Technical textiles refer to textile materials and products used primarily for their technical performance and functional properties. Technical textiles are predominantly man-made fibre-based owing to their inherent advantages of strength and versatility. Man-made fibres are estimated to account for around 75 per cent of the total fibre consumption in global technical textiles.
India is emerging as a significant player in technical textiles. The economical growth leading to infrastructure creation has made India a good market for technical textiles. India has developed a foothold in the production of technical textiles owing to its skilled and technical manpower as well as availability of raw material and we expect more investments in this sector. The company feels that in coming years there are chances of good growth in production of nonwoven fabric along with increase in converters.
DEECO group is working in technical textiles area since many years and has good experience through its Principals — ANDRITZ Asselin-Thibeau, Laroche, Strahm, Hip-Mitsu, SAURER-ALLMA, Benninger Zell, Texmer, SIMA SRL (Dietze Schell) and Qingdao Jinzuan Needles Co.
ANDRITZ Asselin – Thibeau, France
ANDRITZ Asselin-Thibeau is a leading nonwovens system supplier, designs, builds and supplies turnkey drylaid nonwovens lines including CARDS, CROSSLAPPERS, DRAFTERS AND NEEDLELOOMS.
Laroche, France
Pioneer in fibre processing machines. LAROCHE has been developing new solutions for almost 100 years. LAROCHE can supply lines for a wide range of industries:
Products: Spinning, Bedding, Furniture, Automotive, Acoustic, Thermal insulation, Geotextile, Filtration, Wipes.
HIP-MITSU, Italy
HIP-MITSU is one of the most qualified producers of hot melt adhesive machine calendering coating machine, systems and equipment mostly for hot melt adhesives.
"Slot Die" and "Spray Gun" System — and can process almost all the hotmelt adhesives such as EVA, Pressure Sensitive PSA , PA, PO, Reactive PUR, UV curable, acrylic based.
The key features of their application systems are:
- Coating weight application ranges from: 0.02 to 1500 gsm.
- Processing speed: 2 mts/min to 900 mts/min.
- Processable hotmelt adhesives application width ranges from 0.3 mm to 6000 mm.
- Wide range of Viscosity from 100 to 120,000 mPass.
- Possible coating: Full coating, breathable (open) coating structure, multi-line coating or intermittent coating.
The application range includes coating, laminating, self-adhesive and thermo-adhesive products.
The range of substrates in form of roll goods and in sheet, of any thickness, include textile (woven, knitted, stretch), nonwoven, foam, foil, paper, plastic film, breathable plastic film (membrane, tissue, etc.
Product range possible to produce on the system: hygiene, medical, automotive, technical membrane, roofing, technical textiles, filtration media, interlining, foam converting, sportswear, buildings (insulation), home furnishing, mattress ticking, reinforcing membrane, insulation.
The "Slot Die" System from Hip-Mitsu have added advantages such as
- Extreme flexibility in case of running small production batches.
- No pressure during application of adhesive so no penetration of adhesive in carrier substrate resulting into great softness and hand-feel of final product.
- Simple and quick change of adhesive application weight without changing any mechanical changes resulting into no downtime, reduced costs and minimum manpower requirement.
- Application weight accuracy i