Van de Wiele welcomes Superba within the family.
2015-5-27 witnesses the creation of a unique force in the world of the manufacturing of yarns for carpet: the Belgian consortium Van de Wiele signed an agreement to purchase the French company Superba and the US company American Superba.Van de Wiele and Superba, two historic and famous names in the carpet technology, have now come together to help the industry achieve new heights of innovation, quality and profitability. The transaction is expected to close in the next two to three months after completion of the usual due diligence.Superba is the world leader in the manufacturing of heat setting machines for carpet yarns. Superba has developed a unique and performing heat setting system based on saturated steam. With 40 years of experience in the highly specialized field of yarns for tufted and woven carpet, Superba is providing advanced and competitive solutions with a complete range of machines. The product portfolio does not only contain steaming and shrinking lines,but also sophisticated space-dyeing machines. Superba machines are characterized by high performance, efficiency and environment friendliness, integrating the latest technologies interm of automation, information treatment and remote access. Superba will continue to operate from Mulhouse, France, the USA and China. Van de Wiele has for many years a leading position in the manufacturing of carpet and velvet weaving machines. The constant drive for innovation has led to several revolutions in the field of carpet weaving. Van de Wiele has extended its activities and is also offering tufting machines (Cobble-Van de Wiele), extrusion machines for carpet yarns, high-speed Jacquard machines, drives, yarn feeders and various other electronic components. The Van de Wiele group employs worldwide over 2.900 people and achieves a turnover over 500 million euro.The acquisition presents a complementary extension of the Van de Wiele range with maximum synergy of markets and knowledge. The know-how of Superba in the field of yarn technology will improve the performance of the weaving, tufting and extrusion machines while the knowledge of these technologies will lead to better performing heat-setting lines. All this resulting in new developments and better performing machines for the benefit of the customer.
30/3/2015 GDM Disposable diapers machinery OPEN HOUSE
- Extending our product range to get closer to our customer's needs.During the five day Open House held from March 16th to 20th at the GDM facility in Italy, our guests joined us from all over the world. They had the opportunity to visit and experience the new advanced system of packaging, the SB50. The SB50 is one of the latest innovative projects currently part of the GDM product portfolio.The SB50 is a full servo integrated system capable to count, stack, compress and bag disposable diapers into pre-made bags up to 50 cycles per minute. The SB50 can be integrated into either new or existing baby diapers machines, training pants machines, underpad machines, adult heavy and light incontinence machines.The SB50 unit has been designed to satisfy GDM customer’s needs in terms of performance and technical requirements such as compactness, flexibility, accessibility and quick size change. With the SB50, GDM decided to extend its portfolio by offering the stacker and bagger as the answer for many Hygiene Disposable producers need to work with one supplier. GDM is now able to guarantee turnkey and high quality integrated solutions from converting to packaging.The Open House was organized as a special event for the introduction of the packaging unit SB50 to our customers and during this occasion they discovered the main innovative characteristics of this new GDM product. Some of the technological aspects of particular importance were the “Horizontal and Vertical Robotic Transfer Units” and the “Automatic Setting Compression Unit”, that ensure better control of the product transfer and a more reliable packaging process.The solution that GDM offers effectively eliminates non-value added operations and the manual procedures by the line operators. This result has been achieved with the significant contribution coming from the Coesia Group; the synergy among GDM, FlexLink, Hapa and the other companies of the group is winning thanks to the good connections that people constructed day by day, creating the right environment for technological progress and sharing of innovation.During the Open House, our guests experienced a demo show where there were also other interesting projects currently under development shown.The event also included a tour of the plant. Visitors were particularly impressed by the general organization of the production flows and processes and by the high level of innovative technology that GDM is able to develop. Other specific comments of approval were about the new Research & Development Area where new solutions are constantly developed providing competitive advantages to our customers.
ABRL launches baby wipes made from Birla Cellulose fibres
October 14, 2014 (India) by TT.NET
Aditya Birla Retail Limited (ABRL), the retail arm of the $40 billion Aditya Birla Group, has partnered with another group company – Birla Cellulose, to launch a first of its kind initiative in the baby wipes category.The baby wipes made of spunlace nonwovens have been produced from cellulose fibres which are 100% natural and biodegradable, making the baby wipes supple and smooth.ABRL said that with these baby wipes, parents are now being provided with a product that is perfect for their child’s sensitive skin.“Crafted with the utmost care, the fabric, feel and texture is designed to make the wipes truly unique, ensuring that the customers of ABRL experience a product that doesn't fall short of being the best,” it added.ABRL said that the baby wipes relieve the baby of irritations, rashes and reddening of the skin and is a product that fundamentally focuses on state of the art nonwoven ingredients that are skin friendly and eco-friendly as well.Mrinmoy Mukherjee Chief Marketing Officer at ABRL said, “When it comes to such a sensitive product, making use of the right ingredient is a must, and Birla Cellulose has proved to us that they are indeed the best when it comes to perfecting such a product."Birla Cellulose' fibres specifically designed for baby wipes meets the needs of product manufacturers globally and undergoes stringent tests that checks its purity and hygiene.These fibres due to their cellulosic origin are completely skin-friendly and hygienic and their superior texture nurtures the skin by absorbing excess moisture without impacting its tenderness.Furthermore, the fibres are made at factories that are ISO 9001 and 14001 certified and are complied with European pharmacopoeia and are certified according to Oeko-Tex, thereby aligning perfectly with ABRL's high standards of expectation.Kurien Pothen, Global Sales Head – Nonwovens at Birla Cellulose said, “Birla Cellulose nonwovens fiber is used globally by leading brands as a key ingredient for hygiene products and of course, in this case, baby wipes."
July 6,2014 CTT News液体食品无菌包装用纸基复合材料
Changzhou skylong packaging machinery is invested by Shanghai Skylong of RMB one billion,It is the only global production of aseptic package roof filling 30 ℃ cold filling (room temperature) equipment technology manufacturers, research and development production of fully automatic high-speed aseptic filling machine, aseptic composite packaging materials, with completely independent intellectual property rights, to fill the domestic blank.
"The project was settled in Jintan EDZ in 2012. Now, the first phase of the machinery workshop, packing workshop 50000 square meters have been completed. Learned that companies are eager to put into production, this month Jintan city administration service center early organizational planning, total seven departments conformed to the specifications the procedure of engineering quality,, the enterprise one-time completed through joint acceptance, are expected to be put into production in the middle of August." Deputy GM ZhangRuiJian of CZ Skylong introduced. "after the project, which can realize annual production of liquid food aseptic packing paper matrix composites 12 billion bales, solid food aseptic packaging paper matrix composites 10 billion bales, beverage filling equipment 100 units, expected sales income is 2 billion yuan of above."
22-6-2014 CTT News from DOHA
The famous ancient Silk Road and China's Grand Canal, the world's longest artificial waterway, were inscribed on the list of World Heritage Sites here on Sunday.Jointly submitted by China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, the application for adding part of the Silk Road, which served as a corridor for trade and cultural exchanges between Asia and Europe dating back to 2,000 years ago, to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) list was approved by the World Heritage Committee at a session in the Qatari capital.The application consists of 33 historical sites along the millennium-old trade route, including 22 in China, eight in Kazakhstan and three in Kyrgyzstan. They range from palaces and pagoda sites in cities to ruins in remote, inaccessible deserts.It is the first time China has cooperated with foreign countries for a World Heritage nomination.Du Yue, secretary general of the Chinese delegation at the 38th session of the World Heritage Committee, said the approval of the application would strengthen cultural exchanges between China and the two Central Asian nations.He called for the three countries' close coordination to jointly protect and pass on the Silk Road heritage from generation to generation.At Sunday's session, UNESCO also included the Grand Canal, with a history of more than 2,400 years, in the World Heritage list.
Participants at the meeting said the 1,794-km canal, which runs from Beijing to Hangzhou in China's eastern Zhejiang province, is a valuable fruit of the Chinese people's diligence and wisdom, adding that its inclusion has enriched the content of the World Heritage.The Paris-based UNESCO oversees the system of granting World Heritage status to important cultural and natural sites around the globe.
July 23, 2014 (United States Of America by TT.NET)
3M Purification’s new purification technology platform, under the 3M Emphaze brand, is designed to help biopharmaceutical manufacturers achieve high product purity early in the manufacturing process, improving efficiency and process economics.The new 3M Emphaze AEX Hybrid Purifier, the first in a series of chromatography and membrane chromatographic products, combines three unique 3M technologies, advanced polymer materials, fine fiber nonwovens, and membranes, to deliver an all-synthetic clarifying product line containing both a novel anion exchange nonwoven media, and a fine particle, bioburden reduction membrane. The 3M Emphaze AEX Hybrid Purifier Laboratory and Scale-up capsules are now available with the Production capsules to be launched at the end of the year.“The 3M Emphaze AEX Hybrid Purifier is a multi-mechanism clarifying device,” said Tom Martin, Global Business Manager, Life Sciences Process Technologies, 3M Purification. “This product actually represents a new class of clarifying products, with an all-synthetic construction, substantial chromatographic capability, and a defined 0.2 μm pore size.”The product is an integral combination of two types of media (Q-functional nonwoven and membrane) that work together to provide unsurpassed product purity after clarification when using a single unit operation. The defined pore size of the qualifying membrane provides tremendous removal of insoluble particles well below 0.1 µm in size, resulting in superior turbidity reduction.At the same time, the high chromatographic capacity of the Q-functional nonwoven provides substantial reduction of negatively charged, soluble impurities including DNA and HCP. This combination of attributes allows the hybrid purifier to provide superior product purity before and, most importantly, after the protein A column, enabling a novel and simple post protein A mAb purification process.“We designed the 3M Emphaze AEX Hybrid Purifier to provide the highest possible level of product protein purity early in biopharmaceutical downstream process. What is truly exciting is that by targeting the removal of particularly problematic impurities from entering the protein A column, a profound impact on the entire downstream process can be realized,” said Greg Jellum, Global Laboratory Manager, Life Sciences Process Technologies, 3M Purification. “This new product platform is a tremendous demonstration that 3M’s materials-based technology engine will enable true innovation for our industry.”