reference to open width fabrics, the
beam dyeing TS-A1 and washing range ELTEX W25-35 with its unique
characteristics will be presented. The
acronyms HPF-HS, SCR 4000 and Acquazero FLEX
10 are part of a widely consolidated lexicon in Noseda technology relating to yarn, beam and jet dyeing machines.
TESS-TEX is a fully integrated system of
machines and technologies for the preparation and dyeing of woven and knitted
fabrics made of natural and synthetic fibres. It includes scouring, washing
and relaxing lines, beam dyeing machines,
beam winders, jet dyeing machine
based on a long term partnership with the Japanese Hisaka Works Ltd, jigger dyeing machines, as well as lab and
pre-production models.
Meanwhile, YARN-TEX is an integrated system which
includes vertical dyeing machines and horizontal dyeing machines.
The focus
of the show will be the beam dyeing machine model TS-A1. The beam dyeing in concept version
allows higher load, flow rates and evenness and fastness as well as lower
process dyeing time. As a result, there will be no fabric slippage and no liquor channeling. Moreover,
different options of the machines with diverse designs are available.
For NOMEX fabrics beam dyeing process,
HPF.HS technology assures a high dyeing penetration and excellent color
evenness while AcquaZERO technology
enables a drastic reduction of water, steam, energy as well as the reduction of
carriers and benzyalcohol consumption.
Pentek (Booth:
H6 C34)
Italian company Pentek Textile Machinery will
introduce the novel version of DreamAir, an exclusive wet tumbler for specialty finishing effects.
Thanks to the refined airflow fabric
transportation with mechanical action, DreamAir is a unique creative tool
dedicated to demanding fabric finisher.
From chemical processes to various washing effects, it is now possible to reproduce in continuous an entire range of wet
applications which are conventionally achieved in discontinuous batch machines.
Caustic washes for tensionless
mercerization, enzyme washing, fibrillation and defibrillation, bleaching and
sand washing effects, are all possible
in continuous form.
In addition, batch to batch
variation is no more a concern due to the precise
and continuous chemical dosing system. Water consumption and utilities are
dramatically reduced, opening a totally new scenario when marketing added value
fabric.
Sedo
Treepoint (Booth: H6 A17)
The Germany-based Sedo
Treepoint is a digital system provider for textile industry. The company’s core technology is not onlydesigned for the textile dyeing and finishing,
but also for other departments like spinning, weaving and knitting.
The company will introduce an
energy management tool EnergyMaster that maps the different energy consumptions (electricity, gas, compressed air,
water, steam, effluent, CO2 emission) for further analysis and optimization.
The software is equipped with routing functions which
support determining capacity requirement and schedule production activities.
By taking advantage of the already present data collection
network, data base and server configuration, the investment and energy costs
can be kept to the minimum by using the EnergyMaster module.
SETEX
(Booth: H6 E19)
SETEX is a German leader in designing,
manufacturing and implementing production automation for the textile dyeing and
finishing market.
At the show, the company will introduce the new
version of Manufacturing Execution System (MES) OrgaTEX X1. The system shows
automation technology for intelligent textile manufacturing along the entire
production chain for a comprehensive planning, controlling and optimizing of
orders, machines and processes.
The OrgaTEX software provides an efficient approach
in either direction - to the machines and between the machines. In consequence,
an intelligent real-time communication between all systems is possible.
In addition, the new OrgaTEX solution enables SETEX
to react adequate and flexible to different customer needs, and to offer
one-stop complete solutions that meet the specific individual requirements.
Thies (Booth: H6 E18)

Thies GmbH
& CO. KG concentrates on sustainable product solutions and focuses on the
development of innovative, intelligent and integrated concepts for yarn and
fabric dyeing.
This time, Thies Textilmaschinen will present the established iCone yarn dyeing
machine. This machine consolidates high ecological standards with
technological intelligence to achieve tremendous savings in water and
electrical consumption. The 2018 version incorporates various new detail
improvements, many of them developed in response to suggestions from customers
and users.
The
construction of the iCone is based upon the worldwide established eco-bloc
series of Thies, but involves innovative technologies. Its newly designed “pump bloc” system allows dyeing with an ultra-short
liquor ration. Improved rinsing functions allow the reduction of the
after-treatment times. Moreover, the new flow converter design enables the
adjustment of the flow reversal, namely from inside to outside and from outside
to inside.
iCone has
been specifically developed to meet the requirements of stringent international
and local environmental protection regulations with simultaneous consideration
of its economic efficiency.