Mr. Kunihiro Morimoto giving lecture at the Nihon Senshoku Kako Dogyo-kai

Textile consultant, Mr. Kunihiro Morimoto who covered ITMA 2007 (Munich), said at the ITMA 2007 debriefing session of the Nihon Senshoku Kako Dogyo-kai (the Japanese Dyeing & Finishing Industry Association) held in Osaka on October 25 that jet dyeing machines exhibited in response to water shortages were conspicuous because of the increasing number of water-starved areas around the world.

Mr. Morimoto gave explanations on the characteristics of those machines, saying, "The structures of those jet dyeing machines for water-starved areas were boldly designed. For one such example, Laip from Italy altered the inside of a conventional injection pipe as shown in image-1 to make it a fabric conveying type by setting up a conveyer belt between fabrics which helps the movement of fabrics, going up against the best-selling, water-saving jet dyeing machine, SCLAVOS put out jointly by Greece and the UK. Many questions could be asked about the Italian mechanical structure regarding whether dyeing with disperse dyes could work well or not.

Image-1 Jet dyeing machine of Laip of Italy

FONG'S of Hong Kong exhibited ECO-88D (image-2) with no cloth guide tube, as a high-temperature and pressure type water-saving jet dyeing machine. The structure of the inside could not be grasped, but I felt a full-fledged renovation of jet-dyeing-machine structures would be carried out, with the premise that water shortage would progress from China to the Middle East."

Image-2 ECO-88D of FONG'