2007.09.21

Springing from years of experience gained in the garment-dyeing sector, Niagara represents the great innovation that Avantec have presented at Itma in Munich.
Niagara redefines the concept of garment dyeing, revolutionising the traditional systems that have always given rise to various problems concerning all articles of clothing, in particular delicate ones, such as the abrasion of knitted fabric and textiles, pulled out yarns, the fabric felting, creation of permanent folds and of streaks, formation of hairiness.
Up to now, industrial machines could not avoid completely all those troubles; until the arrival of Niagara, the existing technology for dyeing delicate clothes and outerwear had not assured relevant progresses, either in the case of jacket, trousers and coat, or of delicate fibres such as cashmere, angora and silk.
Avantec’s technological research has focused just on the solution of problems related to these clothes and these specific and delicate fabrics: the result has been the design of an industrial machine to treat knitted fabrics, textiles but also outerwear and delicate fibres such as wool, cashmere, angora, acrylic, silk, viscose and polyamide microfibre, up to fibres such as tencell and other modified cellulose fibres.
Among the characteristics that strike one immediately while using Niagara, we find working flexibility and consequent cost saving. As a matter of fact, the machine can be used for dyeing both delicate and fragile fibres, cotton or mixture clothing: these conditions are characterised by completely different problems, such as the bath penetration through the fibre or the uniform distribution of the dye on the various parts of the garments, which Avantec’s technical-scientific experience has succeeded in overcoming with this new machine.
Therefore, Niagara becomes protagonist in the field of industrial machines for garment and textile dyeing; besides putting on stage a revolutionary technology, which remarkably improves the outcomes that can be attained by the so-called “Dutch machines”, it also gets over some techniques such as the dyeing of yarn wound on reel or in the form of skein.
These processes involve very high costs, most of all due to the chemical products used for the yarn dyeing, and very long delivery costs, which make the process scarcely competitive.
In this survey Niagara by Avantec has filled a gap with its capability of facing up to several problems concerning the dyeing and the damaging of fibres, keeping process costs very low also thanks to the consistent saving of water and energy.