Zimmer America showed products from all 5 business sections at the MegaTex 2010 Show on May 18th, 2010 to May 21st, 2010 at the Atlanta Georgia World Congress Center.

Textile:

Zimmer Austria was represented by Horst Ros, general sales manager for Zimmer Austria. Products: Zimmer rotary screen print machines and COLARIS textile digital printing system. This was the first introduction of the COLARIS to the USA. Due to space restriction the machine itself could not be displayed but will be shown at the upcoming FESPA show in Munich printing 450 meters per hour with reactive inks on cotton fabric. Other textile products are MAGNOROLL screen and screen-less coating systems and MAGNOKNIFE that were discussed with several visitors to the Zimmer America booth during the show HOTMELT coating and laminating was represented by LACOM, Germany, the leading machine supplier with more then 20 complete systems already installed in the USA.

Non Woven:

All four NW partners of Zimmer America were introduced, namely the BEMATIC Group, consisting of BEMATIC for bale opening, fiber blending, carding and the new BEMAFORM air laid systen, TEXNOLOGY cross-lapping with the revolutionary and world wide patented family of crosslappers were the belt only moves in one direction - never back (!), TEC-TEX needle looms and needle boards. Especially the new BEMAFORM technology that does not require cross-lapping caught the interest of many visitors on the Zimmer America booth BOMBI, the fourth NW partner introduced thermo-bonding ovens, calanders and terminal equipment for non woven production lines and the new CONTINUE PRESS that transforms felts or loose fibers with melting components inside into rigid boards for various applications (office partitions)

XETMA is a new Zimmer America partner for dry surface finishing of textiles. Sueding, Brushing, Napping technology at the latest technical level from the oldest manufacturer worldwide (formerly known as Vollenweider). Also Shearing machines for textile and carpet. Mr. Karsten Heinz, general sales manager of XETMA was present during the whole show to advise visitors and customers.

Carpet:

The new CHROMOJET digital carpet system was introduced with a resolution of 76 DPI and 4 process colors, opening a new dimension for patterned carpet.

Recycling:

Is a new area for Zimmer America and was well received especially by the textile and carpet industry and artificial turf producers. Here is were carpet meets recycling, using HOTMELT as the back coating rendering a after consumer carpet or turf product into a 100% recyclable unit. This is especially interesting for consumers that are located in states where one used artificial turf football field cost US$ 100,000 to dump in a landfill!

SOLAR POWER:

Newest addition in the Zimmer America portfolio, offering solar thermal solutions for pre-heating of textile process water and Photovoltaic PV solar panels to reduce grid load and utility power consumptions in mills in all areas of production

Traffic: was great and only tapered off on the last day. That is somewhat expected as people started making plans for the weekend. The quality of people and the number of decision makers were remarkably high and serious discussion for new investment projects took place during the show on the Zimmer booth