Navis TubeTex, a leading provider of high technology finishing machinery to the global textile industry, announced its purchase of Gaston Systems, Inc., known for its foam coating technology for various textile applications.
Gaston Systems designs and engineers advanced coating systems for the textile and nonwoven industries.
Using propriety foam generation and application systems, Gaston Systems has an international reputation for offering high-quality and innovative technologies to satisfy long-term sustainability requirements. Gaston Systems continues to develop new dyeing and finishing technologies. Applications for indigo, reactive, and other dyeing concepts have a measurable positive environmental impact.
Gaston Systems’ technology for indigo dyeing eliminates wastewater at the end of the manufacturing process while driving down energy usage.
According to one of the leading denim jeans brands, the foaming process requires 60% less energy and mitigates by the same percentage.
The Gaston Systems technology offers the following solutions;
• Latex application to nonwoven, drapery fabrics, coating of upholstery fabric
• Deep, one-sided binder penetration of binder into trunk liner material, providing a moldable product with a soft outer surface
• Binder applications for filtration
• Flame resistant coating for FR rated fabrics
• One-sided resin finishing of apparel fabric
• Yarn treatment in slashing application
• Hydrophylic treatment of fiber material
• Two sided pigmented surface coating for nonwovens
