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Demsan & Zakaria Trading- A Name

that Pakistani textile trust in

Demsan is a well-known leading manufacturer of Being focused on the Asian market along with the
textile machines and is operational in Turkey since Middle East and European countries, the company
1978. The company started its operations by has received an amazing response from the textile Marcin Kopaczka (LfB) and Marco Saggiomo (ITA) with the award-winning image processing system
manufacturing the precision plating machine and market. Demsan consider Pakistan as one of its Image processing
with continuous success has now come up to the major markets and strive to serve maximum needs
level of professional expertise where it is able to of the industry. Demsan has earned a huge success
manufacture about 11 different types of machines. from the industry and is the reason why it keeps system allows cost
looking for opportunities to invest its time and efforts
Customer expectations have always remained the in events like GTex. savings of more than
core focus of the Demsan. The company is focused
on making sure that the product quality is constant Zakaria Trading International is the most trusted
in any case and always remain on the higher side. agent of Demsan in Pakistan. Zakaria trading has 2,000 euros per year
With the comprehensive research and development helped the Demsan to sale about 70 Demsan
systems, the company is working continuously for machines to major companies including; Indigo
further up-gradation of the quality of machines it offers. textile, Soorty Enterprises, Rajby Textile, Siddiqsons, Researcher MSc Marco Saggiomo from the Institut für
Rizwan Enterprises, Union Fabrics, Bhanero Group Textiltechnik (ITA) and graduate engineer Marcin Kopaczka
Being associated with the home textile for many (Faisal Weaving), Sapphire textile etc. from the Institute of Imaging & Computer Vision of RWTH
generations Demsan impressively keeps the Aachen University (LfB) developed an image processing
tradition of always serving the said consistencies. The main product of the company include packing system for weaving machines that provides
This is the reason why Demsan is horizontally an machine, Spreading machine, Wet rope opening comprehensive benefits for woven fabric producers. The
integrated company in the industry. With a year of machine, Batch to Batch machine, Plating machine, image processing system enables the weaving machine to
experience and expertise the company now proudly detect faulty pickings autonomously.
owns several hundreds of satisfied customer that Rolling machine, Beam winding machine, Precision
are running Demsan machine in Turkey as well as in plaiting machine and double & twise double folding The researchers won the “Best Student Paper Award”
another part of the world. machine. within the framework of the 7th International Conference on
Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM)
for their joint paper on “Fully Automatic Faulty Weft Thread
Detection using a Camera System and Feature-based
Pattern Recognition”. The award confirms the success of
the co-operation of both institutes, ITA and LfB, which will
be continued in future research projects.

The application of the image processing system
leads to cost savings of at least 2,210 euros per year
for each weaving machine in comparison to manual
faulty picking repairs.

The image processing system is part of the doctoral thesis
of Marco Saggiomo. Marcin Kopaczka supported ITA with
the development of the image processing algorithm.

The joint paper is based on the successfully concluded
project WeftAlert within the framework of the German
Federation of Industrial Research Associations. Further
Farooq Zakaria and Tuncay DEMiRCi at GTex Karachi results of the WeftAlert project include the extension of the
state of the art of image-based process optimisation of
air-jet weaving, excellent outcomes in image processing
as well as the validation of image processing systems in
laboratory and industrial environments.
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