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The new generation of
pressure dryers from Thies
Textilmaschinen, rated at 50
kg – 1500 kg, incorporate
modern industrial pc controls
together with the latest
inverter technology and heat
exchanger systems to provide
significant labour reducing
and energy consumption savings,
plus improved yarn quality.
Problems associated with
overdrying, yellowing of
bleached yarns and migration
in dyed yarns are also eliminated.
Compactly designed, the new models
offer reduced footprints with improved
blower efficiency and reduced pipework
whilst maintaining the highest airflow
rates at high pressure.
Thies pressure dryers provide high cost
efficiency with modern pc controls for all
parameters. Fully automatic operation
over a wide variety of programmes, determine
settings for the different types of
dyed or bleached materials. After dyeing
the package carriers are lifted out of the
kier and placed directly into the dryer
without any intermediate handling to provide
significant labour cost savings. It has
been calculated that installing a pressure
dryer can reduce manpower by at least 4-
5 operatives.
With no physical ‘touching’ of the
dyed yarns by operators as generally associated
with traditional hydro-extractor and
RF dryer techniques, yarn breakages are
maintained to an absolute minimum.
Heat exchanger
Steam, generally available in most dyehouses
at relative low cost, is used in a
heat exchanger heating high pressure air
entering the dryer.
After passing through the dryer, the
enriched hot air is passed through a
second exchanger to cool the air, condensing
the moisture. The heated cooling
water from the mill supply can be used in,
for example, bleaching, dyeing and rinsing
processes.
At the exchanger outlet, the cooled
hot air is fed back via the blower and
through the steam heat exchanger to
repeat the cycle providing energy savings
for heating the cold air and cooled water.
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Thies presents top-of-the-range pressure dryer
A new top-of-the-range 1500 kg capacity pressure dryer for dyed or bleached yarns is
introduced by Thies Textilmaschinen, Germany.
New 1500 kg capacity pressure dryer for dyed or bleached yarns.
Inverter technology also allows the
motor component of the blower to be
downsized to offer further electrical savings.
The Thies dryer can provide energy
consumption savings of between 40-50%.
Steam consumption can be as low as
0.8 kg/kg of yarn which can be further
reduced to 0.3 kg/kg of yarn with inclusion
of the heat recovery system.
The new range of Thies pressure
dryers is available in 600-2500 mm kier
diameters and horizontal or vertical configuration.
Reduced drying times
At the start of the drying process, the
excess surface moisture is removed
mechanically by compressed air within the
closed dryer; contributing further to
reduced electricity demands.
Drying times with polyester yarns, for
example, can be as low as 20 minutes and
for natural fibres, as low as 60 minutes.
Using Thies’s proven flow converter
technology ensures ‘in to out’ (i/o) or ‘out
to in’ (o/i) operation to suit the application.
An optional conditioning unit
passes hot air at a reduced pressure
within the walls cavity of the dryer to
provide a more equal moisture condition
across the dyed yarn package
ensuring a residual point

Oerlikon Barmag Service
Shuttle - Truck on track
Since March of this year, the Oerlikon
Barmag Service Shuttle has been out and
about on the streets of India. The red-andwhite
vehicle transports machine parts
requiring service from Oerlikon Barmag
customers to the service station in Baroda
and back.
“We wanted to make the regular servicing
process and the necessary repairs
easier for our customers. The idea was to
make it faster and more comfortable,
which is why we introduced this new service”,
explains Ramakant Katre, Head of
the Oerlikon Barmag Service Station
Baroda, commenting on setting up the
innovative Service Shuttle. And the fact
that this was a great idea has been confirmed
in the first four months following its
launch: the service truck has already traveled
more than 10,000 kilometers in the
first 18 weeks since being commissioned.
Customer support expanded by
consulting
Oerlikon Barmag maintains a service
station in Baroda, India, for 15 years, herewith
acting upon the company's maxim to
be nearby its customers.
Oerlikon Barmag Service Station in
Baroda has been offering intensive consulting
services for its customers with
regard to production processes.
During the two- to three-day visits,
process, electrical and mechanical engineers
check the customers’ facilities from
the ground up. Following this, the
Oerlikon Textile India specialists provide
information on how to improve
processes, on how to increase productivity
and on how to maintain and service
the systems.
Oerlikon Barmag’s Service Manager,
Marcel Bornheim, has a positive outlook
for the service: “Ten customers have
already received reports on how they can
achieve improvements to their systems
and operations. We achieve the best
results through the intensive collaboration
with, and by, our customers’ managements,
production heads and the
maintenance units.”
The new service has clearly hit the
mark as the next ten customer visits have
already been scheduled.
Oerlikon Barmag is the world market
leader for spinning systems and equipment
for manmade fibers and texturing
machines and – as a service provider –
offers engineering solutions for the entire
textile value added chain.
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NSC nonwoven and Freudenberg Politex: partners on
needlepunching technology
Freudenberg Politex from
Colmar (France) is specialized in
roofing sector and technical
products using short fibres and
spunbond process. This facility
integrated in the Freudenberg
Politex Group in 1997 has contracted
NSC Nonwoven to provide
their equipment for a A.50
RS Asselin ® needleloom replacing
a previous generation of
A.25 Asselin ® needleloom for
spunbond application.
The decision to purchase
NSC equipment has been taken
due to innovative solutions
Freudenberg Politex A 50 RS
needleloom.
More than 125 members of the Turkish
cotton community attended a ‘Cotton
Trade Information Summit’ at the
Kahramanmaras Chamber of Industry and
Trade on 28 June 2010. Taking the form of
a workshop and an open forum session, the
event was organised by KASIAD -
Kahramanmaras Business Trade
Community and hosted by the International
Cotton Association (ICA).
Designed to engage and hear the
views of the local cotton community and
help generate a greater understanding of
the principles of contract sanctity, ICA
Rules and arbitration procedures, the
event was open to both ICA members
and non-members and it was free to
attend.
ICA Director and Vice President of
Ensar Tekstil, Ertugrul Tanriverdi highlighted
the fact that cotton production in
Turkey does not meet consumption:
“Last year, our production was
1,800,000 bales and consumption was
5,600,000,” he explained. “If we calculate
the difference in volume, it is about
$1.5 billion dollars shortfall. We currently
have just four Turkish firms who are
members of the ICA. I believe we should
definitely increase participation.”
Abdulkadir Kurtul, president of
KASIAD, said, “We really do not have
any problem with consumption,” he
said. “This shows our leadership in the
textile business. But our country should
be at a balance between production and
consumption. The cotton is a strategic
product, therefore production problems
must be solved if the voice of Turkish
cotton producers is to be heard.”
ICA President, Cliff White and ICA
Managing Director, Kai Hughes went on
enabling needlelooms to run at
a high production speed with
continuous advance. The productivity
and reliability of the
equipment are then significantly
increased.
Freudenberg Politex operates
out of seven production
sites: three in Italy, one in
Russia, one in the United
States, one in Poland and
finally one in France where
NSC nonwoven partnership is
well installed as all the lines are
equipped with Asselin ®
needlelooms.
ICA hosts successful trade information summit in Turkey
ICA President, Cliff White (right) and ICA
Director Ertugrul Tanriverdi take questions
from the floor.
More than 125 members of the Turkish cotton
community attended the ICA Cotton Trade
Information Summit.
Delegates focus on the presentations.
to deliver presentations that focused on
the trading rules, contract agreements,
arbitration and dispute resolution.
During the open forum session, they
took questions from the floor and reinforced
the message that ICA Rules are
not designed to limit trade - they serve as
a guideline for the trade and are the basis
of contract agreements.
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The progress of Ho Chi Minh yarn
spinner Thien Nam, which marks its tenth
anniversary in 2010, has been rapid – with
strong backing from Trützschler’s local
team. The growth of Ho Chi Minh-headquartered
Thien Nam in just ten years
serves as a perfect example of the progress
of the privately-run Vietnamese textile
industry since 2000. This was the year of
the spinning company’s formation, and
one thing it quickly learned in the early
days was the vital role of good fibre preparation
for yarn quality.
“Our first plant was
fitted with Far Eastern
machines purchased
solely because they were
the cheapest, which we
soon discovered was not
enough,” said Vice
General Director Tran Le
Ha. “As a consequence,
both of the new plants we have subsequently
built are fitted with Trützschler fibre preparation
machinery and cards; ordered through
the local agent Tri-Union Management.”
The company started out with 24,000
spindles, at a time when much of the country’s
textile industry was still run by the government
within domestically-focused Vinatex
organisation.
“At that time, obtaining finance was very
difficult and yarn spinning requires more initial
capital investment than most others in
Vietnam,” remembers Vice General Director
Tran Le Ha, who has been involved in the
company’s progress from the outset with
General Director Tran Dang Tuong. “Before
2000 we were simply a trading business, with
no experience of spinning and no reliable
engineers at that time – even our established
customers were wary of our ability to produce
our own yarn.”
Nevertheless, a combination of determination
and recruitment of the right people
soon saw the company taking
off, to the extent that over the
past five years, it has been in a
position to build a second purpose-built
spinning plant – considerably
bigger than the first
with 38,000 spindles – followed
by, a third with 40,000 spindles.
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Ho Chi Minh yarn spinner Thien Nam celebrates 10 th
anniversary with Trützschler
“In general, successful spinning is about
finding the optimum balance between high
production and high productivity, depending
on the performance of the machines,” said
Mr Ha. “So on the Chinese cards in the first
plant, we run polyester at 20kg of fibre per
hour to achieve the quality required. On the
Trützschler machines, we run the same fibre
at 80 kg per hour, which says it all.”
Thien Nan’s Plant Number 2 features 16
Trützschler TC03 cards, and plant Number 3
18, with both units equipped with Trützschler
baling, opening, blending and feeding units
for cotton, polyester and viscose. Trützschler
TC card lengths are considerably longer than
conventional machines, to provide perfectly
aligned fibres in a razor-thin, continuous fibre
web which is formed into a sliver at the delivery
side. This sliver is then delivered to transport
cans for evening-out in the drawframe.
“The Trützschler cards are very economical
in terms of productivity, but also easy for maintenance
and in respect of electricity usage and
spares,” said Mr Ha. “But just as important is
the service from Trützschler, which is very good
compared to other companies.”
“If there is any quality issue at all, we are
there to help, confirms KS Umesh, a technologist
with the five-man Trützschler Service
Station in Vietnam, which supplies complete
back for around 450 Trützschler carding units
and 120 drawframes, as well as other equipment
now in place at plants across Vietnam –
around 90% of all carding systems to have
been installed in the country over the past 10
years. “There is still a lack of experience here
in Vietnam because the private industry is
comparatively new, and the workforce is also
generally young.”
Thien Nam imports its cotton primarily
from West Africa, as well as some from the
USA and Uzbekistan, with Trützschler
Blendomat units ensuring the correct feed of
the cotton, viscose and polyester at the latest
two plants. The major
markets for the company’s
yarn are Turkey,
Korea, Malaysia and
Japan, and with its
102,000 spindles, the
company’s annual
capacity is now over
16,000 tons. �
Protective suit specialist TST
signed a licensing agreement
with DSM Dyneema
Protective suit specialist TST Sweden has
signed a licensing agreement with fiber manufacturer
DSM Dyneema that will enable
them to use the Dutch company’s distinctive
trademark on their multilayer water-jet protective
suits made with the ultra-high molecular
weight polyethylene Dyneema ® fiber.
Dyneema ® is not only the strongest material,
but also the lightest, to be used in suits to protect
operators using water jets operating at up
to 2000 bar in hydro demolition and water
blasting applications. The combination of
high strength and low weight provides an
unmatched level of comfort for the operator.
TSTs multilayer water-jet protective suits made
with Dyneema ® .
Dyneema ® fibers are already widely used
in the production of high performance cutresistant
gloves. TST Sweden is the first company
to use them to make protective suits
and to receive a license to use the Dyneema ®
brand. The suits, developed in a collaborative
project by TST together with the Swedish
research institute Swerea, and supported by
DSM Dyneema, are radically different from
competing suits that are made up from interlinked
rigid panels in a monolayer structure.
Instead, the TST suits comprise several layers
of flexible fabric, with inner layers of
Dyneema ® fiber sandwiched between outer
layers of a nylon fabric. Here, the level of protection
can be adjusted by varying the
number of layers of Dyneema ® used in any
particular suit.
This means that TST suits can be tailored
to the exact protection level required for any
particular type of work. Competing suits are
only available at the higher levels of protection
of 2,000 bar, which means for many
water-jet uses traditional suits are over-specified.
TST suits made with Dyneema ® now
enable tailormade suits that are precisely fitfor-purpose
in terms of the protection level
required, thereby also optimizing wearer
comfort and maneuverability. A further
advantage of the suits made with Dyneema ®
is that they are easy to wash.

Univar expands in the Baltics
with a new office
Univar is one of the leading distributors
of industrial and specialty chemicals.
Univar represents over 2,500 chemical
producers and provides its customer
base, made up of 80,000 customers, with
a full portfolio of products.
Univar has signed a distribution deal
with Celanese Emulsion Polymers, a
leader in emulsion technology and application
development. The agreement
establishes Univar’s position in the Baltic
region following the recent opening of its
office in Lithuania.
Under this new agreement, Univar will
distribute Celanese Emulsion products to
the coatings, adhesives, nonwovens, glass
fibers, textiles, paper and construction
industries. Celanese offers one of the
broadest and most comprehensive portfolios
of waterborne emulsions in the world
and is a leading producer of vinyl-based
emulsions globally.
The company also announced
appointment of Sales Manager, Gintaras
Sabonis, who will manage Univar’s Baltic
business out of the new Lithuanian
office. He will be responsible for developing
Univar’s business in Lithuania, Latvia
and Estonia, covering a wide range of
industries including pharmaceutical, personal
care, coatings, construction, food,
energy and refinery.
“The Baltic region is very exciting
with a lot of great opportunities for
Univar. Our agreement with Celanese is
in response to increasing demand for
innovative and sustainable technologies,
and Celanese will be a valued partner in
our efforts to continuously deliver cutting-edge
products to our extensive customer
base across the region,” explains
Ola Tengroth, Regional Director for
Nordics and Baltic Region. “Gintaras’
solid background in the Baltic and pan-
European chemicals industries makes him
the right person to lead our business in
the Baltics, and with him at the helm we
will be equipped with the talent, network
and expertise to achieve our goals in this
budding region.”
“With the appointment of Univar, we
found a partner with deep knowledge of
and expertise in this region,” says
Michael Sauer, Regional Sales Manager
Eastern Europe, Celanese Emulsions. “In
addition, Celanese has a strong focus on
innovation and sustainability and it is
important that our partners share this
commitment.”
Univar’s strong sales and marketing
teams complement chemical producers
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and create value for customers. The company
provides technical expertise in
application development, excellence in
logistics support, and outstanding customer
service to help its partners grow
their business.
AVM Chemical Industries
receives Brand of the
year award
Brands are recognized to be the most
valuable asset of any company and in
many cases considered as the single most
valuable asset. In the early 1980's the
intangible elements (goodwill or brand
equity) that made up to the total market
value of 100 fortune brands was on average
around 40%; but today it is more
than 70%. (Reported by Economic
Watch International).
Today, the brand - whether in the
corporate, services, product or not-forprofit
sector is the most important asset.
It is a proven fact that more than one
third of the world's wealth can be
accounted for by brands.
Mr. Sohail Tiki, Director of AVM Industries
receiving the award from Prime Minister of
Pakistan, Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani.
In 2009, Management of Brand
Award Council have received 550 nominations
of individual brands in 176 different
categories. Amongst 550 contenders
in 2009, 153 brands were identified as
Brands of the Year & 23 brands acknowledged
as Emerging Brands
AVM Chemical Industries is one of
the leading chemical manufacturing
company was awarded the brand of the
year award.
Mr. Muhammad Sohail Tiki, Director
of AVM Chemical Industries, had an
honor to receive brand award for the
year 2009, by Prime Minster of Pakistan,
Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, on 7th May
2010 at Governor House Karachi.
Prime Minister encouraged and
lauded the performance of the AVM
Chemical Industries to achieve this award
for quality.
Change of registered office
Picanol NV / Proferro NV
Picanol NV and Proferro NV will
move to their registered office. The new
address is given as under:
Picanol NV/Proferro NV
Karel Steverlyncklaan 13
BE-8900 Ypres, Belgium.
The address and invoicing address
will be the same, as well as telephone,
fax and mail data shall remain
unchanged.
PSYMA delegation met
Federal Advisor Textiles
A 16 members delegation of Pakistan
Silk Yarn Merchants Association
(PSYMA) met Federal Advisor on
Textiles, Dr Mirza Ikhtiar Baig and discussed
withdrawal of anti-dumping and
custom duty on polyester yarn to
improve the supply of man-made yarn.
There are only two to three local
companies are manufacturing polyester
yarn in Pakistan and to have the monopoly
they have managed anti-dumping
and custom duty ranging from 3% to
21% on the imports of polyester yarn
mainly from Thailand and Korea. This has
affected the growth in the use of polyester
yarn in the value added textile
sector and heavy reliance on 100%
cotton yarn.
The members also attributed present
yarn crises due to government’s restricting
import of polyester yarn for value
added sector by imposing higher tariff.
The competing countries use equal proporation
of polyester yarn and cotton
yarn, whereas in our country, use of
polyester yarn is only 23% and the rest
of 77% is cotton yarn. Dr Baig informed
that he has already taken this matter
with the Federal Minister and Secretary
Commerce and Chairman and Member
Customs FBR and recommended them
them to withdraw anti-dumping and
custom duty on import of polyester yarn
to bridge the gap of demand and supply
of yarn in the country. Dr Baig advised
PSYMA members to apply for review
petition to remove anti-dumping and
custom duty on import of polyester yarn.
Prominent members attended the
meeting; Abdullah Hameed of Habib
Silk, Hanif Lakhany of Qasimi Industries,
Anwer Aziz of Iqbal Silk Mills, Nasir
Hayat Magoon of Al Riaz, Shafquat
Amin of Sohni Weaving and Mohammad
Tanveer of Nigar Fabrics. �
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