How can Baldwin help with sustainability, energy and quality?

In this video, Baldwin's Wesley Clements, Global Leader of Engineering and R&D talks about how Baldwin's technology in the textile precision spray space can help when it comes to sustainability, energy consumption and quality.

[Transcription]

Madeleine Rearte: 

Hi, I'm Madeleine Rearte from Baldwin, and today we have Dr. Wesley Clements with us. 

Wesley Clements: 

Good morning, Madeleine, pleased to be here. 

Madeleine Rearte: 

So, today, sustainability, energy and quality are hot topics in the textile industry. How can Baldwin help with this? 

Wesley Clements: 

Well, we use our non-contact spray technology. With our non-contact spray technology in the textile finishing area, we enable the chemicals to be applied without any physical contact between the source of the chemical and the fabric, so gone are the problems associated with fabric contamination of the chemicals. So when the job is done, the leftover chemicals can be saved and reused, so we essentially eliminate chemical waste. 

Wesley Clements: 

Importantly, non-contact spray technology also enables the pickup to be controlled to the minimum needed to apply the chemicals to the fabric, and in many processes it's very common to reduce more than 50% of the water on there, therefore more than 50% of the drying energy. So to summarize, we eliminate chemical waste with our TexCoat technology, and we dramatically reduce the amount of drying energy needed after the finishing process. 

Madeleine Rearte: 

What are the main features of the TexCoat G4? 

Wesley Clements: 

The TexCoat G4 is the fourth generation of our TexCoat technology, so it's seen a lot of evolution. We start, first of all, with a very secure enclosure system. It's very easy to clean, but importantly, this enclosure system guarantees that there is no escape of spray particles out into the general atmosphere near where the finishing is taking place. 

Wesley Clements: 

We've also designed the system to be very operator friendly, very easy to maintain. And as an example of that, the spray nozzles themselves are molded in this retractable assembly that we call a valve rail. So prior to the room starting, we make it very easy for the operator to verify that he has a good spray pattern in each nozzle. The valve rail itself is designed to be easily removed from the machine. So for example, we can very quickly have a rotating maintenance philosophy where the valve rails can be removed from the machine and recycled in a night on a weekly basis, for example, 

Madeleine Rearte: 

Thank you, Wesley.