SSM Symposium in Karachi, Lahore -
Pakistan
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SSM the leading
winding technology suppliers from Switzerland recently held
two symposiums in Karachi and Lahore The symposiums were
organized by their local agent in Pakistan AHS Textile
Machinery Company. These seminars were held at a time when
Pakistan’s textile industry is facing severe internal as
well as external challenges. The solutions presented at the
symposia are relevant for the industry to improve efficiency
and reduce the cost of production. That is why these
symposiums were greatly appreciated by the industry
representatives who attended the two seminars in large
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The Chief Guest of the Karachi symposium was Mr. Martin Bienz,
the Consul General of Switzerland in Karachi. The presentations
were given by Mr. Horst Luechinger, Sales Manager SSM and Mr.
Robin Gutbrod, SSM Product Manager.
Mr Hafeez-ur-Rehman from AHS, welcomed the seminar
participants, the C hief
Guest and presenting guests from SSM. After a brief introduction
of AHS Textile Machinery Company by Mr. Hafeez-ur-Rehman, Mr.
Horst Luechinger gave an introduction of SSM, which is part of
the strong Shweiter Technologies comprising SSM Textile
Machinery, ALCAN composites and Ismeca Semiconductor.
With more than 150 years of corporate history SSM is a
textile engineering company specialising in a wide range of
cutting edge technologies in fields assembly winding; dye
package winding / rewinding; yarn singeing; sewing thread; air
covering; air texturing). The SSM range of products include
solutions for short to long staple fibre yarns as well as
filament and technical yarns.
Mr. Leuchinger elaborated that despite the global recession,
SSM has managed to perform well through their commitment to
provide appropriate solutions developed in close cooperation
with the industry leaders world wide.
Assembly winding
Mr. Robin Gutbrod (SSM Product Manager) gave a comprehensive
presentation of the wide range of technologies SSM has to offer
for Pakistani market, particularly the newly launched PS6plusW,
high performance precision winding machine.
The other products Mr. Gutbrod discussed in the field of
assembly winding were DP5-D for staple and filament yarns, TW2-D
also for staple yarns and PM 51R for industrial filament yarns.
Dye package winding and rewinding
Mr. Gutbrod mentioned that “Well wound is half dyed”. Winding
according to him is an integral part of the dyeing process with
dye package winding to dyeing and drying and then rewinding for
downstream processing.
The effect of the winding on the overall costs is up to six
times higher than the winding cost itself. While the dye package
winding cost is only 5% of the total cost its influence can be
up to 30%.
The uniform flow conditions which are essential for optimal
dyeing can only be assured with an appropriate build of the dye
package (ideally precision or DIGICONE(R) wound packages).
DIGICONE(R) winding combines the advantages of random winding
with those of the precision winding including constant density,
no ribbons and stable package build-up.
The density is the highest with the DIGICONE(R) OF 420g/l
with an increase of 44% in the dyeing capacity as compared with
the random winding. Cylindrical package DIGICONE(R) or precision
winding results in a cost reduction of 21% as compared with cone
random winding.
Yarn Singeing
SSM’s GSX2 singeing machine is a high performance yarn
singeing machine for cotton, rayon staple fibre yarns, blends
and other spun yarns. According to Mr. Gutbrod, SSM is the
market leader in yarn singeing technology with an installed base
of more than 13,000 single driven spindles. The positive effects
of singeing yarn are, less hairiness, smoother fabric surface,
improved reflection and better printing.
Sewing thread finish winding
Mr Gutbrod also presented SSM’s sewing thread and embroidery
yarn finish winding technology for industrial and domestic
make-ups. TK 2/20 “Thread King 2” with automatic or manual
doffing, 751 K “Eco Thread”, manual doffing and NSA U
Underbobbin winder were discussed.
Mr. Horst Luechinger, Sales Manager SSM |
Mr. Martin Bienz, Consul General of Switzerland, Karachi. |
Air texturing
Air Texturing renders filament yarn with a natural handle
which can be spun like yarn. High volume of final yarn is
possible with high pilling resistance as well as higher abrasion
resistance in the fabric.
The established markets are textile yarns, automotive sector,
home furnishing and industrial yarns. Polyester, nylon and
polypropylene air textured yarns show a growing trend according
to Mr. Gutbrod and the improvements in spinning and processing
will lead to significant increase of PP ATY yarn consumption in
the future.Fashion and home textile offer great opportunity for
fancy yarns.
Thanks to SSM’s concept of individual drives the integration
of a spandex component into a texturing process is finally
possible with new market opportunities in fashion, underwear and
sportswear sectors. DP4T TW2-T, DP3-CT and RM3-T are the range
of SSM machines for air texturing.
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Mr. Robin Gutbrod, Product
Manager, SSM. |
Mr. Hafeez Ur Rehman of AHS. |
Air covering
Air covering applications for filament yarn plus elastane
include swim suit and gymnastic outfits, elastic ribbons waist
band, ladies underwear, stockings, shirts, pullovers and linings
among others. The leading Air Covering machine by SSM is the
DP3-C digicone(R) preciflexTM. for spun yarns or filament yarns
allowing flexible production of elastic yarns.
Concluding comments by Mr. Martin
Bienz, Consul General of Switzerland, Karachi
Mr. Martin Bienz, the Swiss Consul Genral in Karachi, in his
closing remarks thanked AHS and SSM for organising a very
successful event.
He mentioned that the presence of Mr. Leuchinger and Mr.
Robin Gutbrod in Pakistan at this difficult period is indicative
of the commitment of SSM towards their valued customers in
Pakistan.
Despite the economic downturn and global recession, the
economic ties between Pakistan and Switzerland are getting
stronger every year. More than 60% exports of Pakistan to
Switzerland are garments and textiles. On the other hand textile
machines are among the main exports of Switzerland to Pakistan
along with chemicals, pharmaceuticals and watches.
Mr. Bienz expressed his hope that such informative and useful
events are held on a regular basis.
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PS6plus-W - new
high performance precision winding machine
SSM Schärer
Schweiter Mettler AG, Horgen has introduced the new
PS6plus-W, the high performance precision winding machine
for the preparation of dye packages and the rewinding after
dyeing. The PS6plus-W is a further improvement of the
benchmark winder PS6. PS6plus-W offers better performance
and higher speeds but still maintains the same yarn quality.
In order to
increase the speed, SSM has developed the new
tensisoTM ,a special balloon optimising system for
supply packages. tensisoTM is a fully automated system and
requires no specific manipulation by the operator. The
tensisoTM system offers:
Significantly
better yarn unwinding efficiency:
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Higher winding
speeds than usual (+ 20%; mechanical up to 1’600 m/min).
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Reduction of
maximum unwinding yarn tension by 30%.
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Reduction of
unwinding yarn beaks by 40%.
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Decreased yarn
stress and so reduced hairiness.
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SSM PS6plus-W. |
The PS6plus-W
utilizes the proven thread guiding system with
counter-rotating blades. The rotary movement of the blades
offers wear and tear free performance. The PS6plus-W allows
the choice of a precision or DIGICONE winding, which thanks
to the possibility of higher dye package densities permits
considerable energy and cost saving in the dye process.
The machine is rounded off with a
simple pictogram based machine terminal (MT), in which all
winding parameters can be easily stored and retrieved.
Thereby enabling perfect long-term reproducibility from
position to position.
The PS6-series is
the reference for cost efficiency production of dye
packages. The new PS6plus-W continues this tradition. This
makes the PS6plus-W into a “must-to-have-product” in a
modern winding department. |
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