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Oerlikon Textile - leading manufacturer of textile machinery and plant presented innovations and a new look at ITMA 2007

Germany is the world champion in exporting textile machinery and at the same time the location of numerous business units of Oerlikon Textile with over 4,000 employees. The reorganised segment of the Swiss textile group Oerlikon unites specialists for all links of the textile value added chain. Oerlikon Textile presented their new developments and engineering services on more than 2,000 square metres in the “Circle of Innovation” at ITMA 2007. The five newly formed core brands of at the fair and invites visitors to the “Circle of Innovation”. The latest technological developments in spinning and texturizing of chemical fibres, in ring, rotor and long-staple spinning, in twisting and embroidery and in the manufacture of nonwovens were exhibited, as well as the new customer portal myOerlikon.com, which integrates e-commerce system SECOS, which facilitates efficient and secure procurement processes for more than 4,500 customers worldwide.

At ITMA in Munich, the fifth generation: the Autoconer 5 was presented to the industry. Every winding unit of Autoconer 5 clearly functions more productively. Greater dynamics in the winding process, faster setting up, accurate fault diagnoses, Plug & Wind technology for the rapid expansion / changeover of performance spectrum and a lower outlay on maintenance all contribute to more productive machine running time and smooth machine and process sequences.

The Autoconer 5 produces high-end packages that are worth their price today and tomorrow. With Autotense FX, Propack FX, Variopack FX and Ecopack FX, the yarn receives gentle treatment on the Autoconer 5 - the greater linearity of the yarn path with its optimized arrangement of the units and the new waxing unit see to that. Its unique splicing competence is based on the universality of the splicing technology.

The Autoconer 5 offers various potential savings in terms of time, staff, yarn, energy and air. Savings of your valuable yarn resources due to Ecopack FX, the unique upper yarn sensor are also worth to be mentioned.

The Autoconer 5 offers interactive user prompting, built-in protection against faulty operation, optimized hardware-handling and interactive knowledge transfer via the Informator - with this the Autoconer 5 helps your staff to get bets winding results.

The innovative Plug & Wind Technology, the newly developed electronic concept with modular construction are the main points to give highest flexibility to the Autoconer 5.

Throughout the world, the name Autocoro is known as a guarantor of top performance in rotor spinning technology. Two out of every three automatic rotor spinning machines sold worldwide each year are now Autocoro. This equals more than two million spinning positions around the globe.

The new Autocoro 480 with its 480 spinning units, optimised quality assurance and automation with up to four Coromat units for piecings.

Each Coromat with a robust design, intelligent control and simple

operation offers the intelligent Event Identification System (EIS) to guarantees the optimum, digital control of all Coromat units and now also allows ‘flowing’ package changes.

Full packages can be wound within a tolerance range until a Coromat is close by. The tolerance limits for the flowing package change can be freely defined by the spinning mill. This optimises the capacity utilisation of the Coromats and increases the productivity of the Autocoro 480.

The new digital Corolab XF System combines the world market-leading Corolab XQ analysis of thick and thin places with the analysis of foreign material for the first time.

High-resolution sensors and the most up-to-date digital technology at each spinning position ensure that nothing remains in the yarn that ought not to be there. The production of fancy yarns become easier and more reproducible in the case of the Autocoro 480.

Even before production starts, Fancynation permits 3D simulations of woven and knitted fabrics, analyses foreign yarns and offers an extensive “fancy yarn library”.

Corobox SE 12: the all-rounder for Belcoro yarn quality that’s been proven 250,000 times globally. It excels with several technological highlights, such as the Single Drive Sliver Intake SDSI, the perfect prerequisite for reproducible fancy yarns, and the wear-resistant Magnetic Rotor Positioning System (MRPS).

With EVA (Electronic Vacuum Adjustment), the Autocoro 480 additionally ensures a constant spinning vacuum, reducing the number of yarn breaks and the power requirements of the Autocoro.

The Autocoro S 360, the first rotor spinning machine equipped with DigiPiecing, offers top productivity performance with 360 spinning positions, take-up speeds of up to 230 m/min and rotor speeds of up to 130,000 rpm.

The spinbox of the Autocoro S 360 is the market-leading Corobox SE 12. With its Twin Disc bearing and the Magnetic Rotor Positioning System (MRPS), it guarantees maximum productivity and Belcoro yarn quality for a large range of yarn counts, raw materials, blends and applications.

The Autocoro S 360 offers the optimum prerequisites for Belcoro certification. Spinning mills can thus derive the maximum benefit from the Belcoro brand and from the advantages of the most sought-after rotor yarns in the world.

The innovative DigiPiecing provides double quality assurance. The state-of-the-art digital technologies SDTU Single Drive Take Up, SDSI Single Drive Sliver Intake and Corolab XQ from Oerlikon Schlafhorst guarantee piecings that are indistinguishable from the parent yarn: 100 % digitally controlled, 100 % digitally checked.

The result is maximum piecing precision, infinitely reproducible on each single spinning position. The market leading Corolab XQ digital yarn monitoring system in the Autocoro S 360 guarantees consistently checked yarns.

The intelligent operating concept on the Autocoro S 360 saves inspection patrols and thus personnel: each spinning position indicates its production status by a coloured LED signal, visible even at a distance. Besides this, all machine settings are entered centrally, securely and simply on the Informator touch screen. With EVA (Electronic Vacuum Adjustment), the Autocoro S 360 additionally ensures a constant spinning vacuum, reducing the number of yarn breaks and the energy requirements.

Sytec One is the latest innovation in BCF technology by Oerlikon Neumag: BCF carpet yarn production with only one yarn end per position. Thus, each produced yarn has its own spinning pump, one quench cabinet, own godets, one texturing unit, one cooling drum and its own single end winder. And nearly all components have been adapted or newly developed in respect of the specific demands of a single end process in order to exploit the full potential this new technology.

Sytec One leads to a signifcant increase of production capacity, efficiency and availability compared to traditional machine concepts with 2,3,4 or 6 ends per position.

Based on the perfect yarn path of the single end process and the new developed and designed components of the machine, significantly higher process speeds can be reached which results in a much higher output per end between 10 and 40 percent. The waste rate can be reduced under 1% with a higher output.

Oerlikon Neumag presented its new concept for staple fiber production which is applicable for production lines from 100 up to 400 tons per day. With this concept, the production costs per kilogram of produced fibers as well as the investment costs per ton of capacity have been significantly reduced for all plant sizes in the mentioned range.

Autefa Baling Technology, market leader in the field of fully automatic bale packing systems for staple fiber and tow, will launch two new baling presses. The new Nonstop baler 750 / 1500 is a further developed and modernised version of Autefa’s proven and tested Nonstop 280 / 282 baler series. This new baler is conceived for continuous bale production, suitable for non-siliconised, siliconised, man-made as well as natural staple fiber. I

Autefa’s new continuous horizontal baler CB 400 / CB 750 with fully automatic strapping device is designed for the compression of large material capacities with low labour and maintenance costs.

Oerlikon Neumag exhibited their complete nonwoven technology portfolio which includes the Neumag Spunbond Technology, the J&M Meltblown Technology (formerly Nordson Fiber Systems), the M&J Airlaid Technology, the FOR Carding Technology, the Fehrer Needle Punching and Aerodynamic Carding Technology, the Autefa Crosslapping Technology as well as the Kortec Festooning Technology.

The newly created BU Oerlikon Saurer consists of the two sectors of twisting systems and embroidery systems, strengthens its worldwide leader position with trend-setting innovations in the twisting and embroidery sectors.

Twisting systems: The market segments of tire cord, technical yarns and fancy yarns are well covered by Allma’s leading product line. The Volkmann product line is successful in the market segments of staple fiber yarns, glass filament yarns and carpet yarns.

Embroidery systems: Saurer and Melco have for many years been the leading suppliers of shuttle embroidery machines respectively multi-head embroidery machines.

Allma ECP 1 fancy yarn machine ECP 1 from the Allma, with its technological subtleties and unbeatable price/performance ratio, offers countless market advantages and opportunities. The Allma ECP 1 scores with regard to investment costs and productivity, with up to 50% lower manufacturing costs than competitors, short downtimes and greater efficiency.

Volkmann CarpetCabler 8.05 was further developed as a result of customers suggestions and brand-new technologies. Volkmann CarpetCablers 8.05 is more efficient thanks to the new monitoring unit with a central, electronic control system and the SmartCreel.

Saurer WinPro is the latest innovation in long staple spinning with WinSpin the spinning machine, and WinTwist the twisting machine.

The WinSpin produces 2-fold to 4-fold yarns at up to 250 m/min on each of its 56 spinning positions. This means up to 40-fold production per spinning position, 80% less work in progress, and a reduction in delivery time of up to a week compared to ring spinning.

Together with the speed of the machine and the process, another factor is flexibility. Three different batches can be processed simultaneously. Short ba

tches increase the flexibility even more.

During the spinning process, up to 6 different yarn components can be fed simultaneously: up to four rovings out of different raw materials, counts or colours and optionally up to two elastic or non-elastic filaments. Quality losses due to elastane breakages are now a thing of the past.

Saurer Epoca 05: With its modular system, the shuttle embroidery machine revolutionizes the two-carriage technique. Both creels move completely independently of one another.

The principle is a completely electronic connection of the carriages and is based on one single intelligent control system for both carriages. This ensures in every case that the right position is reached. Only the pattern has to be identical for both carriages. Material, yarns or setting parameters can be different.

FastSpan: all the embroidery machines are equipped with the material tensioning system FastSpan. This system makes it possible to switch with a shaft between all the standard material tensioning systems without major re-fitting. In addition, the material can be fixed faster and more easily with the integrated drawing process, comparable to a sail. After the draft, the new material is automatically drawn in, cut to length or as a multiple of the machine length. The result is more economy and advantages in further processing.

Laser option: Oerlikon Saurer exclusively offers an integrated laser cutting and engraving option. Punching is comparable to the embroidery process, the design data are stored in a file, so changes can be carried out very simply.

Saurer PitStop offers consistent shuttle quality and great efficiency. For auxiliary machines, the Saurer product line is exhibiting the PitStop, a much tried and proven machine which empties, fills and aligns shuttles completely automatically.

For this, the shuttles do not need to be presented in an arranged fashion, they can just be tipped from the normal collectors into the device on the machine. Using the PitStop produces an excellent, homogeneous shuttle tension. In high wage countries, customers can also be sure of enormous cost savings thanks to lower wage costs. This is an important contributing factor to an improved operating result.