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ThermoStretch which carefully measures and controls the fabric width & skewing.
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
differentiation possibilities. thermal transfer and keeps the drying energy on the

The Monforts ThermoStretch unit carries out the
skewing (weft straightening), stretching and drying in
a continuous process. A modified hotflue with
reinforced and adjustable rolls for determining the
longitudinal tension within the fabric, the
ThermoStretch benefits from a structure detector with Thermo Stretch to measures and controls the fabric width & skewing
Pleva SD 1 camera technology employing
transmission and reflection lighting for the highest textile material longer,” says Monforts Vice President
detection capability, in order to carefully measure and Sales and Marketing Klaus A. Heinrichs. “As a result
control the fabric width and the skewing. energy savings of up to 50% are being achieved. We
will be introducing a number of new innovations for
Due to its large number of guide rolls, it is possible to denim in the near future, including a solution for the
stretch damp fabric in a heated chamber at a introduction of two-way super stretch into denim in a
longitudinal tension of between 200-300 N with the single processing step.”
ThermoStretch, compared to the high forces of up to

As the number one supplier of finishing ranges to the A significant portion of these resources, however, can
denim industry globally, the benefits of the latest be wasted without precise feeding, monitoring
Monfort Eco Line are already being enjoyed by and control.
several of the sector’s leading manufacturers in both This is an issue that Monforts engineers have
Asia and South America. successfully addressed with the Eco Line for denim,
based on two key technology advances – the Eco
Denim manufacturing consumes huge amounts of Applicator for minimum application of the selected
energy and resources at virtually all stages of moist finishing chemicals and the ThermoStretch.
production, but especially during shrink finishing, and
on conventional ranges, large volumes of water, As an alternative to conventional padding, especially
steam, chemicals and thermal energy are required. for wet-in-wet solutions, the Monforts Eco Applicator The Monforts ThermoStretch.

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