Tuning the InterProcess Synergies.

Benninger, a group of textile machinery manufacturing operations with headquarters at Uzwil, Switzerland, and subsidiaries and associated companies in Germany, India, Italy, and the People's Republic of China, reports an annual turnover of approximately 200 million Swiss francs. The company's manufacturing program consists of weaving prep..

ITMA 95 Highlights

A preview of ITMA 1995 includes descriptions of textile machines by major manufacturers. The preview is divided into sections that describe equipment for manmade fiber manufacturing; yarn manufacturing; weaving; knitting; nonwovens fabric production; dyeing, printing and finishing; measuring, testing, quality control, and management contr..

ITMA '95 - A Technological Tour-de-force.

A preview of the ITMA 1995 international exhibition of textile machinery, to be held in Milan, Italy, provides information on exhibitors, their products, and their location in the exhibit halls. Recurrent themes of ITMA 1995 will be ecology, economy, versatility, and electronics. Equipment using less water and chemicals, operating at high..

Strong Traditions and a Modern Outlook

A Survey of French textile machinery slated to be exhibited at ITMA 1995 previews a variety of machines from the NSC Group, including the PB 32 combing machine and GV 20 vertical gill from Schlumberger; carding lines for natural and synthetic long staple fibers from Thibeaue; and integrated items for needle punched, thermobonded, saturate..

ITMA 1995 Preview - Rational Use of Energy.

Rationalizing the use of energy in industry involves two strategies: the optimized management of energy during production cycles to reduce energy and other raw materials consumption, and process optimization to improve the efficiency of consumption. At ITMA 1995, all sectors of the textile machine industry will probably consider rationali..

Highly Biodegradable Sugar Copolymers Are Becoming Widely Accepted in Textile Finishing.

The demand for environmentally benign dispersing agents has led to the development of Solopol ZB. Solopol ZB is a highly biodegradable sugar copolymer that can be employed during various dyeing and printing processes. The use of Solopol ZB during the dyeing of polyester eliminates problems inherent in high temperature dispersion with lign..

Monsanto Co. Develops Genetically Controlled Cotton Varieties.

Monsanto has genetically engineered cotton varieties that are resistant to pink bollworm, tobacco budworm, and cotton bollworm and tolerant to Roundup herbicide. These varieties contain the Bollgard gene, which is derived from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki that produces a protein active against lepidopteran insects, a..

Engineered Fiber Selection System

Cotton Incorporated has begun to license the Engineered Fiber Selection (EFS) Cotton Fiber Management System (CFMS), a collection of computer software programs that allow mills to handle cotton inventories based on high volume instrument (HVI) data and to select the most suitable cotton for a particular quality of yarn. EMS comprises Mill..

Lenzing Consolidates Status as World's Largest Producer of Viscose Staple Fibres.

Lenzing AG, the largest supplier of viscose staple fibers in the world, supplies 36 percent of total European demand and 16 percent of worldwide demand. Current annual production capacity at the Austrian plant amounts to 130,000 tons. Annual production capacities in the United States and Indonesia amount to 60,000 and 78,000 tons, respect..

Quality automation

The adoption of an automated quality control system by Virginia Apparel Corp. of Rocky Mount, virginia, has led to a 50％ reduction in in-process defects and a 70％ reduction in seconds. The system and its place in the company's adoption of the Total Quality Management concept are discussed. Greater awareness of the costs of poor quality ..