Cutting energy by 94%

The Turbotex system, developed by Ontec Automation, based in Naila, Germany, makes scrims direct from either creels or beams and in a single pass can laminate them to either nonwovens or films. 

As such, the resulting materials are ideally suited for technical applications in construction, packaging, geotextiles, insulation and floorcoverings and the advantages of the process are considerable, explains Managing Director Volker Rossner. 

“Our system uses just six per cent of the energy required to make such scrims by weaving, and additional finishing of these products is eliminated,” he said at ITMA 2015 in Milan, where the company exhibited its system. “The personnel requirement is reduced and a thirty per cent thinner end product also saves material.”