TEXCARE INTERNATIONAL 2024


Texcare 2024: The big one returns to Frankfurt


LCNi’s early bird preview of Texcare International 2024 shows why this exhibition is the gold standard for the textile care industry globally


s the big day approaches, that is the opening day of Texcare 2024 , after an absence of eight years, a wave of anticipation is beginning to swell about the developments we are going to see there. Messe Frankfurt will host the event over 6-9 November and is looking forward to welcoming an influx of industry professionals from all over the world. Every four years (when a pandemic raise its ugly head), Texcare International in Frankfurt am Main is the focal point of the global laundry, cleaning and textile services industry. Suppliers and service providers have a platform for their innovations. For visitors, it is a source of inspiration and a genuine networking platform.


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This year the focus is on AI, automation, digitalisation, reducing labour and energy costs and sustainability across all textile care disciplines in products and services. A full programmesof seminars will also help to push the message home that it is time to step up and embrace a new way of working – if businesses want to succeed in a changing world then they must change too.


Energy


Commercial laundries make up an energy-intensive business sector with energy accounting for around 15% of total costs and with process heat making up the lion’s share of that figure. Against a backdrop of continuing high energy costs and the challenge of global warming, energy-saving measures and the move away from fossil fuels are of increasing importance for laundries. Hence, all machine and equipment manufacturers are working on the development of concepts that optimise the use of resources and reduce carbon dioxide emissions.


https://texcare.messefrankfurt.com/ frankfurt/en.html#registration


There are useful links from that page with handy tips on how to make the most of your visit including ‘How to get there’ instructions and where to stay in Frankfurt and the surrounding area. There is even information on local campsites for those who want to bring their own home with them. (There is actually room for motorhomes in Messe Frankfurt’s visitor car parks, albeit without electric or water hook up). You can also find tips and helpful links for you to make your evenings in Frankfurt after the trade fair closes as varied and inspiring as possible.


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Water is key to cutting costs Recycling process water is nothing new in the laundry business. However, concepts for recycling pressing water, filtered rinsing and process water and the use of cooling water from the drycleaning machine are constantly being improved, which further reduces the amount of fresh water used.


Reducing energy consumption Manufacturers of laundry and drycleaning machines, as well as finishing appliances, focus on technology with an optimum efficiency classification: such machines ensure the best possible water extraction and low residual moisture in the laundry so it can be dried quickly and efficiently. Plant manufacturers use new materials,


e.g. ceramics and


carbon steel, to reduce ironer gas consumption. They also utilise heat-pump technology and generate hot water by means of solar energy. Modern machines are also equipped with special coatings that stop dry, energy-absorbing fluff from adhering to the various surfaces. New technologies improve evaporation performance or improve solvent distillation by preventing boil-over, measuring turbidity or filtration.


Increasingly, the energy contained in vapour is also being harnessed: technologies such as low-pressure vapour recovery systems ‘recycle’ energy from steam to generate process heat.


The system as a whole Reducing the resources consumed by a textile care business cannot be achieved by implementing isolated measures, but only as part of the overall system in which all processes are intertwined: waiting times at machines, idle times and poor occupancy rates result in unnecessary energy losses. In an energy-optimised laundry, however, every item is in the right place at the right time.


Additionally, management information systems make it possible to precisely


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