Big run after Compact-Heat-Set
July 28th, 2008 | In sales and distribution | No commentsAuthor: Stephanie Raithel
In the past few weeks, we have had the pleasure of welcoming many customers to our company to see and test our new 
heat set. Our Power-heat-set-Team welcomed customers from 5 different continents and almost 10 different countries, including Italy, Germany, Belgium, France, USA.
Our technicians did many test runs with approximately 30 tons of different types of yarn and thread sizes. Because of the excellent results and quality, some customers have decided to use our heat set in their own production. We are very pleased that our new product is having such a good beginning.
The customers could not believe the very small space required for processing. The required space (creel, compact heat set, and winding machine) is just 14 x 5 m (46 x 16 ft). Most amazing is the short dwell time of only 5–10 seconds.
“A new age of heatsetting with saturated steam has dawned” – was said by one customer. We have the same opinion!
Our heat set stands not only for superior quality but in addition, has many other benefits, such as very low energy consumption. The energy consumption measured in real-time operation is, to our surprise, even lower than the original prototype. According to our calculations and comparisons with other available heat setting equipment and depending on the yarn material and count, we found that the cost per kg to heat set yarn is between 40%-70% less by using our new Heat setting equipment (working with 2 units).
Here is a sample calculation based on heat setting polyamide with dtex 1600/2 with following costs:
- electricity: 15,97 € cent/kWh
- compressed air: 0,015 €/m³
- water: 1,08 €/m³
- steam: 70 €/t
- water: 1,08 €/m³
The costs are based on information from different sources, but are common for our area, particularly Europe.
We have calculated that the cost of heat set (saturated steam) yarn is approximately 0,08 €/kg. The cost of our GVA (overheated steam) yarn will be approximately 0,10 €/kg, but the yarn cost from a cheap GVA copy is three times as high. The cost of yarn, which will be heat set under saturated steam with other equipment available on the market, has been calculated to be approximately 0,16 €/kg, which is still twice the cost of our heat set. This savings is between 100.000 € and 300.000 € per year with heat set.
If you are interested in having a detailed analysis for your company and specific yarn, you are welcome to contact us and we will be pleased to supply you with a calculation for your company and equipment.
