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12 Oerlikon Schlafhorst Express
Customers & markets
Change of Autoconer generations
completed
The last Autoconer 338 comes off the production line,
the new Autoconer 5 starts up
A historic day for Oerlikon Schlafhorst: on 12.05.09 the last Autoconer 338
rolled off the production line, bringing an extremely successful
product era to an end. Around 500,000 spinning units sold worldwide
say it all and are a good indication of customer satisfaction. The
Autoconer 338 was the first product generation to be manufactured
in its entirety at the plant in Übach-Palenberg, from where the
machines embarked on their journey to more than 1500 customers
in over 70 countries. From now on the Autoconer 5 alone is the
leading light at the production plant.
The era of the Autoconer 338 …
… a time of innovation
The Autoconer 338 convinced the winding experts from the outset
with its trend-setting new features and product innovations. Thanks
to sensors, state-of-the-art control systems and individually coordinated
software, the winding process was revolutionized. The
technologically mature high-performance modules of the FX series
(Autotense FX, Propack FX, Variopack FX und Ecopack FX) offer an
excellent basis and benchmark for top winding quality.
For the winding operatives, operation of the machines has been
simplified e.g. by the central settings via the TouchScreen at the
Informator and the clearer operation integrated into the Informator.
This made possible reproducible package and yarn quality coordinated
specifically to the downstream process stages. In times of precious
and increasingly expensive resources, the Autoconer 338 with its
resource-conserving mode of operation thanks to upper yarn sensor
system, AVC vacuum system and Ecopack FX length measurement
can advance further key arguments. New textile-technological
challenges generated e.g. by new yarn constructions such as elastic
core yarns or compact yarns were met by the Autoconer 338 with
suitably adapted winding technology components such as
Variopack FX, the Elastosplicer and the Compactsplicer. The
Autoconer 338 matured with the technological demands and was
also transformed externally by its modern livery into an attractive and
successful product generation.
… a time of changes in the market
This period was not only characterized by product- and processspecific
changes, however – serious changes took place in the
market in this time. In particular, the end of the Agreement on
Textiles and Clothing (ATC) at the end of 2004 / start of 2005
resulted in the eventual liberalization and globalization of the world
textile industry and the abolition of the complex quota system for the
international textile and garment trade. New markets for the sale of
textile machinery and thus also of the Autoconer 338 developed,
Autoconer 338 at the time of its market launch … The workforce bid farewell to the last winding unit.