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Sustainable and cost-efficient sizing with PLEVA AS120

AS120 robust construction with integrated protection against steam vapours and high temperaturess Fabian Buckenmayer. Area Sales Manager and Application Specialist. Pleva
German Review high yarn quality. Therefore, sizing agents are applied weaving. If you measure and control it, you get a lot
sustainable warp production: “Sizing is the heart of
Sizing is the crucial preparation for weaving and a

with a squeezing unit to the warps. To be on the safe
of benefits that you can directly see.” In detail, these
benefits are a seamless recording of the sizing order,
side, in practice, often 10-25% more sizing is applied
the optimization of high-speed and creep pressure
than required. This implies several economical and
ecological disadvantages:
control, and also, an increasement as well as
stabilization of weaving effiency through uniform
• Higher use of expensive sizing agents
• More wastewater and pollution
higher weaving efficiency is easily possible with our
• Higher expenses in desizing and drying sizing. “From practical experience, 1.5% up to 4%
technology”, states Fabian Buckenmayer.
• Unstable yarn quality and thus, lower
weaving-efficiency Less waste water, more cost savings
The Area Sales Manager for Pakistan explains further:
PLEVA size add-on measurement “We have seen the great success of our AS120 also
To eliminate those disadvantages, PLEVA as a reflected in raw data: At an annual production of 10
long-term expert for process optimization in the million meter woven fabric, we can reduce on
textile production came up with a solution: The average 20% of sizing. This equals 80 tons less COD
size-add on should be measured and controlled. By (Chemical Oxygen Demand) load and in
this, the weaving efficiency and the quality of the yarn consequence, less waste water. And most
can be increased. In addition, it also saves valuable importantly, customers can save by this around
resources and thus, helps to make textile production 32,000 € per year on waste water costs.”
more sustainable.
Additionally from a cost perspective, the optimized
This is how it works: The microwave measurement sizing lowers the production costs due to 10-25%
system AS120 measures the size add-on after size less sizing agents which have to be used and
box constantly. It includes a special construction with savings from the weaving department. Based on
integrated protection against steam vapours and practical evidence, around 100,000 € savings per
high temperatures. This enables a reliable, robust, year are realistically possible through the increased
continuous monitoring and control of the size weaving efficiency.
add-on.
Moreover, other sustainable benefits are the
“Sizing is the heart of weaving” simplified washing out of the size, a higher quality of
PLEVA Area Sales Manager and Application the raw material for subsequent finishing processes
Specialist Fabian Buckenmayer emphasizes the and less fabric waste. This makes the AS120 a true
importance of the AS120 for the optimization and a hero for sustainability.

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