Geratex Machinery from India will be launching a first-of-its-kind, innovative and sustainable fabric processing machine to process all kinds of fabrics, whether mercerising, bleaching, desizing or washing at ITMA 2015.
Using ultrasonic technology on industrial size washing machines, the Geratex fabric washer offers higher efficiency in terms of space, energy usage and also chemicals and water consumption. The ultrasonic technology can even be fitted into existing fabric processing machines to achieve comprehensive savings.
As per actual production trials, the machine helps save around 20-30 per cent of chemicals, delivers 25-35 per cent water savings and 30-35 per cent in energy savings with the biggest advantage accruing from its compact size that occupies low space. The ultrasonic waves accelerate the water molecules, which move at a very high speed, almost several thousand times in a second, thereby creating a turbulent effect in the machine and achieving the whole process in half the time taken by existing technologies.
While desising, the ultrasonic washing technology completely does away with wetting agents and the amount of chemicals used is reduced by 30 per cent, due to which volume of water consumed is also lessened considerably. On the Tegewa scale of 1-10, a measurement tool to calculate the efficiency of washing, the conventional technology scores between 4 and 6 points after desise washing, while the Ultra Sonic technology achieves between 7 and 8 points. For the bleaching process to, this innovative technology consumes 30 per cent less chemicals and delivers the desired bleaching effect in 50 per cent of time as against conventional machines. Results are equally good for post-dyeing washing too.
In case of mercerising of fabrics, while conventional technologies consume 300-320 gms per litres of caustic soda, the Ultra Sonic technology uses just 200-220 grams per litres, while delivering equivalent results.
Despite, being a new technology, cost of installing the technology is lower compared with conventional fabric washers as the cost of the new technology is 40 per cent less.
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