Technical Textile Industry

Emergence of Sport Tech in Technical Textile Industry

Author: Technical Textiles

Today sports in India have achieved a peak in terms of popularity and as a career option. Olympics, Commonwealth Games, Asian Games, SAF Games, Wimbledon and many other world sports tournaments see Indians as one of the most leading sports participants in the world. From Tendulkar, Paes, Bhupathi, Anand, Geet Sethi, Karthikeyan to Sania Mirza lead the present sports generation of India. Cricket, Hockey, Football, Snooker, weightlifting, Kabaddi, Kho Kho and Archery are the sports of India that have been deep seated into an Indian psyche, whether of a sports person or a sports lover. Not only physical strength, power and satisfaction but also a strong alternative of recreation; sports in India have covered a long way towards the road of success and have made themselves a hallmark in the world of sports.

Sports footwear includes appropriate shoes for different sports. Keeping in view the movement of feet and the type of surface on which a sport is played, the shoes uppers and soles are designed to meet the varying performance requirements.

Textile components form an integral part of sports and sporty look footwear. In terms of value, approximately 20 percent of the components used in sports shoes are textiles, while the remaining cost is contributed by non-textile components such as soles, polyurethane, foam leather on uppers, counters, eyelets etc. Shoe uppers and lining on the counter, socks below the shoe uppers are made of textiles and constitute nearly 95 percent of the total textiles used in sport shoes. Other textile components, though consumed in minor quantities, are nonwoven textiles, laces, tapes, threads, lables, elastic etc. The shoe uppers and linings used in the inner part counters and socks are made of laminated fabrics. Nonwoven fabrics are used as interlinings. The laminated fabrics for shoe uppers may comprise fabric laminated with foam, polyurethane, rubber etc. In the premium range of shoes, sandwiched meshes may be used instead of fabric-foam laminated uppers.

Three different kinds of fabrics, knitted, woven and non-woven are used for sports shoes. The fibres used for such fabrics are polyester, polyester-viscose, cotton and nylon. Sandwiched mesh also known as high-tech three dimensional fabrics Consisting of micro filaments sandwiched between two layers of meshes is also used as alternative to foam laminated fabrics. Fibres used in these fabrics wick moisture away from the skin to the outer layer of the fabric, thereby facilitating faster evaporation. However, such high performance fabrics are used only in some variants of premium range of sports shoes produced by branded companies. Polyester, polypropylene, nylon and cotton are used for Sportech. However, the predominant use is that of polyester since it is cheap. Nylon is used for the premium range of shoes. Cotton is used predominantly in canvas shoes and childrens shoes.

The Indian sports footwear industry is labour intensive and is concentrated in small and cottage industry sector. Nearly 95 percent of sports footwear is produced in the small / cottage units concentrated in and around Delhi and mere 5 percent in the organized sector.

Sports shoes are available in a wide variety at prices lower than leather footwear. These shoes are comfortable and can be worn for different purposes such as jogging, casual wear, leisure wear etc. The increasing use of sportswear as leisure wear has also been positively impacting the demand of sports shoes. As a result, the sports footwear industry has witnessed a healthy growth of around 10-15 percent per annum during the last decade and has grown to a 595 mn. Pairs of sports shoe market, valued at about Rs.5950 crore. The annual consumption of laminated fabrics by sports footwear industry is about 120 mn. Sq. mtrs and 80 percent of the same is sourced indigenously.

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Technological Mission on Technical Textiles

Author: Technical Textiles

Technical Textiles in India:

In India, technical textiles sector is estimated to grow at a rate of 10-11%, whereas, globally, the growth is estimated at 3-4%. The growth in India has happened predominantly due to the efforts of the government of India for the past five years. I was privileged to be part of the early efforts and awareness programs conducted by the Ministry of Textiles, India in the year 2005. Ever since, the government has supported a number of awareness programs and workshops throughout India. Many national and international trade bodies and institutes such as the USA based Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry popularly as INDA; Brussels based European Disposables and Nonwovens Industry Association (EDANA) and FICCI. Along these lines, Lubbock, USA based Texas tech University has been playing an important role in creating greater awareness and developing international linkages to boost the growth of Nonwovens and specialty fabrics industry. Texas Tech University began its effort in India in the year 2004 with this author taking efforts to create an international conference to create more knowledge in technical textiles. The conference HPTEX-2004 was developed as a collaborative endeavor between Texas Tech University, USA and the Coimbatore based Kumara guru College of Technology. This conference attracted many international and national experts in the field of advanced textiles and paved the way for awareness programs in technical textiles in South India. This conference has grown in stature now and is a recognized event in the field of specialty textiles and is known as "Advances in Textiles, Machinery, and Nonwovens & Technical textiles," commonly referred to as ATNT. This conference played the pivotal role in bringing the USA based INDA to India for the first time in 2006. In fact, in 2006, I had the distinct privilege of inviting Mr. Ian Butler of the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry to India. Ian is responsible for the industry statistics at INDA. When he made the presentation at the international conference hosted by Texas Tech University in Coimbatore, his estimate on India's nonwoven roll good production was about 30,000 to 40,000 metric tons. India's roll good nonwoven production now stands over 100,000 metric tons. India has tripled its production in 3 years. Mr. Butler of INDA witnessed firsthand India's eagerness to get into a new sector within the textiles industry.

Technological Mission on Technical Textiles (TMTT):

TMTT with a budget outlay of Rupees 200 crores for a period of five years (2010/11 to 2014/15) has two mini-missions. Mini-mission I is aimed at boosting the know-how on technical textiles via different means. According to government, the objectives of mini-mission I include standardization, creating common testing facilities, indigenous development of prototypes and resource centers with I.T. infrastructure. Mini-mission II supports market development activities.

Under Mini mission I, government of India will establish four Centers of Excellence (CoEs) which will focus on: 1) Nonwovens; 2) Composites; 3) Indutech and 4) Sportech. Each center will have a maximum allocation of Rupees 24.5 crores. Each will have a ceiling of Rupees 20 crores for capital equipment, Rupees 2 crores for training facilities and Rupees 3 crores towards recurring expenses for employing scientists and consultants over a period of 3 years.

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Jacquard Weaving Looms

Creating Tapestries Using a Jacquard Loom

Author: Connie Wallace

A Jacquard loom is a mechanical loom that was invented by Joseph-Marie Jacquard early in the 19th century. It revolutionized the way tapestries were woven and made the process much faster and easier. While it did help to automate the process, tapestries were still hand made. A Jacquard loom used a series of punch cards to control the weaving of each pattern. Before the Jacquard loom was invented, weaving a tapestry was a labor intensive process that relied on many experienced professionals to produce a tapestry and the process could take years. The Jacquard loom made it possible for weavers to concentrate on the creativity and quality of their designs. It also standardized weaving quality and made tapestries available to new markets. The Jacquard loom was the beginning of the mechanized production movement of tapestries and textiles.

The Jacquard loom uses a process that uses punch cards to control the sequence of weaving movements that otherwise would be done by hand. Tapestry weaving remained a complex process even with the Jacquard loom as there was still a lot of repetition as threads had to be continuously looped. The Jacquard loom did make the process easier, however, as it created the patterns out of the individual threads that otherwise would have to be woven by hand. The Jacquard loom automated much of the weaving process of individual threads and made creating a tapestry much easier than it had even been before.

The punch cards were the integral part of the weaving process of the Jacquard looms and allowed a weaver to create many tapestries with the pattern stored on the card. Because the cards controlled the pattern and could be reused, the weaving industry began to develop a degree of standardization in designs, patterns, and quality.

The Jacquard loom was the precursor to many later machines that automated repetitive tasks. It was discovered with the invention of the Jacquard loom that machines are better at repetitive tasks than humans but although the machines punch cards were responsible for weaving, the design and creativity that went into creating a tapestry remained the job of the artist. Perhaps the most important development of the Jacquard loom was taking the tapestry out of the realm of the rich and opening up the market to a class of people who could not previously afford hand woven tapestries.

Modern Jacquard looms have taken the automation process one step farther by using computers to store the information for a tapestry’s design which eliminates the need for punch cards altogether. Today jacquard looms are computer driven, but still create tapestries by weaving not by other methods such as silk screening.

Even modern Jacquard looms control only the weaving process, not the tapestry design. No two tapestries are ever the same because of the natural variations in all threads and textiles, even though the weaving process is automated. The unique nature of woven textiles is one of the reasons even modern tapestry wall hangings have such a high value and are prized today much in the same way as they were in the Middle Ages.

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Weaving Loom Manufacturers - Sulzer, Vamatex, Picanol, Tsudakoma, Panter

Panter Weaving Loom

Picanol Weaving Loom

Somet Weaving Loom

Sulzer Weaving Loom

Tsudakoma Weaving Loom

Complete Weaving Plant - Sulzer weaving looms, Benninger warping and sizing machine

SULZER weaving machines, type P7100, double width (working width 390 cm)

- 2 BENNINGER sectional warping machine
- 1 BENNINGER direct warping machine
- 1 BENNINGER ZELL sizing installation

- 1 SCHLAFHORST cone to cone winder with USTER Polymatic clearers, type 138 of 20 spindles

- LUWA air conditioning

SULZER P7100 LOOMS

SULZER PROJECTILE MACHINES with DOBBY 

6 machines type : P7100 B390 N4 SP D1 with 18 shafts and 18 heald frames, year 1989
Each machine is complete and equipped with :
390 cm width,4 prewinders type SULZER Staubli dobby type 2035
18 shafts and 18 heald frames type GROBAMEXTRA ALrefix FERvari of GROB Horgen

SULZER PROJECTILE MACHINES with TAPPET 

P7100 B 390 N1-1 EP D1 with 8 shafts and 8 heald frames,year '89
Each machine is complete and equipped with :
390 cm working width
2 weft mixers
Tappet motion
8 shafts and 8 heald frames type GROBAMEXTRA ALrefix FERvari of GROB Horgen
in addition : P7100 B 390 N1-1 EP D1 with 10 shafts and 10 heald frames, year 1989

Each machine is complete and equipped with :
390 cm width,2 prewinders type SULZER (weft mixer),Tappet motion with complete set of cams,10 shafts and 10 heald frames type GROBAMEXTRA ALrefix FERvari of GROB Horgen
4 machines type : P7100 B 390 N1-1 EP R D1 with 10 shafts and 10 heald frames (reinforced machines for heavy fabric), year 1989

SULZER PROJECTILE MACHINES with JACQUARD

 
P7100 S 190 N4 J D1 equipped with harness and STAUBLI CR620 Jacquard of 1344 hooks

Each machine is complete and equipped with :
190 cm width
4 prewinders type SULZER
4 machines type : P7100 B 390 N1-1 J D1 equipped with harness and Double STAUBLI CR620 Jacquard of 2 x 1344 hooks380 Volts, 50 Hz, 3 phases

4 Pins temples
1 weaving reed (densities available in the mill : from 7 teeth/cm until 23 teeth/cm)
Electronic Weft brake detection system, LOEPFE type SFW-L 
Heald wires specification : with eyelet of 1,8 mm (for coarse yarn) and 1,2 mm (for fine yarn)

SECTIONAL and DIRECT WARPERS

1 Sectional warping machine BENNINGER model SUPERTRONIC, type SC, year 1995
with parallel creel BENNINGER type BEN-CREEL GB-GZB, year 1995, of 640 positions (and 640 positions as inside reserve on the same creel). To produce warp beams for up to 190 cm width. Creel pitch : 27 cm width, 27 cm height for each position.
Can process cotton yarn as well as polyester, viscose and synthetics
Automatic yarn and warp tensioning device
Automatic descent of full beams and automatic rise of empty beams
Can produce beams of up to 800 mm diameter.

1 Sectional warping machine BENNINGER, type SC, year 1989
with parallel creel BENNINGER type GB-GZB of 640 positions, to produce warp beams for up to 190 cm width
Creel pitch : 27 cm width, 27 cm height for each position
Can process cotton yarn as well as polyester, viscose and synthetics
Automatic yarn and warp tensioning device
Automatic descent of full beams and automatic rise of empty beams
Can produce beams of up to 800 mm diameter.

1 Direct warping machine BENNINGER, type ZDA, year 1989
with V-creel BENNINGER type GE-GCF of 640 positions, to produce warp beams for up to 190 cm width
Creel pitch : 24 cm width, 27 cm height for each position
Automatic descent of full beams and automatic rise of empty beams
Can produce beams of up to 1000 mm diameter.

FULL SIZING INSTALLATION

1 Sizing machine BENNINGER ZELL, type XK Z4/4 U, year 1990
for sizing of cotton and polyester yarns
Max working width of 1800 mm in the warp beam creel as well as in the size box
Max working width of 2200 mm in the beaming head
Including :
1 warp beam creel model Z W B, sturdy construction, to receive 16 warp beams, equipped with pneumatic braking system
With the rolls necessary for a correct guiding of the warp yarns
Can host beams of up to 1000 mm diameter
1 unrolling system model S W A to receive sectional warp beam, equipped with pneumatic braking system
Can host beams of up to 1000 mm diameter

1 automatic tensioning system of the warp yarns, model Z R
1 high pressure size box, model X K L - ECOPRESS 5
working width : 1800 mm
rolls width : 1920 mm
direct and indirect heating system with automatic regulator
size circulation system
indication of squeezing pressure
1 automatic feeding of size from the size kitchen
Automatic Size kitchen
Drying section with 8 rolls:
1 dryer SYNCRO 4 (double rolls squeeze and double rolls deep)
1 dryer model Z T 4 
4 automatic temperature regulators and 1 ventilator 
Automatic regulation of the drawing force between the size box and the drying section
Automatic regulation of the squeezing pressure given the machine speed
Automatic regulation of the size box temperature.
1 beaming head model U B, working width max : 2200 mm between beam flasks, with Yarn tensioning system

1 AUTOMATIC DRAWING-IN MACHINE USTER DELTA including :
- Drawing-in machine DELTA-E-40, year 1989
- Computerized command with its printer
- Drawing-in Truck

1 AUTOMATIC KNOTTING MACHINE
USTER TOPMATIC type TPM210, year 1989
With knotting truck, type TPFC2-2020

1 SEMI-AUTOMATIC REED DRAWING-IN
USTER type WEA1, year 1989
With its truck (for a maximum reed with of 400 cm)

1 AUTOMATIC WINDER cone to cone, type SCHLAFHORST model 138 of 20 spindles
Usually used for after-dyeing re-winding of yarn
Constructed in 1989
USTER POLYMATIC yarn clearers
Knotting robot with air splicer.
Blowing device.

COMPLETE LUWA AIR CONDITIONING INSTALLATION FOR THE WEAVING ROOM

Relative humidity existing in weaving room : between 75% and 80%
Relative humidity existing in the preparation room : 65%
Air Ducts for cotton fly aspiration (fixed on the roof)
Two thermo hygrographs (one in the weaving room and one in the preparation room)
Air Ducts for cotton fly aspiration from the soil (below the weaving machine)

PATERNOSTER of German brand GENKINGER model K L
- For stocking up to 95 warp beams to get humidification (65% relative) of LUWA installation before the weaving room 
- Dimensions : 15,2 m length - 6 m width - 4,9 m height
- Each warp beam has max ? 800 mm, max weight 1000 Kg, and max width of 2130 mm.
- With 4 horizontal levels (4 passages) 

Second Hand Sulzer P7100, TW11, PU, Picanol, Wamatex Weaving Looms, Hacoba Sizing and Warping Machines for sale

Second Hand Weaving Looms, Sizing and Warping Machines: 

Sulzer P 7100 B 390 N1-1 EP R D1, 390 Cm

Sulzer P 7100 B 390 N1-1 EP R D1
cam motion
Warping system, electronic warp let off
4-5 Heald frames
3 half warp beams Ø 940mm (split beam)
Ca. 6.000 Heddles and droppers
2 Weft feeders, side tucker, not center tucker
Cloth roll winding
1 cloth roller.

Picanol Gammax 8-R, 220cm, Staubli dobby

Staubli 2670 Dobby 20/20
8 colours 
guided hooks

Each loom equipped with:

4 Prewinders
1.5 Warp Beams (914 mm Flanch Dia.) 
1.5 Cloth Rollers
10 Heald Frames
6000 Drop Wires 
6000 Heddles

Sulzer G6200, 190cm / 220cm, Staubli dobby

Each loom equipped with:
Staubli dobby 2260
4 accumulators
1 beam
1 cloth roller
12 frames

Somet Thema Super Excel, 190 Cm, Fimtextile 5P Electronic Dobby

SOMET rapier weaving looms
type: THEMA SUPER EXCEL
working width: 190cm
model 2004
total 8 colors
Fimtextile 5P Electronic Dobby (16 shafts)
Electronic let off
Electronic take up

Each loom equipped with :
3 weft feeders
12 heddle frames
5000 heddles and droppers
1 + 1 warp beam
1 cloth roll

Vamatex C401, 360cm, Fimtessile dobby

Fimtessile mechanical dobby 16 levers installed 8 colors

Each loom with:
3 weft feeders ROJ AT1200
12 frames
1,5 beam dia 800 full beam (4 looms with twin beam)
2 cloth rollers
5000 heddles
5000 droppers
4 droppers bars

Picanol GTM-A, 190 Cm, Staubli Electronic Dobby 2660

4 colors (quick step)
Electronic Staubli dobby 2660 with 16 levers

Each loom with:
10 frames
1,5 beam dia 1000
1,5 cloth roller
3 weft feeders
4000 heddles and droppers

Sizing Machine

Sizing SUCKER-MULLER 
Width 3200 mm
Motors with inverters
Year 1980

USK 800, Sectional warper, 250 Cm

Sectional warper type USK 800
yoc 1988
Max. warping width ww 2500 mm
drum length 2600 m (without cone)
machine is equipped with reinforced drum
suitable for technical yarns,
beam dia. max. 800 mm
max. warping speed 800 m/min
max. rebeam speed 300 m/min.
incl. Hacoba turn creel, brakes HH roller brakes
pitch 300 mm, 336 positions with central tension regulator.

Rotal, Sizing Machine, 180 Cm

1 KARL MAYER SIZING MACHINE
type Rotal
year 1996/98
roller and cyl. width 2000 mm
working width 1800 mm 
max. working width at headstock 2100 mm
max. speed 120 m/min.

Consisting of: 
Beam creel, type RN-12-1800/1000 for 12 beams
1800 mm between the flanges
max. 1000 mm flange diam.
pneum. Brakes, individually controlled

Size trough, type 1800
2 x 2 squeezing rollers, 2 diving roller, 
automatic temperature regulation
automatic dosing of of sizing material 
waxing device

Sulzer P7100, 330 Cm, Cam

Sulzer RUTI Projectile Loom P7100B,

Model 1995 
ww 330cm
1.8 accumulators
8 heald frames
1.5 warp & cloth beam
Cam
About 7000 droppers

Sulzer TW 11, 390 Cm, Kt Dobby

Sulzer Tw-11
Kt Dobby -14 Levers Installed average
4 Color Machine
ww 390cm
With Tucking

With
6 frames
1.5 beam
1.5 cloth roll
5000 Droppers

Sulzer PU, 2430 Staubli dobby

Staubli dobby  2430 with 18 pcs of shafts installed
12 pcs heald frames 
4 sets mechanical let off 
8 sets with batch motion
heald frames 12 pc
1 beam/ cloth roller 
2 weft feeders 

Weaving Looms Photos

Sample photos from fabric manufacturing with weaving looms made of Sulzer: