TenCate Advanced Textiles launches CBB for textile sector
11 Jul '06
3 min read
TenCate Advanced Textiles in Nijverdal has brought on stream an advanced, process-controlled, continuous open-width bleaching machine (CBB). The use of a fully integrated operating system makes this machine unique in the textile sector.
The new CBB also carries out three separate machining operations in a single process run, thus achieving a higher processing speed and greater efficiency in operation and logistics. Furthermore, the materials are of a higher quality and the machine makes more efficient use of energy, chemicals and water.
Apart from the fact that this machine is of importance for reducing production costs and environmental costs and use of water and energy, its start-up also forms the first major step in the optimization of the process industry of textile finishing.
Microprocessors enable the machine to measure and adjust all the variables itself in accordance with the relevant recipe. The CBB can, when required, vary the amount of water and chemicals, the speed and pressure. The continuous open-width bleaching machine will carry out the process-controlled pre-treatment of fabrics in an integrated process of singing, scouring and bleaching.
Joint design The machine was jointly designed with the Swiss supplier Benninger, allowing TenCate's specific wishes and new insights to be realized. This fruitful collaboration has made it possible to build a machine that in this form is one of the most modern and integrated pre-treatment lines in the world. Thanks to a process analysis by the University of Twente, TenCate is ready for the bleaching technology of the future.
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