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Smart textiles global

International Standards Organization (ISO) created compressor provides operators with significantly
market size to reach
ISO 8573-1 to provide manufacturers with the ability lower maintenance requirements, including:
to define the level of tolerance for air purity in their • Fewer ancillary air system components to maintain.
compressed air system. This standard outlines the • Longer timeframes between oil changes.
US$ 5.55 billion by 2025
levels of solid particulates, water, and oil allowed • Elimination of expensive oil filters to clean the
based on the classification. compressed air.
• Elimination of oily condensate management.
Class 0, the most stringent of these classes, • Longer desiccant life of downstream air filters.
guarantees compressed air will contain <0.01 • Minimized downstream labor and outage-related costs.
The global market size of smart textiles is
Rapidly expanding fashion and entertainment
mg/m3 of total oil. The key is to select the as well as sports and fitness sector across the
expected to reach US$ 5.55 billion by 2025
Reduce energy costs
classification most appropriate for your facility. Roman Haefeli
globe is expected to increase awareness of the
with a CAGR of 30.4pc.
The more energy-efficient the compressor, the more
health benefits of smart textiles as well as
Manufacturing benefits of oil-free air direct impact the machine will have on lowering
contribute to the market growth in coming years.
Information of the wearer can be
Eliminates risk of contamination Roman Haefeli
operating expenses. Since energy costs are generally
communicated by smart textiles such as
• Delivers Peace-of-Mind – There is always a risk of 60-75% of the total life-cycle costs of an air
physiological parameters including location,
Miniature electronics will also fuel the market
contamination when compressed air encounters an compressor, overall cost savings from efficiency
heart rate, blood pressure, and temperature
growth. Industry participants are increasingly
end product; the best way around this is never to alone can result in several thousands of dollars in
focusing on reducing form factors to facilitate
which can then be used in application areas
introduce oil into your airstream in the first place. new Head of Sales
integration, to make sensors compatible with
such as sports, fitness and healthcare.
Class 0 air allows manufacturers to avoid life-cycle savings. Oil-flooded machines also require
fabric and ensure optimum comfort and wear
Moreover, the product is also used by those
contamination risks, such as an oil filter breakthrough several oil filters and oil separators in the air path to
ability. Since smart textiles are used in fields,
suffering from late-stage dementia as it can
from post-filtration, that would lower product quality, of SSM AG
clean the manufactured compressed air. Each one of
such as healthcare and sports, it has become
help refresh their sense of self. Therefore,
increase the risk of product recalls and result in these items will cause a pressure drop across the
wide usage of internet and growth in wireless
increasingly important to ensure that the user
unnecessary downtime. Contamination risks can filter, resulting in lower air pressure delivery
technology are expected to have a positive
harm your brand reputation, your bottom line and is not hindered through the use of
electronic fabric.
impact on the market growth.
even worse, the health of your customers. downstream in the plant. The decrease in pressure
means the compressor must work harder to maintain
• Protects Your Assets – Oil-lubricated compressors Increasing customer demands require increasing sales AD
the demand needed for the plant creating lower
It’s been long since mechano-textile industry tried to For the very first time, AQUARIA leaves behind the will always have a trace amount of oil in the air they service responsibilities. To strengthen the worldwide
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efficiencies and higher energy costs.
offer machineries that could perform special non-continuous in rope process and focuses on produce. Trace oil can build-up on pneumatic team and to achieve complete customer satisfaction,
treatments for fabrics. It was strictly necessary to go open width continuous process. Straight aware of equipment and other valuable assets that use SSM Schärer Schweiter Mettler AG is pleased to
Why do industries choose oil-free air compressors?
from the non-continuous process – costing time and what it means in terms of advantages – no marks or compressed air, which in turn increases maintenance announce the appointment of Roman Haefeli as Head of
Compressed air comes in contact with nearly
money – to continuous, with the guarantee of results crease marks, no need to re-open the fabric – you and replacement costs. ® Sales.
BRIO 24 machineries. AQUARIA allows a large
discovered by the worlds of textile and fashion.
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repeatability and of a quantitatively higher can finally be as free as water and think about new number of washing processes, i.e. enzyme everything, including finished products. Avoiding the
WWF to help cotton growers to
risk of oil contaminating the air supply is especially
production, so that no market ended up being products to display to clients. Or realize a product Reduces environmental impact As of January 1st 2019 Roman Haefeli has started as
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treatments, fibrillation and defibrillation (tencel),
important to the textiles. A quality stream of
excluded. And, above all, to go from in rope you’ve been thinking about for so long, and that now • Minimize Oil Usage – Oil-flooded screw Head of Sales and member of the management board of
BIANCALANI s.r.l.
bio-polishing, desizing, bleaching, weight reduction,
compressed air for spinning machines and air-jet
processing to open width. But not only this. In the thanks to AQUARIA you can actually create. compressors require 55 gallons of oil every six to SSM Horgen. Mr. Haefeli holds a degree in mechanical
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Biancalani textile machinery designs and
increase production
degumming and others, in order to achieve very
looms is crucial to prevent fabric staining and
textile finishing, similar machineries already existed – twelve months for an oil change. This oil must then engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of
manufactures 100% Made in Italy textile finishing
special results, among which:
production loss. Mandating the highest class of air
both open width and continuous. But what didn’t Furthermore, the fashion industry asks for fabrics be properly disposed of following the appropriate Technology (ETH) and many years of experience in
machinery for the main finishing treatments in the
• Delavé and color reduction
purity is essential for delivering high quality, oil-free,
textile and nonwoven industry.
exist was a machinery that does all this DURING the realized following very specific processes, that are governing authority guidelines. Oil-free compressors research, development, operations and sales. SSM
• Tencel and lyocell fibrillation and defibrillation
manufactured products.
washing process with transport of the fabric obtained obtained only thanks to a deep mechanical washing do not require oil as part of the compression process welcomes Roman Haefeli and wishes him a good start
• Enzyme washing
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) will help the south
Speaking on the occasion, Dr Zahid Mehmood,
Founded in Prato in 1957 by Fiorenzo Biancalani,
completely by air. Finally, it does. And is called action and a high dwelling time inside the bath during and as a result, only need oil changes every two to and a lot of success and fulfillment in his new function.
• Sense effect on cupro and blends
CCRI Director said, “The prime objective of the
Punjab cotton growers to improve production and
over the years the company has made a name for
AQUARIA . the cycle in the machinery. three years. Is oil-free air right for you?
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• Opalescence
Taste for invention is back and has been the fil rouge order to be able to create something unusual • Eliminate Condensate Disposal – When operating Rastgar invites you to allow the application engineers
increase per acre yield under a Memorandum of
consultation was making cotton crop more
itself on the market both thanks to the constant
• Frosting effect
during fashion weeks all over the world. The key according to the look, the touch and the textile The textile industry is full of creativity, but they’re also AQUARIA is all of this and so much more. A an oil-flooded compressor, significant amounts of Rieter is the world’s leading supplier of systems for
for compressor life-cycle cost calculation to find out
environment-friendly, reducing expenses and
Understanding (MoU) signed between the
activity of its Research and Development department,
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concept is to turn an already excellent product into a performances. That’s the key concept for textile aware of obstacles in the production process. And it machinery based on the AIRO® technology and oil-contaminated condensate must be properly short-staple fiber spinning. Based in Winterthur
helping the growers for better cultivation and
what you are currently spending at your plant and
organization and the Punjab Agriculture
which has led it to producing increasingly innovative
Also, the modularity of AQUARIA meets any
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special one, going the extra mile. With all this in mind, production for years to come. And it’s thanks to water often happens that designers’ requests crash against more than 30-year know how that distinguishes disposed of to safeguard the environment. To ensure (Switzerland), the company develops and manufactures
review what you could potentially save by
Department.
growth of cotton.”
finishing textile machines, and to the internal
production need. But above all, AQUARIA is a
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the textile world is getting ready for Texworld Paris, that textile finishers can actually be of inspiration for the real production possibilities. Until now. In fact, Biancalani in the international mechano-textile compliance, governing authorities often monitor and machinery, systems and components used to convert
transitioning to oil-free technology.
Technological Department where customers can go
machinery that puts into effect any new request. It’s a
Milano Unica and Denim Première Vision – with designers: in fact, some particular colors and textile Manufacturers around the world are tasked with Oil-free air compressors are becoming more and regulate the disposal of contaminated condensate. natural and manmade fibers and their blends into yarns.
Dr Zahid Mehmood further highlighted that the
The WWF would hold workshops with the growers
to ask for advice on certain treatments and to verify
according to specific requests, ideas and dreams
market.
totally new world of potentialities ready to be
denim market share always increasing, as predicted structure definitions can be reached only by finding opportunities to lower their operating costs more popular for their ability to reduce maintenance Condensate from oil-free compressors can be easily SSM Textile Machinery, based in Horgen (Switzerland), is
Rastgar & Co is authorized distributor of Gardner
under the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) programme.
challenges being faced by cotton crop and said,
the achievable results for their fabrics.
they came across, Biancalani Textile Machinery
by WSGN trend forecasting agency. undergoing specific washing processes. Special while maintaining a consistent, high-quality product and energy costs, minimize environmental footprint ® discarded or even recycled for other uses within the plant. a subsidiary of the Rieter Group. SSM is the world’s
Denver’s CompAir brand of Oil-Free Air Compressors
In this connection, the WWF held its first
“The use of most modern ecology was inevitable
created AQUARIA , such a new textile machinery
But what’s that “much more” of AQUARIA ? That’s
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processes. And here mechano-textile industry comes with little to no impact on the environment. For many and the possibility of product contamination. consultation meeting in collaboration with the leading supplier of precision winding machines in the
in Pakistan with complete aftermarket support. Learn
for better production of the crop. The CCRI held a
that, with any production obstacles completely
pretty easy to say. Operators got the makings of
More and more often, designers seem to look for into play and that’s where the makings of textile and industries, employing an air compressor that AQUARIA at once during ITMA 2019, when it was Reduce maintenance costs fields of dyeing, weaving and sewing thread preparation
joint consultation session with the WWF to provide
BIANCALANI s.r.l. exclusive agent for Pakistan is MUSTEX Corporation - Karachi. www.mustexcorporation.com
Multan Central Cotton Research Institute which
more https://rastgar-co.com/products/oil-free/
overcome, it gives you the freedom to think about
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textiles that underwent manufacturing processes fashion actually spring. And also, AQUARIA comes provides ISO 8573-1 Class 0 certified oil-free air is The degree of air purity required varies based on the Switching from an oil-flooded to an oil-free air and enjoys success in individual segments of filament
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(by Mr Imtiaz Rastgar).
a platform to all cotton growers.”
was attended by a large number of growers.
brand new manufacturing processes.
presented together with AIRO24EVO5, AIRBOX and
which are not strictly necessary but truly original, in into play. Patented by Biancalani. one way to achieve these objectives. risk tolerance for any industrial process. The yarn production.
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