Producing yarn recycling technologies and nonwoven machines, Laroche has a rooted history amongst French machinery manufacturers. The firm, producing machines since 1926, made a presentation that fulfills the expectations of the visitors in saloon W3, booth A05. Developing solutions for recycling textile wastes, which ocur in all the processes from fiber preparation to cloth manufacture, Laroche attracts attention with its airlay technology over more than 20 years. Laroche helps to find remedy for serious environmental and raw material problems, while enabling textile wastes into recycling. It produces cheaper and better Technologies, and has succeeded at supplying a new application and product every year.
Laroche continues its production in Cours La Ville, France. JUMBO, which Laroche presented in the fair, was developed in order to tear the lines in recycling process of the post consumer cloth and carpet wastes. Laroche has sold in many countries during the first half of 2012. Another machine of the firm introduced, FLEXILOFT plus constitutes the last sample of airlay technologies. Laroche airlay can run all types of fibers (synthetics, natural, recycled...) and blends of fibers and solid particles (foam chips, plastics, wood chips).
Another product introduced by the French firm is the new MINITRIM 400, high speed edge trim opening machine. Among the other innovations Laroche introduced to its visitors, there were; high precision fiber dosing and blending lines, decortication lines for bast fibers (Flax, Hemp, Kenaf...) allowing gentle fibre opening and cleaning with a low processing cost, a new concept for flame retarding of cellulosic and recycled fibers.
Expertised in fiber developing Technologies since 1926, Laroche as a machine manufacturer commonly takes place in opening and blending, airlaid lines. 40 percent of the firm’ s activities involves recycling technologies, 32 percent is airlaid system, 21 percent is opening and blending, and 7 percent is others. Among the main markets of the firm, which exports over 85 percent of its production, there are Europe, USA, Mexico, Africa, Middle East, Far East and Latin America. Additionally, Laroche presents engineering services for turnkey projects on subjects as recycling of textile wastes, fiber opening, blending and dosing, airlay, fiber wadding (by needle punch and heat sticking method), airlaid felts, 3D nonwoven products, pure fiber processing (flax, hemp, kenaf, coconut fibers, special machines for disposable products,pillows and toys stuffing.
Airlay Replaces Card
Rapid increases in cotton prices made recycling of textile wastes a vital matter of issue. Laroche, producing complete linet hat enables to recycle textile and clothing wastes, offers to make felts from every type of textile waste in this way. Due to the success that the firms owns with regards to its airlaid system, upholsterers and bed manufacturers who used carding for felts in the past have passed on to airlaid technology today. Laroche continues developing products with its 3 nonwoven airlaid lines on the 3000-squaremeter area, Demo-Room, in Cours-La Ville.
Representative of Laroche, which produces various industrial machines such as yarn, automotive, bedding, furniture, geotextiles, sound and thermal insulation and filtering, cleaning-hygiene wipes, is Sarteks Tekstil in Turkey. The firm has 60 agencies within global market. Attending at ITM İstanbul fair on April, the wirm will also take place in FEBRATEX 2012 fair in Brazil in August, CAITME fair in Uzbekistan in September, Cinte Techtextil China in October and INDIA ITME in Indıa in December.
