GRAZ - International technology group Andritz will present its latest nonwovens and textile technologies at this week's Techtextil India where it will offer a special focus on the latest technologies for air-through bonding, needlepunch, textile recycling, and processes for biodegradable wipes, such as spunlace and Wetlace.
At the show, which takes place in Mumbai, India, from November 25 to 27, Andritz will be located on a booth with its Indian representative, PRN Techtex, in Hall 7, booth A02.
Andritz reports that air-through-bonding lines are the preferred choice for producing nonwovens with the best quality of softness and bulk for acquisition distribution layers, top sheets, and back-sheet products. With Andritz carding machines and the new flat belt oven, customers are said to benefit from high-performance fabrics from 16 to 80 gsm, produced with bicomponent fibres. Several Chinese customers have already invested in Andritz aXcess carding machines, which provide perfect web uniformity. In addition, the CETI (European Center for Innovative Textiles) in Lille, France, has installed an air-through-bonding oven from with customers able to compare the technical results obtained from two different options: bonding with the flat belt oven or with the drum (both supplied by Andritz).
Recycling
Andritz recetnly acquired Laroche SAS, a leading supplier of fibre processing technologies such as opening, blending, dosing, airlay web forming, textile waste recycling, and decortication of bast fibers - a product portfolio which further complements and increases the Andritz Nonwoven product range.
One focus of this product range lies on complete recycling lines for post-consumer and industrial textile waste to produce fibres for re-spinning and/or nonwoven end uses.
Customer awareness and regulations are pushing apparel brands to recycle waste from their own products and recycled fibres can be used for various applications in the nonwovens industry, such as automotive, insulation, mattresses, and furniture felts. A team of experts is available to support Andritz customers in conducting customized trials at the technical center located at the Andritz Laroche site.
Elsewhere, and based on many years of experience in all fields of needlepunch technology, Andritz says it creates cost-efficient, flexible, and reliable turnkey needlepunch lines, from opening and blending, to the winder.
Driven by the dynamic market for durable nonwovens, the company has developed a unique, elliptical pre-cylinder tacker – the PA3000. With this state-of-the-art machine, Andritz says it is responding to customer demands for higher capacities and lighter products. The PA3000 is an optimized cylinder pre-needleloom, which offers greater speeds and widths and has been specially developed for lighter webs. There is no friction between the web and the rolls, and there are no issues with the visual appearance. Trials can be conducted at the Andritz technical center in Elbeuf, France.
At the show, Andritz is also focusing on its latest needling technology for producing veloured felts, mainly for applications in the automotive industry. The long-lasting brush design, combined with a needleloom for high production capacities, ensures reduced production costs and a high return on investment for customers.
In addition, Andritz will be presenting the next generation of its batt-forming technology, the ProWin system. ProWin is a further development of ProDyn and ProWid, which have achieved a high level of acceptance on the market with around 200 systems installed. This technology improves the current weight-profiling options and increases the actual production capacity.
Bio-wipes
In Mumbai, Andritz will also demonstrate how its processes have also played a pioneering role in the production of biodegradable materials. For many years now, Andritz has offered different nonwoven processes, such as spunlace and Wetlace, with one goal in mind: reduction and elimination of plastic raw materials while maintaining the high quality of the desired product properties. The latest development in this field is the Andritz neXline wetlace CP line. This is a fully engineered production line, combining the benefits of wetlaid and drylaid technologies to produce a new generation of biodegradable wipes. This process achieves high performance entirely with plastic-free raw materials. The added benefit of using a blend of fibres, like wood pulp, short-cut cellulosic fibres, viscose, cotton, hemp, bamboo, or linen, without chemical additives, results in a 100% sustainable fabric, thereby meeting customers’ and consumers’ needs exactly as well as supporting the strong tendency to move away from plastics and synthetics.
