El último desarrollo de Unitech/Comet presentado en ITMA 2003 en Birmingham es la perchadora "F1 Combisand"Comet. La superficie activa utiliza cuatro cepillos de carburo de silicona y cuatro rodillos de lija para producir efecto de napa, para suavizar o lijar sin levantar pelusa visible.

LA Compactes CIBI, una nueva máquina compactadora presentada por Cibitex srl, es capaz de manejar anchos de hasta 3.4 metros. La línea fue desarrollada para suavizar y estabilizar sábanas para cama y telas para mobiliario de casa.

Santex ha desarrollado una nueva máquina cepilladora Santa que utiliza cepillos abrasivos.

Dry Finishing
Softening denim by surface abrasion during garment finishing is time consuming and can destroy the garment finishing machines. The Petra machine developed by Biancalani and first shown at ITMA Paris in 1999 has been made more reliable and delivers higher productivity. Operating at 10 meters/minute, the Petra uses abrasive cylinders combined with water. The moistened fabric is fed directly into a compressive shrinkage machine for final finishing. Garments made from Petra-finished denim require 1/3 the finishing time required when finishing normal denim. At ITMA 2003, the Spyra Compact was introduced as a discontinuous tumbler. Up to 250 m of fabric in rope form is treated.

The latest development from Comet S.p.A. is the Pegaso-XII napper. The active surface uses four silicone carbide brushes and four sandpaper suedeing rolls to soften or sand without raising a noticeable pile.

The CIBI Compactex, a new compacting machine shown by Cibitex srl, is capable of handling widths up to 3.4 meters. The line was developed to soften and stabilize bed sheeting and home furnishing fabrics.

Santex has developed a new Santa brush machine that uses abrasive brushes.