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LENZING INSTRUMENTS takes over NONWOVENS INSPECTION SYSTEM from MASSEN
With effect of May 2006, LENZING INSTRUMENTS / Austria has taken over the proven NONWOVENS INSPECTOR from MASSEN / Germany.
For approximately 40 years LENZING INSTRUMENTS has successfully been developing and supplying testing instruments for the fiber, textile and nonwovens industry. Starting from laboratory testing instruments to online process monitoring systems, well proven technology is offered for the nonwovens industry.
With the NONWOVENS INSPECTOR, representing the latest inspection technology, LENZING INSTRUMENTS completes the product range with a proven online process monitoring solution.
This online inspection of nonwovens of any type of fibers is based on high resolution digital cameras and lighting. Evaluation is effected by special image processing software via ultra-fast clustered PCs. The system detects, holes, dirt, contamination, web width, thickness, density, streaks, wrinkles, light spots, dark spots, thin and thick spots, homogeneity. It thus fulfils two tasks at the same time: detection of local aesthetic and physical defects and monitoring of the stability of the production process.
LENZING INSTRUMENTS was founded in 1965 and started its business with the production of tensile and fineness testing equipment for staple fibres. In the following years a wide range of quality testing instruments for staple fibres and filament yarns has been developed. A new field of activity is the online monitoring (OLM) for the production of fibers and filament yarns.
MASSEN was founded in 1988 and has developed a leading position in the in-line surface inspection of complex pattern surfaces such as multi coloured floorings (ceramic tiles, laminate panels, etc…). Massen is strategically focussing its activities on coloured surface inspection and is therefore pleased to transfer the Nonwovens Inspector to its long term partner LENZING INSTRUMENTS.
Due to this technological advantage LENZING INSTRUMENTS offers its customers another unique feature to compete in today’s market.
Additionally, LENZING INSTRUMENTS and MASSEN will continue and strengthen their long lasting cooperation.
LENZING INSTRUMENTS joins TEXTECHNO
TEXTECHNO GmbH & Co. KG in Mönchengladbach (Germany) and LENZING TECHNIK GmbH & Co. KG have signed a contract on September 1st, according to which TEXTECHNO takes over LENZING INSTRUMENTS, the former division of LENZING TECHNIK.
All assets and activities of LENZING INSTRUMENTS have been transferred to a new company with the name LENZING INSTRUMENTS GmbH & Co. KG, which will continue the business of the former LENZING (TECHNIK) INSTRUMENTS in its entirety and keep all of their employees.
LENZING INSTRUMENTS was founded in 1965 and started its business with the production of tensile- and fineness testing equipment for staple fibres. In the following years a wide range of quality testing instruments for staple fibres and filament yarns have been developed. A new field of activity is the online measurement (OLM) for the production of filament yarns.
The company TEXTECHNO was founded as an enterprise for research and development in the field of textile testing technology by Herbert Stein in 1949. Starting from these origins, TEXTECHNO today manufactures a broad variety of testing equipment for the textile- and chemical fibre industry and is one of the market leaders in this field.
The partnership between TEXTECHNO and LENZING INSTRUMENTS enables both companies to bundle the existing potentials, leading to numerous synergy effects in production, technical development, and marketing. To make use of these advantages to the benefit of the customers and to enhance their position in the global market is the main aim of the new management, which will consist of Dr. Wolfgang Stein (Chairman of the Advisory Board TEXTECHNO), Dr. Ulrich Moerschel (Managing Director TEXTECHNO), Josef Baumgartinger (Managing Director LENZING INSTRUMENTS), and Heinz Schneider (Co-founder and General Manager Sales of LENZING INSTRUMENTS).
More information about Textechno: www.textechno.com.
