Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH - Techtextil 2009: ‘Indutech’ across of appliance to present innovations for blanket and optical inspection

European Union sponsored activity for actual and administration analysis

With eleven artefact groups and twelve areas of application, Techtextil covers the apple bazaar for abstruse bolt and nonwovens in its entirety. With over 500 exhibitors, ‘Indutech’ is the better across of appliance at this year’s Techtextil in Frankfurt am Main. ‘Indutech’ stands for the use of abstruse bolt in automated and abstruse fields, e.g., for materials, testing systems and research, for new developments, advance and cooperation.

Two examples of innovations of this affectionate accept been appear during the countdown to the International Trade Fair for Technical Textiles and Nonwovens from 16 to 18 June 2009. They are a new blazon of blanket system, which will be presented by a adolescent company, and new and bigger analysis systems for above assurance. Additionally, the antecedent after-effects of a European nano-research activity will be presented alone at Techtextil 2009.

Young aggregation develops new blanket system

Cordus GmbH from Mühlhausen will be demography allotment in Techtextil for the aboriginal time this year because the aggregation was alone founded in the bounce of 2007. Since mid-2008, it has been authoritative polymer and bottle bond at its branch in Mühlhausen, Thuringia. “Our articles are primarily acclimated as reinforcing abstracts by the elastic industry”, explains Manfred Heine, Head of Purchasing and Sales. “They are used, for example, in power-transmission elements and hoses for automated and automotive applications, as able-bodied as for paper-machine clothing.”

On the base of their abstruse properties, the bottle cords are acclimated as accretion for asperous drive belts, abnormally in the automotive sector. When it comes to accretion applications, the aggregation works carefully calm with universities, analysis institutes and automated companies to advance surface-treatment technologies that, according to the manufacturer, are characterised by outstanding backbone and adhesion, and admittance the apparent adherence of the fibres to be optimised in affiliation to the elastic systems of the alone customers.

“In accession to the use of the accustomed wet-coating action for apparent coating, Cordus has developed a new blanket method, the CCVD system, in which the cords are no best subjected to the wet-coating process. Instead, the new adjustment uses circuitous actinic processes that change the actinic anatomy of the apparent of the bond so the accomplished artefact is acclaimed not alone by automated adherence but aswell by a actinic valency generated by the elastic compounds in which it is embedded”, explains Heine.

Besides a cogent advance in the adhering qualities offered by the CCVD process, Cordus is aswell alive with ally from analysis and industry to advance an acutely strong, hydrolysis-resistant bottle fibre that will set new standards for asperous drive belts for automobiles.

The ‘MeshInspector’ series: optical analysis arrangement for above affirmation
OSIF GmbH from Garbsen abreast Hannover celebrates the fifth celebration of its founding this summer and will present the ‘MeshInspector’ alternation at Techtextil. For OSIF customers, above affirmation is an important aspect of their business. In this connection, Joachim Imiela, Head of Marketing and Sales, says, “Despite or because of the difficulties on the apple market, above affirmation has acquired decidedly in accent for our barter back the average of endure year. With the aid of our systems, they can accomplish a ample advance in the above of the articles supplied and appropriately set themselves afar from their competitors, something that is decidedly important in the accepted difficult bazaar situation.”

The ‘MeshInspectorLine’ measures cobweb abstracts in a assembly machine. A high-resolution cast camera angle the actual application transmitted light. It registers advice such as cobweb admeasurement and angle and makes an appraisal of any defects in the material. Faults begin are recorded and, according to the manufacturer, apparent acutely on the monitor. Additionally, adulterated areas can be apparent on the actual or the position of the accountability notified to overlaying ascendancy systems.

The MeshInspectorCross was developed to analysis affected sieves. It is used, for example, by W.C. Heraeus GmbH in Hanau. There, attention sieves are acclimated to allocate soldering-paste spheres. An colossal cobweb in a clarify of this affectionate would admittance colossal pellets to access the soldering paste, which would aftereffect in acquaintance gaps and, therefore, abnormal microchips. “We bound realised that alone blockage the absolute apparent across of the clarify could we accommodated the actual top demands places on soldering paste”, says Thomas Krebs, Application Technology Manager at Heraeus.

“Therefore, we advised it to be actual important that the arrangement accomplish rapidly and absolutely automatically. The ‘MeshInspectorCross’ formed the ideal base for this and was acclimatized to accommodated our appropriate requirements. Because the arrangement is acclimated at our branch in Manila on the Philippines, it was important that it be able with telemaintenance accessories so that fast advice can be acquired from Germany if necessary.” OSIF GmbH will aswell appearance a new, accelerated adaptation of the GridInspector for blockage coarse-meshed yarded appurtenances such as interlaid scrims for accretion or fly screens.

EU sponsored activity for actual and administration research

At this year’s Techtextil, the Centre for Management Research of the German Institute for Textile and Fibre Research will present Avalon, a collective analysis activity absorption on ‘Nanotechnologies and knowledge-based abstracts (NMP)’. The activity brings calm 31 partners, 20 of them baby to medium-sized companies. The aim of the activity was to advance new amalgam bolt structures for affiliation into shape-memory materials. “Although shape-memory alloys (SMAs) were accepted to the bolt area as abstracts for high-tech applications, no acceptable automated processes were acclimated in bolt manufacturing”, explains Prof. Sven-Volker Rehm, the project’s technical-scientific coordinator.

Avalon is an commutual activity with abundant ally for actual and artefact development. In accession to abstracts research, however, collaborative addition processes aswell charge administration research. “Therefore, addition accent was on investigating concepts, methods and technologies that admittance companies to anatomy acute networks with the aim of accommodating on innovations”, says Armin Lau, accurate agent at the Centre for Management Research.

Several new means of application SMAs in supra-sector assembly processes were apparent during the project. “The aftereffect is networks of companies that accept developed avant-garde artefact account with SMAs. At present, they are alive on prototypes. Additionally, new means are now accessible for the administration of these networks. Thus, we accept developed IT-aided accord accoutrement that, on the base of assorted specific methods, systematically abutment addition processes in interdisciplinary networks, a lot of of which are to be begin in the automated sector.

These accoutrement and casework accept accustomed abundant awards”, says Rehm. The EU-sponsored activity began in March 2005 and is appointed to run for four years and three months. Thus, Avalon will end in May 2009 and antecedent after-effects be presented at Techtextil.

With yet addition access in the amount of exhibitors to over 1,140, the world’s a lot of absolute and better barter fair for abstruse bolt and nonwovens from 16 to 18 June 2009 will accommodate an unparalleled all-around and contemporary overview of avant-garde abstracts for markets area added advance is accepted in the future. The adage of this year’s fair, ‘The addition interchange’, reflects the expectations of the majority of players in the area who ambition to see and ascertain new products, to apprentice about the latest technology and to accomplish new business contacts.

With anniversary revenues of EUR 436 actor (November 2008) and over 1,400 advisers about the world, Messe Frankfurt is Germany's better fair and exhibition company. The accumulated accumulation has a all-around arrangement of 29 subsidiaries, 5 annex offices and 48 all-embracing sales partners, which represent Messe Frankfurt in over 150 countries of the world. Events 'made by Messe Frankfurt' are captivated at over 30 venues worldwide. In 2008, the Messe Frankfurt accumulation organised over 100 fairs, added than bisected of them alfresco Germany.
At present, the Exhibition Centre can avowal 322,000 aboveboard metres of exhibition amplitude with nine exhibition halls and a assembly centre. The aggregation is about endemic with 60 percent accepting captivated by the City of Frankfurt and 40 by the State of Hesse.
Further information: www.messefrankfurt.com

Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH
Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1
D-60327 Frankfurt a. M.

Telefon +49 69 75 75-0
Telefax +49 69 75 75-64 33
info@messefrankfurt.com
www.messefrankfurt.com

Contact:
Kerstin Riemann
Tel. +49 69 7575-6738
Fax +49 69 7575-6099
kerstin.riemann@messefrankfurt.com