robotisation
Industrial laundries are continuously looking for ways to optimize production processes and remove bottlenecks in their dry work section. Manual feeding of towelfolder remains the main cause for the bottleneck. Because of shortages on the labour market, laundries struggle to find operators for that back-breaking and tedious feeding work. Even where operators can be found, production levels are relatively low and certainly not constant.
The development of a fully automated towel folding line is key to remove that bottleneck and help laundries to achieve the necessary and essential production - and efficiency levels.
Existing solutions to replace manual feeding do not match the laundries' needs because of their excessively large footprint, fixed setup behind the folder, relatively low production levels and lack of flexibility to process easily items of different sizes.
Texprofin took the laundries’ needs as minimum requirements right from the start and started the development of an automated towelfolding line.
Because we believe in the added value of "Made in Belgium", the development and manufacturing of our equipment are done in our factory located in Waregem, Belgium.
Movies
Prototype 2 :
This model will not be commercialised since prototype 3 is much faster.
This is a live video, not manipulated. The model can be seen and visited in our factory.
Please be welcome.
pictures
Prototype 3 :
This variant has enabled us to achieve a throughput of well above 800 pieces an hour.
We are currently fine-tuning the prototype to further optimize performance and reliability.
Timing :
- In laundry : Q4 2026
Prototype 2 :
This variant we managed to push to 550 pieces an hour.
The production will be limited to a maximum of 550 pieces an hour, and we feel that this is not enough for laundries.
A movie of this prototype can be found above.
gripper and robotic arm
Prototype 1 :
This variant brought us new ideas ; the total output was limited with too many failures.
Output 250pcs/hour.