Pakistan Textile Journal. march index

UCMTF comprises approximately 35 companies. Some are world leaders on their markets; others, which often are small and medium size companies, originally family-owned, develop, sell and service specialized machines with a high technological level. For all these companies most of their business is done on export markets: regional export markets in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, but also in the Americas, and increasingly in Asia where the textile business is developing at a quick pace.

UCMTF supports its members' international initiatives, in particular for international events. In addition to the exhibitions directly organized by Cematex, the French manufacturers also participate in regional or national shows. UCMTF is instrumental in their selection, and provides substantial logistic assistance via the organization of French pavilions and their local promotion to leverage its members' efforts.

Symposiums, study missions and receptions of foreign delegations, etc. are also organized in countries selected for their growth markets these initiatives support active promotion and market exploration.

Thibeau Excelle cards, Asselin crosslappers, Prodyn, drafters, needlelooms, Monomatic

EasyWinders, VantageWinders and their respective slitters-rewinders. New features will further improve consistent web quality, high production and productivity, ease of maintenance and minimum downtime, safety and user friendliness.

New equipment introduced recently includes: the BattCruise, the WebCruise, the Expert-Scada system.

NSC nonwoven also offers its range of Axcess equipment with cards and crosslappers for medium performances lines, with no compromise in terms of design quality at attractive cost.

The Excelle® card is designed for a wide range of products with an output capacity over 450kg/hr/m, a consistent web quality at high production level and a high productivity with minimum downtime and ease of maintenance. CleanSystem air flow, patented A frame®, LDS® and WID® doffing and transfer systems, IPC rack, quick frame opening, VarioWeb®… are just some of the innovations of that new Excelle® card.

v Is set easily to change from product “A” to product “B” without much trouble.

When it comes to recycling, Laroche is the world leader in textile and nonwoven wastes recycling machines. Large capacity “EXEL” and “JUMBO” waste tearing machines as well as the fastest tearing machines for in line with the « MINITRIM HSP ».

Complete process for bast fibers (hemp, flax, kenaf, jute): to reach the cleanliness and staple lengths required for the nonwoven processes.

Opening and blending: high precision fiber opening, blending and dosing lines with the new “EXEL” fine opener.

Airlay: complete Airlay line “FLEXILOFT” from all kind of fibers raw materials up to nonwoven products.

RESINFELT compact Airlay line to manufacture cured and semicured resinated felts for acoustic insulation, molded parts for automotive and other applications.

Offers state-of-the-art web forming and web bonding machinery to the nonwoven producers.

v Market leader in spunlace technology with more than 150 spunlace installed: ETlace®3000, and JETlace® Essentiel.

Specializes in the designing / manufacturing of in-line and off-line slitting and rewinding machines, and spooling lines.

Calemard has a proven expertise in crush, shear and razor slitting systems and also in sealing/cutting technologies.

Dollfus & Muller develops and manufactures a wide range of conveyor belts used for nonwoven processing lines. Proposes antistatic solutions, non-marking pin or endless seam. Also wires for high temperature (up to 250°C) ambiance are part of the product range. Its conveyor belts are particularly designed to meet the most specific demands of the nonwoven producers.

Interview: Bruno Ameline, Chairman of the French Textile Machinery Manufacturers

The French manufacturers do not just consider themselves as machinery suppliers, but also as the technology partners of their customers.

“With an average growth rate of 7% to 8%, the nonwoven industry is a dynamic sector”, states Bruno Ameline, Chairman of the French Textile Machinery Manufacturers’ Association (UCMTF). One of the reasons is that nonwovens cover an extremely large array of applications.

From hygiene single use products (diapers, cotton pads, medical textiles, wipes..) to automotive carpets and headliners, geotextiles, clothing, coating substrates, isolation and filtration products and the likes, nonwovens are part of everyone’s everyday life.

Thanks to the encounter of ever renewed market needs with the pro-active approach of nonwovens producers and machinery manufacturers, many new applications have been, are and will be successfully developed.

They need an extensive search for more effective and more productive production processes. “This is why, machinery manufacturers are an essential part of the Nonwoven industry” affirms Bruno Ameline.

Many alternative production technologies have been developed, for web- and batt-forming processes (carded, spunbond, meltblown, airlaid, wetlaid, etc.) as much as for consolidation processes (thermobonding, needlepunchling, spunlacing, stitching, chemical bonding, etc.).

“These intensive developments have led to fierce competition among nonwoven machinery makers, but we have to live with it and in the end, machine producers also benefit from their competitors’ initiatives.

France has several leaders involved in the opening and blending, carding, needle punching, spunlacing, spunbonding machinery for nonwovens, at the top of their respective technologies.” affirms Bruno Ameline. Evelyne Cholet, the Secretary General, adds “At Index, our goal there is to be as close as possible to our customers, to understand their needs, present our know-how and find new solutions to create value for them.”

In France there are no big diversified groups but state of the art, very active and specialized SMEs are leaders in their sectors of application such as Nonwovens. In the Nonwoven business more than in any other sector the customers want the machinery manufacturers to design and offer complete lines to meet thier specific requirements. Therefore, integrated responsibility, the fact that one company takes full responsibility from the design to the after-sales services, is an essential feature to gain new markets. French manufacturers are used to work that way.