At ITMA 2019 in Barcelona from June 20-26th, FONG’s Europe, based in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, will introduce its THEN Smartflow TSF hydraulic high temperature dyeing machine.
The THEN Smartflow TSF is designed to achieve the lowest possible energy and water consumption rates available on the market for jet dyeing, with achievable liquor ratios for a full load up to 300kg with a reduced kier volume and a liquor ratio down to 1:3.5 for cotton and 1:2.5 for synthetics.
FONG’s Europe has a number of patents pending on the innovative new features of this machine, including the Smartflow’s fabric transport design. This is based on a smart, winchless fabric transport system which eliminates the need for a loading rope, and a circular plaiter with programmable rotation speeds which provides full filling of the drop zone. The chambers can accommodate variable loads in terms of both weight and material type down to 40kg for extremely flexible processing, and each Smartflow TSF unit can be equipped with up to 8 chambers, in order to fully maximise productivity, while taking up to 40% less floor space than competing systems.
“The newly-developed nozzles and reel-less transport in combination with smart controlled circular plaiting and variable chamber adjustment provide even fabric treatment without entanglements and the highest loading capacity with the lowest kier volume,” explains FONG’s Europe Sales and Marketing Manager Richard Fander.
Another innovation is the new bath preparation unit (BPU) and its patented satellite tank.
“As the process times of jet machines have been continuously optimised over the past few decades, they have required an increasing number of service tanks for dyes, auxiliaries and hot water, adding both expense and additional space requirements. Our new BPU and satellite tank, with its automatic dosing and mixing programmes, working in combination with the THEN temperature management system, ensures the recipes are supplied in exact quantities, with dyes and auxiliaries well diluted and heated to the required temperature rapidly” says Mr Fander.
“The new THEN Smartflow allows fully reproducible processing with the optimised use of raw materials, water and energy, for perfect dyeing every time. Hydraulically driving the fabric without the use of a transport winch opens the door to reducing the tension during treatment and results in the highest relaxation of stretch and spandex fabrics” he concludes.
XORELLA is ready for Industry 4.0
XORELLA has been a leading-edge manufacturer of equipment for conditioning and heat setting of textiles ever since the company was founded almost 50 years ago. The machines are renowned for its technology, operating efficiency and reliability. For customers around the world XORELLA is the preferred partner for standard conditioning and heat-setting machines as well as for integration in fully automatic material handling and packing systems.
XORELLA has listened to customers’ input and reengineered the controller and its software. Latest generation hardware is used and software as well as visualization has been redesigned with a clear concept in mind: Easy operation even by less experienced staff in the mills.
There is a clear structure on all screens and the use of text is minimized. At the right side actual hazards are displayed with pictograms (such as high temperature in the picture below).
A new interface was created to assist customers in trouble shooting. Actual and historical data is saved and can be sent to its Service Department for analysis and support.
Paving the way for Big Data is the most important feature of the new XORELLA controller. It fully relies on its OPC UA interface for connection to external systems. Customers have the possibility to display the visualization on their own system completely by accessing the variables provided by the OPC UA. This considerably facilitates integration into superordinate systems. Therefore it is possible to link the XORELLA controller with process visualization systems provided by the main spinning machinery manufacturers or third parties.
You are invited to meet XORELLA’s team of specialists at booth in hall 6 at booth D203 to obtain detailed information on XORELLA machines and services.
FONG’s Europe will be at stand D101 in Hall 2 at ITMA 2019 with Then and Goller, and Xorella will be at stand D203 in Hall 6. Earlier, Fong’s Europe will also be at the Techtextil show in Frankfurt, Germany, from May 14-17th, at stand F01 in Hall 3.0.