Press Release 2 / 2007

Xetma Vollenweider - When Quality Matters

The German-Swiss Xetma Vollenweider Group, being on the one hand the oldest manufacturer of textile finishing machines worldwide with more than 150 years' experience, has since ever convinced their customers with trend-setting developments in the field of mechanical finishing of all sorts of textiles on the other hand.

In recent years many companies, particularly in Asia, have installed large finishing capacities in the area of standard technologies, where a major role has been played by the emerizing and brushing techniques with the aim to give textile surfaces a soft handle and improved wearing properties. The competition arising from such high production capacities has caused more and more textile manufacturers to find means and ways to distinguish themselves from their competitors in terms of quality.

And again, Xetma Vollenweider is one step ahead of this trend. Besides the standard technologies, which comprise brushing, emerizing, and raising, the innovative manufacturer of textile machinery systems recently launched new types of technologies, which allow to achieve by far better surface effects than with the standard technologies offered by any other supplier.

The Combined Brushing and Emerizing technology, for example, achieves soft-touch effects in only one operation, creating an unrivalled high density and a notably soft touch, the so called “Rose Petal Touch”. Moreover, the use of this combined technology, where brushing and emerizing rollers are alternately engaged, achieves definitely higher production speeds than with the one-way technologies of other machine systems available in the market.

An increase in productivity is likewise possible by combining the wire-raising and emerizing technologies in a single process. This creates the so called “Moss Effect” which is particularly impressive due to its high voluminousity of the very short and dense pile.

Both technologies are offered by Xetma Vollenweider in various machine models. Thanks to the unparalleled flexibility of the Xetma Vollenweider textile finishing equipment, up to five different technologies may be integrated in one machine system.

Also in the shearing technology, Xetma Vollenweider is one step ahead of the market's requirements. In addition to utmost shearing precision, the shearing systems from Xetma Vollenweider distinguish themselves by a long service life for which no other supplier has been known so far. Xetma Vollenweider's special-type Heavy-Duty Shearing Units as well as the “Swiss Technology – Made in Germany” speak for themselves. Higher production speeds in the shearing process as recently publicised by various suppliers has been the standard for Xetma Vollenweider for many years.