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

Hexcel Launches Hexply® Nature Range: Natural Fibers Combined With Bio-Derived Epoxy Resins Provide Sustainable Options For Industrial Markets

STAMFORD, Conn. — May 10, 2022 — Hexcel has developed a new product range that combines Hexcel resin systems made with bio-derived resin content with natural fiber reinforcements to create material solutions for Automotive, Winter Sports, Marine and Wind Energy applications.

HexPly Nature Range includes proven resins such as HexPly M49, M78.1-LT and M79 but with bio-derived epoxy resin content. The excellent resin characteristics remain unchanged in the new Nature Range products, maintaining high mechanical performance and consistent processing properties.

In addition, the HexPly Nature Range provides prepreg options with natural fiber reinforcements that can be seamlessly integrated into existing production processes.

Hexcel worked with TÜV Austria to provide independent, high-quality measurement and assessment of the bio-content of HexPly Nature Range products. TÜV Austria’s OK biobased certification uses a standardized measurement of the biobased carbon content enabling transparency and easy like-for-like comparison between products.

At JEC World in Paris on May 3-5, Hexcel presented an alpine ski produced by the Tecnica Group Ski Excellence Center which produces skis for Blizzard and for Nordica using HexPly Nature Range M78.1-LT UD flax fiber prepreg. In addition to providing a bio-based material solution, the natural fiber-reinforced prepreg also offers the potential to improve impact performance and vibration damping in the ski.

Claude Despierres, VP of Sales and Marketing – Industrial at Hexcel, said, “Our new HexPly Nature Range forms an important part of providing customers with biobased, TÜV-certified material options based on our established prepreg resin systems. Marine, winter sports, wind energy and automotive manufacturers can now have the choice to switch from petroleum-based material solutions to Hexcel HexPly Nature Range with no compromise in performance or process efficiency.”

Posted: May 10, 2022

Source: Hexcel Corp.

Durst Group With “Production Excellence” At Fespa 2022 In Berlin

BRESSANONE, Italy — May 10, 2022 — Durst, manufacturer of advanced digital printing and production technologies, will present its P5 wide format printing systems and software solutions at FESPA 2022 under the heading “Production Excellence”. As one of the largest exhibitors, with more than 800m2 exhibition space, Durst Group will also present the Vanguard printing systems for the first time in Europe. Looking beyond the horizon and as a possible portfolio extension for LFP customers, the Durst TAU RSC platform for label & flexible packaging printing will also be shown. Another premiere will take place with the launch of a new P5 super-wide printing system.

“We are excited to showcase our comprehensive solutions for the LFP market at Fespa 2022,” said Christian Harder, vice president, sales, Durst Group. “We will be exhibiting a total of 6 printing systems, including a completely new development for super-wide printing, introducing Vanguard printing systems to Europe and highlighting new market opportunities with a label printing system. With Production Excellence, we are pursuing a holistic solution to make our customers’ production cycle as efficient as possible. Accordingly, the flexibility and versatility of the printing systems as well as the integration and automation with Durst software solutions play a central role in our presentation.”

Posted: May 10, 2022

Source: Durst

Techtextil 2022 Exhibitor Preview: Jowat

DETMOLD, Germany — May 10, 2022 — Environment-friendly materials and maximum process sustainability are of crucial significance in the textile industry. This trend is supported by Jowat with products from its Green Adhesives series which are sustainable and powerful at the same time and which will take center stage at the adhesive manufacturer’s booth at Techtextil this year.

Resource-saving adhesives with a certified bio-based content are an optimum choice for companies that are pursuing a sustainable reduction in their use of fossil-based raw materials. Jowatherm-Reaktant® GROW 631.20 is the first bio-based reactive PUR hot melt adhesive available for the lamination of materials in the textile and automotive industry. The product has been certified “DIN-geprüft biobased” and “Green Leaf by Intertek” and has a bio-based raw material content of more than 20 percent. Its performance characteristics are equal to the tried and trusted conventional products of the Jowat portfolio: The bio-based adhesive is manufactured at the enterprise’s headquarters in Detmold and meets high requirements concerning its wash resistance and textile feel, and provides a flexible application temperature range between 110°C and 140°C. Changeovers are very easy, it can be integrated in existing application processes.

Increased protection of employees in production is another hallmark of sustainable and responsible enterprises. Since the early 2000s, Jowat has therefore been developing PUR hot melt adhesives which are not subject to hazard labeling requirements. The resulting product group Jowatherm-Reaktant® MR supplies different reactive PUR hot melt adhesives with hazard-free labeling which are already being used successfully in a wide range of applications. Jowatherm-Reaktant® MR 630.99 now also provides a hazard-free alternative for the textile industry. Due to a free monomer isocyanate content of less than 0.1 percent, the hot melt adhesive is not subject to hazard labeling and does therefore not require compulsory training starting from 2023. On the performance side, the adhesive impresses with a broad spectrum of adhesion, good initial strength and a low processing temperature from 100°C to 130°C. It can be processed using established production machines with gravure roller or slot nozzle applicators.

The two Green Adhesives have a wide field of applications ranging from mattress and pillow case production to the manufacture of building textiles, abrasive materials, cleaning textiles and to all textile lamination operations in the automotive industry. Both adhesives of course meet the requirements under “ECO-PASSPORT by OEKO-TEX®” for the manufacturing of certified products in accordance with “Standard 100 by OEKO-TEX®.”

Find out more about Jowat Green Adhesives at the Techtextil trade fair in Frankfurt am Main, hall 11 booth C11 or at www.greenadhesives.com.

Posted: May 10, 2022

Source: Jowat SE

BB Engineering Shortlisted For Plastics Recycling Awards Europe

REMSCHEID, Germany  — May 10, 2022 — BB Engineering has been shortlisted for the prestigious Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2022 for the category Recycling Machinery Innovation with its PET recycling line VacuFil® Visco+ for fiber-to-fiber inline recycling.

“We are still a recycling newcomer and are therefore particularly proud that our technology has already convinced so far that we are now among the finalists. Our origin lies in extrusion, filtration and spinning technology. We have incorporated our decades of know-how in these fields into the development of our VacuFil® Visco+ process. We have succeeded in developing a fiber-to-fiber recycling process that produces high-quality rPET yarn. Being named a finalist is already a great achievement for us.” said Matthias Schmitz, head of Engineering Recycling Technology.

BB Engineering GmbH (BBE) is a German machine building company founded in 1997 as a joint venture between Oerlikon Barmag, a subsidiary of Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG, and Brückner Group GmbH. Today, the company employs more than 160 members of staff at its location in Remscheid, Germany. BBE is the exclusive supplier of its mother companies for extrusion systems, melt filtration technology, recycling technology (VacuFil® Visco+), compact spinning technology (VarioFil®) and air-texturized yarn (ATY) technology. Beyond that, the entire portfolio is offered to third parties within the plastics and textile industry.

The process presented as part of the award is the combined VacuFil® Visco+ with VarioFil®. This machinery enables the textile industry to perform closed-loop inline recycling of post-consumer polyester (PET) textile waste. The given recycling technology is a thermo-mechanical recycling process optimized for the textile industry. Key component here is the liquid state polycondensation reactor, known as Visco+, to adjust the intrinsic viscosity. Compared to existing fiber recycling processes, which address rather less demanding textile applications and don’t include subsequent spinning, BBE’s solution is a whole-in-one process that enables the textile industry to perform closed-loop inline recycling of post-consumer PET fiber waste even into high-tech textile yarns with low dpf-values.

The Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2022 winners will be announced on 23 June, during the second day of the Plastics Recycling Show Europe taking place at the RAI Amsterdam.

Open to organizations and individuals across Europe who are involved in the recycling of plastic materials, the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe are organized jointly by Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE) and Crain Communications, organizers of the Plastics Recycling Show Europe.

Posted: May 10, 2022

Source: BB Engineering GmbH

Cotton Merchant Reinhart Offers Organic Cotton Marked And Traceable Thanks To Haelixa

ZURICH — May 10, 2022 — Traceability is not only becoming a crucial product feature creating value for brands and manufacturers, but also for players right at the beginning of the supply chain: leading international cotton trader Reinhart offers now for the first time together with Alliance Ginneries traceable GOTS compliant cotton from Tanzania using the DNA-based traceability solution from Haelixa. The solution brings security and transparency to the spinning mill customers and their retail clients.

In this context it was important for Reinhart that the Haelixa marker is not only harmless for humans and the environment, but also GMO-free, OekoTex Standard 100 compliant and most importantly GOTS certified. Haelixa develops a unique marker for Reinhart that is then applied directly at the gin in Tanzania with the customized automated sprayer developed by Haelixa.

Spinning mills have from this week onwards the unique opportunity to buy this marked cotton from Reinhart. Traceability will be guaranteed through testing the final garment or any intermediate product to authenticate the marked organic cotton from Tanzania. A mill can buy the traceability package directly from Haelixa, which means a defined number of traceability tests will be done with the products in the Haelixa labs. Haelixa will ask the mill or the brand to send in samples to verify traceability. After each test a certificate is issued that confirms traceability of the product back to the region of Mwanza, Tanzania. Mills and brands also have the opportunity to use the “Marked & Traced by Haelixa” label to communicate the commitment to transparency through traceability to their customers.

Marco Bänninger, head trader at Reinhart, said: “Again and again we hear from our supply chain partners and especially from retailers that it is becoming more and more important to know exactly where the cotton comes from. Furthermore, they want to be sure that they are guaranteed to get the cotton for which they are paying a premium. With the Haelixa marker we would like to offer our customers an additional security.”

“We are very excited to be able to offer the first ever physically traceable organic cotton from Africa, available to be purchased by spinning mills via Reinhart. Traceability of the raw material will increase the visibility of organic cotton farmed in Africa. It is a first step towards a more significant role for the growers in the textile value chain” commented Gediminas Mikutis, CTO and co-founder of Haelixa.

Posted: May 10, 2022

Source: Haelixa AG

Circular Economy: The Future Of The Textile Industry

TW Special Report

Regeneration, along with a commitment towards limiting wasted resources by optimizing every phase of the production process; the circular economy model is now a global objective, included among the themes of fundamental importance in Agenda 2030 for sustainable development launched by the United Nations.

The core of the circular economy is the transformation of waste, beginning with prudently managing resources. Applying this paradigm to the textile sector signifies:

  • reducing waste management and disposal costs;
  • cutting down on the cost of materials;
  • limiting the use of non-renewable resources; and
  • consequently reducing environmental impact.

From a more general green economy outlook, the responses of people and businesses are increasingly important. Whereas upcycling in the textile sector is the new trend, there’s a need for an ongoing and concrete commitment by all players involved.

In 2018 the global fashion industry produced around 2.1 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions: that’s 4 percent of the overall total. Moreover, due to increasingly lower prices and revenue losses — caused by overstocks, stockouts and product returns — profit margins for major clothing retailers worldwide fell on average by 40 percent from 2016 to 2019. In 2020 this trend was further enhanced by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, which highlighted the fragility of fashion supply chain and has seen the industry suffer a whopping 90-percent drop in profits since 2019 (as reported by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation).

In terms of environmental impact, according to the European Environment Agency (EEA) 87 percent of textile waste worldwide ends up in landfills or incinerated, with less than 1 percent being recycled. As such, the UN’s plan is a call to all businesses and manufacturers, who have already responded by adopting an increasingly virtuous path towards people and the planet, weaving a viable route for the future of the textile sector on a global scale.

The contribution of ACIMIT — the Association of Italian Textile Industry Machinery Manufacturers — is part of this virtuous solution, and is concretely materialized in the Green Label. Conceived as part of the Sustainable Technologies, ACIMIT’s Green Label marks an essential step on the road towards sustainability and a circular economy.

The Green Label rewards the commitment by Italian textile machinery manufacturers to valorize solutions that respond to the need for sustainability. By measuring the energy and environmental performance of textile machinery, the Green Label certifies a machine’s value and eco-friendly efficiency, thereby providing a benchmark for its efficacy within the production cycle – as well as the manufacturer’s competitiveness on the market.

For more information visit https://www.green-label.it/en/.

This sponsored content was provided by the Italian Trade Agency (ITA).

May 10, 2022

Culp To Participate In Water Tower Research Fireside Chat Series

HIGH POINT, N.C. — May 9, 2022 — Culp,Inc. today announced that the company will participate in the Water Tower Research Fireside Chat Series on Thursday, May 12, 2022, at 1:00 p.m. ET. The event is open to the public, with registration information below.

Iv Culp, president and chief executive officer of Culp,Inc., will lead a discussion with Boyd Chumbley, president of Culp Upholstery Fabrics; Tammy Buckner, senior vice president, design and marketing for Culp Upholstery Fabrics; and Donna Morrison, vice president and creative director for Culp Upholstery Fabrics. Culp Upholstery Fabrics, the company’s upholstery fabrics division, enjoys a leading market share in upholstery fabrics sold to producers of upholstered furniture. The conversation will focus on the latest fabric innovations at Culp Upholstery Fabrics, with specific topics to include (1) consumer trend drivers, including social media influences on consumer buying habits; (2) industry trends; and (3) innovations in performance and sustainability.

The presentation will be webcast live and available for replay by visiting the Events page of the Investor Relations section of the company’s website at www.culp.com.

Investors and other persons interested in participating in this event must register using the link below. Registration for the live event is limited but may be accessed any time for replay.

Posted: May 9, 2022

Source: Culp Inc.

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