BBA member Picanol will be present with an INFOBOOTH during Techtextil in Mumbai, from 10 to 12 October 2009. Certainly for weavers who want to get the most out of technical fabrics. Techtextil Mumbai is a good opportunity to discover what Picanol has to offer specifically for this niche market.
Technical Fabrics are gaining momentum in India for a couple of reasons. The first one because the markets for technical fabrics are related to the economy and India ’s economy is growing at a high pace. Another reason is that imported fabrics are quite pricy. This while most raw materials and skills are present in India. India has a large experience with weaving-technology and thus people are looking what else is needed to enter into this field of application. Traditionally, Technical Fabrics yield higher margins, but as a producer, you need advise in order to find out if this is a potential field of application for your company.
Today, the majority of Technical Fabrics, or Industrial Fabrics are woven. As an established supplier of specialized weaving-machines, Picanol is well placed to advise customers that are willing to go ahead in this eciting venture.
Picanol offers the OMNIplus 800 airjet and the OptiMax rapier platforms . These are both state-of-the-art and very recent in comparison with competitors machines. Picanol also has a much more extensive customer base, as it produces about five times more units per year than its closest competitor .Weavers venturing into new markets particularly appreciate the excellent price/performance ratio for their upcoming investments when choosing Picanol.
As for services, the Indian staff is continuously trained on new developments, so that technical advice can be given first hand.
As a frontrunner in innovation when it comes to textile machinery, Picanol dedicates close to 30 % of its product-management-capacity to technical textiles. An equal part of the R&D effort is devoted to novelty applications. New developments that serve real customer requirements can be brought to market very rapidly.
In the last couple of years, Picanol has developed technically advanced solutions in fields such as tire cord, conveyor belts, canvas, industrial glass, monofilaments, decatizing cloth, one-piece-woven airbags, awnings, spinnaker, medical textiles, coating fabrics, high-speed leno weaving, protective clothing ,sport-shoes, carseats etc.
With the present OMNIplus 800 and OptiMax platforms, customers are not left floundering when market requirements change. These platforms are highly modular, so that when e.g. jacquards are needed instead of dobbies, this and similar retrofits can be done without much effort. In the latest development, a rapier machine weaving leno fabrics can be converted to standard harness movements in a matter of hours.