Europe’s first Montex 6500 JV has been recently installed at dyeing and finishing company Tintoria Stamperia di Tavernola, which is based in based in Como Tavernola on the shores of Lake Como in Northern Italy. The recently introduced Montex 6500 JV stenter has been designed and engineered in Germany and produced in Monforts Joint Venture facility, Monforts Fong’s Textile Machinery in China.

The new Montex 6500 JV incorporates proven Monforts technology and all installation, commissioning, service and spare parts activities are undertaken from Germany, ensuring direct customer contact.

Founded in 1980 by Maderna Silvano, Tintoria Stamperia di Tavernola has established an outstanding reputation for its high quality finishing in a variety of cotton and mixed stretch fabrics, all bound for leading European fashion houses. 80% of the company’s products go to upmarket Italian fashion brands. Fabrics include 100% cotton, 95% viscose/ 5% spandex, 95% cotton/ 5% spandex, 100% polyester, 95% polyester/ 5% spandex mix, 100% silk and 100% polyamide.

“With space an absolute premium within the small mill, the virtual ‘shoe horn’ installation bears testimony to the skills of the Monforts German installation team; installing and commissioning the stenter in just four weeks,” a spokesperson for Monforts said.

“With the 34m long finishing line virtually butting against concrete columns down one side of the stenter, just centimetres remains around the remaining three sides to provide necessary access throughout the installation. Monforts unique vertical opening doors along one side of the stenter, therefore provide a key element of the completed installation allowing the only means of access to the stenter chambers.”

In addition to the vertical opening doors, fitted as standard, other features include Monforts proven TwinAir system with separately controlled top and bottom air flows as well as Qualitex PLC controls to ensure reproducible fabric results at all times.

The Montex 6500 JV stenter has been designed for both woven and knitted fabrics and is available in configuration from 4-10 treatment chambers, working widths of 60-240cm and stenter speeds of 5-100 m/min. The complete finishing line at Tintoria Stamperia di Tavernola incorporates a Bianco weft straightener, a Küsters dye pad at the in-feed of the 4 chamber Montex 6500 JV and with the fabric feeding into a Monforts delivery frame at the out-feed, directly onto an AFT automation roll card.

“Space limitations meant that the in-feed was kept to an absolute minimum and just a four chamber stenter. With no room for a relaxation dryer and in order to ensure residual shrinkage in both length and width, it is necessary to run the elasticated spandex mixes ‘slack’ in the in feed, entering  the stenter at slow speeds,” says Monforts.

The Montex 6500 JV stenter was ordered through local representative Sacconaghi Monaco S.r.l. by Maderna Silvano, who said, “For me, Monforts always produce the number one stenter and I have not been disappointed.”

The Montex 6500 JV can also be ordered as a Montex 6500 version from the Austrian Montex manufacturing facility if the customer prefers.  Wide width stenters, coating ranges and special versions also continue to be built exclusively in Germany and Austria, together with other Monforts product ranges.