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INNOVATION:

IT’S IN

New upgrade OUR DNA

transforms swisstextilemachinery.ch

the ACW into

WINGS

Oerlikon Barmag ACW WINGS
Recently, upgrades and retrofits were made available more compact and also guides the yarn using rollers
for Oerlikon Barmag ACW-series winders, with which instead of yarn guides. This minimizes friction for the
the benefits of the WINGS concept become tangibly yarn and the angles of deflection remain the same,
close for operators of POY spinning systems which in turn optimizes the yarn tension on all
equipped with ACW technology. World- wide, packages.
thousands of winders could take advantage of this
system upgrade. Already being used in China
The first expansion phase with 96 positions is already
In addition to savings in terms of energy, waste and successfully operating at Chinese polyester yarn
HR, the benefits of the WINGS concept above all manufacturer Zhejiang Rongsheng. “We achieved
include the consistently high yarn quality, making excellent yarn values after just four days. The yarns
are of AA quality for a full package rate of 98% and a
WINGS yarn a winner in further processing. Particu- yarn break rate of 0.5 per ton”, summarizes Xu
larly with regards to its dyeing properties, the yarn is Yongming, Plant Manager at Rongsheng, talking
considerably superior to products manufactured about the upgrade package. “This has allowed us to
using conventional winder technology. once again become one of the top manufacturers
with our ACW yarns.” A second expansion phase
Yarn producers can now also achieve these typical with 88 further positions will follow at the end of 2019.
WINGS properties with ACW winders – with a cor-
responding system upgrade. The ACW WINGS The conversion package is also particularly Vevey, Switzerland, 1819: François-Louis Cailler invents the now-familiar tablet format for
conversion components and ACW upgrades for draw interesting as a result of its fast ROI chocolate. His simple idea makes chocolate available and affordable worldwide. Today,
units can be installed as plug-in units in virtually no (return-on-investment) of less than one year. ACW
time at all, hence minimizing system downtimes. WINGS is available for all ACW-type POY / HOY winders one billion Swiss-made chocolate bars are produced each year.
Analog to WINGS, the new ACW WINGS draw unit is for polyester, polyamide 6 and polyamide 6.6.

April/May 2020 Invented in Switzerland. Where the same innovative spirit drives textile progress today.