Oerlikon Group will show for the first time its two new solutions and focus on current challenges that the entire textile industry has to deal with in the context of sustainability and digitalisation on June 8-14, at ITMA 2023. The company invites all visitors to engage in a dialog about creating a circular economy within the textile value chain, providing energy-efficient technologies, using digital solutions to support sustainable production, processing new materials, and finally the traceability of all products and recycling of raw materials used and so on, with all its experts at its booth B211 in hall 1. On a more than 500 m² area at the exhibition in Milano, the company will give initial answers to the urgent questions of the present and the future and will present its technology solutions in an innovative way within its inspiring experience center. At the exhibition, it will also show its own digital technology solutions and those that have been tested in collaboration with various partners for the use in Oerlikon technologies.
Oerlikon Group CEO of the Polymer Processing Solutions Division and Chief Sustainability Officer Georg Stausberg said that at Oerlikon, they contribute with their innovative technologies for resource-saving use in almost all manmade fiber spinning mills in the world. Stausberg stated that their promise for the future is to continue to expand the zero-waste production approach and thus take care of achieving their customers’ and their own sustainability goals. Stausberg continued:
“We are supporting technological innovators such as Worn Again Technologies because we believe their solution is extremely promising and because they are driving cooperation between the individual producers within the value chain. Recycling only works when all players cooperate in a circular system. The time for closed-loop strategies and the corresponding sustainable technologies is now – let’s talk about it at ITMA.”
A WINGS drawing field in combination with virtual ACW Winder.
Oerlikon will show its long-awaited upgrade: ACW WINGS drawing fields at ITMA 2023. Since Oerlikon Barmag technology last for decades, many ACW and WINGS winders are being operated practically side-by-side in some places. Customers asked Oerlikon to build a WINGS drawing fields over their ACW winders. At ITMA it will be shown for the first time at an exhibition in hybrid way – a WINGS drawing field in combination with virtual ACW Winder.
Oerlikon Neumag will be unveiling its new EvoSteam process at ITMA 2023
Oerlikon Neumag will be unveiling its new EvoSteam process to visitors, viewed by many process experts as an enabler for more sustainable staple fiber production in the future at ITMA. The objective of the new development is to lower both operating expenses (OPEX) and the carbon footprint with minimal consumption of energy, water and polymer – simultaneously with the excellent fiber qualities demanded by downstream processes and high production volumes.
Oerlikon Barmag solutions for rPET save million tons of CO2 per year
Oerlikon Barmag is offering technological solutions for rPET that enable customers to save million tons of CO2 per year. In 2022, Oerlikon Barmag introduced, a homogenizer recycling line specifically for customers in China and Asia where bottle flakes and film waste can be agglomerated, extruded, homogenized and melted to produce polymer melt or chips. It enables the polymer quality of recycled bottles or film waste to be precisely adjusted to the requirements of different downstream extrusion or injection molding processes. As another rPET solution, VacuFil system and the new JeTex, a production line for high-quality air-textured yarn (ATY) from the Oerlikon Barmag joint venture, BB Engineering will also be included the company’s booth.
The visitors to Oerlikon’s booth can be also informed in detail about Oerlikon Nonwoven’s award-winning HycuTEC, the first industrially manufactured hydro-charging solution and more for a sustainable textile supply chain at ITMA 2023.