{"id":2311,"date":"2025-03-11T14:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T13:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2025.monforts.de\/nicht-kategorisiert\/first-division-knitters-in-europe-and-asia-choose-the-montex\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T08:30:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:30:31","slug":"first-division-knitters-in-europe-and-asia-choose-the-montex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monforts.de\/en\/news\/first-division-knitters-in-europe-and-asia-choose-the-montex\/","title":{"rendered":"First division knitters in Europe and Asia choose the MONTEX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From Portugal to Pakistan, market-leading knitted fabric manufacturers rely on Monforts MONTEX stenters for accurate and highly automated handling during essential drying after dyeing and other processes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKnitted fabrics need delicate handling as they often have a higher degree of elasticity compared to more rigid woven materials,\u201d explains Monforts Marketing Manager Nicole Croonenbroek. \u201cOur MONTEX stenters provide smooth treatment at very low and precisely controlled tension during all stages of knitted fabric handling, as well as very gentle and even thermal treatment. The MONTEX is extremely flexible in terms of the different fabric qualities it can accommodate and also provides significant benefits in terms of energy consumption.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europe\u2019s leader in dyeing and finishing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As one of the largest dyers in Europe, ATB \u2013 Acabamentos T\u00eaxteis de Barcelos \u2013 founded by M\u00e1rio Mano in 1985 in Barcelos in northern Portugal, is dyeing and finishing between 36-40 tons of fabric on a daily basis for key customers including Benetton, Inditex and Mango.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ATB installed its first Monforts MONTEX stenter frame in 1990 and has subsequently ordered four more over the years. All are 2.8 metres wide and use heat recovery units for increased energy efficiency and also the latest control equipment, to grant the highest possible process quality\/reproducibility. In addition, the ATB plant is equipped with  two Monforts Dynair relaxation dryers and one EcoApplicator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knitting is carried out at Etevimol, also in Barcelos, which during 2024 became 100% owned by the Mano family. Etevimol\u2019s 160 knitting machines are now being transferred to the ATB plant and a \u20ac5 million investment is planned in new knitting machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ATB also holds some 10,000 fabric samples in stock, and its library is constantly growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur customers will ask for initial fabric samples and then very quickly need five metres of the fabric for prototyping, so we have to be very organised in this respect,\u201d says M\u00e1rio Mano\u2019s son and company CEO Ricardo. \u201cWe also do a lot of shopping to equip our showroom, in order to investigate how our fabrics turn out in finished garments, and to let our visiting customers know that we are anticipating all of their needs \u2013 with the help, of course, of our leading technology suppliers like Monforts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interloop\u2019s ambitious expansion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Another major Monforts customer is Interloop, a company which started humbly in 1992 with just ten knitting machines for hosiery production and has grown into the one of Pakistan\u2019s largest publicly listed textile firms<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interloop is aiming to achieve $700 million in annual sales in 2026 following its latest ambitious expansion programme and key customers include Adidas, H&M, Nike and Target among many other well-known brands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company\u2019s latest fully-integrated knitwear plant in Faisalabad, Pakistan, is being equipped to produce fifty tons of knitted and dyed fabrics on a daily basis, for the production of 45 million finished garments annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 1.25 million-square-foot facility is Interloop\u2019s most technologically advanced to date and has earned the highest LEED score for a facility of its scale. It is powered extensively by renewable energy, including biomass boilers, and is supported by advanced water management and effluent treatment systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re setting new standards by harnessing innovative technologies and relentlessly pursuing process improvement,\u201d says Navid Fazil, Interloop CEO. \u201cThrough our LEED certified infrastructure, a self-reliant,green energy grid and transition to biomass fuel, we\u2019re committed to increasing Interloop\u2019s sustainability impact on an unprecedented scale.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reliability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMonforts MONTEX stenters are the industry standard for the fabric finishing industry, and offer knitwear manufacturers a number of advantages in terms of sensitive handling and precise control, production throughput and energy efficiency and savings,\u201d concludes Nicole Croonenbroek. \u201cOur machines remain unmatched in terms of their robustness and long service life and are reinforced by our commitment to customer service based on four principles \u2013 being helpful, accurate, fast and reliable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Portugal to Pakistan, market-leading knitted fabric manufacturers rely on Monforts MONTEX stenters for accurate and highly automated handling during essential drying after dyeing and other processes. \u201cKnitted fabrics need delicate handling as they often have a higher degree of elasticity compared to more rigid woven materials,\u201d explains Monforts Marketing Manager Nicole Croonenbroek. \u201cOur MONTEX […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monforts.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monforts.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monforts.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monforts.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monforts.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monforts.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2918,"href":"https:\/\/www.monforts.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions\/2918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monforts.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monforts.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monforts.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monforts.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}