Marzoli Exhibits Its Outstanding Roving Frame In India ITME 2016

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Marzoli Exhibits Its Outstanding Roving Frame In India ITME 2016

Marzoli, the leading supplier of spinning machinery and components, made a grand display of latest roving frame technology at India ITME 2016. The Italian company, with over 160 years of history, an internationalised sales and service network and a worldwide client base, has long experience of developing and manufacturing machinery. In a conversation with Textile Excellence, Francesco Gozio, from Marzoli's marketing department, voiced his optimism and confidence about the expansion of Marzoli's technology around the globe in the forthcoming years. Excerpts from the interview are reproduced below.

It is evident that Marzoli has grown phenomenally in the global textile industry. Tell us about your success story in recent years.

Marzoli has always been a point of reference in spinning technology and a valid partner for any spinner willing to differentiate along the lines of efficiency, quality, productivity and flexibility.

Today the company, which has 2 overseas subsidiaries, a worldwide sales and service network and active clients in over 70 countries, many of whom are well-known industry leaders, is among the top players of the textile machinery industry. The key to Marzoli's market success has been the mix of an outstanding expertise and a strong predisposition towards innovation: although our machines represent state-of-the-art technology we never stop searching for new ways to improve them.

Tell us more about your roving frames that make such an exciting buy for your clients.

In India the product that we have been marketing very effectively in the last few years is the roving frame. This machine has independent drives for drafting system, flyers, spindles and bobbin rail.

The drives are co-ordinated by the central CPU which ensures their perfect synchronisation for a perfect bobbin formation. The two models, the FT6E with gauge-between-spindles of 110mm and the FT7E with gauge-between-spindles of 130mm, can respectively reach 224 and 168 spindles.

The machines are equipped with a 3-over-3 or 4-over-4 top quality drafting system with mechanical or pneumatic pressure arms. The flyers are made of ultra-light alloy and are dynamically balanced in order to avoid any mechanical vibration and reach high speed during operation (mechanical speed up to 1,500 rpm).

At the delivery of the drafting system there are individual sensors at each spinning position to immediately detect any roving break and securely stop the machine even in case of roving overlap around the cylinder/top roller. The machines are also equipped with 2 optic sensors to monitor roving tension. The speed of the spindles is adjusted in order to keep roving tension constant and create compact bobbins and avoid any false draft.

3 options for doffing: manual doffing with higher ergonomics, thanks to the tilting movement of the bobbin rail and the availability of the empty tubes right in front of it; automatic doffing, the simplest and most reliable doffing system which allows to remove the full bobbins, insert the empty tubes on the spindles and restart the machine without any human intervention in less than 3 minutes; machine with the prearrangement for automatic doffing upgrade, a machine with manual doffing that can be upgraded to the automatic version at any time with very low conversion costs.

These are just few of the features that make Marzoli roving frames technologically-outstanding machines.

You have an impressive global presence and also feature prominently in the Indian market. Tell us about your impressions of the Indian market.

My impression is that Indian spinners are going through tough times. Their difficulties stem from a high cost of energy, a volatile price of cotton and a quite weak international demand for yarn.

Fierce international competition and an overall state of over production capacity is definitely not helping them and several spinners have seen their margins shrink.

Nonetheless India represents a market of 50 million spindles: a huge spinning hub, full of opportunities for a company like Marzoli. We are confident that in such a big market there will be some who are willing to invest in state-of-the-art technology and draw on it to reduce their production costs and achieve a sustainable competitive advantage.

How has been the response to your display at the India ITME 2016 exhibition?

In 6 days of exhibition we have had several hundreds of visits at our stand. India ITME gave us the chance to meet many of our clients, from India and from foreign countries, and to connect with several prospects that were interested into our technology.

The show was the chance not only to evaluate the progress status of ongoing projects but also to hear some very-positive endorsements of the quality of our machines which are currently running at our clients' plants.

This is what encourages us to look at the future with optimism and rely on the technology of our machines to serve as a benchmark for future business.

Can you tell us about your new software platform for purpose of automation in the spinning industry?

Marzoli has developed and launched two innovative software platforms to make production management as easy and as efficient as possible and to optimise the entire spinning process.

The two platforms are YarNet and MRM. YarNet is Marzoli's production management software which allows the operator to control every machine comprising the processes of fiber preparation, spinning preparation and ring spinning. MRM is a radically-new platform, the first of its kind, that analyzes symptomatic data (e.g. power consumption, temperatures, vibrations, etc.) collected from the machines to constantly monitor their working conditions and alert the client in case of any deviation from standard operating ranges. The platform is based on Cloud technology which enables the client to log into the platform from anywhere at any time and also allows Marzoli's customer service to access the machine data and diagnose the problem in case the client asks for assistance.