Featured Video: TexCoat™ G4 - Innovation in Textile Finishing

The TexCoat™ G4 is designed to enable the most eco-friendly and efficient application of water and chemicals such as finishing chemistries to fabrics and other surfaces as part of textile production processes.

The TexCoat G4 enables no-waste finishing processes and single or dual-sided application. Learn more at baldwintech.com/textcoatg4.

Christina Björkander: In 2019, Baldwin introduced a game-changing technology in textile finishing. The non-contact precision spray TextCoat G4 system dramatically cuts waste, chemicals and energy consumption while increasing productivity and quality. A truly sustainable technology. Wesley, can you explain how the TexCoat G4 technology works?

Wesley Clements: We use non-contact hydraulic spray technology to apply carefully metered amounts of chemicals to either one side or both sides of the fabric. We give the choice to the customer. So, what we have here is a single nozzle with a pressurized chemical supply. In the TexCoat machine, we repeat the valve and nozzle technology at regular intervals across the machine. So, then we can guarantee the customer that on each location we’re accurately metering the flow and have a good spray pattern. The valve rail is designed to be easily removed and replaced in the machine - a single person operation. This ensures good up time of the machine. The TexCoat system comes with a fully featured control system that offers the user a full process control such as the ability to preset the machine of a bar code embedded in the work order. So, having preset the system automatically with the barcode reader, the system takes care of everything.

Our customers are seeing the benefit of no chemical loss when changing fabric color because there is no contamination of the chemistry by the fabric particles. We have zero chemical waste in the system. We take one example with water repellent. When running upholstery fabrics, we allow the customer to dramatically reduce the amount of water used in the chemical addition. Pickups are reduced from 70% to 15% so a 70% reduction in the amount of water in the process, 70% reduction in the energy in the process. But just as importantly, with the low amount of water used in the water repellent process, the customer now has the ability to simultaneously apply a backside coating and apply both processes just ahead of the stenter and save an entire drying step with both further energy and productivity advantages.