Dornier for the first time with new, lean rapier weaving machine type PX

At India ITME, for the first time in India, DORNIER was present and demonstrated the versatility of the new, lean rapier weaving machine type PX. Well proven components, 8 weft colours and the unsurpassed high flexibility of DORNIER´s positively controlled center transfer make it a highly cost-efficient and versatile machine attractive especially to home textile and garment manufacturers. The machine is combined with BONAS Jacquard shedding and dressed with a premium silk fabric in the standard upholstery fabric width of 160 cm.

Next to the PX machine visitors admired a state of the art DORNIER air-jet weaving machine renown for its outstanding sturdiness, strong reed beat-up and remarkable insertion rate. The AS machine was dressed with a realistic, high-density cotton conveyor belt fabric, woven in 3 panels with tucked selvedges using the patented DORNIER PneumaTucker®. A DORNIER PS, the high-end version of the DORNIER rapier weaving machine, was available with any user-defined extras, displayed on the STAUBLI stand.

The machine, equipped with 16 weft colours as well as the 2-end full turn selvedge formation device MotoLeno®, weaves a beautiful Goblin article showing the Taj Mahal and a high-class upholstery fabric with on-the-fly pattern change. Visitors interested in the DORNIER finishing machinery for tubular knit goods viewed a scale 1:50 model of the latest mercerising machine type EcoMerc®. The DORNIER finishing machinery´s core piece, the patented circular expander enables an intensive and optimum mercerising effect for tube diameters from 250 mm up to a maximum of 1000 mm without any selvedge marks.