Tizayuca Textil Vuva has installed a Monforts Montex 6500 stenter equipped with a heat recovery system.

Tizayuca Textil is a vertically integrated producer of textiles in Mexico. The company has been running a direct energy usage comparison with the Montex 5000 stenter installed a decade earlier, but which has no heat recovery system.

The heat recovery system is saving the company up to 20 per cent on gas consumption. Both of the machines are equipped with the Monforts Exxotherm indirect gas heating system, a heating technology that avoids any yellowing of the fabric.

The Monforts 6500 unit is also equipped with a Compactomat 6000 system for the control of over-feeding and cloth weight integrated within the machine. The Exxotherm indirect gas heating system incorporates a gas-fired heat exchanger that eliminates the negative effects of combustion gases on fabrics, and thereby, removes combustion related problems such as yellowing or color changes.

This is particularly the case in the treatment of polyamide and elastane based fabrics, which form a large part of Tizayuca Textil’s output.

The company is now giving serious consideration to the possibility of installing a heat recovery system on the first Monforts stenter.

Tizayuca Textil produces everything including knitting, nylon, cotton and poly cotton.