Camouflage fabric producer banks on Monfort sanforizer

In addition, Pincroft has installed an advanced automatic vision system on the sanforizer for detecting fabric faults, which not only calculates and optimises the necessary cuts required to minimise waste, but also flags up minor faults that would otherwise go undetected and could potentially indicated latent production problems building up.

“For a Grade 1 fabric, it’s still permissible to have up to ten faults per one hundred metres of fabric, so often if there are just three of four, nobody looks at them,” Mr Dowds said, “Our optimised process allows us to analyse and prevent any such faults which may lead to problems in the future.”

Enviromental standards

For over 115 years, the water feeding down from the West Pennine Moors to the River Douglas has supplied the means for a mill to operate at the Pincroft site in Adlington, but the days of such plants operating in the UK without strict control and guidelines are long past.

Today, high environmental standards are also critical to Pincroft.

“Our commitment to reducing the impact on the environment plays a major part in the way we develop and operate our business,” says Mr Dowds. “We firmly believe that good environmental performance and the efficient use of resources makes for a better business.

“We are committed to measuring, reviewing and continuously improving the environmental impacts of our operations, using resources such as water and energy efficiently and minimising waste wherever possible. As a consequence, we will continue to invest in the ground-breaking technologies required to stay out in front, developed by reliable partners like Monforts.”

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