Oerlikon and BBEngineering Brought Their Solutions in the Manmade Fiber Industry Together with Turkish Manufacturers
News: Dilek Hayırlı
Oerlikon Barmag, Oerlikon Neumag and BBEngineering (BBE), represented by Tekstil Servis, organised a seminar on ‘Solutions for Success in the Manmade Fiber Industry’ where they shared their knowledge and latest innovations in the manmade industry with their Turkish customers. Yarn, fabric and carpet manufacturers showed great interest to the seminars organised separately in Gaziantep and Bursa.
The first seminar on ‘Solutions for Success in the Manmade Fiber Industry’ hosted by Tekstil Servis was held mid of October in Gaziantep, a similar one to days later in Bursa. As Tekstil Teknoloji magazine; we followed the first seminar organised in cooperation with Oerlikon and BBE. Dr.Klaus Schaefer, General Manager of BBE, said that Oerlikon is the world market leader in the manmade fiber industry with a 50% share and Brückner Group is the world market leader in film production lines with a 50% share. He explained that BBE, a joint venture of Barmag and Brückner, operates in the fields of extruders, melt filtration, melt modification and melt spinning as well as recycling lines. Emphasising that Turkey has an important position in both yarn and carpet production, Dr. Schaefer mentioned the importance of the seminar for the sector: “We are very happy to come together with our Turkish customers thanks to this seminar.”
Polymer Processing Solutions Division Allocates Around CHF 40 Million to R&D
Following Dr. Schaefer’s speech, Oerlikon Manmade Fiber Solutions General Sales Director Dr. Wolfgang Ernst made a presentation on ‘Manmade Fibre Market and Development from the Perspective of Machine and Plant Production’. He shared the following information in his presentation: “Oerlikon Polymer Processing Solutions Division’s total turnover reached over CHF 1.5 billion in 2022. Serving with approximately 4,300 employees in 36 locations, the Oerlikon Division allocates almost CHF 40 million to R&D activities. The division realises 75% of its sales to Asia-Pacific, 13% to Europe and 12% to America. He showed an example of a typical Oerlikon plant solution: Producing 600 tonnes of Filament Polyester, equal to 40,000 bobbins of 15 kg each per day, plus 3×225 tonnes of 2,700 staple fibre bales of 250 kg each per day, plus 600 tonnes of 120,000 texturised yarn bobbins of 5 kg each per day. Polyester accounts for more than half of the world’s fiber market. In 2023, the world’s fiber demand reached 116 thousand tonnes. Looking at the installed manmade fiber capacity worldwide in 2022, the top 5 countries are as follows: China (74.09%), India (9.62%), USA (2.81%), Taiwan (2.53%) and Indonesia (2.33%). Turkey ranks 7th in the list with 2.13%. In 2022, 25 leading companies provided around 70 per cent of the world’s installed PET textile filament capacity.
Looking at the installed manmade fiber capacity in Turkey, the top three are textile filament with 48.99%, staple fibre with 44.74% and industrial filaments with 3.68%. The installed global PET/PA filament capacity for 2012-2022 is approximately 38 million tonnes. Oerlikon Manmade Fiber’s share is approximately 50%.
Looking at the PET/PA DTY Textured Filament Market; it is seen that the number of installed capacities as of 2012 is approximately 18 million tonnes, 16,744 DTY machines / 4.95 million yarn ends. Oerlikon Manmade Fiber’s share is around 30%. Looking at the global capacity of PET/PA/PP BCF Carpet Yarn; installed capacity since 2012 is around 1.3 million tonnes, 1,818 positions. Oerlikon Manmade Fiber’s share is approximately 84%. PET/PA/PP Staple Fibre capacity installed since 2012 is 11.6 million tonnes and the number of lines is 172. Oerlikon Manmade Fiber’s share is approximately 40%.
“Turkey has an Important Potential with its Proximity to the EU Market”
At the end of his presentation, Dr. Wolfgang Ernst also explained his future expectations for the Turkish synthetic fiber market. Accordingly; Turkey has a good potential due to its proximity to the EU market and high integration in the textile value chain. However; uncertainty in financial and economic policies affects investment decisions.
Turnkey Spinning Production Line for Recycling: Variofil
Following Dr. Ernst’s presentation, Ralf Morgenroth, Technical Manager of BBE Filament Division, made a presentation on ‘Variofil – Turnkey production plants for all raw materials and applications’. Morgenroth explained the usage areas, benefits and recycling advantages of the Variofil spinning production line.
In the continuation of the seminar, he made a presentation on ‘Jetex: Air Texturing System for textile and industrial applications’.
Following Morgenroth, Oliver Lemke, Sales Manager of Oerlikon Barmag, took the stage to make his presentation on ‘From Melt to Yarn’. In his presentation, Lemke explained WINGS POY HD and the eAFK Multi big-V solution for textured spinning production lines and heavy denier production.
In the afternoon part of the seminar, Oerlikon Neumag BCF Product Line Sales Manager Arnd Luppold made a presentation on ‘Solutions for BCF Carpet Yarn Production’. Giving detailed information about Oerlikon’s digital products and secure remote services in his presentation, Luppold listed the gains of digital products as follows “Our digital products have advantages such as remote connection to your machines, compliance with high safety standards, shortened intervention times, easy training of employees.” Providing information about BCF S8, the most efficient Oerlikon Neumag BCF plant type so far, Luppold stated that the access and analysis package for this plant type can saves up to 2,025 hours per year. Following Luppold, Oerlikon Neumag Staple Fiber Product Line Sales Manager Max Hergenreder made a presentation on “EvoSteam Process for efficient and sustainable PET Staple Fiber Production”. Finally; Matthias Schmitz, Technical Manager of BBE Recycling Division, presented ‘VacuFil Visco+: Possibilities of Processing PET Wastes in BBE Recycling Solutions’ on the stage. BBE adapted the recycling process of PET to the needs of multifilament yarn producers by reducing energy consumption and improving polymer quality.
Sector Representatives, Academicians and Students showed great interest to the Seminar
During the event, the latest technologies, applications and solutions related to the sector were presented to the participants. It was stated that such events encourage the exchange of information among industry professionals and shape the future of the textile industry. In addition to sector representatives, academicians and students showed great interest in the event.