In the beginning, Aquafil was sheering old carpets to recover only a small fraction of them to use in its process, but the company still hadn’t maximized the potential of recycling carpets. The last step was to build a recycling facility that could recover not only the face fiber of carpets but all the components of the carpets to put them back into production.
42 years old Pune based manufacturer of textile spinning rings and ring travellers, Unitech Texmech Pvt. Ltd. has launched a new spinning ring, the UniK1, which has been developed through a special process of steel treatment using new technology. This treatment provides the UniK1 with excellent wear resistant properties, low coefficient of friction and is also suitable for spinning several varieties of yarns.
Palmetto Living caters to furniture and flooring retailers. Orian Rugs will continue to service national mass merchants and chains. Orian Rugs is formally introducing the Palmetto Living brand at the winter markets, starting at the Atlanta AmericasMart, Jan. 9-13. The official launch is set for Las Vegas Market, Jan. 27-31, at the company’s new and larger showroom in B-362.
Brandon Culpepper, chief revenue officer Orian Rugs said that, “It has very high ceilings, which is perfect for us to be able to showcase 8-by-11 sizes.”
Lenzing Web Technology will serve as a platform technology for a wide range of future products for the nonwoven industry. The flexibility of the technology and the possible integration with other nonwoven and textile technologies will enable the development of a broad range of composite structures for highly engineered end use applications.
FIMAST will present the latest in preparatory machines, linking, sewing and assembling machines, yarns and hosiery accessories, circular hosiery knitting machines, dyeing and finishing machines, packaging machines and accessories machines, accessories, computer equipment, control systems and services.
Eurolast will give an exclusive preview of the Nerino G fibre, a hydrophilic fibre combining the characteristics of the synthetic fibres with unique properties of the natural fibres, which was introduced by joint developers Invista and Golden Lady.
The final closing is planned for the end of the third quarter of this year. The Austrian Starlinger Group based in Vienna will take over the German business unit from Chemnitz also known under the brand name ‘Barmag Spinnzwirn’. Both parties have agreed to not disclose the purchase price. The purchase contract was signed accordingly by both companies this week.
The technology’s deployment has been focused on specific projects, such as high-performance textiles for sports and recreation till now, but plans are in place to scale up the process for users’ core product ranges. While the technology is currently targeted to polyester fibers, plans are underway to begin exploring its application for other polymer fibers, including nylon and polypropylene, according to PolyOne.
The Russian nonwovens and technical textiles industries volume of production during the period January-October has declined by about 15 percent compared to the same period last year, due to the ongoing currency jumps; the ever growing volume of illegal re-exports of technical textiles and nonwovens to Russia through the other countries of the Customs Union, and in particular Kazakhstan and Belarus; volatile commodity prices and the high level of depreciation of equipment at the majority of the industry’s enterprises might put the industry in tight spot.
The Chinese domestic market for polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) likely to continue seeing decline in prices into October, as scheduled plant start-ups of Ningxia Baofeng Energy’s plant will boost supply, with not much upturn in demand, according to industry sources on Wednesday.
China’s PE-PP capacity is due to increase by a total of 600,000 tonnes/year in October, with start-ups of Ningxia Baofeng Energy’s plants in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region. The new PE and PP plants have the same 300,000 tonne/year capacity.
