Techtex, one of the UK’s largest suppliers of healthcare and industrial nonwovens, has recently taken delivery of a new high speed converting line for folded wipes.

The equipment is part of an ongoing capital investment programme which will increase capacity and efficiency.

“This machine is just one of a number of improvements we’ve been planning for 2013,” said operations director Brian Whitney (pictured). “Our production area layout was redesigned in 2012 to accommodate this and various other changes over a two year period to improve output and efficiency. We were particularly keen to specify a machine which is both fast and flexible in the product which it makes. With ever-increasing pressure on raw material prices we see investment in new production technology as a key part of our efforts to remain competitive.”

The two trading divisions of Techtex manufacture a variety of branded, private label and generic products ranging from high quality wet wipes to nonwoven geotextiles, with each division supplying many different industries.

Based in Manchester, the company operates from a modern, 60,000 sq ft manufacturing/warehouse facility and employs over 60 staff in its two divisions and over 3,000 tonnes of fabric pass through its warehouse every year. No other UK-based nonwoven conversion and supply company has the same diversity of products for such a wide cross-section of markets.

Techtex was the first independent UK nonwovens convertor to gain accreditation under BS EN ISO 9001:2008 and was also recently ranked in the top 100 best performing North West SME Businesses in 2012, in a survey carried out jointly by North West Insider Magazine and CLB Coopers accountancy firm.