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ABOUT THE PICANOL GROUP TRAINING TAKES YOUR TALENT FURTHER SPARE PARTS The Picanol Group is an international, customer-focused group specialized in the development, production and sale of weaving machines, engineered casting solutions and custom-made controllers. Well-trained employees are a real asset to your company. Skilled staff make your machines run at optimum performance, producing excellent fabric quality and resulting in superb plant efficiency. Weaving machines are one of your most important investments. Keeping them in optimal condition is essential to safeguard the high value of...

If versatile and productive weaving is your objective, now you can be sure of real added value with the unique, futureoriented OptiMax-i. The OptiMax-i offers all the possibilities for growing to the top in your market. Ready for every new opportunity. Guaranteeing optimum fabric quality. Best in class for minimum energy consumption. Optimizing your precious time. And creating space to unleash your utmost creativity. Together with our customers we constantly strive to improve our machines and services, in order to stay ahead of the competition. So if you really want to get the most out of...

GUIDED GRIPPER SYSTEM (GC) OPTIMIZED SHED GEOMETRY Standard solution for spun yarns. The rapier The short stroke of the sley and the frames and the redesigned tape on the light-weight Guided Gripper rapier heads allow the OptiMax-i to weave with a small shed system is perfectly guided by one-piece opening. The optimized shed geometry leads to uniform fabric hooks (patented). Together with a small shed characteristics over the whole width. The location of the sley and a small rapier head, industrial speeds are cams below the fabric allows heavier beat-up forces, so fabrics reached that were...

EXCHANGEABLE SHED FORMATION ELECTRONIC RIGHT-HAND GRIPPER OPENER (ERGO) The OptiMax-i can be fitted with positive cam motion, electronic Improved control of weft insertion is assured by positive positive dobby or electronically driven jacquard. The basic machine opening of the right-hand side gripper with the Electronic structure for cam, dobby and jacquard versions is identical, making it Gripper Opener system. This allows individual setting of possible to change the shed formation system at any time in the future. the moment of opening according to each type of weft inserted, to manage...

ELECTRONIC SELVEDGE SYSTEM (ELSY) FILLING CUTTER The Electronic Disc Cutter (EDC) cuts every filling yarn always at the The unique full leno selvedge motions are electronically right moment, while clamping the driven by individual stepper motors. They are mounted in filling. A mechanical filling cutter is front of the harnesses, so that all harnesses remain available also available for more demanding for fabric pattern formation. filling yarns. The SmartCut allows The selvedge crossing and pattern are programmed on the programming of the cutting moment microprocessor independently of the...

SUMO MAIN MOTOR The oil-cooled Sumo main motor drives the weaving machine directly, without belt or clutch and brake. The combination of the highly energy-efficient Sumo motor with the direct drive (patented) of main shaft and shedding motion results in power savings of more than REMOVING HEAT WITH WATER COOLING SYSTEM With the water cooling, half the thermal load produced by the weaving machine is extracted from inside the machine. In this way, a new air-conditioning installation can be kept small and energy efficient, or an existing installation could still be compatible with high-speed...

QUICK STYLE CHANGE (QSC) WIDTH ADJUSTMENTS IN A MINIMUM OF TIME QSC enables a style change to be carried out by The OptiMax-i has many unique features to keep machine a single person in less than 30 minutes. The style downtimes ultra-short: all components to be moved on the change is done by replacing the entire rear part of the left and on the right are mounted on a single support whose split frame, with warp beam, backrest and support, position can be easily varied. Software-assisted procedures are warp stop motion, harnesses and reed. Quick and available in case transfer position of...

SUMO MAIN MOTOR PERFECT LUBRICATION The Sumo motor makes it possible to continuously adapt the machine speed pick by pick to match the strength of the filling yarn (OptiSpeed). This combination of Sumo motor with electronic settings makes it easy to obtain the highest possible industrial speeds, taking into account the yarn quality, the number of harnesses and the weaving pattern, and considerably reduces set-up times. AUTOMATIC FULL PICKFINDING Driven by the Sumo main motor. In case of a broken pick, the machine stops and only harness frames are brought in motion – automatically – so as to...

MAXIMUM CONTROL ERGONOMIC MACHINE All machine functions are controlled by the The OptiMax-i machine is unusually low at the front. The microprocessor. Mechanical settings have pushbuttons with metal dome technology are conveniently wherever possible been replaced with digital located and have optical command confirmation. All main ones. The microprocessor records, analyses settings are carried out above fabric line, providing perfect and stores all production data. The weaving accessibility for weavers and operators. machine itself can be linked to a central monitoring system (as integrated...

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Filling insertion rates up to 1700 m/min depending on style and machine width Yarn range Spun yarns Free Flight Filament yarns 20 den - 3,000 den (22 dtex - 3,300 dtex) as fine as 10 den (11 dtex) FILLING INSERTION Filling selection 1 - 12 colors or yarn types (filling presenter with insertion position) Weaving 2 weft yarns simultaneously (patented) Pneumatic feeder threading up Active filling brakes Programmable Filling Tensioner (TEC) (patented) and Electronic Filling Tensioner (EFT) (patented) Filling monitor Piezo-electric filling detector Double pick prevention...

Growing is the essence of weaving. Thread by thread, line by line, from the most basic to the most exquisite, a wide range of fabrics emerge from our weaving machines. That’s why Picanol offers a wide variety of machines and services that enable weavers to create every fabric imaginable. Growing is the essence of doing business. The relentless pursuit to weave faster, better and more cost-efficiently is what drives you, and motivates us. That’s why we make our machines ever more energy-efficient, userfriendly and easy to set. Growing is the essence of the future. The world changes quickly,...