The immediate answer to the market trend towards larger fabric widths has at first been the 540 cm wide air-jet weaving machine for cost-effective production of, for example, screen fabrics, spinnaker sailcloth and coating fabrics such as airbags and geotextiles. The next giant step forward is the versatile and extremely robust Dornier rapier weaving machine offered in a new width dimension. The open shed weaving technology on Dornier rapier weaving machines allows processing coarse and heavy yarns that cannot be used by the filling insertion systems on any other conventional weaving machines.  

New developments on the Dornier rapier weaving machine attain ideal fabric quality, an imperative demand especially for final users manufacturing technical fabrics such as aramid, carbon and glass, combined with minimum waste and highest production speed. Reduced waste and a lower level of seconds will amortize your investment in a Dornier weaving machine in a short time especially when using expensive yarns such as carbon and aramid.

Dornier weaving machine, type PS, 220 cm wide, to manufacture ballistic fabrics)

The unique advantage of the Dornier rapier weaving machine and its heart, the positive controlled rapier head, is that it can process practically any material that can be wound on a bobbin. The machine produces fabrics reliably, cost-effective and without faults, from the finest wire (0.012 mm) or monofilament (11 dtex) up to 50K carbon or BCF yarn (Nm 0.5), with a single filling or with 5-fold multiple filling insertion, in a single layer or up to 8 layer fabrics.

To have a direct look at the manifold options of Dornier weaving machines straight after the Techtextil, customers are invited to Dornier Customer Information Days from June 8 to July 10 in Lindau, Germany. Besides the proven Dornier weaving machine technology, the visitors can see a new generation of rapier and air-jet weaving machines with completely new developments in the control and drive technology.

Dornier weaving machines

• Save waste and weave ballistic fabrics, carbon and glass fibers (Prepregs) or airbags with highest quality and speed.
• Robust and stable machines for manufacturing multilayer conveyor belt fabrics.
• Weave high density fabrics from natural fibers such as flax or cotton as well as screen and filter material fabrics with strong reed impact through gears mounted on both sides.
• The machines are wide and suitable for all yarns when producing reinforcement fabrics and geotextiles.
• Weave slip resistant leno fabrics such as glass mesh, carpet backings and geomesh.
• Works exactly for defined dense fabrics such as precision fabrics or spinnaker sailcloth.

Courtesy:Lindauer DORNIER GmbH.