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Tintex Receives Brückner’s Co-operation To Achieve New Effects On Knitted Fabric

Europe-based knitwear company Tintex has received the co-operation of systems supplier and stenter producer Brückner to achieve completely new effects on its knitted fabric. Test production is on, even as Tintex has already won already a prize with fabric produced on the new line.

Customers can give free play to their ideas and make tests at Brückner’s Technology Centre as well as a Brückner line near the Stuttgart-based Institute for Textile and Process Technology of the Technical University in Germany. The heart of the line is a stenter with the proven and patented Brückner ‘split-flow’ technology including the corresponding entry and exit components which are particularly designed for a low tension fabric transport and an extremely sensitive fabric surface.

However, there are two special features at the entry and exit of the machine. The entry integrates a newly developed special coating unit which allows application of stable and instable foams as well as pastes by means of a screen application unit. It takes only a few steps to change over to a knife-over-cylinder coating system.

During this process, the upper draw roller is used as coating cylinder. This allows somewhat higher application of weights for stable foam and pastes, in case of more stable fabric. The exit integrates a laminating calendar offering with the provision for an electrical shortwave infrared radiator for directly coating highly elastic knitted fabric with a shagreen by means of an embossing paper.