Innovative young Italian textile machinery builder Prima-Tech has introduced Futura 38,
a brand new boarding machine which is said to offer a number of winning features to
manufacturers of socks.
Prima-Tech’s FUTURA 38 is a steam-boarding machine with automatic sock unloading
and pairing with 38 formers. The machine has been designed to press socks and prepare
them for packaging.
The company first introduced FUTURA 38 at the FIMAST exhibition in Brescia in September
last year where it was very well received as a new concept in sock boarding.
Prima-Tech reports that the machine is already selling well and that it is already producing
for customers after the first prototypes ran successfully with customers in the Brescia area.
According to the company, the innovative feature of this machine is the pairing system,
which makes it possible to reduce the machine¡¯s overall dimensions with consequent energy
saving, to hold the socks longer in the steam chamber for improved performance, and to
automatically unload the pair of socks ready for packaging.
Additional features include:
38 aluminium moulds (possibility of using 2 different sizes simultaneously)
Infrared mould pre-heating device
Energy saving and reduced dimensions
12+2 moulds being dried
Unloading by pair
Socks can be stacked on a right or left side-track
Ironing recipe setting panel
Stations for:
Mould preheating
Loading (4 moulds)
Levelling
Steam chamber or dry ironing with presses
Drying tunnel (electric or steam) with adjustable ventilation and temperature
Cold air stabilising station
Hot press (optional)
Automatic pair unloading
Stacker (optional)
Folding of pairs on the delivery conveyor (optional)
Connection to packaging machines (optional)
The technical know-how behind Prima-Tech comes from fifteen years of conceiving, designing and building packaging machines for
textiles industry.
According to Marketing & Export Manager Michele Castagna, Prima-Tech, which is still a relatively unknown company, has developed a highly innovative range
of machines. Castagna’s role will be to bring this to the attention of the market over the next
few years.
