Objective
The laundry industry faces rising energy costs and an increasing demand for a higher quality finishing of garments worldwide. The laundries are under pressure of the governments to reduce their consumption of water, energy and cleaning agents by 20%. The washing at lower water loadings, lower temperatures and shorter processing times will inevitably result in a higher degree of creases. The present generation of tunnel finishers (in which the decreasing and drying of garments takes place) is not capable in removing these creases. Therefore, there is a need for a new type of tunnel finisher having excellent crease removal capacity at reduced (energy) costs. The objectives are l) to develop a new process integrated tunnel finisher system which combines maximum (flexible) productivity (400 - 2000 items/hour), with minimum floor space (8 - 16 m2) and a low energy and water consumption (-20% compared to present systems) and 2) to develop a fully integrated, operator friendly and reliable self-controllable prototype process control system (for tunnel finishers). This is needed to achieve a 20 % reduction of the water, energy and cleaning agents consumption in the overall laundry process (washing and finishing), which represents a total savings of about 36,S MECU for Europe. The consortium consists of 3 developer partners (1: washing machines, 2: tunnelfinishers and 3: proces control systems) and 3 end-users (industrial laundries). The RTD-performers are all well-known (textile) research organizations. The ultimate aim is to introduce the new tunnel finisher system in the market within l - 2 years after the project.
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- engineering and technology materials engineering textiles
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5331 CJ Kerkdriel
Netherlands
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