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world of textiles Europe References Special Issue www.monforts.com T Competence in Technical Textiles AHEAD OF PROGRESS Our Product Range Suitable for Stretching Ranges Ⅲ Ⅲ Glas Fibre Fabrics Flow Through Dryers Ⅲ Ⅲ Light Protection Belt Dryers Ⅲ Ⅲ Tarpaulins High Temperature Stenters Ⅲ Ⅲ Billboards Vertical Dryers Ⅲ Ⅲ Artificial Leather Finishing Ranges Ⅲ Ⅲ Floor Coverings Universal Dryers Ⅲ Ⅲ Artificial Grass TwinTherm Dryers Ⅲ Ⅲ Nonwovens Thermobonding Ranges Ⅲ Ⅲ Spacers Coating Lines Ⅲ Ⅲ Membranes A. Monforts Textilmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG Germany | A member of CHTC Fong’s Group www.monforts.com Retaining a lead in Europe In this special publication for Of this 181 billion value, 33% ITMA 2019 in Barcelona, we are is achieve€d by clothing, 17% by celebrating the achievements of conventional trading in fabrics, Monforts customers here in our 15% by home textiles and 17% European markets. by industrial and technical In attempting to convey the textiles. importance of the European All these market segments are textiles and clothing industry to its served by Monforts products, overall economy, Lutz Walter, and at ITMA 2019 you’ll find director of innovation and skills at innovations built on Industry 4.0 Euratex – the European Textile possibilities and our long history and Apparel Council – notes that of accumulated expertise across the list price of a new Airbus all clusters of the textile chain. A350-900 wide-body jet airliner is Virtual and remote control of around 275 million. our plant technologies, including This m€eans that EU exports of digital twinning and complete textiles and clothing outside the automation, are just a few of the block alone are the annual concepts you can find out about equivalent of purchasing over 350 for our advanced textile finishing of these latest Airbus planes, so and coating systems, by visiting A. Monforts Textilmaschinen there is no need to be modest us at ITMA 2019 in Barcelona, in GmbH & Co. KG about the achievements of our Hall 2, at stand D101. Postfach 10 17 01 customers. And it’s only the start of what D-41017 Mönchengladbach Euratex puts the overall annual we intend to achieve in the next Blumenberger Straße 143-145 value of EU textiles and clothing at years for the continued success D-41061 Mönchengladbach 181 billion, without including the of our valued customers in Telefon: +49 - (0) - 21 61-401-0 Telefax: +49 - (0) - 21 61-401-498 c€ontribution of key countries such Europe – and globally. Internet: www.monforts.de as Switzerland and Turkey. The eMail: [email protected] industry has certainly rallied since the recession of 2009, when it hit a Stefan Flöth low of 150 billion, but at the same Managing Director time, h€as become more diversified over the years since then. PUBLISHED BY MONFORTS MARKETING GROUP Monforts customers featured in this issue: Cover : The Monforts “Digital Twin” with Arta, ATB, Bethge, Boyahanesi, BWF, Hugotag, GTA, Mariani, Smart Services and Smart Controls for the highest productivity and availability. Riopele, Schoeller, Tapetex, Tinfer, Van Clewe, Vaz da Costa. World of Textiles | Europe | 3 www.monforts.com IOT Industry 4.0 Innovations are here Monforts technology is providing the full flexibility in coating and finishing that advanced European textile manufacturers now need to successfully negotiate the diverse markets they serve, writes the company’s Head of Technical Textiles, Jürgen Hanel. The in stant connectivity and easy including ‘digital twin’ capability All specifications relating to distribution of know-how is for all of its machine systems. machine performance and the changing the face of industrial By exploiting the latest production process can be manufacturing, making the advanced sensor technology, mapped, to enable vastly operation of complex machinery 100% comprehensive technical simplified and targeted analysis much simpler and cutting down machine data is now virtually for controlled planning and the required training periods, mapped in the cloud in real production. Insights harnessed while at the same time, reducing time. from such analysis can be the chance of human error. This digital mirror can be used to optimise the actual At ITMA 2019 in Barcelona, easily consulted using the new production process. Monforts will demonstrate a range Monforts Smart Support and At the same time, potential of new advances made possible Smart Check apps for an instan - sources of error can be by Industry 4.0 techniques, taneous status overview. anticipated and eliminated, ‘Digital Twinning’ is the latest Industry 4.0 concept from Monforts. 4 | World of Textiles | Europe | TECHNICAL TEXTILES enabling improved machine availability while considerably minimising downtime. Virtual monitoring On request, Monforts can also virtually monitor machine performance and pro-actively alert customers to the need for preventative action. In such cases, however, data is only ever called from the cloud by Monforts when customers have given their full consent, in the interests of data security. Data from Smart Check, for example, can even be used to A modern coating range with an integrated Monforts texCoat unit installed in Germany. analyse a system’s energy requirements, allowing machine operation to be optimised by systems and Eco Applicator, These very different materials, tailoring production runs to texCoat and Allround coating however, have one thing in the peaks and troughs of units. common – they all require expert electricity costs. coating and finishing for The Monforts digital twin Coating advances maximum efficiency and the system and apps, along with our Since we acquired the coating technology to allow for ultimate Qualitex control system, are being technology that our texCoat and flexibility and the ability to switch made available for all of our Allround systems are based on in quickly from one fabric formula to machine ranges going forward, 2015, Monforts has also made a the next, without compromising including Montex stenters, lot of refinements resulting in on the economical use of energy Thermex and E-Control higher coating accuracy and the or raw materials. continuous dyeing ranges, resulting quality of the treated Monfortex and Toptex shrinking fabrics, especially for manufac - Modules turers of technical textiles. The introduction of the latest Technical textiles are extremely Monforts multi-functional coating diverse in their end-use heads for the company’s applications and manufacturers industrial texCoat and Allround can be called upon to quickly coating units offer an unprece - produce a succession of dented range of options, with materials with widely differing modules available for: properties and performance • Screen printing. applications – often within a • Magnetic roller coating. single shift. • Knife coating (two versions For customers of Monforts, for differing applications). these range from substrates for Monforts is also now offering the digitally-printed soft signage to coating roller for the texCoat and carbon fabrics for today’s high- Allround coating units as an performance composites, and optional carbon fibre version, in from filter media which must order to meet even the highest perform in extreme temperatures level of coating accuracy that is to flame retardant barrier fabrics. being demanded by the most Then there are the heavy duty exacting customers today. membranes which are employed The carbon rollers provide the in the collection and storage of extreme stiffness necessary to methane in biogas plants, as well deal with the winding tension as materials equipped with required in the processing of sensors and electrical conductors materials such as prepregs for which are now used as base composites and other liners in DSC solar cells, to name heavyweight fabrics, but at the just a few examples. same time, a significant World of Textiles | Europe | 5 www.monforts.com improvement in coating accuracy manufacturing from a single Organic solvents is achieved, even for very source here in Europe. There has been a wariness about lightweight flexible materials. In handling organic solvents, but in addition, the surfaces of the Quick changes the end, they’re not as difficult to rollers are protected against both On the Allround, the modular coat on textile substrates as they abrasion and damage from coating heads can be quickly and are on plastic films where they’re aggressive chemicals by a special easily changed via a specially- already widely used, and they ceramic coating. A further benefit designed undercarriage from offer a lot of possibilities for is that the rollers are much easier the side of the unit, allowing companies to explore and to clean. it to be readily adapted for develop entirely new products – Nowadays we are the only different applications. especially in fields such as manufacturer which can offer The Montex Allround consists of medical and filtration. completely integrated coating a load cell, a spreading unit and a Nevertheless, they do require a lines from a single source and the pulling device along with the highly-controlled and contained coating machine is tailored to the selected coating head. It allows for environment, and this was a key subsequent Monforts drying the tension-free coating of the consideration when constructing technology – with all the benefits substrate along a greatly-reduced the technical textiles line that is resulting from a fully integrated web path and a very short period available for trials at the Advanced plc control. of ‘open’ coating prior to it Technology Centre
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