Significantly numerous of Monforts denim manufacturing customers will be heading over to the United Kingdom next month, when for the very first time the Denim Première Vision is held in London. The event takes place from December, at the historic Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane, in London’s completely regenerated and thriving East End.
The Première Vision team wants to create a similar atmosphere to which was achieved in Paris in November 2017, when the Denim Pop Up Street was held each evening after the Denim PV show in the Paris Marais neighborhood.
Eco Applicator
Among exhibitors at the December 2018 London edition of Denim Première Vision are going to be major players from India and Pakistan – Spearheading a lead in sustainable denim production are companies such as Pakistan’s Soorty and India’s Arvind.
As an alternative to standard padding, especially for wet-in-wet solutions, the Monforts Eco Applicator can significantly reduce the thermal energy required for drying prior to the stretching and skewing of the denim fabric.
In several textile mills globally, the value of energy for running integrated manufacturing lines – particularly those for fabric finishing that involves numerous sequences of heating and subsequent drying – is now eclipsing the cost of paying individuals to operate them. The market has speedily accepted the Eco Applicator ability to reduce energy costs.
The installation of an Eco Applicator was made by Soorty two years ago, as part of the opening of a second denim manufacturing plant in Karachi which increased the company’s finished woven denim capacity to some 5.5 million metres a month. The Eco-Applicator immediately slashed the company’s denim finishing costs, as verified by an in-depth sustainable production study carried out with the Swiss-based chemicals giant Archroma.
Mr Mansoor Bilal, Soorty Senior Marketing and Product Development Manager explains, “Sustainable denim is our passion and we are investing more and more in order to achieve our objectives”.
Eco Line
Now, Monforts is going a stage further in addressing resource efficiency by combining the Eco Applicator with its ThermoStretch unit in the latest Eco Line concept. The Monforts ThermoStretch unit carries out the skewing (weft straightening), stretching and drying in a continuous process.
The Eco Line system reduces energy losses and energy use, increases thermal transfer and keeps the drying energy on the textile material longer, so that it can be used very efficiently.
As a result, energy savings of up to 50% can be achieved.
Exhaust air energy can also be reduced to a minimum, which has a positive effect on the emission load into the atmosphere.
Mr Hans Wroblowski, Monforts Area Sales Director and Head of Product Management for Denim says, “The Eco Line system reduces energy requirements and losses, increases thermal transfer and keeps the drying energy on the textile material longer. As a result significant energy savings are being achieved.”
Arvind has recently installed India’s first integrated Monforts Eco Line which can handle fabric widths of 1.8 metres and operate at high speeds of up to 80 m/min.
It is operating alongside four Montex foam finishing stenters, which are also able to handle this same width of material.
Arvind’s current annual denim capacity is now 110 million metres and some key initiatives have been specifically aimed at reducing the use of energy, water and chemicals.
