Streamlining for cost savings
At this week’s ITMA textile machinery show taking place in Barcelona, Trützschler Nonwovens has introduced its new Streamliner drum dryer which achieves much higher specific evaporation capacities than has previously been possible.
“The Streamliner’s optimised airflow with minimal pressure loss is combined with an optimised fresh air based on temperature-dependent density changes,” explains marketing manager Eric Schinnerling. “This and the heating system ensure an optimised flow technology, while energy efficiency can be increased by external air treatment and heat exchange.”
On today’s advanced standard-width spunlacing lines for nonwovens such as wipes, the company has calculated that as a result of the 30% less energy that this dryer makes possible, average savings of €410,000 a year can be achieved.
In drylaid nonwovens production meanwhile, the crosslapper stage of a line has turned into something of a bottleneck due to the high speeds of cards at one end and of the bonding and winding systems at the other.
Trützschler has aimed to remedy this with the development of its EKLB439 crosslapper. A number of new patents have been secured on its design, based on both new web guidance elements and the mastery of the dynamic factors influencing both process and machine.
stimated at an annual €64,200 per year are being realised via a new roofing system housing nonwoven blankets containing aerogel.
Indorama Ventures is to acquire the recycling and fibre manufacturing businesses of Wellman International in Europe. 
Sustainability, globalisation and innovation form three pillars of EDANA’s Vision 2020 report, which the organisation has developed specifically for its members, together with the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS) and a pool of industry experts.
Teijin’s eco-friendly Green Carpet made of recycled PET bottles will once again usher in guests to the Tokyo International Film Festival between October 22-30.
The green chemistry market is already worth $10 billion in 2011, but will grow to a value of at least $100 billion by 2020, according to the American Green Chemistry Institute.
Nonwovens will account for at least a quarter, and maybe as much as a third of all global textile production by 2050. This was the prediction of Friedrich Weninger, president of the Austrian Manmade Fibres Institute in his opening address at the 50th Dornbirn Man-Made Fibers Congress (Dornbirn-MFC) on Wednesday (September 14th). Speaking to assembled delegates at the annual conference, Weninger said, “The convenience of nonwovens, and their comfort and functionality will see them coming increasingly to the fore as the range of end-uses for technical textiles becomes much broader.”
In parallel with the SINCE nonwovens show, Fameccanica Data is holding an open house at its new Fameccanica Machinery (Shanghai) plant which doubles manufacturing capacity for the company in China.
Despite industry concerns over life cycle analysis (LCA) credibility in the separation of nonwovens, SAP and other raw materials, the first of a planned five Knowaste hygienic disposables recycling plants has been officially opened in the UK.
