Enhancing Bematic’s airlay process

PRATO – The latest AioLos airlaying machine being developed by Italy’s Bematic will benefit from feasibility investigations carried out by the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM in Germany and Swiss engineering firm Siriotek.

With airlaying technology, the raw fibres are opened and fed into an air stream using a roller and the air-fibre mixture is deposited on a belt using suction and then compacted before being bonded.