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Monforts held two successful seminars on green hydrogen as a new energy source at ITMA 2023 Digitalisation enabled the versatility of the latest Montex Coat coating unit
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Center (ATC) in Germany. amounts of water during the cleaning cycle, and the
entire process is controlled and monitored
automatically.
“Green hydrogen’s potential as a clean fuel source is
Laser-focused tremendous, but there is much we need to explore Montex®Coat
when considering its use in the textile finishing
Digitalisation affords further options for savings to be
processes carried out globally on our stenter dryers
made for customers in the consumption of energy,
and other machines,” says Monforts Managing
Director Gunnar Meyer. “Everybody knows that textile
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versatility of the latest Montex Coat coating unit
finishing is a high energy consuming process and to water and raw materials, as well as enabling the German Review
make the processes more efficient, we already offer displayed at ITMA 2023.
several solutions, but as a technology leader we are
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also rising to the challenge of exploring alternative The Montex Coat can serve a very diverse number of
heating options to be ready for the future.” markets and enables full PVC coatings, pigment
dyeing or minimal application surface and low
Retrofit options penetration treatments, as well as solvent coatings.
The cost of energy remains a major concern for Knife coating, roller coating or screen printing can
textile manufacturers and for the latest Monforts also all be accommodated with this system.
stenters, the MonforClean heat recovery system with
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air/air or/and air/water is fully integrated into the As such, the Montex Coat provides the ultimate in
stenter chamber. In combination with other new flexibility and the ability to switch quickly from one
features, this results in energy savings of up to 43%. fabric run to the next, without compromising on the
As a modular system, it can also be extended for economical use of energy or raw materials.
exhaust air cleaning and oil and smoke reduction.
Many refinements have been made to the
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The company also offers a number of options for Montex Coat in the past few years, resulting in higher
retrofitting to existing lines such as the Monforts coating accuracy and the resulting quality of the
universal Energy Tower – a flexible, free-standing treated fabrics. Most recently, automatic edge limiters
air/air heat exchanger for recovering the heat from have been introduced for immediately adapting to
the exhaust airflow of thermal processes. It can result new coating widths saving considerable time in
in a 25% reduction in the energy consumed by a line, setting up the machine and ensuring consistent
depending on the exhaust air volume and operating production.
temperature.
“Digitalisation and sustainability really go hand in
A Monforts Eco Booster, integrated into the chamber hand for all textile technology companies nowadays,”
design of the Montex stenter, is another retrofitting says Meyer. “It is through digitalization that further
option. As a single heat recovery system with resource and machine efficiencies are being realized
automatic cleaning, it can be added to existing through complete control, not only of individual
ranges and up to 35% of energy costs can be saved. machines but of synchronized and integrated lines
In addition, the Eco Booster consumes only minimal and full manufacturing plants.”

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