Zimmer Austria has delivered its 500th magnoroll coating machine. It is a world-leading manufacturer for screen & digital printing machinery, coating, steaming, drying, digital functionalisation, as well as sample, lab, and washing machines. The machine manufacturer is the benchmark for dependable high-class machines in the textile printing industry.
Precision, quality, and reliability - many aspects changed since the invention of the first Magnoroll, but this coating machine made its name as industry benchmark due to its constant characteristics of highest quality and outstanding precision for reliable first-class results. This success is based on the effort of our dedicated workforce who managed to continuously improve and innovate, the company said in a press release.
Nowadays, the Magnoroll coating machine is equipped with state-of-the-art operating software that is loved by the customers. The machine comes in a unique modular design execution that combines various coating techniques (knife, screen, slot or magnet roll coating) within just one machine. This minimises machine downtimes and ensures quick adaptation to specific requirements.
Concentricity, accuracy, and precision is crucial for quality results, especially when applying coatings on large working widths. The world-famous Zimmer Magnet System Plus with up to three magnet bars, guarantees a 100 per cent uniform application for any coating, laminating, and lacquering.
Zimmer Austria coating systems ensure the needed accuracy and precision for applying coatings also on working widths larger than five metres. Zimmer Austria provides the opportunity to run trials or even small-scale productions at its technology application centre in Klagenfurt. Depending on the individual requirements, the company offers a variety of standard and special coating techniques to be tested together with its expert technologists, such as knife coating combined with screen printing.#??#
Outstanding coating results require attention to every detail and the highest quality in every step of the process. Zimmer Austria has decades of experience in the manufacturing of coating systems, where it achieved many breakthrough innovations that its customers benefit from. The company offers tailor-made coating systems, manufactured with highest quality materials (stainless steel, chromed steel, and so on), equipped with state-of-the-art operating software to bring the customers the highest level of quality.
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Eltex will present Eltex EYE yarn fault detection system for tufting machines at ITMA 2019 expo, in hall 4, stand B104. The world’s leading international textile and garment technology exhibition will be held from June 20-26, 2019, in Barcelona, Spain. Eltex is the leading provider of yarn break sensors and yarn tension monitors headquartered in Sweden.
Beta testing of the latest advanced version of the Eltex EYE yarn fault detection system for tufting machines is currently underway at the plant of a major high end carpet manufacturer in the USA.
“The latest advanced tufting machines put significant limitations on the space that is available for yarn fault detection systems, and the Eltex EYE is very comprehensive, with each yarn individually controlled for a 100 per cent detection of every tufting yarn break and end out. Unlike scanning inspection systems, we are monitoring each individual yarn position in real time. As a consequence, we have concentrated on the further miniaturisation of our sensors. Our sensors are usually fitted between the feed rollers and the needles and based on the well proven piezoelectric principle. Their special compact design already enables them to be fitted on machines with gauges as dense as a tenth of an inch,” Brian Hicks, managing director of Eltex of Sweden, the developer of the technology said in a company press release.
All of the data from the sensors is processed by a master control unit which provides stop and warning light indications to the extremely user-friendly operator terminal in response to any detected yarn fault. Eltex reports major gains with its first generation Eltex EYE in the carpet and artificial grass manufacturing sectors in recent years.#??#
The US remains the world’s epicentre for carpet tufting and Eltex customers are served there from the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary in South Carolina. Western Europe, however, still has a strong manufacturing base, particularly in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK, while Turkey dominates in woven carpets.
With its research and development work primarily carried out at its headquarters in Osby, Sweden, the company’s manufacturing plant has been located at Templemore in Ireland since 1976, providing significant advantages in terms of high flexibility and logistical services to customers on both sides of the Atlantic.
Eltex is a member of TMAS, the textile machinery association of Sweden, which will have a significant presence at ITMA 2019 in Barcelona.#??#
Recently, polyester feedstock market was in downward correction, and sales ratio of PFY has been slanting low for a week, resulting into mounting inventory. But the news that the VAT will be revised down from 16% to 13% from Apr 1 heated up the whole polyester market during last Friday. Namely, if PFY plants purchase feedstock in Mar and deduct it in Apr, the input tax will add by 3% to deduct VAT. Therefore, it is more cost effective to purchase feedstock in Mar theoretically if PFY price keeps stable.
Driven by this, downstream plants intensively restocked last Friday, pushing sales ratio of PFY up to 160%. This round of replenishment was mainly from enterprises that had low inventory at hand as worry on rising price stimulated them to procure.
Moderate purchase has appeared for several times if cooperated with bullish news since the second half of 2017. Once bullish news from macro side or polyester feedstock market emerged, PFY plants would witness sound sales, while downstream players were forced to purchase passively.
Supply and demand decides position. Downstream twisting units and fabric manufacturing plants expanded capacity substantially in 2017-2018, which directly led to growing rigid demand for PFY. However, as for PFY market, the production growth rate peaked in 2017-2018, and a new round of capacity expansion began from 2018. Barmag winding head has been booked until 2021. Amid the dislocation of capacity expansion cycle on upstream and downstream market, tight supply and demand on PFY market has been mitigated after 2018, but is not completely reversed. Besides, new PFY plants are scheduled to intensively start operation in the second half of 2019, and the startup in Jan-May, 2019 is relatively scarce. Supply and demand fundamental of PFY is sound, so sales of PFY are often easy to be stimulated by bullish news.
Generally speaking, sales of PFY are still likely to be sound once bullish news appear when the supply/demand fundamental does not apparently alter. However, the stocks of PFY accumulated during the Spring Festival have not been totally consumed, and a great amount is at the hand of downstream plants or PFY plants. End-user demand is feeble, and high social stocks of PFY (finished goods inventory in PFY plants and the feedstock inventory of downstream plants) restrict the PFY market although it is firmer than downstream fabric manufacturing industry. Rising price on PFY market is mainly periodical tendency driven by bullish factors, and the continuity of downstream procurement is decided by the continuity of the bulls.
For downstream fabric manufacturing sector, players are still expected to be under passive position at least during the first half of 2019 before new PFY units starting operation intensively. On one hand, PFY market is anticipated to possess stronger saying in pricing with unchanged supply/demand fundamental; on the other hand, fabric manufacturing plants witness big selling pressure after great capacity add in 2017-2018, and the profit has been apparently squeezed.
