Amba Projex Ltd. of the UK has manufacturing capability on sites throughout England and Europe. The company designs and supplies coating, flocking and laminating machines for technical textiles and composites. The business further supports its clients by providing affordable fibre presentation equipment along with special-purpose machinery and factory automation.
Amba Projex has been recognised for its export achievements to date. It has representation throughout the Asia Pacific rim and has a current and dedicated focus on the region.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world, recently took delivery of a multi-use special-purpose machine for its carbon fibre research activities from Amba Projex. The machine is able to coat and laminate a range of technical textiles at a working width of 600 mm and also to film coat and prepreg glass, aramids and carbon fibre materials in both woven and tape forms.
This will provide CSIRO with the most versatile research and development machine in the country. Further additions planned will include a sophisticated low-cost creel for carbon, a flocking machine, a powder head for the application of epoxy compatible powders to prepreg materials and a new concept for composites lamination.
Amba Projex is currently working on the design of a revolutionary production technique with selected partners, including CSIRO, to manufacture carbon prepregs and other prepreg materials in a way that will grasp the attention of the prepreg industry globally.
Dr. Ron Denning, a senior research scientist at CSIRO and the project manager, says: “The machine was installed swiftly by the Amba team and was operational just four days after it arrived packed in two containers.”
Amba Projex is very active in India and has installed several machines to date. These include full process lines for the production of blackout and blinds; machines that can produce the best quality flocked fabrics; hot melt laminators for the production of performance apparel; powder application systems for carbon and filtration products; coating lines for industrial fabrics; and fabric prepreg equipment for composites. The company machines are installed all over India.
Mr. Barry Goodwin, Managing Director of Amba Projex Ltd., states: “We are very different from other machine providers, both local and East Asian. Our credentials in the industry we serve are impeccable. We supply the process know-how and stay with the clients until they can provide saleable products. We are supported in this region by Mr. Jayessh S. Nanavati of Sainite Exports located in Mumbai.”
Sainit Exports is one of the leading companies representing in India several European and Far East firms producing technical textiles. Sainit offers plants, projects and machinery for coating, flocking, lamination, composites, transfer films and transfer printing papers, lamination films, etc.
A machine recently delivered by Amba has been installed and signed off for an established performance wear manufacturer. It allows this client to laminate both sides of a high specification composite at a much greater speed than possible previously.
Amba supplied its latest MK VI AP2000 high temperature solution for this contract working closely with the customer to help source the adhesive systems and provide a reliable and robust process.
The double-sided machine is uniquely configured with two reactive adhesive melters and a special-purpose powder application system. It demonstrates how flexible a solution can be engineered if the client chooses the correct machinery partner.
Amba continues to serve business owners and entrepreneurs all over the region.