ITM 2024 Exhibition is Highly Impressive in Every Respect
Claudio Bertolotti, Mesdan Sales Manager said; ‘ITM 24 was an impressive organisation. The companies participated with excellent stands. I liked this year’s fair very much in every aspect.’
ITM 2024 hosted the remarkable products of Mesdan, an Italian company that manufactures piecing machines, yarn piecing department and laboratory equipment for the textile industry. Mesdan Sales Manager Claudio Bertolotti, whom we interviewed for Tekstil Teknoloji magazine, gave information about the products they exhibited at the fair and made evaluations about ITM 2024 Exhibition.
Mesdan is the brand of the Vandewiele group of companies offering yarn joining solutions and textile testing equipment. At ITM 2024 the latest automatic splicer installed on the exhibited Savio Proxima winder, while two laboratory equipment were on display.
Nati Advanced is one of the Mesdan-Lab most known equipment; it is the instrument to determinate neps in raw cotton, neps and trash in cotton sliver and roving, neps in synthetic and blended sliver, hence the ideal tool to improve quality and efficiency of carding and combing operations.
It has been manufactured by Mesdan for the last 25 years; hundreds of units have been sold worldwide, and the Advanced is the 4th and latest version, particularly designed to work in connection with the CONTEST-F2, the Mesdan-Lab high volume cotton testing equipment, to obtain the complete fibre classification in a unique report.
Anyhow, NATI Advanced can also work as a “stand alone” unit, and in this format, it can be used for testing both cotton and synthetics, just by changing the opening roller. When testing synthetics, it produces a classification of the neps and trash content per size, and, in case of a multiple sample testing, a statistical analysis.
NATI is: fast in testing large samples, reliable and repeatable, very easy to operate, compact and easily transportable to the production floor, for continuous testing and assessment at different process stages.
The AutoDyn 3 on display at ITM is the 3rd generation of the well-known AutoDyn series, the automatic yarn strength tester, that high success reached during the last 15 years. It embodies: latest technology, best electronics, new software & new accessories, stunning performances (capacity, versatility, accuracy and testing efficiency) and Italian design. AutoDyn 3 represents the most complete and universal testing equipment, being suitable for single fibres, fibre bundles, single yarns (automatic testing), technical yarns, hanks+LEA, fabrics, garment accessories, up to the maximum force of 3kN. It is the ideal dynamometer for the smaller spinning mills, for the integrated mills, the knitters and weavers who want to check the incoming yarns at a large scale, besides the quality of their internal fabric production. Thanks to its versatility it is also recommended for schools and universities, R&D and testing laboratories.
Referring to this year’s theme of the exhibition, ‘Discover the Future’, Bertolotti stated that the textile industry has been going through challenging times but hopeful signs have emerged. Bertolotti stated that the increase in new demands and the signs of financial recovery increase the hopes for the future of the sector. Referring to the company’s preparation process for the future, Bertolotti emphasized the efforts made to improve after-sales services. Bertolotti stated that the launch of the Van de Wiele center in Turkey will make a significant contribution to strengthening after-sales services. Speaking about Mesdan’s structuring in areas such as digitalization, automation and sustainability, Bertolotti explained that they developed automated versions by focusing on performance in production and developed high-volume test equipment for sustainability. Bertolotti emphasized that they support all companies with a shredding and spinning laboratory line for recycling. Bertolotti remarked that ITM 24 was an impressive organization and that the companies came with excellent stands and said that he liked this year’s exhibition very much in every aspect.
