Textile News

Darlington Fabrics Launches UBL, FR Warp-Knit Stretch Fabrics
Darlington Fabrics Corp. - a manufacturer of warp-knit elastic fabrics, textiles and stretch goods for the apparel and medical industries, and a division of The Moore Co. Textile Group, Westerly, R.I. - has introduced its unbroken loop (UBL) line of warp-knit loop fabrics that combines stretch with hook receptive durability and offers benefits such as stability without raveling, strength, colorfastness, washability, softness and value.

Darlington also has launched a line of fire retardant (FR) warp-knit stretch fabrics that do not require post treatments such as flame coating. The polyester/spandex fabrics are available in a variety of weights and widths, and are suitable for applications including military, flags, industrial protection and safety.

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HL SERIES PLASTIC MIXER RECYCLE MACHINE / bag making machine / machine / paper machine / paper machinery / plastic machine / plastic machinery (HL SER

Product Feature:

Usage:
1.The machine combines the principles of grinding rapidly, agitating continuously, milling and fractioning to be heated with multi-knives and cooling and contracting. It produces granules from waste materials such as the plastic films, filament, ribbons, pieces, soft plastic pipes, foaming materials, and degrading materials, and puts then into reproduction .It is the latest ideal granulating equipment to recycle plastics and reproduce.

2.Advantage:
A: Milling, mixture and staining can be processed all in one
B: The machine takes up little area of land
C: It is characterized by simple structure and ease of operation
D: The interstitial of the blade can be adjusted with convenience of replacing.
E: It is characterized by high efficient in production and low consumption(1 ton of daily production ,and 200 degrees of electricity consumption ).
F: Granulate at lower temperature, do not damage molecular structure of materials basically, and do not damage physical performance.
Product Specifications:

Model No.
HL-100
HL-150

Capacity of Barrel
100L
150L

Output Capacity
30-60kg/h
60-80kg/h

Main Motor Power
15kw
18kw

Water Adding Device
125w
125w

Heating Power
1.5kw
1.5kw

Rotary Speed of Main Shaft
660r/min
660r/min

Machine Dimension(mm)
1300��600��1300
1500��700��1400

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Fiber World

DuPont Merges Three Businesses Under DuPont Protection Technologies Name
Wilmington, Del.-based DuPont has merged three business units --Advanced Fiber Systems, Nonwovens and Personal Protection -- into one unit, doing business as DuPont Protection Technologies, based in Richmond, Va. Products and technologies offered include Tyvek® and Sontara® nonwovens, Kevlar® and Nomex® advanced fibers, and Tychem® protective apparel, among other offerings.

"We believe we will be able to quickly simplify internal processes, increase the speed of decision-making, and more fully leverage our large investments in research and development across market segments," said Thomas G. Powell, who is transitioning from vice president and general manager of DuPont Advanced Fiber Systems to lead DuPont Protection Technologies in the same capacity. "These changes will lead to more rapid innovation and improve our responsiveness to customers."

All existing production and research facilities of the previous separate businesses will continue to operate as before, Powell said. "These ... have long-standing leadership positions and represent applications and technologies that DuPont is counting on for future growth," he said. "We are committed to continuing to invest in capacity and innovation to meet the current and future needs of our customers."

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.230" 10B21 with cert Johnstown 15,000 lbs. email us
.127 annealed with Knightcote with cert Carpenter 305 4,000 lbs. email us
.192 with cert Ugine 410 Stainless 4,400 lbs. email us
.148" Galvanized 81-84,000 psi C1008 Industrial 5,049 lbs. (3 coils) email us
.250" Galvanized 77-79,000 psi C1008 Industrial 3,726 lbs. (2 coils) email us
.187" Galvanized 80-82,000 psi C1008 Industrial 3,814 lbs. (2 coils) email us
.297" Cold Headed 1035 4,000 lbs. email us
20.5mm Cold Headed 1035 2,700 lbs. email us
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.185" Cold Headed 1038 33,000 lbs. email us
.092" Stainless 304 924 lbs email us
.134" Galvanized Basic C1008 315 lbs. email us
.219" Galvanized Basic C1008 29,000 lbs. email us
.422" IQ Basic C1008 2,240 lbs. email us
.148" Cold Headed Y-4037 4,100 lbs. email us
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.375" Coil Steel 5132 30,000 Lbs. email us



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Machine Tools Germany - Deutschland Machine Tools Supplier

The company Aachener Maschinenbau (AMBA) was founded in Aachen in 1908. About 50 years ago AMBA started manufacturing machines for production of spokes and nipples for bicycles and motorbikes. Based on these products the first AMBA boltmaker was developed.

Today AMBA boltmakers and other cold forming machines are found in the fastener industry worldwide. Main advantage of AMBA boltmakers is their modular set-up which combines heading and threading in one machine including the possibility of two different threads on the blank. A full-size AMBA BM 12 for example includes cutting, heading, extruding, pointing and threading for screws and bolt up to ½" in diameter and 60" in length. A high-speed AMBA 68 for screws size ¼" x 10" is capable to produce up to 230 ppm.

The first flat die thread roller worldwide to produce full threaded screws up to 600 mm (24") in length was developed in 2005. This machine can be equipped with dies up to 12" in length. Currently AMBA is projecting a new generation of flat die thread roller with dies up to 24" in length.

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Nonwovens / Technical Textiles

Nonwovens For Medical Applications
Innovations in the growing nonwoven medical textiles sector include new products aimed at infection prevention.
Janet Bealer Rodie, Managing Editor
N onwoven textiles play a significant role in the medical sector. The product range includes surgical gowns, masks and other wearable products; surgical drapes, pads; dressings; filtration materials; and implantable textiles such as tissue scaffolds for rebuilding internal organs, among other products.

By far, most nonwoven products used outside the body are disposable, single-use articles that have the advantage of not requiring sterilization or cleaning for reuse. However, there are some that can be reused to provide the required function over a limited period of time.

In North America, disposable nonwoven medical apparel products alone represent a market totaling nearly $1.46 billion, according to the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry (INDA), Cary, N.C.; and the market is growing by approximately 1 to 2 percent annually. Globally, the medical nonwoven disposables market is forecast to grow to $12 billion annually by 2010, according to market research firm Global Industry Analysts Inc., San Jose, Calif.

Products used inside the body may provide a basis for cells to grow and regenerate tissue — for example, a ligament that has been destroyed or damaged that can be regenerated using a bioabsorbable material that eventually becomes indistinguishable from the ligament itself.

Manufacturing processes used to make these medical nonwovens include needlepunch; hydroentangling; spunbond, meltblown and a combination of the two; and thermal bonding. Bicomponent splittable or fibrillated fibers, nanotechnology and fiber modification also play important roles in some recent developments, a number of them involving filtration and barrier technologies.

“Nanofibers are becoming very popular for medical textiles used to filter viruses and bacteria,” said Jeff Haggard, vice president of technology at West Melbourne, Fla.-based Hills Inc., a developer of man-made fiber technology and machinery. Hills has been a pioneer in the development of bicomponent fibers as well as meltblown and spunbond technologies and their applications, and it offers meltblown technology that can produce fibers in the range between 25 and 400 nanometers (nm), with an average size of 250 nm.

A Collaborative Development
Collaborations between research institutes and private industry have yielded numerous important developments in the nonwoven medical textile field. As one example, Pathogen Removal and Diagnostic Technologies Inc. (PRDT), a joint venture between ProMetic BioSciences Ltd., England, and the American Red Cross, Washington, has developed a filter to remove prion protein from red blood cell concentrate. Prions are responsible for degenerative brain diseases such as mad cow disease and other such diseases, including its human cousin and the target of this filter, variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease. The filter, marketed in the United Kingdom by France-based MacoPharma S.A. under the brand name P-CAPT™, comprises a target-specific affinity resin sandwiched between nonwoven membranes using a calendering process. The membrane development was carried out through a collaboration with the Nonwovens Cooperative Research Center (NCRC) at North Carolina State University (NCSU). The effort brought together prion experts at the University of Maryland, and chemical engineers involved in bioseparations and NCRC nonwovens staff and engineers at NCSU.

The P-CAPT™ filter for removing prion protein from
red blood cell concentrate comprises a target-specific
affinity resin sandwiched between nonwoven membranes.
Photo and schematic courtesy of MacoPharma S.A.

Disease Prevention: Multiple-Use Protection
Current warnings of a swine flu (H1N1) pandemic must be providing a boon to nonwoven face mask and respirator sales, as people around the world have been shown wearing the masks in an effort to avoid inhaling the virus or spreading possible infection to others. The US Department of Health and Human Services has established a website, www.flu.gov, to provide information about H1N1, avian flu (H5N1) and pandemic flu in general. The website includes a page with information and guidance provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration about the use of masks and respirators to protect against infection. Numerous other websites offered by health organizations and governments around the world also provide relevant information.

Mask manufacturers reportedly are escalating their operations to meet the increased demand. “ We’ve gotten some big orders in several countries and are ramping up production,” said John Dolan, CEO, Carey International Ltd., a Westerly, R.I.-based worldwide distributor of a new, multiple-use respirator mask made with a needlepunched, four-ply fabric comprising two outer layers featuring Agion® silver/copper zeolite compounds permanently embedded into the fiber and two inner filtration layers to prevent microbial or other particle penetration. The outer layers have been shown to kill Streptococcus pyogenes, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and other bacteria; and inactivate H1N1, H5N1, the common cold and other viruses. The filtration layers comply with National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health N95 and N99 standards.

The N99 mask — certified according to European Respiratory Protection Standard EN149:2001 FFP3 level to have 99-percent-or-greater particle filtration effcacy, and also approved by Canadian regulatory agencies — is currently available outside the United States. It has been shown in trials to be effective for at least 28 days, compared with eight to 12 hours effective use for standard single-use masks; and the cost per day of use of the mask is about one-tenth of the cost of a single-use mask.

Bill Hurst, director of business development at Wakefield, Mass.-based Agion, said the silver and copper work synergistically to provide faster antimicrobial action than silver alone. “ The ionic exchange between the copper and the sulfur that makes up the bacterium cell membrane helps compromise that membrane,” he said.

Conclusion
Products such as the P-CAPT blood filter and the N99 respirator mask are but two innovations being offered in the growing nonwoven medical textile market. New fiber and processing technologies as well as collaborative, multidisciplinary efforts will contribute to ongoing product development and further market growth.

Dyeing Printing & Finishing

True Textiles, TSG Named Scotchgard™ Licensees
3M, St. Paul, Minn., has signed exclusive Scotchgard™ textile finish licensing agreements with two companies. Contract fabrics manufacturer True Textiles, Grand Rapids, Mich., is now an exclusive vertical mill licensee for the US market. Commission finisher TSG Inc., North Wales, Pa., is exclusive US licensee in that category.

"In working with True Textiles and TSG, we immediately accomplished two important objectives," said Mitch Culbreath, new business development manager, 3M Protective Materials. "They are passionate about the Scotchgard brand and believe it is a great fit for the contract fabrics market, and they are already strongly positioned as leaders in environmental sustainability."

3M's current Scotchgard Protector soil- and stain-repellent product line is a reformulation of the original Scotchgard, whose perfluorooctanyl chemistry raised environmental, health and safety issues, and which was discontinued in 2000. The new product line is based upon stable polymers that have minimal to no environmental impact, the company reports.

OEST MASCHINENBAU

The company produces glue mixing-, glue pouring- and dosing and application units for all kinds of adhesives. The glue mixing units ensures the automatic processing of liquid and powder components. The systems for the supply of extruder-heads for the finger joint-, edge- and surface-application work with self-developed dosing pumps. The glue pouring units are available with an application width up to 3000 mm. Also systems for the separate application of resin and hardener are in the product range. For the processing of PUR adhesives are surface application and finger joint units available.

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METABO

Metabo is a German manufacturer of electric power tools, woodworking machines, bench grinders, bench drilling machines, drill chucks, depressed centre grinding discs and cut-off wheels. Metabo has manufacturing facilities at its Nürtingen main plant and at a branch factory in Laichingen. Grinding discs and cutts-off wheels are also produced in West Chester PA, USA. The top quality of Metabo products is acknowledged throughout the world. Metabo's worldwide success is based on many decades of experience in the development of innovative products of the highest quality. Machines for woodworking: Screw drivers • Portable circular saws • Circular saw benches • Square-cutting and mitre saw • Band saws • Fret saws • One-hand planers • Surface and thickness planers • Sanders • Belt sanders • Overhead routers • Dust removers • Allpurpose exhausters • Battery-driven machines for boring, percussion boring, screwing, sawing and sanding, plus an extensive range of accessories.

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ELSTER

Elster GmbH Geschäftssegment LBE and manufactures industrial combustion systems which are built according to individual customer requirements. The scope of our services includes design, implementation, installation/commissioning and world-wide after-sales service. Combustion systems for particleboard and MDF manufacturers: We supply multifuel burner systems for liquid, gaseous and pulverized fuels for heating up dryers and boilers. The burner systems, including the necessary accessories (fuel and combustion air supply, measuring and control devices, process control systems etc.), are adapted to the requirements of each individual plant.

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DIMTER

Expert for wood optimizing in the Weinig-Group. Product range: Automatic cross-cut saws, optimizing cross-cut saws, turnkey projects for automatic cross-cutting, optimizing... Edge-gluing presses for solid wood panels from 3 mm on as face-gluing presses for wooden frames / laminated beams. Turnkey projects incl. material handling as a part of automized production lines.

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OptiCut 450 Quantum: Cross-cut saws and complete cutting solutions. Top performance and yield.

GÖTZINGER

We build special machines for the production of louvre doors, consisting of an automatic louvre cutter, a heading device and a louvre frame clamp. Our range also includes finger-jointing lines consisting of a finger jointing clamp, a glue applicator and a finger jointing cutter formerly built by FESTO/HOLZ-HER and the K 15 hole and harware boring machine. The same applies, for example, to the rod profiler, the universal profiler, the wall-mounting and pedestal-type chain mortiser, and supplies of spare parts for the type ZA tenon and mortise cutting machine. We have designed and built a door support to supplement the wall-mounting and pedestal-type chain mortiser. Other successful products include the olive boring machine (for olive-shaped handles) and a corner-bearing boring machine as a low-price accessory. We also build special machines to customer wishes.

Product range
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GRECON DIMTER NORD

GreCon Dimter Nord builds finger jointing lines for a wide range of applications with diverse capacities for craft businesses, medium-size manufacturers and industrial-scale producers.

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HEMA

For more than 80 years the main emphasis of production has been on band sawing machines in 9 different sizes with 200 to 900 mm pulley diameter and on custom-built sawing machines. The carpentry machine range has been greatly extended over the past few years: Portable band saws, chain saws, beam planers, carpentry boring machines, bird's mouth cutters, and chain mortising and through-mortising equipment. To complete the program there are disk and belt sanding machines (individual and combined types) as well as profile sanders.

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FRIZ

FRIZ Kaschiertechnik GmbH, a company of the Homag Group, develops and manufactures machines and production lines for surface lamination. The product range comprises - profile wrapping machines to laminate profiles for all performance classes - laminating lines for top and side surfaces; these lines are available for the adhesive types urea, hotmelt and PVAc - MASTERFORM membrane presses for three-dimensional lamination of moulded parts with thermoplastic foils, laminates or veneers - glue spreaders for all adhesive types - travelling separating saws for workpiece cutting - foil slitters for precise longitudinal cutting of coiled material

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FERROCONTROL

Ferrocontrol develops, produces and sells automation components and complete automation solutions containing drive systems for manufacturers of processing machines and for end-customers. The core competence of our specialist company is the optimization of material flow, handling of production goods and the optimized mechanical machining of workpieces. The drive system DARC, the industrial PC range FIPC, the control system FLC, production control software and control cabinets are part of our own production range. Ferrocontrol is a company of the Eckelmann Group.

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DIEFFENBACHER

Dieffenbacher plans and manufactures complete turnkey production lines for all kinds of woodbased panels (particleboard, MDF-, THDF-, OSB-, OSL- and LVL) as well as laminating lines. All major plant components are produced within the Dieffenbacher Group. Core components are:

* MDF-Frontends and the fiber gluing system from Sunds MDF-Technologies
* dryers and sifters from Schenkmann-Piel-Engineering
* Particleboard Formingstation and Panelhandlingsystems from Dieffenbacher Finland and Dieffenbacher Germany
* Gluing, forming line, cycle or continuous presses as well as finishing, storing and process management systems from Dieffenbacher. A tradition of more than 130 years and worldwide references stand for convincing technical and economic solutions. So far, Dieffenbacher has supplied more than 1,000 press lines and systems for processing all kinds of raw materials.

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EHRHARDT

Our production program: Machines for

* production of graphite, colour and cosmetic pencils, e.g. shaping machines, automatic gluing machines, drying presses, cutting saws, surface smoothing machines, lacquering machines
* finishing of wooden and plastic pencils, e.g. foil stamping pointing, printing, eraser/ferrule tipping machines, dipping machines, end forming and surface cleaning machines
* production of leads and crayons, e.g. presses, cutting machines, drying chambers. We supply individual machines, automatic lines and complete plants for various capacities.

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BARGSTEDT

Transport systems for the woodworking and furniture-processing industry. In the course of its 35-year company history, BARGSTEDT has convinced with intelligent material flow solutions and established itself as market leader. Today the company is a synonym for automatic feeding, transport, destacking and storing in its chosen sector.

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ANTHON

Anthon is a manufacturer of:

* electronically controlled panel sizing- and trimming lines cutting from above and underneath, cutting heights from 90 – 300 mm, capacity up to 90 m³/h, automatic push feeders or vacuum feeders, fully automatic cut to size with head cut option by means of a turn table.
* Automatic stacking and sorting lines
* Sanding lines for working widths 1300,1550, 1650, 1950 to 2200 mm, sanding from above and from underneath
* Fully automatic, robot supported packing lines for the panel industry.
* Fully automatic, robot supported destacking, and feeding lines
* Barrel making machines for producing wooden barrels for liquids

UN chief urges China to lead 'green' global development - Update

Beijing - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged China to become a role model for developing nations in responding to climate change by promoting clean energy and investing in "green" economic growth. Ban made his comments in a speech before meetings with President Hu Jintao and other Chinese leaders.

"China has long been the world's fastest-growing major economy," he said. "It is also a leading emitter of greenhouse gases, and it is one of the countries most vulnerable to the impact of climate change."

Ban's warning was issued at the launch of a project to promote energy-saving lighting, which the government said could cut energy consumption by 8 per cent.

"China's progress on achieving sustainable economic and energy policies simultaneously is crucial not just for the citizens of China but also for the citizens of the world," he said.

Ban later discussed climate change and other international issues with Premier Wen Jiabao and Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi. He was scheduled to meet Hu later in the day.

China's Foreign Affairs Ministry quoted Yang as telling Ban that China favours multilateralism and supports a central role for the United Nations in responding to the global financial crisis, especially in representing the interests of developing nations.

Ban praised China's "active and constructive role" in international and regional affairs, the ministry said.

He said the United Nations wanted closer cooperation with China on such global issues as climate change, food security and "protecting global peace and stability."

In his earlier speech, Ban said China had an "opportunity to leapfrog over decades of traditional development based on high polluting fuels" and could "reap the rewards" of environmentally friendly economic growth in both its own society and the global marketplace.

"China can be a model not only for developing nations, but for the whole world," he said.

Ban has made climate change a priority for UN programmes this year.

Government leaders are due to meet in Copenhagen December 7-18 to try to reach a new agreement that would replace the Kyoto Protocol and regulate carbon emissions, which cause global warming. The current protocol expires in 2012.

"Without China, there can be no success this year on a new global climate framework," Ban said Friday.

"But with China, there is an enormous potential for the world to seal a deal in Copenhagen," he said.

Ban arrived in China late Thursday. He was scheduled to travel Saturday to the north-western city of Xian, an ancient Chinese capital now best known for its terracotta warriors.

He plans to visit Mongolia Sunday, where he is to meet Mongolian leaders and address the challenges of climate change and adaptation in land-locked nations.

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Spacesuit trouble leads to shortened spacewalk - Summary

Washington - Problems with a spacesuit caused NASA to cut short a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Wednesday. Problems with a system that removes carbon dioxide from the air in astronaut Chris Cassidy's spacesuit caused mission control to end the spacewalk at 2031 GMT after five hours and 59 minutes. Carbon dioxide levels were beginning to rise in his suit, but he was not in any imminent danger, NASA said. The spacewalk was to have lasted about six and a half hours.

Cassidy and fellow US astronaut Dave Wolf spent the spacewalk changing batteries on one of the station's solar panel. Because of the spacesuit problems they were able to swap out just two of four batteries that were to be exchanged during the spacewalk. A third old battery was removed, but they did not have time to install a new one when the spacewalk was cut short.

Each solar panel on the station has six batteries, and the panels' other batteries will be swapped out on a spacewalk later in the mission.

The giant batteries were designed to be changed after several years and are large enough that the work must be done while NASA is still operating the space shuttles that are capable of carrying large loads, the space agency said.

NASA plans to retire the ageing fleet of shuttles at the end of next year.

The spacewalkers also removed insulation from Japanese experiments and moved handrails on the outside of the ISS.

It was the third of five planned spacewalks during the mission that brought a new porch to the Japanese Kibo laboratory. The four- ton porch on the station's Japanese laboratory will be used to expose scientific experiments to the extremities of space through X-ray cameras and studies of cosmic dust.

The next spacewalk, which is also to focus on battery work, is set for Friday.

BIEG® · Badische Industrie-Edelstein Gesellschaft mbH

We are located
in Elzach, in the Black Forest. (>> Local map, How to get there)

BIEG - the Badische Industrie-Edelstein Gesellschaft mbH - was established in its present form in 1948. It is a completely independent successor to a former subsidiary of IG-Farben.

Staff
We have a staff of 70.

The core expertise
Our core expertise is the processing of extreme hard materials.

Quality Management System according DIN EN ISO 9001:2000

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