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Groz-Beckert To Display Knitting, Weaving, Felting, Carding & Sewing Products At Techtextil 2017

Groz-Beckert plans to exhibit its comprehensive product portfolio and service offering in the areas of knitting, weaving, felting, carding and sewing at the Techtextil trade fair in hall number 3 at booth F03.

The Techtextil and Texprocess will be held from May 9 to May 12 at the Frankfurt trade fair grounds. Texprocess is the leading international trade fair for the garment manufacturing and textile processing industry, while Techtextil is an event for technical textiles and nonwovens.

As part of its knitting portfolio, Groz-Beckert will display its technologies like circular knitting, warp knitting and flat knitting, as well as customer specific solutions. With system solutions from a single source, the company has responded to more stringent requirements for wear, load capacity of key components and the workability of different materials.

The company will display its comprehensive range of products for weaving preparation and weaving accessories at Techtextil. A highlight of the portfolio will be the PosiLeno® leno system, which boosts efficiency by up to 100%.

Additionally, an acrylic weaving machine mock-up called the WeavingLoom, will provide insight into the operation of heald frames, healds, warp stop motions and drop wires. The jacquard heald will also be demonstrated using the WeavingLoom. Made of mono wire, this product facilitates not only high densities but also a particularly gentle workmanship. In combination with the innovative thread eye, which is glued into the mono wire instead of welded, Groz-Beckert provides for uniform fabric quality and high machine efficiency.

The company’s weaving product portfolio will be complemented by a comprehensive and worldwide service offering distinguished by expert knowledge and intensive application advice. Scores of affiliated companies in all major textile centres and a far-reaching network of representatives warrant our all-round technical service.

The company will also showcase its contribution to the nonwovens industry, especially its latest innovation called Groz-Beckert® dur. The patented manufacturing process of the needles in combination with a new base material improves resistance to corrosion with up to 30% longer service life. Moreover, the staple fibre needle punch line inaugurated in March in the Technology and Development Centre at company headquarters in Albstadt will be presented.

For spunlace customers, Groz-Beckert will display another new product with its HyTec® jet strips. As well as improved handling properties, the innovative jet strips also feature significantly higher hardness, which has a positive effect on all mechanical properties such as scratch resistance, bending strength and service life.

As part of the company’s carding portfolio, it will present high-performance worker and doffer wires like SiroLock® as well as EvoStep®. EvoStep® card clothing features a unique slanted step undercut on the tooth front. In this area the working angle is significantly more pronounced than in conventional worker and doffer wires. Compared to EvoStep® card clothing, which aims to reduce raw material consumption, the focus of SiroLock® card clothing is on boosting performance of the roller card via high delivery rates and nonwoven weights.

The company will also display its Ideal Needle Handling (INH) process as part of its sewing innovations. The patented process provides support in the handling of sewing machine needles during the entire sewing operation and has recently also been offering a digital solution to document needle breakage called ‘Smart INH’. The documentation system consists of two pieces of software, a mobile app and a browser, thereby facilitating the digital saving and storage of data sets as potential evidence.

The Mobile Lab, which allows material samples to be examined and analysed directly at the Groz-Beckert booth, will be another sewing highlight to be displayed by the company.