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Continuous

developments for

denim

can significantly reduce the amount of applied 4,000 N that have previously been required to finish a
humidity required prior to the stretching and skewing typical denim fabric with a starting width of 157cm
of the denim fabric. It also allows mills to apply and a finished width of 151cm.
finishes to just one side of the fabric, or both, and
even to apply separate finishes to each side, or to “Due to these innovations, the Eco Line system
specific areas of a fabric, for endless denim reduces energy requirements and losses, increases
Denim finishing range at customer BERTO in Italy Advanced technical textile web finished on the Monforts TT-Range
differentiation possibilities. thermal transfer and keeps the drying energy on the
At this year’s ITMA Asia + CITME, in Hall 6 at booth out the skewing (weft straightening), stretching and
H6/D05, visitors can learn about the company’s latest drying in a continuous process. The Monforts ThermoStretch unit carries out the
Qualitex 800 control system, which along with the skewing (weft straightening), stretching and drying in
Web-UI app, allows the remote visualisation of “The Eco Line system reduces energy requirements a continuous process. A modified hotflue with
Monforts technologies via smart phones and and losses, increases thermal transfer and keeps the reinforced and adjustable rolls for determining the
tablet devices. drying energy on the textile material longer,” says longitudinal tension within the fabric, the
Monforts Area Sales Director and Head of Product ThermoStretch benefits from a structure detector with
Resource efficiency is being addressed via the latest Management for Denim Hans Wroblowski. “As a Pleva SD 1 camera technology employing
technologies such as the company’s Eco Line for result energy savings of up to 50% are being transmission and reflection lighting for the highest textile material longer,” says Monforts Vice President
denim, based on two key technology advances – the achieved.” detection capability, in order to carefully measure and Sales and Marketing Klaus A. Heinrichs. “As a result
Eco Applicator for minimum application of the control the fabric width and the skewing. energy savings of up to 50% are being achieved. We
selected finishing chemicals and the ThermoStretch. Monforts is also the only manufacturer which is able will be introducing a number of new innovations for
to offer completely integrated coating lines from a Due to its large number of guide rolls, it is possible to denim in the near future, including a solution for the
As an alternative to conventional padding, especially single source and at ITMA Asia + CITME 2018, the stretch damp fabric in a heated chamber at a introduction of two-way super stretch into denim in a
for wet-in-wet solutions, the Monforts Eco Applicator company’s specialists will be on hand to explain how longitudinal tension of between 200-300 N with the single processing step.”
can significantly reduce the amount of finishing its latest coating heads are being tailored to drying ThermoStretch, compared to the high forces of up to
chemicals required prior to the stretching and technology for maximum benefits.
skewing of the denim fabric.
For an unprecedented range of options, Monforts As the number one supplier of finishing ranges to the A significant portion of these resources, however, can
In many textile mills globally, the cost of energy for now offers multi-functional coating heads for both its denim industry globally, the benefits of the latest be wasted without precise feeding, monitoring
running integrated manufacturing lines – especially industrial texCoat and Allround coating units. Module Monfort Eco Line are already being enjoyed by and control.
those for fabric finishing that can involve numerous options include those for screen printing, magnetic several of the sector’s leading manufacturers in both This is an issue that Monforts engineers have
sequences of heating and subsequent drying – is coating and knife coating, either integrated into new Asia and South America. successfully addressed with the Eco Line for denim,
now eclipsing the cost of paying people to operate lines or retrofitted into existing installations. based on two key technology advances – the Eco
them. The ability of the Eco Applicator to significantly Denim manufacturing consumes huge amounts of Applicator for minimum application of the selected
reduce energy costs has seen it rapidly accepted on “Our system has the shortest fabric path from the energy and resources at virtually all stages of moist finishing chemicals and the ThermoStretch.
the market. coating unit into the stenter and all of these options production, but especially during shrink finishing, and
are available in wider widths,” says the company’s on conventional ranges, large volumes of water, As an alternative to conventional padding, especially
The Monforts ThermoStretch unit meanwhile carries Head of Technical Textiles, Jürgen Hanel. steam, chemicals and thermal energy are required. for wet-in-wet solutions, the Monforts Eco Applicator

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