ANDRITZ Nonwoven to present its latest innovation

International technology Group ANDRITZ will present its wide range of products and services in delivery of complete turnkey and individual solutions for wetlaid, spunlace, and needlepunch production as well as its newest technologies for the textile industry.

Expanded production capabilities and a new customer pilot line in China

With the new site in Wuxi, China, ANDRITZ Nonwoven has strengthened its nonwovens manufacturing capabilities and service range throughout Asia. The location has a technical centre and hosts both an industrial scale needlepunch pilot line and a roll service centre. The needlepunch pilot line includes a card, a crosslapper, a pre-needler, and the new A30 needleloom, and demonstrates full speed production capacities.

The A30 needleloom completes the ANDRITZ aXcess range, which has been developed specially for medium-capacity production level at low operating costs, delivering reliable and competitive performance at a punching speed of up to 1,200 rpm. The pilot line offers nonwovens producers the opportunity to conduct trials with newly developed or modified products under production conditions before market launch.

Cost-efficient, flexible, and reliable turnkey needlepunch lines

Fibres are the major cost factor in nonwovens production, and all market applications require a low average fabric weight combined with consistent mechanical performance and weight uniformity. This is why ANDRITZ has integrated the ProDyn system into needlepunch lines to achieve a significant reduction in fibre consumption and thus enabling a better ROI.

High flexibility and innovative concepts for technical textiles

The ANDRITZ calender concept for technical textiles ensures highest product quality and performance and meets international environmental protection requirements. The patented teXcal trike, a 3-roll calender with two separately controlled system rolls, provides outstanding productivity and flexibility. Finishing technologies for spunbond nonwovens with high quality standards ANDRITZ also provides complete offline finishing solutions for medical applications. Spunbond nonwovens have to meet high quality criteria, with hydrophobic, alcohol-repellent, air-permeable, anti-static, and breathable properties.

The ANDRITZ offline finishing technology includes unwinding, impregnating, dosing, drying, curing, and winding/slitting. In addition, the ANDRITZ SpunjetSoft technology creates a new generation of spunlaid nonwovens with superior fabric properties with regard to bulk, drape, tensile strength, and especially softness, as required in the hygiene sector. To learn more about the technologies and customised process solutions provided by ANDRITZ Nonwovens, meet the ANDRITZ experts at booth A07, hall W3.

For further information:

Oliver Pokorny Email: oliver.pokorny@andritz.com, Web: www.andritz.com