Integration Technology Appoints Two New Directors To Support Ongoing Growth And Strategic Direction

OXFORDSHIRE, England — May 9, 2022 — Developer of ultraviolet (UV) LED curing solutions Integration Technology Ltd. (ITL) recently announced two key promotions. To support ITL’s growth strategy and effective immediately, Holly Steedman, previously Business Development manager, becomes Business and Technology Development director; and Business Development Manager for Northern Europe, Koen Santegoeds, moves into the global sales director position.

Building on a successful year last year, Integration Technology will continue to focus on long-term client partnerships based on customer service, technological innovation, customer service and research and development and these appointments demonstrate its commitment to this goal.

New Business and Technology Development Director Steedman brings with her expertise in the creation of successful business strategies and partnerships. With a degree in Integration Engineering, she has held a number of senior roles at leading in the printing and coatings industry, specializing in product management and technology development.

“I have been fortunate to witness the incredible evolution of industrial inkjet over the course of my career, which has further stoked my passion for technology development,” Steedman said. “As a pioneer in the commercialization of LED Technology for use in the printing industry, ITL has always been at the forefront of development.

“My ultimate goal is to enable our Research and Development to become more strategically focused on developing products and processes that will allow us not just to continue to be a market leader in the UV LED industry, but to be fundamental to the growth and implementation of LED Technology in multiple applications and industries. We are only at the beginning of the LED curing revolution, and I am proud to help ITL continue to lead the way.”

Santegoeds brings a wealth of experience from his electrical technical background, with 15 years in the printing industry and six in UV application-driven markets. “Throughout my career I have been fascinated with the evolution of technology, and experiencing ITL grow, innovate, and push the industry forward has been remarkable,” Santegoeds noted. “I’m looking forward to being a part of cementing ITL’s reputation as the global leader in UV LED, not just technologically but as a valued and trusted partner. It’s crucial to our long term vision that our customers really experience the difference when partnering with us.” Santegoeds has been instrumental in nurturing the consistent growth at ITL. He has a track record of instigating and nurturing strong client relationships with highly-regarded international companies.

Simon Roberts, group managing director, commented: “Both Holly and Koen are talented and enthusiastic assets to ITL, with the precise skills to create and develop the right action plans for both our clients’ goals and our strategic direction. Holly’s industry experience and background in chemistry and business development perfectly positions her to identify new applications and focus on strategic development in these emerging areas, coupled with Koen’s extensive technical sales background and commitment to our customers’ success is guaranteed to play a key role in continuing the significant growth we’ve seen over the past two years. They have my full support in these new roles and I look forward to continuing to work alongside them as we continue to push the boundaries and create new opportunities.”

Posted May 10, 2022

Archroma Bridges The Gap Between Art And Science With A Ready-To-Use Swatch Book Dedicated To Its DEEP DIVE Sustainable Dyeing System For Dark, Popular Color Basics

PRATTELN, Switzerland — May 10, 2022 — Archroma, a global supplier of specialty chemicals towards sustainable solutions, launches its first ever ready-to-use swatch book, dedicated to creating sustainable black and dark color basics for faster time to market, to support its popular DEEP DIVE 2.0 system.

In 2018, Archroma launched its system solutions, a holistic approach aimed at addressing the growing expectations of the public in terms of keeping consumers, and the environment, safe.

Under the umbrella of “The Archroma Way to a Sustainable World: Safe, efficient, enhanced, it’s our nature”, the Archroma systems are designed to create innovation and performance, whilst reducing the impacts on water, energy and other natural resources.

The savings generated by these 70+ system solutions are demonstrated by Archroma’s proprietary ONE WAY Impact Calculator, a ground-breaking tool launched in 2012 and continuously upgraded to simulate and optimize the footprint of textile application processes.

One of these systems, DEEP DIVE 2.0, has attracted a lot of interest not just from textile manufacturers but also from major brands and retailers worldwide.

This popular system combines Drimaren® Ultimate HD, high-performance reactive dyes, with Blue Magic, an all-in-one pretreatment, Optifix® RUB New liq and Siligen® SIH-S New liq, a finishing treatment improved rub fastness and elegant hand feel, and an effective hydrolyzed dye remover, Cyclanon® XC-W New liq.

The result is a shorter dyeing process combining right-first-time productivity, an improved fabric quality for longer lasting end-articles, as well as dramatically reduced water and energy utilization for brands committed to drive more sustainable production. Savings can reach up to 31 percent water and 34 percent energy.

The system is ideally suited for medium and dark cottons that have high performing fastness to light, multiple home laundering, saliva — in other words: apparel used for fashion, sports and baby’s wear.

At the same time, interested manufacturers and brands were facing the constant challenge of the fashion industry: time to market.

Often design is separated from execution in the factory and as such often designers initially select color that cannot be met in reality on different fibers or production routes in terms of color flare, metamerism, brightness, depth and now sustainable metrics — leading to lengthy delays and compromises in function, performance and/or color.

Archroma decided to create a dedicated tool aimed at addressing these issues. The company developed a new, unique book with color swatches made with the system that is ready to implement immediately into production thanks to engineered color standards and specifications.

This new tool offers a path to bridge the gap between “art and science” by providing at inspiration phase fully executable deep colors for cotton with controlled color metamerism and at the same time demonstrate water, energy and chemical savings, enhanced color fastness using safe chemistry for the end consumer.

As a wardrobe staple, medium to dark shades are very popular with consumers. As a result, most brands and retailers often have and sell up to 60 percent of medium to dark shades in their seasonal palettes. It’s also the dark shades that use the most water and energy in production, so prioritizing these colors would have the largest ecological positive impact.

The 48 colors swatched in the DEEP DIVE 2.0 book have been selected based on market popularity to allow brands and manufacturers to match that very stable market demand. Customers may use these colors as presented, or as inspiration whereby Archroma can create and match new custom colors using the DEEP DIVE 2.0 system.

Christophe Maestripieri, Global head of the Archroma Brand Studio, the company’s department dedicated to support brands’ projects and innovations, explained: “We wanted to make sure our partners have all the tools they need to convert to more sustainable colors. We had the ideal dyeing system to do that, DEEP DIVE 2.0, with its high performance and reduced impacts on resources. Now, with the new DEEP DIVE 2.0 swatch book, we also offer to brands and manufacturers a way to select sustainable color options that meet the market demand for high quality medium to dark shades which can be implemented into production right away.”

Posted: May 10, 2022

Source: Archroma

AAPN Confers Newly Named Walter T. Wilhelm Industry Achievement Award Upon Ed Gribbin and Dr. Lynne Sprugel

ATLANTA — May 5, 2022 — In 2017, the Americas Apparel Producers’ Network (AAPN) created the AAPN Industry Achievement Award. At this year’s 2022 AAPN pro:Americas Annual Conference, held recently in Miami, the organization renamed the award the AAPN Walter T. Wilhelm Industry Achievement Award.

The name change acknowledges the literal decades of leadership and wisdom from Wilhelm’s commitment to AAPN. In fact, in 2009, when AAPN’s meetings lost direction, Wilhelm convened a high level member conference to discuss the issue. The outcome was a decision to make the 2010 conference on sustainability. That meeting more than doubled the 2009 attendance, and every meeting since has grown or been near record setting.

Ed Gribbin

On Monday, May 2, AAPN presented the achievement award to Ed Gribbin. He was president of AAPN when COVID-19 hit. As a consultant, Gribbin’s work came to a dead stop and when many AAPN members began making masks and gowns, Gribbin took charge.

The citation reads: In March 2020, when the virus hit, Ed created a database of over 1,000 producers 
and literally ran production of billions of masks and millions of gowns across the U.S. 
Ed was alone in this brilliant initiative and kept many thousands of people working. 

Dr. Lynne Sprugel with Walter T. Wilhem

On Tuesday, May 3, at the 2022 AAPN pro:Americas Annual Conference AAPN also presented the newly-named AAPN Walter T. Wilhelm Industry Achievement Award to Dr. Lynne Sprugel.

Her citation reads: In 2020, with all AAPN events canceled, Lynne organized a survey that created the 
AAPN Future Forums, generating 28 sessions with over 50 people creating over
 7 hours of original content. These future-looking insights were an industry exclusive. 

The award comes with a puzzle globe that was renamed “The Walter.”

Posted May 10, 2022

Source: AAPN

FESPA Global Print Expo 2022: Meet JK Group & MS Printing Solutions

COMO/VARESE, Italy  — May 10, 2022 — If you think that digital printing is an opportunity for growth, come and visit our booth at FESPA Global Print Expo 2022. (31 May – 3 June 2022 – Berlin – Hall 3.2 – Stand B-21)

We will talk about sustainability, versatility, and reliability.

  • Dye-sub printing is the sustainable choice to print onto synthetic fabrics: It is a straightforward and water-saving printing process for flexible production. You will see the JP4 Evo 1.8 working with Digistar K-ONE. It is the excellent combination of a tireless and solid scanning machine and an eco-friendly dye-sub ink for transfer printing.
  • Pigment inks = less water and energy consumption. The pigment printing is an easy and waterless process, allowing to set a sustainable production chain and ensuring cost-effective printing outputs.  You will see the JP7 1.8 working with Digistar K-CHOICE 4.0. It is a combination of a scanning machine and an ECO PASSPORT certified ink to increase production capacity by reducing operating costs.

Do not miss the exclusive sneak peek of Digistar Helios that stands out for the dramatic high lightfastness ideal for outdoor signage. The new dye-sub transfer ink has been jointly developed with Universal Woods Inc. specifically to print onto ChromaLuxe® Outdoor material

Posted: May 10, 2022

Source: JK Group & MS Printing Solutions

TSG Finishing Begins Phase One Of Its Modernization Initiative

HICKORY, N.C. — May 9, 2022 — TSG Finishing LLC is pleased to announce it has begun phase 1 of its project to modernize all of its primary textile finishing equipment.
TSG currently relies on seven tenter frames to coat or process almost every yard of fabric it receives. Though the basics of textile coating have not changed, new machinery comes equipped with technology to ensure better quality, efficiency and safety. TSG kicked off phase 1 of this initiative with a new tenter, purchased from Ehwha, a highly-regarded South Korea-based manufacturer whose machinery is becoming commonplace in the American textiles industry. Michael Goldman, president, said: “We vetted almost every tenter manufacturer and decided that Ehwha was the best fit for the wide variety of textiles we process on a daily basis”.

Another key element in choosing Ehwha was the ability to modify their standard equipment as new opportunities arise. “In recent years TSG has had to design numerous textile coating and handling methods, all of which must be retrofitted to one of our exiting tenters,” Goldman added. “This new piece of equipment will allow us to further expand our technical abilities and entertain programs that we currently cannot handle.”

Installation is expected to begin in late Summer 2022 in TSG’s Synthetics Plant in Hickory, N.C.

TSG Finishing is one of the largest textile finishers in North America. With three processing plants and more than 200 employees in the Hickory, N.C., area, it provides value-added services to all textile markets including medical, military, automotive, construction, home furnishings and filtration.

Posted May 10, 2022

Source: TSG Finishing

Alchemie Technology And HeiQ Transform The Sustainability Of Odor Control Textile Finishing – With 84% Energy Saving

CAMBRIDGE, England/ZÜRICH, Switzerland — May 9, 2022 — Furthering their sustainable textile finishing partnership, Alchemie Technology and HeiQ are enabling a step change in odor preventing textile finishing. HeiQ Life botanical odor control, applied using Alchemie’s Novara™ digital finishing technology, uses 84-percent less energy and 92-percent less water to add sustainable and durable odor control to fabrics.

Alchemie Technology, experts in low energy, digital dyeing and finishing technology, partnered with HeiQ, leader in textile innovation, in 2021 to bring sustainable, effective technology to manufacturers across the world and reduce the cost and environmental impact of textile finishing.

Now, HeiQ has launched HeiQ Life, a renewable source peppermint oil-derived textile technology to control malodor development on textiles.

HeiQ Life imparts fabrics with a long-lasting odor control capability. Thanks to the use of peppermint oil as active ingredient, the source of body odors is tackled: odor causing bacteria are inhibited from growth on the textile surface to keep garments fresh, clean, and comfortable. HeiQ Life is especially suitable for apparel such as sportswear, base layers, linings, intimates, hosiery, casual and business wear, but is also designed for home textiles. HeiQ Life can be used on all textiles and is compatible with other finishes, including fabric softeners and wicking agents. It is durable for up to 50 washes.

When using Alchemie’s Novara precision digital finishing solution, which uses high velocity jetting technology, to apply HeiQ Life odour control to textiles, the process will consume 84-percent less energy and 92-percent less water than the conventional padding process — ultimately improving sustainability and saving costs. In Alchemie’s trials, Novara required 0.4 kWh energy and 0.06 liters of water per kilo, compared to 2.6 kWh energy and 0.8 liters of water using a padder system.

Alchemie’s Novara low energy, single sided digital application system enables functional finishes to be applied at up to 20x the concentration of traditional processes — with a more even application and higher quality.

Alchemie Technology is on a mission to stop 500 million tonnes of total global carbon dioxide emissions being produced by the fashion and textile industry by 2030, by providing manufacturers with more sustainable solutions.

Dr. Simon Kew, managing director of Alchemie Technology, said: “Consumers are all too aware of the need to improve sustainability, but brands and manufacturers need to lead the change and invest in more sustainable textile production methods. Annually, approximately 1 million tonnes of chemicals are used for applying functional finishes to apparel and home textiles. The textile industry is one of the biggest polluters on the planet, yet it is also one that can achieve the biggest and quickest amount of change.

“Alchemie’s low energy, digital finishing technology, together with HeiQ’s plant-based odour control, delivers high performance sustainable finishing which dramatically reduces energy, water, and environmental impact, while also reducing production costs.”

“Our quest for achieving the ultimate in sustainability took a big step in the right direction thanks to our partnership with Alchemie Technology. Consumers typically wash apparel when they smell. Odor-free textiles will be laundered less frequently thereby using less resources as washing represents greater than 30 percent of the environmental footprint of a garment’s lifetime. With HeiQ Life odor-preventing plant-based ingredient, consumers can wash less and wear more frequently and its application to textiles using Alchemie’s Novara energy saving finishing process takes the sustainability of treated textiles to the next level. We look forward to our fellow humans smelling fresh throughout the day with good conscience” said Carlo Centonze, co-founder and CEO of HeiQ.

Posted: May 10, 2022

Source: Alchemie Technology/HeiQ

ACIMIT Renews Its Corporate Identity With a New Logo And Website

MILAN — May 10, 2022 — ACIMIT, the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers, has presented its renewed corporate identity, the result of a collaborative effort involving the association itself and the communications agency Take, which handled the logo’s restyling, new brandbook design, and the development of the new website.

ACIMIT’s new image reflects its evolving and dynamic soul. The logo has been renewed so as to remain faithful to the association’s values, which are strongly rooted in Italy, while accentuating its international impetus, representing the evolutionary nature of the entire textile machinery sector. The official website has been completely renovated both in its look, feel and structure, but remains essentially unchanged in its DNA.

“Creativity, technological innovation, and a coming together of Italian concepts — these are the ideas that have guided us in conceiving and redefining our logo and our association’s coordinated image,” stated ACIMIT president Alessandro Zucchi. “The new logo was designed to mirror our organization’s core values, with two main goals: promoting the idea of closeness and coming together, while reflecting a spirit of belonging for all our associated partners, and proposing ACIMIT to the global textile supply chain, communicating Italy’s leadership role in the textile machinery sector.”

A further innovation announced by ACIMIT is the all-new communications concept promoting the presence of Italy’s textile machinery manufacturers at ITMA 2023, which will be held in Milan from June 8-14 this year. The key communications concept designed to bring people together at ITMA is Shaping the Future, a project developed to link ACIMIT’s core values to those of ITMA, comprising the association’s various activities, initiatives and communications schemes, all of which will be presented with the support of Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Italian Trade Agency. The aim is to promote an immediate desire to shape the future of the textile supply chain, tracing an innovative and ever-changing path. The website and communications initiatives enhancing ACIMIT’s corporate identity, as well as the creative project Shaping the Future, can be viewed online and on the association’s official channels as of end of April.

Posted May 10, 2022

Source: ACIMIT

Innovation Packages From STOLL – A Company Of The KARL MAYER Group

OBERTSHAUSEN, Germany— May 9, 2022 — Optimizations, further developments and innovations are an integral part of STOLL’s activities. The flat knitting technology company has recently launched a new offering in the form of defined innovation packages. The aim here is to make Stoll’s high innovative strength even clearer and enable customers to benefit from it more quickly. “The demands made on flat knitting technology are changing all the time, whether in the case of technical textiles for transportation and furniture fabrics or medical solutions well as in the fashion sector, where new yarns — such as recycled yarns or innovative technologies, such as smart textiles — have to be taken into account all the time,” said Erhard Vöhringer, sales manager of the Stoll Business Unit in the KARL MAYER Group “Our customers always have to keep abreast of the latest developments. We are therefore continuously developing appropriate improvements, and with our innovation packages we are now offering even more detailed demand-oriented solutions.”

Detail optimizations for more overall performance

The innovation packages have the benefits for customers in focus and were tailored to the respective target groups. Every optimization contained therein leads to a decisive improvement in production. All of the solutions developed can be easily integrated into existing STOLL machines.

Innovation package Number One

Innovation package Number One will be launched on the market in a few weeks’ time and is aimed explicitly at knitters who focus on technical textiles. The focus is on convenience and process acceleration. Simple network configuration, expansion of the number of NP values, extended functionality when loading and saving the pattern and also improvement of handling in connection with Production Management from PPS are just some of the features of the package. “The corresponding updates for the machine control system are available to our customers for download free of charge on Customer_Net. In the future, there will also be a cloud-based offering,” explained Erhard Vöhringer.

Innovation package Number Two

Still in the pipeline, included in the Number Two innovation package, are improvements for the maintenance area — regarding the use of lubricants and the maintenance intervals (predictive maintenance) — as well as optimizations in terms of sustainability, for example when it comes to reducing consumption of oil and increasing reliability. These solutions will be suitable for all machine types and applications.

The focus here is on improvements in belt take-down, the import and export of data and support for additional storage feeders.

A physical improvement in handling is promised by the new lighting including mirror directly on the machine.

In addition, the development teams are currently working on optimizing various knitting qualities and increasing user-friendliness. So you can already be curious!

Concentrated innovative power

The Stoll development team, with several hundred engineers and technicians in the fields of electronics, software, patterning, and design, never runs out of topics. Questions like “What is the market looking for? What do customers want?  Which changes do the machines have to meet and which ones do the software control and design program have to meet?” are first discussed, evaluated and debated together as a team and then go into the development phase. “Our customers can be absolutely sure that all our innovations are meticulously tested before we go to market with them” emphasizes Erhard Vöhringer. This also applies to the solutions in the innovation packages.

Small solutions, big impact

STOLL flat knitting machines impress with their great application and production potential. Almost 150 years of extensive practical experience in flat knitting technology — the Stoll company was founded in 1873 — is unique in the industry. As a Business Unit of the KARL MAYER Group, Stoll continues to do everything in its power to inspire its customers with innovative strength. Productive, flexible and reliable — simply Stoll! This slogan has not lost any of its meaning today. Quite the contrary: With the new innovation packages, customers benefit not only from the latest high-tech flat knitting machines, but also from an always up-to-date performance upgrade of their existing machine park.

With its innovation packages, Stoll has found a flexible and very fast way directly to the customer. Anyone who wants to know more about this is cordially invited to this year’s trade fairs. STOLL looks forward to seeing you at the KARL MAYER Group stand at ITM (Istanbul), Techtextil (Frankfurt), Techtextil India (Mumbai) and ITMA ASIA. (Shanghai).

Posted: May 10, 2022

Source: KARL MAYER Gruppe

NCFI Polyurethanes And Creative Ticking Team To Donate Mattresses To Beds For Kids

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — March 16, 2022 — Local bedding producers, NCFI Polyurethanes and Creative Ticking, along with Charles and Christa Heilig, combined their efforts to donate 60 mattresses to Charlotte based non-profit, Beds for Kids. Beds for Kids mission is to provide beds and essential furniture to children of families in need. NCFI, a leading producer of high quality foam mattress cores and Creative, an innovative producer of ticking and covers, teamed up to build high quality mattresses for the project.

“NCFI is proud to be a small part of what this amazing organization does”, said Chris Bradley, executive vice president of Consumer Products for NCFI. “We share common values with Creative, so this partnership made perfect sense and we look forward to working with Creative again in the future.”

“Creative Ticking is proud to join Charles and Christa Heilig and NCFI in the donation of mattresses to the Beds for Kids organization” said Ron Sytz, founder and CEO of Creative. “Sleep is such an important part of all of our lives and is necessary for children to grow and learn.”

Posted: May 10, 2022

Source: NCFI Polyurethanes / Creative Ticking

Heraeus Invests For A Majority Share In Leading PET Recycler Perpetual Technologies  – Company To Be Re-Named Revalyu Resources For Global Expansion

HANAU, Germany — May 10, 2022 — Heraeus Holding GmbH, a global Fortune 500 company, announced it has invested substantial equity to take a majority stake in perPETual Technologies, a PET recycling company based in Kleinostheim, Germany.

To drive global expansion under one brand, Heraeus decided to rename the company “revalyu Resources GmbH.”

PET, which stands for polyethylene terephthalate, is the most common thermoplastic polymer resin of the polyester family and is used in textiles, packaging containers for liquids and foods, thermoforming for manufacturing and many other consumer products.

revalyu has developed a breakthrough and environmentally sustainable depolymerization technology to recycle post consumer PET bottles into sustainable esters (monomers), which is the base chemical building block for anything polyester based. revalyu’s Polymer can be used to manufacture high quality sustainable PET products. Today, the company produces filament yarns for the textile industry in its manufacturing facility in Nashik, India. It currently employs around 300 people.

“revalyu is driven by innovation and fits perfectly into our portfolio”, said Jan Rinnert, chairman of the board of managing directors and CEO of Heraeus Holding GmbH. Rinnert says the global strength of Heraeus will provide the investment, infrastructure and strategic support needed to accelerate revalyu’s growth. “We aim to develop the business into one of the world’s largest and technologically advanced PET recycling companies”, Rinnert added.

“We are a pioneer in recycling PET bottles. After several years of hard work by the team and support from our shareholders and customers, we have built the world’s most innovative, technology leading and environmentally sustainable PET recycling plant in the world based in Nashik, India”, said Dr. Vivek Tandon, founder of perPETual Technologies to be renamed revalyu Resources.

“Together with Heraeus we will strongly focus on rapidly expanding our production capacity in India and globally. Our aim is to recycle 100 million bottles a day of used PET Bottles by 2026, which will be a big step toward solving the PET waste problem,” said Vikram Nagargoje, co-founder and COO.

revalyu’s technology offers a cost-effective continuous recycling process, which extracts dirt and impurities more efficiently thereby delivering high purity recycled PET. It also uses 91 percent less energy and 75 percent less water than conventional processes for producing PET polymers. It can be used in all PET production processes.

“revalyu Resources will become the leading global brand for recycling polyester. Our customers do not have to compromise any more between their ambitious sustainability goals and high quality requirements,” Dr. Tandon stated.

Posted: May 10, 2022

Source: Heraeus Holding GmbH

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