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AUTEFA Solutions is
expanding in Europe
and Asia
AUTEFA Solutions is expanding its
headquarters in Friedberg, Bavaria. The
company unites the traditional companies
Fehrer, F.O.R., Octir, and Autefa under
one roof.
AUTEFA Solutions’ product portfolio
includes bale presses, nonwoven machines
(fiber preparation and carding machines,
crosslappers, and needle looms), wool processing
machines, and automation for the
consumer goods sector.
Since September 2011, the company
has been part of the Chinese group CHTC,
the largest manufacturer of textile machinery
in China and ranks as number two
globally in this segment. AUTEFA
Solutions is now better represented, both
internationally and in the all-important
Chinese market. In so doing, the longterm
orientation toward modern technology
and the growth of the group is
ensured.
The core philosophy of the AUTEFA
Solutions Group is the development and
implementation of innovative and customer
oriented products based on continuous
further development, with design
and manufacturing in Europe.
By choosing the Friedberg location as
the center of development and order processing,
the management is responding to
the demand from premium customers for
new, state-of-the-art technology from a
single source.
AUTEFA Solutions develops all technologies
and puts it into production solely
at the company’s European locations. To
keep up with the growing Chinese market,
AUTEFA Solutions' operations in China will
also be expanded with a facility in China.
Manufacturing of machines tailored to the
Chinese market combined with intensive
AUTEFA Solutions in Friedberg.
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1000 th Polar Winder supplied to Indian customer
At Savio symposium held on 2012 Sept. 7th at Dindigul/TN, South India, Savio
management officially handed over its 1,000th Polar winder supplied in India to
Palmar Mills. Mr. Gabriele Checchini, Savio India’s CEO, and Mr. P. MARE CHET-
TIAR, owner of the mills, participated the celebration of this important goal.
Savio has now reached nearly 4,000 Polar winding machines delivered all over
the world, whose one-fourth is represented by Indian sales. This confirms the commitment
of Savio towards this important market.
Founded in 1989, Palmar Mills employs today 200 people. The company produces
yarn for the local/export market. It has 28,800 R/F spindles and the winding
line-up consists of 5 Polar as well as 3 automatic winders of previous generation
Orion with which operations started in 1990.
Polar, state-of-art winding machine has been designed keeping in mind customer’s
needs of a product which can increase the productivity, reduce the power
consumption, hard waste and can produce a fault free package, which can justify
the need of higher productivity in weaving, warping and knitting sectors.
Further empathizes has been given to make the machine totally trouble free and
user friendly, particularly keeping in mind of working environments in Asian Mills,
which is and will be the major market of spinning machinery.
A total of 272 guests attended the symposium were welcomed by Mr. G.
Checchini , CEO of Savio India; Mr. V. De Carli, Area Manager of Savio (Italy); Mr.
K.Mohanraj, Area Manager (South) of Savio India and Mr. Ashok Kumar Varatharaj,
Area Agent of Savio India.
collaboration with the CHTC sister companies
will be the focus of this new Autefa
location.
The three AUTEFA Solutions locations
in Friedberg (Germany), Linz
(Austria) and Biella (Italy) will be
more closely and efficiently harmonized.
The central development
activities for all locations
will be coordinated and executed
from Friedberg. In addition to
that all AUTEFA Solutions Group
orders will also be processed centrally
by Autefa Solutions
Germany, accompanied and supported
by specialists at the other
locations. In order to accommodate
this growing capacity, construction
on a new assembly
building will begin shortly.
In Linz, the focus will be on needle
looms and their components. The technical
center for nonwoven technology will
be constantly equipped with the most
modern technology.
Significant investments are already
being made to drive expansion at the location
in Biella, which will continue to act as
the center for carding and fiber preparation
technology.
This is also supplemented by a separate
sales and service location in the USA,
which continues to expand.
All the above mentioned measures
demonstrate the company’s strong and
sustained focus on effective, customer-oriented
products and services, based on the
membership to one of the most financially
sound technology groups in the industry.

Lenzing Modal® now in color
Lenzing is proud to present the new
COLOR and BLACK Modal fibers. The
new developments are being presented for
the first time at the international yarn and
fabric trade shows.
Lenzing Modal® in color
Lenzing Modal ® is now available in
special fibers including black. The advantage
of the spun-dyed fiber is its ecofriendliness:
dyeing is no longer necessary
because the color pigments are embedded
directly in the fiber matrix. Resources, such
as water and energy, are spared when producing
fabrics. Tests prove that processing
Lenzing Modal ® COLOR requires up to
80% less energy and saves up to 75% of
water (in jet dyeing) in comparison to
standard fibers. This result mainly depends
on the dyeing process.
Creative fashion
The color black harbors enormous
potential for applications in lingerie and
socks. Particularly in these applications,
Lenzing Modal ® COLOR in black boasts
interesting properties such as color and
abrasion fastness. Textiles of Lenzing
Modal ® COLOR are generally extremely
durable. The color stays put. No “bleeding”,
as it is known, occurs. Even after
repeated washing, clothing of Lenzing
Modal ® COLOR remains as colorful as on
the first day. Moreover, a range of other
design ideas can be realized with the other
colors from blends to color innovations
such as cross-dyed products.
Edelweiss is in on the act
Lenzing Modal ® COLOR is produced
in an eco-friendly process using edelweiss
technology. The fiber is produced in
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Austria from beechwood.
It is carbon neutral
and up to 95% of
processing chemicals are
recovered during production.
For this reason
Lenzing Modal ® has
been newly positioned
and the slogan “Makes
the World a Softer
Place” has been changed
to “Carbon Neutral
Softness by Edelweiss
Technology”.
“We wanted to produce
Lenzing Modal ® as
an eco-friendly cellulose
fiber and point out that
particularly this fiber produced
in Austria is produced
to the best of our
knowledge and belief
and basically differs from
other Modal fibers”,
Dieter Eichinger, Vice
President Lenzing
Business Unit Textile,
explains.
DyStar Colours Distribution
GmbH opens new European
Warehouse
With a customer event, DyStar Colours
Distribution GmbH, located in Frankfurt-
Hoechst, together with 4PL Central
Station Deutschland GmbH, officially
started up the new European warehouse
in Biebesheim.
4PL invested about 2.7 Mio Euro to
establish this state-of-the-art distribution
warehouse for DyStar, in which the inventory
of textile dyes and textile auxiliaries is
stored. In 2011 the business of DyStar
Colours Distribution GmbH showed
double-digit growth and the new warehouse
is an additional milestone to continue
the company‘s expansion path.
“This investment is an important
strategic step which will bring forth considerable
improvement in our logistics“,
says Eric Hopmann, Managing Director of
DyStar Colours Distribution GmbH. “Our
capacities from three locations can be centralized
in the new warehouse which
allows us to become more efficient and
flexible in our customer supply process.
We are happy to have found a partner in
4PL Central Station Deutschland GmbH
that will support us in the future as professional
logisticians.“ The attendants of the
event could view the modern equipment
on a tour through the warehouse. The
5000 square meter distribution center was
built within 4 months. All in all, 3000 tons
of concrete and 180 tons of steel were
used to build the warehouse with a 12
meter high rack system. In accordance
with the special regulations for textile dyes
and chemicals, a containment area for
repacking liquids and equipment to stir liquids
when repacking is available. For the
DyStar group which is headquartered in
Singapore, the German and European textile
markets play an important role despite
the crisis in Europe. As the global market
leader and dyestuff specialist for the textile
and leather industry, DyStar has several
manufacturing sites in Europe in
Ludwigshafen, Germany, in Portugal and
in Turkey. Following the motto “Global
presence - local support“, DyStar and its
2500 employees offer ISO-certified products
and extensive services.
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EDANA announces
nonwoven production
statistics
EDANA, the International Association
serving the Nonwovens and related industries,
released a public summary of its
annual statistics on Nonwovens
Production and Deliveries for 2011 on 12th July 2012. This shows a growth in production
volume for 2011 of 5.7%, with several
market segments recording their best
output ever in both tonnage and square
metres, including baby diapers, medical,
personal care wipes, civil engineering,
automotive and agriculture.
The total deliveries reached the level of
1,897,748 tonnes and 55,740 million
square metres in 2011. In global terms, the
production of Greater Europe represented
approximately 25%. The 2011 expansion,
albeit at a slower pace than the increase of
10.9% observed in 2010, has continued
the positive growth of the industry after
the hiccup of the recovery year of the economic
crisis.
Additional positive signs were also
recorded. Jacques Prigneaux, EDANA’s
Market Analysis and Economic Affairs
Director, stated that “Each production
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process obviously has its own specific
trends depending on the evolution of the
market segments. Spunmelt production
recorded two successive growths of more
than 9% in 2010 and 2011. Within the
fibre-based products, while thermobonded
nonwoven production has been
quite flat over the last two years, spunlace
production recovered the most, and was
by far the most important drylaid output”.
Apart from Europe, the exports of
nonwovens to rest of the world have
never been as high as the current period
for both volume and value. Last year,
import into the region from China
increased by 24% and China became the
EU’s most important supplier, but, for each
sub-category of Nonwovens the EU-27
remained a net exporter of products.The
EDANA nonwovens database and statistical
methodology, which is over 30 yearsold
(and has obviously been refined using
latest IT features), is unique and the largest
of its kind in the world, based on an
exhaustive annual survey with direct input
from nonwoven producers.
The full report and detailed data for
the “2011 European Nonwovens
Production and Deliveries”, an exclusive
EDANA membership benefit, has been
made available since mid-June.
Jakob Müller and COMEZ
combine their activities
Jakob Müller AG Frick and COMEZ
Gestioni S.p.A. combine their business
activities in the field of crochet and knitting
machines. COMEZ will operate as of
October 8th, 2012 under the name
COMEZ International s.r.l. as a member of
the Jakob Müller Group.
The brand COMEZ, the COMEZ
machine portfolio and quality level in
machinery and services will remain
unchanged to continuously serve customers
with advanced knitting solutions.
Due to the combined strengths of Jakob
Müller and COMEZ, the two partners are
convinced to enhance their product portfolio
and services.
COMEZ will operate as of October 8th
2012 under the name COMEZ
International s.r.l. as a member of the
Jakob Müller Group. Mr. Paolo Banfi will
continue to represent COMEZ internationally
as the General Manager.
According to a press release dated
October 04, 2012 from Jakob Müller AG
Frick, all activities of the Jakob Müller
Group, other than the crochet and knitting
segment, will remain unchanged.