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innovations at the ITMA ASIA
BONAS, trendsetter in jacquard weaving, will present Bonas’ other successful Jacquard range, the Ji, is of
their latest innovations at ITMA ASIA 2018. The Si course displayed as well. This model is available from
range, known as trailblazer in jacquard weaving 1.920 up to 5.760 hooks. The Ji is manufactured in a
state-of-the-art factory in Belgium as well as in a
brand new plant in Nanjing. Nanjing is producing
exclusively for the Chinese market. Hundreds of Ji’s
are installed in several countries for numerous
weaving applications.
At ITMA Asia, a Ji5 equipped with 5.000 hooks will
weave Furnishing Fabrics on a Picanol GT Max-340
cm. A Ji2 with 2688 hooks will produce Terry Towels
on a Rifa Air Jet. Another 6 Ji’s will be on display at
the exhibition weaving from Label over Terry to
Furnishing fabrics.
Bonas’ Ji range, already producing in many countries
worldwide, uses the best jacquard technology. The
Ji2 jacquard with 2.688 hooks on a rapier loom weaving designs on double width in 8 repeats synergy of the micro-selection technology and the
thanks to its most compact design, lightweight, low state-of-the-art, maintenance-free drive mechanism
energy consumption and high efficiency is now with integrated dwell, makes the Ji the reference in
available from 2.688 up to 31.104 hooks, the largest jacquard double width weaving. Superior technology
single jacquard machine available on the market. at the best price. All the machines are equipped with
the latest BONAS Ci Controller.
The Linux based BONAS Ci controller and software
offer solutions for every weaving application. Use of
icons on a 10.4” touch screen is user friendly,
self-learning and makes operation very easy and
self-evident. The Ci controller is Industry 4.0
compliant and hence ready for the future.
High capacity Si jacquard with 31.104 hooks
On the VANDEWIELE booth you can discover the
Si27 on an Itema R9500-340 cm with 27.200 installed
hooks, weaving wall covering & bed covers. To date,
numerous Bonas Si’s with over 25.000 hooks are Van de Wiele is proud to present as a world’s first the
installed in the market, weaving a wide range 3 meter execution of the Velvet Smart Innovator VSi
of applications. for plain and jacquard velvets. The main specs of the
machine include parallel reed motion, reinforced
The performance and stability of the Si is cross members, single beams over the full width and
demonstrated while weaving OPW airbags at high up to 24 servo driven smart frames.
speed, with 11520 hooks, on a Dornier Air Jet. The
double-sided drive mechanism proves its usefulness. The VSi “345”-type is now available for plain velvets
The Bonas Si range is used for all applications on all as well as jacquard velvets including light viscose
possible jacquard Air jet, Rapier and Velvet looms. carpets and prayer rugs.
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VSi22 Velvet Smart Innovator for weaving plain velvet on 3 meters width
The new showpiece in carpet weaving is the “HCiX2”
in reed 1500 dents per meter, 8 colour frames (1500/8).
This high density carpet weaving machine, available in 3
and 4 meters width, is able to weave carpets with up to
5 million points per square meter, creating niche high Sample tufted on Colortec with a combination of standard acrylic yarn (white) and fancy polyester (black)
end products, with a handmade look. The same and can be equipped with double sliding needlebar.
machine is able to weave carpets in reed 750 dents per All Cobble tufting machines are available up to 5
meter, using 16 colour frames. More colours or effects meters width. Fabric samples of all these machines
can be created using a filling selector. will be presented on our stand. SUPERBA S.A.S
(France), member of the VANDEWIELE family of
The HCiX2 is perfectly suited for picture weaving: companies, is the world leader in space dyeing and
instead of the traditional labor-intensive designing of heat setting machinery for carpet yarn (PP, PES, PAN,
woven carpet, a photo-realistic picture is processed WOOL & blends).
in real time and converted to a design that fits the
weaving machine. The HCiX2 is also available in the
common configurations 1200/8, 1000/10, 1000/8…
Van de Wiele Spare Parts Service offers technical
assistance to all customers for the order and delivery Present on the Chinese market since 1992,
of original VdW parts. Technical assistance is SUPERBA is having a subsidiary in Shanghai (SSRO)
provided with fast response and genuine parts are with sales & technical Chinese people, as well as a
delivered within short delivery times. These original stock of spare-parts to ensure a high level of service
spare parts, of course assured of Vandewiele’s high to local customers.
quality standard, will increase efficiency of your loom
and extent life time. The Chinese market has recovered a satisfying level
of activity since 2016 and the number of SUPERBA
heat-setting lines sold has increased accordingly, not
only to existing companies willing to extend their
A key development of Cobble is the Individual Pile production capacity, but also to new prospects. The
Delivery (IPD) for the Colortec tufting machine, giving Chinese carpet market is currently focused on the
a more even pile surface of the tufted carpet, use of polyester and polyamide fibers to manufacture
resulting in less yarn consumption. rugs; one of the current favorites is the tufted printed
carpet for domestic market. This kind of carpet
The Colortec, in combination with the in-house requires a well-defined pin-point effect to get a
developed software TuftLink, is able to produce precise printed drawing.
carpet with multiple density and color gradients. Also,
it is perfectly suitable for the production of imitation SUPERBA TVP3 heat-setting line offers the highest
hand-tuft qualities up to 4.2 kg/m², even with pin-point definition with their saturated steam
combinations of different yarns. process. The recent improvements in SUPERBA’s
space-dyeing technology, like bicolor printing, or
On the Myriad tufting machine, designs of 240 m² dyeing polyester yarn, are likely to arise great interest
without repeat are possible for wall-to-wall side among the Chinese manufacturers looking for
matching. The Myriad is available up to 1/12” gauge innovative end-products.
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