Germany’s Thies GmbH, a leading manufacturer of dyeing machines, will participate in ITMA 2023, from June 8-14, in Milan. The company characterised this year’s ITMA by today‘s mega trends—transition now, transparency, digitalisation, automation, and the circular economy. Thies will be exhibiting its innovative fabric colouration technology, the Signature Series, for the first time, and other technological breakthroughs in the Hall H11, booth B208, at ITMA 2023.

The Signature Series has been developed over years and offers a disruptive and seamless approach to dyeing. The technology precisely doses concentrated chemistries and uses less water to transport fabric, resulting in reduced water consumption, improved dyeing uniformity, and shorter batch times. The Signature Series is also plug-in ready for existing dye houses, Thies said in a press release.

The Signature Series is capable of delivering highly consistent results with liquor ratios starting at 1:2.3 litre of water per 1 kg of fabric. Proven in bulk production, water consumption is tremendously reduced, dyeing uniformity is improved and batch times are shorter.

German dyeing machine manufacturer Thies GmbH will showcase its innovative Signature Series technology at ITMA 2023 in Milan.
The technology uses a disruptive approach to dyeing, reducing water consumption.
Thies also provides automation solutions for various industries and supports the European Green Deal’s goal for sustainable textiles.

Thies’ Signature Series technology not only provides benefits in terms of dyeing consistency but also has multiple cost and environmental advantages. Its ultra-low liquor ratio reduces dye consumption by up to 20 per cent while achieving the same shade, requires less energy to heat water, and lowers the cost of water treatment by reducing total dissolved solids (TDS) up to 50 per cent.

The Signature Series technology offers several advantages over traditional dyeing methods such as pad or spray dyeing. It eliminates the need for separate machines for washing, bleaching, and dyeing as nearly all wet treatments can be carried out on this single machine. This results in improved colour uniformity and reduced variation associated with wet-on-wet pad-bath dilution. The technology can process a wide array of fibre types and fabric structures. Moreover, the Signature Series combines the benefits of batch dyeing with the low liquor ratio of single-pass applications, making it a cost-effective and efficient solution. The technology also fits seamlessly into existing production lines, resulting in a faster return on investment.

Thies provides several tools for digitalisation, reporting, and process control that make dyeing a more understandable science. These tools, including Energy Control, pH-control, conductivity measurement, and DyeControl, enable optimisation of recipes and process settings. The visual representations of the process curves provide better control of turbidity and aid in determining dye extract from the liquor. By providing measurement and intuitive reports, the company simplifies the dyeing process, making it less of an art and more of a science.

Automation in dyeing processes provides several advantages, including increased productivity, stable quality, improved occupational safety, a more inviting workplace, and freedom from labour shortages. An automated storage, weighing, and dispensing system for dyestuffs and auxiliary chemicals offers many benefits, such as the elimination of routine worker tasks, increased safety, and digital management of stock levels.

A supervisory production planning system controls the process organisation of the entire dye house through bidirectional communication. MPS systems monitor the delivery destinations and integrate seamlessly into an efficient dye house concept, delivering large increases in productivity and quality. The automatic weighing, dissolving, and provision of dyes and chemicals improve dyeing quality results, increase reproducibility, save human resources, increase occupational and environmental safety, and optimise product consumption.

The company also provides automation solutions for various industries, including dye houses, fabric finishers, and the coating industry. These solutions are modular, affordable, and self-sufficient for smaller dye houses, and offer step-wise improvement for larger dye houses. Thies also offers holistic solution concepts, such as automated loading and unloading of package carriers using intelligent robot technology, leading to increased efficiency, reduced waiting times, and improved safety, the release added.

Thies has an ozone system that can decolourise coloured waste water, and heated waste water is a regenerative energy source that can reduce primary energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The company supports the European Green Deal’s goal for textiles to be long-lived, recyclable, made of recycled fibres, and produced in respect of social rights and the environment. Thies also offers solutions for both removal and re-dyeing of recycled fibres and yarns with its expertise in industrial-scale production of pressure vessels and automated material handling equipment.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DP)