In all these sectors the Dornier “Green Machines” are indispensable for the production of high-precision fabrics, the company said.
The highlight of the 400-square-meter DORNIER exhibition stand was a new generation of rapier weaving machines – the P2 – that were revealed to the public for the first time. Dornier also exhibited an air-jet weaving machine (A1) and two rapier weaving machines (P1) in their latest versions, respectively.
At the Stäubli stand, an air-jet weaving machine (A1) in the Jacquard version was exhibited. At the Bonas stand, a rapier weaving machine (P1) with a directly mounted Jacquard machine was displayed.
With regard to the ITMA slogan “Master the Art of Sustainability,” Peter D. Dornier, chairman of Dornier’s executive board, said: “For our company, sustainability has been a philosophy for more than 65 years, not just a fashionable trend. At our site, we respect and support ecosystems and nature. As a family enterprise we cherish values such as confidence and respect. Against the background of claims for more sustainability in textile production, we feel it is important to point out which enormous contribution modern technical textiles do make to the environment. Woven high-performance filters for instance, due to their importance for pure air and clean water, cannot be appreciated highly enough. In this aspect, our customers with their Dornier weaving machines make an excellent contribution to environmental protection. There is much room for improvement as we will show with the help of our ‘Green Machines’ and, above all, with the new rapier weaving machine P2.”
Posted December 22, 2015
By Devin Steele (DSteele@eTextileCommunications.com)
MILAN – For American Dornier, the subsidiary of Lindauer DORNIER GmbH of Germany that represents the company in the Americas, ITMA was exceptionally good, according to its executive vice president and chief operating officer.
“It definitely exceeded what we expected,” Peter Brust, told eTC in the latter part of the show. “We’ve had high-quality customers, great conversations and many, many newcomers from all over our sales territory – North America and South America. It was quite amazing to see so many people come in the booth, and we were quite satisfied with the number of Americans.”
Dornier displayed a multitude of innovations and new machine concepts for particularly sophisticated fabrics. Under the motto “The Green Machine,” the family enterprise from Lake Constance that manufactures all its machines exclusively in Germany, presented comprehensive solutions for sustainable technologies.
With this guiding principle Dornier was not just hinting at the well-known green varnish of its weaving machines but, above all, at the sustainable quality of the fabrics they produce, the company said. These fabrics are vital for many “green technologies” in almost all sectors with products, such as finest filters to purify water or air, airbags and antiballistic structures for protection of life and limb, glass or carbon fiber composites to reduce moving masses and the CO2 emissions.
ITMA 2015
Dornier had ITMA visitors seeing ‘green’
American Dornier Executive Vice President Peter Brust (L) and Sales Manager Marty Colwell in the Lindauer Dornier booth.