From scale to value: India’s textile industry enters the window of consolidation and upgrading. Monforts, a German consolidation machinery manufacturer, announced that it will showcase advanced consolidation, coating, and energy-saving processing technologies from December 4th to 9th, 2026 at ITME 2026 in India (Hall 1, Booth A5). The company believes that Indian textile manufacturers are increasingly shifting from simply pursuing output to higher value fabric production, which is creating new equipment and process requirements for the finishing process. Monforts stated that India is not only one of its most important markets, but also strategically significant due to the breadth of its textile manufacturing base. Indian manufacturers are paying closer attention to energy, water, and chemical consumption, as well as the level of automation required to achieve consistent quality. Productivity remains crucial, but increasingly needs to be combined with lower operating costs, greater flexibility, and the ability to manufacture more complex products.
Energy saving drying and low feed finishing
In the fabric finishing stage after spinning and fiber processing, drying is one of the most energy intensive processes.
. Monforts’ Montex stretch setting machine and Thermex dyeing and curing system continue to be developed around high and stable yield and reduced energy consumption. Its Eco Appliator achieves significant savings in water, chemicals, and energy by applying finishing chemicals at the lowest possible liquid level, rather than unnecessarily saturating and rolling the fabric, reducing the amount of water that needs to evaporate later. Monforts is expanding its coating options for India’s growing technology textile industry. Multi functional MontexCoat provides blade coating, magnetic roller coating, circular screen printing, and other application technologies; The more cost-effective coaTTex production line is mainly aimed at manufacturers specializing in scraper coating, and can now be optionally equipped with countertops for special coating technology on sportswear.
Sustainable Chemicals and Digital Spray Testing
Monforts has also partnered with BW Converting to install the Baldwin TexCoat G4 digital spray unit at its Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in M ö nchengladbach, Germany, to test Archroma’s latest advanced sustainable finishing chemicals.
. This collaboration aims to combine the precision and sustainability of chemical application in the finishing process, which has reference significance for functional finishing of fibers and fabrics. Daniel R ü tten, regional sales manager for Monforts Asia, stated that basic fabric production is becoming increasingly competitive and commercialized, and finishing is the main creative link for fabric appearance, feel, functionality, and ultimate value. The opportunity for Indian manufacturers lies not only in producing more fabrics, but also in extracting higher value from every meter of product.
Significance for the polymer additive industry
From the perspective of the fiber and fabric column, Monforts’ emphasis on the value enhancement of the finishing process is directly related to the application logic of antioxidants and weather resistant stability systems in fiber processing and fabric functionalization.
. Whether it is technical textiles, sportswear, filter materials, or automotive fabrics, they all need to face the risks of thermal oxidation and photoaging during spinning, coating, and finishing processes; The promotion of low feed liquid finishing and precise coating processes means that the application of additives needs to be matched with equipment processes to achieve uniform distribution and effective retention. At the same time, the trend of energy-saving drying and reducing chemical consumption also puts higher demands on the efficiency of additive formulations – maintaining antioxidant and weather stability under less liquid supply and lower heat load conditions will become an important direction for the development of fiber and fabric additives. Monforts’ business in India relies on its long-term partnership with A.T.E. Enterprises, which has local business units in major textile regions of India, covering everything from customer contact to project planning, logistics, engineering, and after-sales. Monforts also stated that existing production lines can be upgraded through new control systems, drives, monitoring, and other technologies to improve productivity, energy efficiency, process control, and extend service life. The company has started adapting heating technology to green hydrogen to replace natural gas for energy intensive processes such as drying and heat treatment.
Observation of Herun Chemical
Focusing on fibers, fabrics, spinning, antioxidants, weather stability, Herun Chemical continues to pay attention to the technological progress, processing stability, and application implementation in this field.
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