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KARL MAYER’s denim
business is booming
Jeans are, and will continue to be, a top fashion
trend, and its denim business is extremely lucrative
for KARL MAYER. With its Centre of Excellence for the
denim sector, KARL MAYER ROTAL, the global player
can offer one-stop solutions for slasher and rope
dyeing. Compared to conventional machines
available on the market, the PRODYE-S and
PRODYE-R indigo dyeing machines from this Italian
subsidiary consume less water, produce less waste
and enable deeper, brighter indigo shades to be
produced. The dye add-on as a percentage of the
total yarn weight is 5.5 % maximum. This warp
preparation equipment is also highly productive. The
PRODYE-S can double output when processing
lightweight denim. The market has been extremely
impressed by the performance offered by KARL
MAYER ROTAL’s indigo dyeing machines. Demand
has been increasing continuously since 2015, and
has been especially high this year. Turkey, in
particular, has placed a large number of orders.
A large number of orders were placed in 2017
Turkey is a lucrative market for KARL MAYER ROTAL.
Many large denim producers there are already
working with the PRODYE-S machine and have
placed follow-up orders this year. Follow-up orders
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Designed by experts
General view on PRODYE
have also been received from companies in Mexico.
Machines have also been delivered to companies
that are new to this technology – in Turkey and Iran
as well. Turkish companies are also contributing to
the success of the PRODYE-R. This rope dyeing
machine was only delivered in May 2017. It was sent
to Algeria as part of a large project, under the
auspices of TAYAL, a joint venture involving the
participation of the Turkish company, Taypa. Turkey
invested in another PRODYE-R machine in the
autumn of this year.
KARL MAYER ROTAL invited any specialists who
were interested to travel to Vietnam to see a practical
demonstration of its indigo dyeing machine. One
customer, who has been working with the PRODYE-S
since February 2017, made his company available for
the open-house show, and reported on his
experiences. The event was attended by a small yet
highly qualified group of people. The visitors came
mainly from the host country, but also from Hong
Kong, Indonesia and China. The next opportunity to
see KARL MAYER ROTAL’s DENIM machines will be
at the ITM International Textile Machinery Exhibition in
Istanbul, which will take place from 14 to
17 April 2018.
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What makes PRODYE so interesting for the denim they offer numerous advantages,” says Dieter Gager,
the Sales Director. The PROSIZE® uses up to 10%
sector is that it is based on well-thought-out
less size than similar conventional systems on the
components. One of these innovative elements is the
market. Uniformity is improved and less fibre dust is
Double Vario dyebath, which operates on the basis of produced, which improves weaving efficiency. It is
a well-thought-out cross-flow system for perfect dye
ergonomically designed and provides greater
liquor circulation to give a uniform dyeing result.
process transparency. With an operating rate of up to
Additionally, the Quick Oxidation zone operates with
180 m/min, it is extremely fast and can also be used
temperature-controlled air flow to guarantee uniform
dye uptake. Rejects are also reduced and the colour flexibly. The yarn sizing range, which depends on the
number of yarns and the yarn count, may be up to
tone of the warp yarn sheet is more uniform than with 20% higher than on conventional sizing machines.
conventional techniques. The working width is 3,200 mm maximum. Another
advantage of the PROSIZE® is that it reduces the
The third important guarantee of success is the number of rejects, because stoppage marks caused
PROSIZE® sizing machine, which is equipped with by over-sizing are greatly reduced, even when the
the VSB and HSB size boxes. “These size application machine is stopped for long periods.
Trützschler will take over the complete
responsibility for the combing business
Combing installation with Toyota Trützschler Comber TCO 12
Toyota Industry Corporation, Japan, and Trützschler complete responsibility from Toyota for the comber
GmbH & Co. KG, Germany, had started in 2010 a business from engineering up to sales, service and
successful cooperation with a joint development of a spare parts as of the effective date 1st November
new combing machine - the TCO12 - which was 2017. This also includes HARA service and spare
parts business which will be handled by Truetzschler
exhibited at the ITMA Asia in Shanghai 2012 first time. exclusively starting 1st February 2018.
Since that time both companies have sold already After about five years of successful cooperation both
several hundred machines worldwide including the companies Toyota and Truetzschler have now come
newly developed Super Lap TSL12. The installations to this new arrangement in order to strengthen their
are running to the satisfaction of our customers. complementary partnership by focussing their
individual efforts for further innovations and services
Now it is agreed that Truetzschler will take over the to the markets.
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