Technical Textile Lab

Overview

MANTRA has already commissioned coating and lamination pilot plan machineries from M/s Matex, Italy (Multilab 900) and M/s Santex, Switzerland (Cavimelt TSM). MANTRA has already developed several samples on this machine. MANTRA has developed PVC, polyurethane, acrylates coated and laminated products, viz, artificial leather shoes cover, filter fabrics protective fabrics, garments, umbrella fabric, etc.

MANTRA has developed modern testing laboratory to test various technical textiles including coated and laminated products.

MANTRA has purchased several books on technical textiles and kept in the Library. MANTRA has allotted a separate space in its web site for technical textiles. MANTRA has also developed a product display centre and samples prepared by MANTRA as well those collected from various sources are displayed in this center and interested entrepreneurs who visit this centre are provided guidance about technical textiles.

MANTRA has started giving pilot plant trials on coating and laminating machines. Many entrepreneurs have taken advantage of sampling facility available in coating & lamination.

Centre of Excellence, MANTRA had submitted proposal to the Govt. of Gujarat for Nonwoven pilot facilities with a cost of Rs 10.00 crore. The proposal has been passed by the govt. of Gujarat and Rs. 6.53 crore has been sanctioned.

The proposal consists of 500 mm pilot scale machine with hydro entanglement, needle punch, thermo and chemical bonding, thus consisting facilities which can produce approx. 80-85% of all Nonwoven products. Further, instead of 4 different Web forming lines (for above four technologies), a single web forming system has been proposed. This is unique and nowhere available in the world. Further, because technical textiles, being an emerging and developing textile sector, MANTRA will be able to serve the prospective customer in product development and R&D in almost all areas of technical products.

As has mentioned before, the web formation line has been selected which is of Indian origin, generally used for staple spinning process. Indian machine manufacturing industries has the expertise and, in fact supply these machines to the market for long time now. In principle, the machine design / technology remain same, but our machines will be of lesser width. The hydro entanglement system will be of European origin and needle punch machine will be procured from korea. These machines has been already tested and running at other places successfully. As far as the quality and repeatability are concerned these are proven machinery/technology, we are certain that the quality of the products will also remain.