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As cheap imported textile products continue to flood the market pushing the domestic industry to losses, the Indonesian Textile Association (API) has called on the government to regulate imports. The domestic market was expected to continue to be flooded with imported products in the next two to three years, says API chairman Ade Sudrajat. And to protect the domestic market, imported textile products have to be managed. So would the illegal smuggling of used clothes, he added.
Ade says the government could control the wave of textile imports primarily from China, by setting a reference price. As per Industry Ministry data, the textile industry experienced a loss of Rp 30 trillion ($2.2 billion) per year due to rampant illegal smuggling.
In a rejoinder the ministry's director general for chemicals, textile and miscellaneous industry, Achmad Sigit Dwiwahjono said it would collaborate with the Trade Ministry and the Directorate General of Customs and Excise, Indonesia to curb illegal imports. The utilisation of textile's upstream industry currently stands at 50 to 60 percent. Thus, there should be a new policy to support the industry.
The company will be demonstrating the latest versions of its products – overhead travelling cleaner (OHTC), automatic bobbin transport systems and yarn conditioning plant. Speaking on the product on display, V Balasubramanian and V Benny Jerald, Managing Directors, Mohler Machine Works, said, “Our target customers are from the spinning and weaving sectors. We intend to meet lots of them, both from India and overseas customers, during the event.” Speaking about the key characteristics that give the company the competitive edge, they said, “Our areas of strength are quality, performance and after-sales services which have been already proved their worth in local and export markets. These are the areas where we never compromise.”
Going into details about the company’s plans, they said that they are going in for a completely new production facility in the future. Elaborating on the company focus on exports, they said, “We are the largest exporters of OHTCs in India. Our products are exported to Turkey, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, etc. More than 60 per cent of our production is exported. We expect the trend to continue for other products also.”
Textechno's new capacitive evenness tester for filament yarn COVAFIL+ with its new capacitive sensor design and a high-speed yarn twister achieves all requirements on an effective and reliable quality control system. The concept to operate the COVAFIL+ either as a stand-alone unit or in combination with Textechno's well-proved filament yarn testers DYNAFIL ME and COMCOUNT guarantees highest testing efficiency and flexibility, as - apart from tensile strength and elongation - all relevant yarn parameters can be determined with one test system only.
STATIMAT ME+ represents the new generation of the Textechno automatic tensile testers for yarns. Textechno's 'Cotton Control Line' is widened by several new instruments. The focus will be on the enhanced fibre bundle length and strength tester FIBROTEST, the Micronair Station FMT, as well as the automatic fibre-length-, impurity- and spinnability tester MDTA 4, now available from Textechno.
The FAVIMAT+ is the first and only tester to combine six single-fibre test methods in one instrument. The instrument can be used to test a wide variety of fibres, including Aramide, UHMWPE, glass and carbon. The test process can be fully automated by means of the AIROBOT2 system linked to the FAVIMAT+. The AIROBOT2 system features a tensionless storage for up to 500 fibres together with a fully automatic transfer mechanism, which feeds the fibres to the FAVIMAT+ testing instrument without using pretensioning-weights. ECHNO’s solution for those customers, who need a fast tester for single fibre linear density and tensile properties, is the FAVIGRAPH.
TumKalip Aparat, a Turkish manufacturer of spare parts for new generation of European make weaving machines since the last 30 years, will be showing its range of quality spare parts at ITME India in hall 6, stall D-11. TumKalip will also be promoting its high-tech coating technology for used Rapier Heads, like TiO2 and TC also called tungsten carbide coatings.
TumKalip produces and markets spares for Projectile looms, Rigid Rapier looms and Flexible Rapier looms. It will be exhibiting a wide range of spares, especially for new generation models of Projectile looms; Rapier Heads for Positive Rapier machines; and a new product line of Flexible Rapier loom spare parts. TumKalip also recoats old Rapier Heads through its hi-tech coating technology, thereby assuring an extended life for the old Rapier heads, translating into high cost savings for Rapier machine users.
TumKalip, which was working through agents till now in India, has recently setup its Indian subsidiary, TumKalip India Pvt Ltd, to offer better and faster services to its Indian customers. “We have been producing best quality spare parts for European make weaving machines since the last 30 years. This deep experience and use of high quality raw materials help us to deliver spares of impeccable quality to our customers across the world,” said Aakesh Bhongade, Director, TumKalip India Pvt Ltd.
Ahmedabad based Rabatex Industries has lined-up the latest and innovative weaving preparatory technologies including battery operated as well as manual material handling and storage equipment, including accessories like creels for technical textiles applications at the India ITME exhibition in Hall 6, Stall No. H6D8. Among its various technologies, Rabatex will showcase the high-speed sample warper, sectional warper machine, single end sizing machine; battery operated warp beam carrier with healdframe support and cloth roll doffer carrier and also display creels for technical textiles at ITME India.
The Rabatex high speed Sample Warping Machine model RI 6001 is primarily for production of samples and short production warp at very high production rate. The RI 6001 has a robustly constructed warping drum, suitable up to widths of 2400 mm and for warping lengths between 21 and 450 metres (depending on thread density) and suitable for yarn range from 5 to 500 Tex.
“All our technologies, including those on display at ITME India are very robust and so require very less maintenance. We have developed these technologies through our in-house R&D team and go through rigorous tests before launching in the market,” said Haresh Panchal, MD, Rabatex Industries. “The various accessories that are used in our machines are sourced from renowned multinational suppliers like Siemens, Mitsubishi, Danfoss, Allen Bradley etc, which also ensures that the machines or equipment we market, are long lasting and trouble free,” he added.
Hangzhou Huahong Machinery Co Ltd will present its 'Long Guan' brand of textile machinery at ITME, hall 7, booth A4A. The company's main products are fully automatic rapier loom, fully automatic towel cutting sewing machine, fully automatic towel rapier loom, fully automatic air jet loom, fully automatic warping machine, bevel gear operator, valve, building structure, etc. Some of these machines are already installed at textile mills in Solapur, Ichalkaranji, Madurai and many other locations in India. 'Long Guan' brand products are also exported to Europe, the US and Middle East.
Italy based Santex Rimar Group will be present with all its brands—SMIT, Santex, Sperotto Rimar, Cavitec, Isotex, Santex Nonwovens and Solwa—in hall 5, stall B13 at ITME. SMIT, the latest entrant in the Santex Rimar Group, offers weaving machines with rapier weft insertion for home textiles, garments, terry cloths and customised solutions to produce special technical fabrics. SMIT Smart Platform is a structural architecture concept involving the whole machine project, from mechanics and electronics to communication systems and in the process, provides the most advantageous weaving opportunities and high levels of versatility.
Santex offers machines for finishing of knitted fabrics. Among machines for treatment of open width knitted fabrics, Santex offers Santashrink Progress, an integrated treatment system for shrinkage; Santashrink Jumbo and Super Jumbo for tensionless drying, shrinking and relaxing; ESC: Energy Saving Chamber for optimised drying through green textile process; Santacompact RD for levelling, steaming and compacting calander and Santasynpact also for levelling, steaming and compacting.
VAN DE WIELE will show all the new trends into carpet and velvet weaving, as the great handlook quality in reed density up to 1200 dents/m and 8 colours in Hall 6 stall D9 at ITME. The latest RCE (Rug and Carpet Expert) carpet weaving machines are equipped with fully free programmable smart frames and electronical jacquards with a new patented selection system, which gives the weaver big advantages such as easy maintenance and high efficiencies. The new high-density velvets developed in multiple colours are also an eye-catching item, which is very well appreciated by the Indian public. Due to the new SiV jacquard range, all possible velvet applications can be made easier than before.
BONAS will show his latest new jacquard model Ji for the first time in India. Ji is based on the successful and proven technology of the Si. During the ITME a Ji 2 with 2688 hooks will be on display on a Picanol double width rapier. The Ji has the advantage that it is equipped with a dwell allowing a better and longer insertion time for wide rapier machines.
The Swiss based SSM Scharer Schweiter Mettler AG, inventor of the electronic yarn traverse system, will attend ITME with the presentation of breakthrough technologies in Hall 1 / Booth D17. Eight new product launches in the Winding & Doubling segments and one in the Air-Texturing are showed for the first time in India. Special focus lies on the SSM X-Series: the machines (TWX-W/D, PWX-W and PSX-W/D) are the most economised winding solution, reduced to the max yet maintaining highest flexibility for any cost efficient winding application.
Another eye catcher will be the SSM XENO – a modular platform covering all dye package winding, rewinding and doubling applications with three leading SSM winding technologies – as well as the well-known Sewing Thread Finish Winding machine TK2-20 CT for Cones.
Machines for the following applications will be presented: Dye Package Winding/Rewinding, Assembly Winding (doubling), Air Texturing, Sewing Thread Finish Winding.
The Coimbatore-based Super Machine Works, part of the Super Group of companies, well known for its textile engineering, has made rapid inroads into the market with its quality products. The company will be introducing its latest drawframe autoleveller model, Super Ultima ASD 1200i, at ITME 2016.
A Thangavel, Founder Promoter, Super Machine Works, informed, “We had participated in ITME’s 1992, 1996 and 2000 editions. Then there was some restructuring and upgradation of technology and infrastructure in our group companies, due to which we didn’t participate for a brief period. Subsequently though, we once again started participating from 2012 onwards. ITME is a one-of-its-kind trade show and participation in it will help us showcase our latest product offerings.”
The company is introducing its new drawframe autoleveller model – Super Ultima ASD 1200i at the event. “Visitors can get a close look at the product at our stall in Hall 1 – E 22. With the latest technology and features, we are sure that it will surpass the popularity of our earlier model – Super Ultima ASD 1000i, said TS Sundaram, Joint Managing Director. Highlighting the key reason that has made the company stand out from the rest, Sundaram observed, “Quality need not be costly – has always been our motto. We endeavour to offer machines that match those that are offered by leading global OEMs in terms of quality, output, and performance, but at an affordable price.”
