U.S.A.
Americhem Inc, Dalton, GA
Spunbond – 1 to 3 denier per filament, PP, PET, PLA, Nylon 6, TPU
Carver Non-Woven, Fremont, NJ, USA
Tandem Card, Hyper Punch
Needle Line - width 3.5 meters, gsm 300-2400
Clemson University School of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson, SC
Carded and Airformed Needlepunch – 12 inch Rando, 24 inch Garnet Card, 12 inch Needlepunch line
Groz-Beckert, Fort Mill, SC, USA
Needle Loom – width 24 inches
Hills Inc., West Melbourne, FL, USA
Spunbond/Meltblown Line – width 500 mm, Bicomponent, up to 450° C and 500 gsm
Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University), Philadelphia, PA, USA
Needlepunch – width 12 inch – multiple fiber types
Wetlaid sheet former – width 22 inch
Monadnock Non-Wovens LLC, Mt. Pocono, PA, USA
Meltblown – up to 800 gsm
Nonwovens Institute at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Trützschler Nonwovens High-Speed Card EWK 413 and Needle Loom + crosslapper and oven,
width 1 meter
REICOFIL Meltblown Line - Single beam, 1-meter-wide, Line speed 10-100 meters per minute.
REICOFIL R4s Spunbond line, Bicomponent, width 1 meter, 10-100 gsm
Hydroentangling – width 1 meter, 50-200 gsm
Rando, Macedon, NY, USA
Airform – width 40 inches, 10-3000 gsm
Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, LA, USA
Needlepunch – width 1 meter – cotton fibers must be included
Hydroentangling – width 1 meter – cotton fibers must be included
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
Needlepunch – width 1.1 meter and Through-Air Thermal Oven – width 1.0 Meter
University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
Meltblown – width 6 inches – multiple dies – high temperature capability – coating options
Southeast Nonwovens, Inc., Clover, SC, USA
Wetlaid – widths 12, 32 and 63 inches; inclined wire; thru-air drying
Needlepunch – width 24 inches
Airform – width 1 meter (Rando)
Hydroentangling – widths 12 inch and 32 inch (on wetlaid line)
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Wetlaid - 610 mm, 26-750 gsm
EUROPE
ANDRITZ Küsters, Krefeld, Germany
Wetlaid – with Hydroentanglement;
3 pilot calenders; selection of engraved, smooth and elastic rolls
ANDRITZ Asselin-Thibeau, Elbeuf, France
Crosslaid/Needlepunch; opening and blending; off-line velour structuring
ANDRITZ Perfojet, Montbonnot, France
Hydroentangling – multiple options, plus Patterning
Anpap Oy, Valkeakoski, Finland
Airlaid – width 400mm
Autefa Solutions, Linz, Austria
Crosslapped nonwovens; width 3.5 mm;
Card – Crosslapper – Webdrafter – Needleloom Aerodynamic Web Forming; width 2.4 mm; Airlay – Needling – Thermobonding
High speed carding; width 500 mm; Injection Card for Hydroentangling
Campen Machinery A/S, Hornslet, Denmark
Airlaid – width 600 mm – Hydroentanglement – Tissue unwinder
CETI (European Centre for Innovation Textiles), Tourcoing Cedex, France
Hydroentanglement – width 550 mm – Bi/Tri-component fibers
Needlepunch – width 1.3 meters,
up to 1200 strokes/min
Airlaid – width 1.1 meters, thickness up to 300 mm Meltblown – width 550 mm, throughput
up to 50 kg/h
Spunbond Line – width 550 mm, throughput 10 to 150 kg/h
Groz-Beckert, Albstadt, Germany
Needlepunch – width 2 meter and 1.5 meter
Institut Francais du Textile et de I’Habillement (IFTH), Paris, France
7 sites located in the major French Textile areas
Nonwovens Innovation & Research Institute, Leeds, United Kingdom
Airlaid – width 300 mm – 500 mm
Wetlaid – 6” circular hand sheets using TAPPI T-205 Needlepunch – width 300 mm and 800 mm Hydroentanglement – width 500 mm
Carded Thermal Bond – width 500 mm Chemical Bonding/Finishing/Treatment – width 500 mm
Needlepunch – widths 500 mm and 1 meter
Oerlikon Neumag, Neumünster , Germany
Spunbond Line - 1200 mm, SMS as bico or mono Meltblown-500 , spinning beam 1 Mono
Reifenhäuser Reicofil GmbH & Co. KG, Troisdorf, Germany
Spunbond – SSS mono and bico fabric weight line, max throughput 150-270 kg/h/m, fabrics 8-70 gsm Spunbond/Meltblown – SMMS mono and bico line – S throughput 150 – 270 kg/h/m; MB throughput 10-70 kg/h/m, fabric weight 8-70 gsm
Meltblown Line – throughput 10-160 kg/h/m, fabric weight 5-400 gsm
Spunbond XSXSX Line – Bicomponent, wide range
STFI, Sächsisches Textil Forschungs Institut e. V., Germany
Spunbond – width 1 meter; throughputs 150-500 kg/h
Hydroentangling – width 1 meter;
max speed 80 m/min
Needlepunch- widths 600 mm and 2400 mm; 50- 800 gsm
Meltblown – width 600 mm
Airlaid – width 1.1 meter
Airform – width 1.1 meter
Stitchbond – widths 2.5 m and 1.6 m
TECHNOplants s.r.l, Pistoia, Italy
Drylaid and Airlaid Thermal Bonded Airform – width 2.8 meters; Carded Thermal Bond – width 2.5 meters
Voith, Dueren, Germany
Wetlaid – width 500 mm; inclined wire and Hy- droentanglement options
ASIA
ANDRITZ (China) Ltd., Wuxi, China
Needlepunch – width 2.5 m with Crosslapper
Birla Cellulose, Nagda, India
Hydroentanglement – width 1 m
Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, Korea
Airlaid Line – width 1 meter Hydroentanglement – width 1 meter Needlepunch – width 2 meter
Meltblown Line – width 1.2 meter, Bicomponent Wetlaid Line – width 300 mm
Line Speed: 1~10m/min