Sohler Neuenhauser launched new product family FX-Systems

Sohler Neuenhauser offered larger solution of specific solutions for selective removal of dust and fibres during the weaving process. It makes no difference whether initial equipping of machinery or retrofitting of existing machinery is involved. The name FX-Systems is derived from the term fibre extraction.

According to Sohler: Process engineering has become an integral component of textile manufacturing, especiallly in the technical materials sector. As part of their services, they first evaluate the extent of contamination involved so as then to offer special equipment or combinations of various systems of equipment from the FX-Systems product family. As a result, you profit from the advantages of their decades of experience in the field of fully automatic cleaning of textile machinery.

As a part of their continuous commitment when it comes to customer service, within the scope of the FX-Systems product family they offer customised solutions in case you might have special-purpose or one-off requirements.

A major customer in Germany has given them a very precise data about its successful use of their new FX-C system, processing 100% polyester thread that is woven into curtain fabric. After the faults in the fabric resulting from fibre fly had increased uncontrollably, the customer at first started to clean the weaving machines manually twice daily. Thereby, the number of faults per 100m of fabric could be reduced by 17%. Since this result was not satisfactory, the machines were then cleaned at 2-hour intervals, making it possible to reduce the number of faults still further, by 44%. Doing this, however, took 10 minutes per machine, i.e. a total of 2 hours a day, and so they asked Sohler for help with this task. The company further continued to reduce the number of faults in the fabric, while at the same time completely eliminating the manual cleaning work which became necessary during the weaving process.

By using a Model FX-C for 8 weft packages and 4 weft feeders as well as an addtional suction system under the weft tension devices and the electronic weft break sensors, it was possible to reduce the number of faults by a further 28% doing so entirely without any additional manual cleaning.

Compared with the initial situation, this consequently corresponds to a reduction of the faults resulting from fibre fly by 89%.

This customer has now installed 4 further Model FX-C systems. The amortisation period in that case amounted to less than 7 months, even without taking into account the savings in costs from quality improvement.