At the moment there is one fair by another, but a lot of our customers think that the fairs and professional platforms are very good for business meetings and talks. We exhibit very much with pleasure on fairs - because the most important thing for us is the customer contact!

We would like to say “thank you very much” to the organizers of “The German Pavilion”: By the positive care before and during the fair we felt very well lifted with you!   

^{“Dear Mr. Peter Resch, Best wishes to you and your family on Easter day! First, we would like to thank you for your great supports and helps during the Domotex Asia 2009 in Shanghai. We are firmly convinced that the project and technology of Messrs. power-heat-set, once again, have made quite a deep impression on Chinese Customers.Furthermore, we do hope that Messrs. CEO team offer you the good links between the customer and your company. If there is anything else needs to be improved, please kindly let us know so as to give you a better assistance and support in the further. Again, it’s a great pleasure to work with you and your team.”}

^{We would like to play back the ball: It was also a pleasure for Power-Heat-Set and we want to send a big “Thank you” for the good collaboration and the organisation to the whole CEO-Team! It was also a pleasure for Power-Heat-Set and we want to send a big “Thank you” for the good collaboration and the organisation to the whole CEO-Team!}

That’s why Power-Heat-Set has been glad that the possibility was offered to take part at the 3rd World Carpet Congress. In the two days of the congress we had the great opportunity to talk with our customers about our topical developments and to attach contacts with manufacturers of all different production steps and to optimize the interfaces.

We would like to thank the colleges Unitex and Centexbel for the very good organization and the invitation!

Power-Heat-Set displayed this time not only our existing heat setting system, the GVA equipment, but  presented to Chinese and the international professional audience the newest product: „-heat-set equipment“. The difference between overheated steam (GVA) and saturated steam (-Heat-Set) was explained to a lot of visitors by the competent Team. Now Power-Heat-Set offers both systems and therefore can serve every customer optimally for his needs!

The visitors could be convinced with the -Heat-Set equipment above all by the immense low energy consumption. Continuous research and development during the last years with regards to our existing equipment, the Power-Heat-Set GVA, resulted in big improvement not only in the run behaviour of the yarn, but also concerning the energy consumption. The new GVA 5000 beltversion cannot be compared any longer with the old “Suessen-equipment”.

Additionally to the ITMA exhibition, our Representative for China, Mr. Zhang Ze of CEO International (Holding) Inc. organized a symposium, which took place under a very pleasant ambience in the Hyatt Hotel Shanghai for more than 100 interested Chinese trade visitors.

Representatives of the Zimmer Austria Mechanical engineering (printing), Schönherr Stäubli Group (weaving) as well as Power-Heat-Set (heatsetting) gave interesting lectures on their field of business.

The ideal BCF process is shown in the following graphic (Please click to enlarge the graphic):

Three parts of the process have been explained during the symposion in Shanghai by the suppliers Power-Heat-Set, Schönherr Stäubli and Zimmer Austria.

We guide you to find the right heat set method for your targets!

For our customers it is of determining meaning to filter out the right heatsetting procedure for their requirements.
 

The following criteria must be exactly checked before making the decision: 

• Material (PA, PP, PES, Wool, etc.)
• Kind of Carpet (Wal to Wal, Rocks, Bath Matts, Woven, Tufted, Printed)
• Optical Look (Pin Point/Tip Definition, Bulk, Frise, Color)
• BCF or Staple Fibre, Cabling or Uptwisting
• Production Quantity
• Energie Consumption, Enviromental, Labor, Ergonomics
• Maintanance, Spare Parts as well as Tare and Ware Parts
   

With the help of these criteria Power-Heat-Set will lead their customers optimally by the complex subject of the heatsetting procedure and guarantee the best solution for every customer. Therefore it is ensured that our customers receive the right quality and the right quantity to optimized costs in the end product!    

Not against each other, but with each other and equally in rights. (Please click to enlarge the graphic)

In summary you have to see that every system brings advantages with itself and has therefore also authorization in the market. For heatsetting of the different yarn types (wool, PA 6, PA 6.6, PP, PES, Acrylic) the desired result is decisive for the choice of the procedure.

Also the different steam conditions have a huge meaning for the different heatsetting procedures:
Wet Steam
steam which contains water held in suspension mechanically; — called also misty steam > e.g. for Acryl Bulking
Saturated Steam
Steam at the temperature of the boiling point which corresponds to its pressure; — sometimes also applied to wet steam.
Superheated Steam (overheated stem)
Steam heated to a temperature higher than the boiling point corresponding to its pressure. It can not exist in contact with water, nor contain water, and resembles a perfect gas; — called also surcharged steam, anhydrous steam and steam gas and sometimes also applied to dry steam. (Please click to enlarge the graphic)

This year, Power-Heat-Set and our business partner Gilbos, participated for the second time as exhibitors with a common booth. This gave our CEO, Mr. Peter Resch, the opportunity to meet customers, who exhibited at the Domotex Hannover 2008, at their booth, but also to meet customers, who came only as visitors to this important trade show, at our own booth.

Our booth attracted many visitors, who expressed their interest in our equipment and who wanted to have further explanations about our existing equipment and our new development.  This was a welcome opportunity to explain the advantages of each system and that the decision for either system (overheated/superheated or saturated steam system) depends much on the requirements of our customers and their key markets. We had in-depth discussions about the advantages of heat setting with our new development, the GVA 5000 belt version for heat setting up to 72 ends, which, to name only a few, are.:

·     Increased capacity by 25% or even 50% depending on dtex
·     Improved streak free polyamide quality for frieze and straight yarn
·     Energy Reduction up to 67% (steam consumption)
·     Reduction of annual recurrent cost between 70.000 EUR to 140.000 EUR (depending on the yarn count)

Of course, many visitors to our booth were interested in our new development, the compact heat setting equipment, operating with saturated steam and were amazed to see the miniature exhibit of this machine, which was displayed at our booth and which demonstrated the different working positions of compact heatsetting and learn about the advantages of this system, which beside others are:

·     Heat setting of PA, PA6, PA 6.6, PP, acrylic, wool
·     Vertical material throughput with minimal yarn contact points
·     Possibility to vary the bulk
·     Very little steam consumption (between 30 and 40 kg/h)
·     Precise tip definition 

This year, Power-Heat-Set was represented by Mr. Peter Resch, our CEO, our senior technician, Mr. Jens Enger, and myself and we received active support through our representatives for Turkey, Mr. Ömer San and Mr. Hakan Gürdal and our representative for Iran, Mr. Khambiz Meghrazi. 

Mr. Meghrazi had a very unfortunate start with his visit to the Domotex - he had to spend 48 hours at the airport in Teheran, as the airport had been snowed in and airport traffic had stopped completely. 

Our business partner Gilbos was represented through Mr. Johan Heyvaert, Mr. John Sonck and Mr. Willie Lee from Gilbos America. We all received many visitors and had many discussions about our equipment and we were able to meet many of our  customers and many representatives of companies, who we hope to gain as future customers. We also had the honour to welcome our valued customer, Mr. Abdullatif Abdullatif from Riyadh at our booth for in-depth discussions about our machines. 

These four days in Hannover were memorable for myself and a big success for the company, because, not only did we receive many inquiries for quotations, but we were able to conclude several business contracts as well.

Power-Heat-Set used this opportunity to present a new heat set process for the carpet industry, which is unparalleled with respect to many aspects of the state of the art, which made the ITMA 2007, not only to a “Place for Innovation”, but for the carpet sector also a “Place for Surprise”.

Many visitors came to the booth of Power-Heat-Set to look at the new heat setting machine. This machine is a completely new system, not only a further improvement of existing technique.

In the compact heatset process the exactly arranged yarn (the yarn bundle) is wound up to a kind of hollow tube having the form of a screw thread. In this form the yarn then runs top-down through the process chamber filled with saturated steam. Every coil of yarn rests only on 4 thin pins which in turn are fixed to 4 conveyor chains. Consequently the yarn coils are led through the process chamber with minimal supporting points. The steam used as heatset medium can get much more completely and evenly to each part of the yarn – be it inside or outside. The yarn, still having said form, then leaves the process chamber and passes a cold chamber where it is cooled down to the glass transition temperature as far as possible. 

The 4 conveyor chains are complemented by 4 guide rails forming an octagonal polygon together. The polygon’s diameter can be

changed by a certain mechanism making it possible to limit the shrinking of the yarn which indirectly influences the bulk development (the volume of the yarn). This is not possible with a conveyor system.

As soon as the yarn has been cooled down, it is wound off the conveyor chain in a controlled way by means of an unwindingmechanism using a special device and taken out of the process chamber by the winding machine.

A newly developed device is positioned between the compact heatset machine and the winding machine which measures the yarn tension between the two components, compares it with a given tension value and then maintains it by means of a triggered eddy current brake.

The package build-up at the winding machine becomes better and more uniform in this system. In this connection it should be mentioned that in the compact heatsetting system the winding machine is not dependent on the feeding behaviour of the heatset system, but vice versa. The winding machine always runs at a constant given take-off speed and the heatset process notes even small differences in speed and balances them as soon as the yarn is fed. The constant winding speed also leads to an improvement of the package build-up.

The system is designed very dynamically that, in case of a yarn break, the complete flow process is stopped before the broken yarn end enters the Compact Heatset system. Downtime is reduced considerably, since the broken end only has to be spliced again and not all ends have to be fed in again.

Everbody was surprised to see this development and the Power-Heat-Set booth received many inquires about this new technique.

Power-Heat-Set technicians were available to explain and to demonstrate the operation of the compact heat set and vistors could view

carpet samples made with compact heatset yarn as well. Everybody was very impressed and admired the quality of the carpets. Not only,

did many visitors come back to show the compact heatset machine to their colleagues and friends, but a lot of visitors wanted to place

immediate purchase orders.

This big success was only made possible through highly motivated employees, who worked long hours to get the compact heatset machine ready in time for the presentation at the ITMA.

A special “THANK YOU” to all of them.

See some impressions of the exhibition:

• We will present our latest heatsetting development
• Bavarian catering – enjoy the world famous Bavarian veal sausages and the excellent Bavarian beer
• Shuttle service (free of charge) at our booth to visit Power-Heat-Set and to see the company
• Tour our facilities only 45 minutes east of the fair ground
• Attend our demonstrations of heatsetting equipment

The Appointment for our tour is the 17^th of September. For registration and more information use mail@power-heat-set.com
Take advantage of this unique opportunity – visit us at our booth.
Experience Heatset-Know-how “Made in Germany”!
ITMA 13. – 20. September 2007     hall 5 (booth A5.300) 

Domotex Asia was a great success. Many conversations were made with customers as well as with new interested parties.

As every year our agency CEO supported us with the whole organisation. After comming back from the fair we got the following “thank-you email” from our agency.

Dear Mr. Peter Resch, First, we would like to thank you for your great supports and helps during the DomotexAsia 2007 in Shanghai.We do hope that Messrs. CEO team offer you the good links between the customer and your company. If there is anything else needs to be improved, please kindly let us know so as to give you a better assistance and support in the further.

Again, it’s a great pleasure to work with you (please kindly find the pictures of fair we send as annex)

Best regards,CEO International (Holding) Inc.

Beijing Office

We are very happy about this words but we have to thank CEO for the perfect assistance.

Dear CEO-Team - there is nothing to improve - we got the best assistance we could imagine. Thank you very much.