Fadis: Evolution and Revolution in Elastic Yarns

Fadis is one of the leading company in the production of precision winding machines, owned by the same family since its establishment in 1960. Fadis will also be one of the key participants of ITMA ASIA + CITME 2018.

March 05, 2020

The company specializes in the production of soft winders, rewinders, assembly winders, hank to cone winders, reeling machines, spooling machines and elastic yarn intermingling machines for the processing of any kind of yarn, from cotton, wool and silk to artificial and synthetic fibres, mixed fibres, intermingled yarns and fancy yarns. Fadis celebrates its 58th birthday in 2018.

Focus on R&D

In the past five-year period, sales have increased to staggering numbers:

+100% with over 30 million turnovers in 2017 and 2018 shows a steadily growing sales. This can be attributed to the choices made by Fadis in the past. First of all, investments in product research and development. The company currently invests 6% of annual revenues to upgrade its machinery for higher quality and more efficient production, and also creating new machines by anticipating in advance the needs of its domestic and international clientele. According to Fadis, planning for future, in fact, is based on an open platform system. All machinery models have been optimized to make them adaptable to the individual textile sectors, from upholstery to hosiery, from shirting to knitwear, from carpets to denim.

Flexibility and internationalization

Flexibility and internationalization are two of Fadis’ strategic pillars. The company exports, on an average, 93% of its production to 70 countries, offering also after-sales assistance. It has representative offices and several after- sales assistance offices in many countries, including the possibility of activating a remote emergency assistance system directly from the company’s headquarters.

The company made the right choice by keeping the whole production based in Italy and working with 95% Italian suppliers: Flexibility in swiftly meeting the customers’ needs, a guarantee of total quality (checks, tests) and the most prestigious certifications are the company’s strengths. This is being enhanced further by automatizing the warehouses.

Sustainable Technologies

Fadis has also greatly invested in sustainability, through the “Sustainable Technologies Project ” promoted by Acimit to make textile machinery increasingly eco-sustainable, and by installing a photovoltaic system giving an annual energy production of 650 thousand kilowatts.

Industry 4.0

According to Fadis, still, there are challenges ahead of us. The company is now working on new forms of internal organization integrated with increased digitalization to reap the opportunities and benefits given by INDUSTRY 4.0.

Evolution and revolution in elastic yarns: All in one

Fadis was the first company in the world to introduce the air covering technology in 1987. Today, 30 years later, its SincroMultipla Airjet model is considered as the benchmark on the market.

The “ Queen ” version has been completely renovated. This SincroMultiplaAirjet model foresees the application of an electronic motorised unwinding device necessary to unwind an elastomeric yarn with a perfect and regular draw ratio and to intermingle it through the air with a textured yarn.

The air covering process consists of covering an elastomeric yarn with other continuous textured yarns. This process takes place through an air flow controlled by a special jet which opens the fibre of the covering yarn and closes it around the core (elastane). As one can well imagine, this is a very delicate process, where both the feed tension and the quantity of yarn entering the jet must be perfectly controlled, so as to guarantee a homogeneous result of the intermingling points numbers and of their strength.

To solve this problem, Fadis, once again, being the first, has developed a technology that allows to install and integrate up to 4 electronic “Tens Control™ ” on-line tension devices on each spindle. Thanks to this innovative and unique technology it is now possible to install, on request, one electronic “Tens Control™ ” on-line tension device for each feed ply coming from the upper creel (up to 3 Tens Control™ devices per spindle) in order to set and constantly adjust on-line the tension of each ply entering the intermingling process, thus avoiding the continual interventions of the operator to manually adjust the tension of each feed ply.

This version with its high level of technology will satisfy the most sophisticated production requirements and guarantee the formation of packages with perfectly stabilised yarn. The new demands for new yarns types with elastic contents are on the continuous rise. Fadis met these new trends with the introduction of the revolutionary SincroMultiplaAirjet Dual Core. A unique machine that allows producing yarns both for direct weft end use on weaving machines or for ring spinning end use for core spun or dual-core or triDCore yarns combinations. Thanks to its compact configuration and to the very efficient use of the space, it is now possible to double the output when using the machine with take up, up to 115 mm.

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