Loepfe journey marked with many pioneer milestones and still have a long mile to go.
TEXtalks: Loepfe was established 60 years ago, so how was the journey for Loepfe to reach where they are today?
Silvano Auciello: Loepfe was established in 1955 and you can see our journey was marked with many pioneer milestones. We started with our weft stop motions and then we shifted from solutions for weaving to solutions for the spinning mills. We moved from weft stop motions to yarn clearers and so introduced electronics into the textile world. We then moved on with other milestones such as thermocutters on up to full foreign matter detection for yarn clearers in which Loepfe was the pioneer for such solutions. The next steps were hairiness detection on our yarn clearers, online perfection monitoring and polypropylene detection. We have developed into a corporate management system that is close to an industry 4.0 solution.
TEXtalks: What is the basic concept behind “BUILT TO SEE MORE”.
Silvano Auciello: Loepfe has always believed in the optical assessment of the quality in either our weaving solutions or in spinning. Therefore our yarn clearers are always based on the optical assessment of the yarn quality which is where we see the link between inspecting the yarn, measuring the yarn visibly and thus enabling our customers to assess quality of the yarn with our optical system.
TEXtalks: How do you see how Loepfe has changed over the last five years?
Silvano Auciello: Loepfe is very active in weaving with our division for weaving solutions. For over 40 years, we have had a division for spinning solutions with yarn clearers, yarn clearers for open end and mill monitoring. We have now moved on by adding a laboratory division. Over the last few years, we have been developing the idea to propose solutions in the laboratory as well.
TEXtalks: How is Loepfe is working towards industry 4.0?
Silvano Auciello: Our data collection system Millmaster TOP serves collecting quality data from our clearers and other devices, analyzing the data and making these data available in a cloud solution with worldwide access for our customers.
TEXtalks: As an innovative company, what are Loepfe’s goals in the coming years?
Silvano Auciello: In the coming years, we will work on a system which can check and monitor the yarn quality of the textile from the fiber to the yarn.
TEXtalks: What are Loepfe’s main products and how important is the Pakistan market for your products?
Silvano Auciello: At the moment, our main product is the YARNMASTER line. This not only provides yarn clearers for the winding machines but also yarn clearers for open end machines. Our Millmaster TOP is also a main product. These products are also sold in Pakistan which is one of the seven largest markets and has always been a very important market for Loepfe.
