Santex Rimar Group, one of the leading textile machinery manufacturers, will host its visitors at two booths with its six brands at ITMA 2023 in Milan on June 8-14. The group will present its innovations along the textile value chain and to show how this industry can become more sustainable. The machines on display and many showcases will provide insight with the firm conviction that they can make their textile production more environmental-friendly.
‘Green weaving’ opportunities await visitors at SMIT booth
SMIT, a renowned producer of weaving machines, will meet its visitors at its booth B108 in hall 10. SMIT’s flagship, the 2FAST High-Speed Weaving Machine will be exhibited featuring 2SAVE, the world’s first and only weft tension control that saves selvedge at both left and right sides of the woven fabric, realizing pick-by-pick sustainability through fabric waste reduction. In practice, 2SAVE saves between 50 mm and 80 mm of yarn at each pick. Eliminating selvedge waste leads to a significant decrease in raw material waste, with tangible benefits in terms of water saving at the very beginning of the value chain of fabric making – for any cotton fabric, including denim.
ACIMIT Green Labeled 2FAST has also eco-friendly features. The developers could eliminate auxiliary cooling systems, engineering a high-efficiency brushless motor with permanent magnets, for lowest heat generation with highest power. A further sustainability benefit came with the new short mechanical transmission for highest regularity while guaranteeing lowest energy consumption – also used in combination with Jacquard systems.
Santex Rimar Group’s brands focus on eco-friendly solutions
The Group’s brands Sperotto Rimar, Santex, Cavitec, Isotex and Solwa are represented on a 400 square meter booth in the middle of hall 18. One highlight will be the Isotex coating machine that guarantees high precision results, what goes hand in hand with waste reduction and environmental friendliness. The great flexibility of Isotex machines allows for experimenting and/or using sustainable compounds.
Santashrink, the tensionless shrinking and relax drying machine for tubular and open-width knitted fabrics, simply a Santex bestseller, is on show too. Compas embodies the compacting revolution with its unique system which exploits the use of a special belt with specific elasticity values. As water is not directly sprayed on the compacting belt there’s no water absorption by the processed fabric. The second plus regarding the use of water is the indirect rubber belt cooling with a totally unpolluted water recycling system.
Santex Rimar Group invests every year 4% of their annual global turnover in research and development to provide continuous technical innovation in order to have the best improvements available for customers and for the environment. Machines use to show an economically future-oriented design and perform with the lowest possible use of energy, water, waste and chemicals.
The Group’s brand, Solwa with a focus to produce green innovative technologies for water treatment and drying processes will be slso at the exhibition. The visitors will also be informed about Drywa is the only low-temperature belt dryer equipped with a CO2 heat pump developed to make sludge management efficient and cost-effective, respecting the environment and climate.
The Cavimelt Pro at an international exhibition for the first time
The Cavimelt Pro multi-functional coating machine by Cavitec will be presented for the first time at an international exhibition. The two-in-one machine featuring rapid switching between rotogravure and full-surface coating will attract the attention of the visitors as its technological superiority – based on hotmelt adhesive application – delivers bonding performance which meets the highest expectations for quality.
Cavimelt Pro shows reliable results also for sensitive materials and innovative applications. It offers flexibility from using membranes of 5 micrometers (one tenth of the diameter of a single human hair) and foam of 20 millimeters of thickness. And regarding sustainability: its hotmelt technology is an environmentally-friendly process, free of solvents and water. Furthermore, as no drying or sintering is necessary Cavimelt Pro also scores in energy-saving aspects.
Santex Rimar Group looks forward to welcoming visitors for first-hand information at ITMA 2023 and invites everyone to experience its eco attitude on even sustainably built booths.