Major suppliers of nonwovens and related machinery offer new technological developments

Nanofibers under 500nm are easily produced at rates far greater than that of any other method. Polymer choice, cross-section, and process flexibility permit many different products to be made on the same machine. Some high-value markets being served are artificial leather, industrial fabrics and filtration media. In addition to meltblown and spunbond, Hills offers high-capacity mono- and bicomponent staple fiber machinery, and also affordable conversions of existing “blended polymer” staple machines to true bicomponent production of dividable and islands-in-the-sea fibers, for such uses as artificial leather and microfiber wipes manufacture. Hills equipment is in operation throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Customers may work in Hills’ in house laboratory to develop multicomponent and nanofiber meltspun products. In addition to supplying extrusion equipment and R&D support, Hills upgrades existing extrusion machines as well as offers contract manufacturing for small-scale/high-value fibers and fabrics. www.hillsinc.net Hyperion Materials & Technologies Hyperion Materials & Technologies is a global materials science leader that engineers and manufactures an extensive product portfolio for a wide range of industries, including tungsten carbide rotary cutters for hygiene, personal care, medical and other applications. Hyperion’s latest product advancements include further implementation of IQUT, which is a high-tech solution that consists of hardware and software that allows manufacturers to constantly monitor the critical cutting parameters that impact performance and maintenance, and the development of Sleeve, which is a quick-change cutting module that drastically reduces downtime for cutter or anvil changes. Other technological advancements include a major sustainability milestone and additional expansion into manufacturing cutting solutions for medical applications involving a rotary cutting function, much of which was in support of increased demand created by the Covid-19 pandemic. In the area of sustainability, Hyperion achieved a capability goal this year of being able to manufacture rotary cutters using 100% recycled tungsten and cobalt, which eliminates dependence on mining for raw materials and the environmental impacts mining causes. www.hyperionmt.com Infinity Machine & Engineering Corp. Infinity Machine & Engineering Corp. is a tissue industry specialist and premier supplier of packaging equipment. With offices in Italy and Green Bay, USA, it employs some of the best packaging engineers on the planet, which reflects in its quality of machinery, service, and system design. Infinity’s product line for nonwoven products consists of bundlers, baggers, casepackers, conveying systems, custom built equipment and diverters. For as long as its value proposition satisfies its markets and its customers, its intention is to grow without limits and to do its best to realize its maximum potential. In virtually every facet of the Infinity organization, Infinity strives to reach perfection and provide longevity and continuity for its customers, employees and community. www.infinitymec.com Maxcess Maxcess helps its customers maximize productivity through innovative products and services worldwide. By leveraging its global service and support across its storied product brand portfolio including; Fife (web guiding solutions), Tidland (expanding shafts and slitting system solutions), Magpowr (load cells and tension control solutions), RotoMetrics (die cutting and tooling solutions), Webex / Componex (customized high performance roll solutions, including performance vacuum rolls), Maxcess offers the leading network of experts who can quickly solve a customer’s most difficult application challenges. All products are designed and built to work better together to deliver the performance required. www.maxcessintl.com Microline Microline is a company based in Bologna, Italy, with more than 20 years experience in designing and marketing packaging systems (bundlers, shrink wrappers, flow wrappers, case packers, conveyors and palletizers) for the tissue and nonwovens sectors as well as secondary packaging for the consumer goods industry used, for example, in the food and beverage sector. The solutions that the Italian company has developed are marked by a high level of automation, flexibility, efficiency, strength and solidity. Microline’s strategy has always been focused on the customer, nurturing its relationship with him until a veritable partnership is established. Assistance begins with drafting of the line layout, for which Microline can offer its cutting-edge design skills, continuing through to after sales when state-of-the-art tools are employed. Indeed, the company was one of the first to adopt Industry 4.0 principles and now offers a range of hi-tech solutions, including systems for interfacing with the customer corporate network, as well as remote assistance and parameter monitoring. Everything that concerns machine operations, from day-to-day running to the method of ordering spares, is designed to be performed in as simple a manner as possible. Microline’s goal is to ensure that the customer can make the most of its inherently complex, state-of-the-art technology. The company boasts in-depth design and safety know-how, selecting high-quality components and materials that are easy to source and built to last; such skills are invaluable both when designing a brand new packaging line and replacing or adding machinery to an existing installation. www.microlinesrl.it Mobi-Air Scaling up production, Mobi-Air will be shipping in 2020 its new air filtration technology, the zero M&R tornado system which eliminates the need to operate conventional passive and active air-filtration technologies typically enclosed within drum-filters and bag-houses. The newly developed multi-vortex technology, which was displayed at last year’s ANEX Tokyo exhibition, operates at only one third of the energy of a conventional cyclone. The 244 independent tornados operate at over 1000G ensuring air contaminates are fully removed from the incoming air-stream. Capable of supporting any hygiene production machine of 0-75 KCMH per Mobi-Air Module, the process has been described by leading air experts as the most significant technological breakthrough since air filtration began. Mobi-Air engineering and R&D teams took inspiration from naturally forming multi-vortex tornados which operate at over 10 times the G-Force of cyclones while requiring only one third of the energy to operate. The engineering and R&D teams have been able to reduce the energy consumption by over 70% while also significantly increasing air quality. “Our teams are very proud of their breakthrough achievements which will benefit many industries and perhaps more importantly planet earth,” says Martin Scaife, CTO. The breakthrough patented technology not only significantly reduces running costs through reduced energy requirements and reduced spare parts, the technology fully eliminates dust explosion risks thereby negating the need for explosion venting. Further enhancements to the Zero Energy HVAC have also taken place. This new patented plug-in zero energy HVAC technology, when operating in closed-loop configuration, can reduce customer HVAC costs between 45-85% depending on factory location. www.mobiair.technology Mondon French company Mondon has designed and manufactured converting machines for four decades. Thanks to its large experience in winding and unwinding machinery, Mondon offers equipment for hygiene, healthcare, automotive and construction sectors. From standard to tailor made machines, Mondon offers a full range of solutions suitable for existing or new processing lines. Thanks to its flexibility, Mondon has recently supplied its automatic unwinders to meltblown producers in short time, helping to fight against Covid-19. Portfolio includes unwinders, slitter rewinders, turret winders and spooling lines in several formats. Great attention has been paid in the capacity to manage very accurate tension control to low grammage product at very high speed. A performance obtained thanks to its background engineering expertise developed on large scale product machines and tests. Mondon machines meet quality, efficiency and reliability. They can be applied on existing lines by adapting the design to the product. They are available in different width from 1600 mm to 4000 mm, with optional devices such as a lifting table to load or unload the rolls. Interface parameter adjustment and mechanical design offer to the end user reliable equipment easy to use and easy to maintain. Training is optimum thanks to a pleasant interface. Besides, Mondon offers its SH Series machines, specifically designed and engineered for web sheeting, which combines high speed, high efficiency and intelligence. www.mondon.com Nomaco Components Nomaco Components’ Needle Board Handle is an essential tool for easy and hazard free handling of needle boards. It prevents equipment damage and hazardous accidents in the workplace; facilitates rotation, transportation, removal and loading of needle boards to and from needle loom; and a complementary needle removal tool and insert “S” type (34-43 gg felting needles) will be included with the purchase of a pair of Needle Board Handles. Nomaco’s Needle Board Maintenance Table is an easy to operate device for insertion and/or removal of felting needles.

Nordson Nordson hotmelt adhesive dispensing systems and parts—the global standard for adhesive dispensing in disposable hygiene production—help improve manufacturing efficiency and product quality around the world. Nordson’s recently launched PureFlow Hoses are engineered to significantly reduce the effects of degradation and extend the product life of hoses in high-performance environments, such as disposable hygiene production lines. When adhesive sits idle inside a standard heated hose, the adhesive begins to degrade, resulting in charring, discoloration, curing or increased odor. Char can lead to nozzle-clogging, therefore causing manufacturers a costly downtime, yield poor adhesive processing, and machine contamination. Using degraded adhesive in disposable hygiene production can impact the final product quality, which PureFlow Hoses are designed to protect against. PureFlow Hoses help increase the longevity of the adhesive dispensing system and increase product quality and efficiencies. With PureFlow Hose technology, material degradation is avoided during delivery to the point of application, thus, ensuring no downtime in production for manufacturers, consistent application on the end-product, and longer product life for the entire system. www.nordsonadhesive.com Oerlikon Nonwoven Oerlikon Nonwoven has a very broad range of spunbond technology products and services. The process for manufacturing geotextiles from polyester or polypropylene is characterized by high production capacities and yields, with simultaneously low energy consumption for producing benchmark nonwoven products. For the manufacture of hygiene nonwovens, Oerlikon Nonwoven offers its QSR (Quality Sized Right) systems. The advantage for nonwovens producers: highly competitive solutions at attractive prices with comparably low investment. Meanwhile, new, unique and highly sophisticated filter media can be easily and efficiently manufactured thanks to Oerlikon Nonwoven’s meltblown technology. Whether as a stand-alone system with one or several positions, as ‘plug & produce’ installations for already existing systems or in conjunction with other technologies: the Oerlikon Nonwoven meltblown process already enables the cost-efficient manufacture of meltblown nonwovens with the quality requirements of tomorrow. Pulp or cellulose fibers as raw material for manufacturing nonwovens are currently virtually unrivaled with regards to sustainability and environmental compatibility. The Oerlikon Nonwoven airlaid process is the ideal solution for processing this raw material into high-end products for a wide range of applications. Today, there is huge demand for manufacturing solutions for high-quality, lightweight airlaid nonwovens with economically attractive production speeds and system throughputs. And the benefits of this technology are also increasingly gaining significance in sustainable recycling applications. www.oerlikontextile.com Optima The Asian market for paper hygiene products is on the rise. While the market leaders continue to be the big corporations from the U.S., Japan and Europe, smaller and even some big manufacturers from China and other parts of Asia are now not only firmly established but even gaining market share. Another characteristic of the market is that the quality specifications for the packaging are very high—and nowadays this no longer only applies to Japan. This quality awareness is becoming increasingly widespread everywhere in Asia and indeed in the western world, says managing director of Optima Nonwovens, Oliver Rebstock. Making high-quality packaging for geometrically very irregularly shaped nonwoven products such as diapers or sanitary pads is a challenge, especially where very rapid processing is required, explains Rebstock. Each welded seam on a package must be in exactly the right place. Optima machines were already able to produce visually high-quality products, but they were difficult to adjust. This was a technical challenge that the company was happy to take on. New machine models were developed especially for Asia. The vital thing was for it to be easy to produce high-quality packaging – and not only if the operators were entirely familiar with all the equipment’s parameters. The performance and process stability of Optima machines are still regarded as the benchmark for the sector. The new models that Optima Nonwovens has developed for the Asian market have been adapted in their output rate. So the company continues to offer market-leading technology for fully-automated high-performance solutions, as specifically required by global players, including in Asia. However, Optima Nonwovens has also expanded its portfolio to include, for example, semi- or fully-automated packaging machines for diaper and femcare products. The packaging quality that can be achieved remains extremely high. Five models of this kind of machine are already available for the Asian market. They are intended for all kinds of diaper and femcare products. www.optima-packaging.com Polymag Tek Based in Rochester, NY, Polymag Tek manufactures innovative web cleaners, sheet cleaners, and process roll cleaners for the coating, laminating, nonwoven, printing and converting industries - custom designed to remove dirt, contamination, slitting dust and converting debris. Its equipment is manufactured in the USA and made from only the highest quality components to ensure effectiveness, durability and customer satisfaction. In addition to equipment manufacturing, Polymag Tek produces adhesive tape, particle transfer fabric and water wash consumables for its equipment and its competitors’. www.polymagtek.com Porometer Porometer has announced the further expansion of the product portfolio in the Gas-Liquid Pressure Scan series. With Porolux 200 joining the family, Porometer is certain it has a porometer for a customer’s specific application. The Porolux 200 is the ideal porometer for customers with applications that need pore size analysis down to 91 nm, with very accurate measurements for the complete pressure range (0-7 bar) of the instrument. As for all Porolux porometers, the Porolux 200 can also handle 200 L/min flow, with an automatic switch between the different flow and pressure sensors. The Porolux 200 comes with Porometer’s in-house developed software, allowing the user to easily select the relevant parameters (or loading predefined settings), to follow the measurements on computer screen, and extract the data in Excel, Word or pdf. Wondering if the Porolux 200 will suit your needs? Don’t hesitate to send Porometer a sample. It has all porometry techniques in house, and because it measures samples every day, it can truly recommend the best technique for a customer’s application. Porometer is a German-Belgian company that focuses on developing and commercializing instruments to measure pore size distribution, gas and liquid permeability. Its porometers are widely used for the characterization of through pores in filtration and separation media in R&D and/or QA applications. www.porometer.com Pronexos The use of carbon fiber for rollers in the nonwovens industry is comparatively new, but carbon fiber is a material that offers a range of compelling advantages for nonwoven applications. These advantages can unlock performance and deliver greater results. Demand for carbon fiber (CFRP) rollers is growing rapidly and CFRP is becoming the material of choice for many applications in the nonwovens industry. Why? Critically, CFRP offers significantly reduced deflection over rollers made from other materials like steel and aluminum. This enables the use of much longer rollers, which in turn brings greater efficiency and larger scale to production, enabling greater sizes and faster speeds. Based across two sites in the Netherlands and Germany, Pronexos is a supplier of CFRP rollers with an impressive track record—over four decades of experience in the design and manufacture of CFRP rollers and tubes. “The advantages of CFRP specifically for nonwoven is low deflection and weight reduction,” comments Philipp Kroschner of Pronexos. “Our customers are typically replacing aluminium rollers with a higher deflection, which are being used in a wide range of applications from medical face masks to artificial grass. This move enables them to implement longer rollers in their production lines.” As well as reduced deflection, carbon fiber can also offer measurable improvements in strength, hardness and general resistance to wear-and-tear. “The combination of weight reduction, low deflection and strength makes carbon fiber the ideal choice for applications where the manufacturing process is quite rough or dirty,” says Kroschner. “Corrosion of some sort is inevitable in steel rollers, buy CFRP does not degrade in this way.” Pronexos can manufacture CFRP rollers up to 6m in length in carbon fiber and can supply rollers with a range of coatings including rubber and its own registered composite coating. www.pronexos.com Rando Machine For more than 70 years Rando Machine has played a leading role in the development of airlaid manufacturing equipment for a variety of industries including automotive, abrasives, filtration, health / hygiene, furniture, aerospace and agriculture. Rando Machine designs and builds machinery for fiber preparation, web formation, and shredding / re-fiberizing; and together with strategic partners provides complete turnkey lines. Its lab includes a complete 40” fiber blending and web forming line as well as a shredding and re-fiberizing system for recycling bonded fibers. It has extensive experience running a variety of fibers including cotton and synthetic shoddy, nylons, polyesters, natural fibers, ferrous and nonferrous metals, rayon, fiberglass, carbons, nanofibers, and many others. Bring your fiber and let Rando’s application engineering team show you what is possible. Lab trials for process development and even short production runs can be booked depending on a customer’s needs. In late 2019 Rando Machine came under the ownership of EIS Machine LLC, and Indiana-based custom machine manufacturer. This marriage joins Rando Machine’s unrivaled applications and design engineering team with additional modern manufacturing capability in EIS Machine’s Indiana production facility. Together they are stronger than ever and ready to serve production needs with quick turn around on service parts, roll repairs and new machinery. www.randomachine.com Saueressig Surfaces Under the direction of parent, Matthews International, Saueressig Ungricht has been renamed Saueressig Surfaces and operates under the Saueressig Group umbrella. Saueressig Surfaces combines the strong technical expertise in surface processing and finishing for a wide range of industries. Specifically for the nonwoven industry, Saueressig Surfaces’ portfolio includes embossing cylinders and microporous shells for the hydro-entanglement process as well as engraved and smooth calender rolls for spunmelt nonwovens. The requirements for nonwoven fabrics are constantly growing. Designs are becoming more challenging and manufacturing techniques more complex. As recognized experts in the field of nonwovens, Saueressig Surfaces have established themselves on the international market through constant advancement of their sleeves and rollers in all applications. Due to internal repro competencies, specialized sales teams, the latest laser based engraving methods as well as highly evolved molettage techniques, the Saueressig Surfaces team is available to assist nonwovens producers with pattern, roll and sleeve design and development for all common nonwoven production processes. By using hardened rollers, MPS, basic and structured drums, Saueressig Surfaces are able to create individual material refinements and to give nonwoven producers customized products. Both in manufacturing and in the final result, these customized rollers, structure and pattern templates provide the best possible product quality. www.saueressig-surfaces.com Shemesh Automation Any major wet wipes manufacturer around the world, has either heard of, or is using a Shemesh Automation Wet Wipes machine. Of course, with Covid-19 the demand for such machines has gone through the roof, so Shemesh has recently bolstered its flagship monoblock round wipes packer—Xpander—with a host of improvements and upgrades. The Xpander is a robust, fully automatic, servo-driven vertical index machine. It is specifically designed as a single block for the downstream packaging of round, nonwoven wet wipes in cans. With its unique all-in-one monoblock packaging machine design, the Xpander encompasses all aspects of round wipes downstream packaging from cans and wipes loading, dosing, and sealing through to capping, labeling, built-in QC and smart-weight checking. The Xpander has a throughput of up to 35ppm and is the only machine of its kind available on the market today. Its sister unit, the Xpander+ includes fully automatic feeding, so long as the lid and canister hoppers are kept filled and can be operated completely ‘hands-free’ —delivering even greater operating efficiencies. Truly universal, all Xpander machines support both round, conic, rectangular and oval shaped cans, screw and push lids, and wrap around or front and back labeling. Both the Xpander and Xpander+ have recently been enhanced with a suite of improvements to quality control, production consistency, a revamped operating system and new Industry 4.0 features. With over 30 years’ in the industry and over 1400 assets in 30 countries around the world, Shemesh Automation is a global leader in the high-end packaging machinery arena. www.shemeshautomation.com Sicam Sicam produces machinery and plants for textiles and nonwovens with over half a century of experience. Speaking with the owner Ing. Stefano Zanardi, son of the founder who created the company in Milan in the 1950s, the passion for mechanics immediately shines through, with a focus in process of continuous innovation based on many projects carried out. Sicam has in fact consolidated technologies that have affected the bonding of fibers from airlay or carding for decades, but also spunlace or spunbond, staple fiber, chemical bonding, spray bonding or thermofixing processes; Tailor-made projects and complete turn-key solutions have brought Sicam to compete with the main international players. During March 2020, because of its long time experience in the medical field and its own production of spunbond machinery equipment, Sicam has been contacted from Wuhan by Crown Name Group, a leading global supplier of high quality and standardized disposable hygiene wear and safety workwear. In an historical time in which, due to the coronavirus pandemic spreading, hygiene and safety wear are more than important for moral, legal and financial reasons and all the organizations have a duty to ensure that employees and any other person who may be affected remain safe at all times, the need of Crown Name Group is to increase machinery equipment for the spunbond production in order to produce respirators, a medical disposal required by the international laws. For this reason, they choose an experienced partner in nonwoven machinery as Sicam, with a vocation for the customization of each project and with a special attention to best production practices, efficiency and environmental factors. The Sicam supply to Crown Name Group of spunbond equipment assures and high quality output, knowing that the use of those respirators can really protect only if they are produced with high level standard nonwovens. www.sicamsrl.com SonicAire Nonwovens manufacturing uses a broad range of high-speed, innovative processes to create engineered-fiber products and many of those processes in turn generate combustible fiber accumulation. SonicAire’s industrial dust/fiber control fans use precision airflow technology to prevent combustible fiber build-up. This proactive approach effectively keeps plant overhead areas clean and mitigates the risk of combustible fiber events. SonicAire fan systems provide safety, productivity, economic and regulatory compliance solutions. Contact SonicAire for a no-obligation assessment of a facility or download its free eBook—How to Eliminate Combustible Dust in Your Facility. www.sonicaire.com Spoolex Technical rollers for face masks machine, ultrasonic welding stations or slitter-rewinders for textiles and for meltblown, Spoolex and its three brands Calemard, Decoup+ and Roll Concept, are engaged in the fight against Covid-19 spread. Worldwide, its customers have to face with an increasing demand of health products, especially of disposable face masks. To support them, Spoolex has adapted its organization to protect all the employees while maintaining support to the customers. During this critical period Roll Concept continues to manufacture and to deliver its technical rollers to major face mask machine manufacturers. With production capacities up to 600 masks/min, machines need high technical rollers with very low inertia in rotation. Thanks to its patented Alveotube profile in stock in our workshop, Roll Concept was able to react quickly to provide tailored made and easy to install low inertia rolls. On the other hand, Decoup+ has successfully adapted a manual sealing machine to produce face masks. Because it performs clean and resistant seams, ultrasounds are mainly used for quick manufacturing face mask operations. Its Decoup+ ultrasonic welding station is an independent and ergonomic working station, easy to use, affordable and perfectly adapted to small and medium size series. Then, during the containment period, Calemard provided the needed resources to support specific requests either for spooling machine or for wide slitter and was even able to deliver machines to cover urgent need for wide slitting textiles, nonwoven and of course meltblown. In addition, continuing to ensure spare parts deliveries and remote technical assistance, the customer support team even managed to run perfectly the commissioning of two machines using the industry 4.0 Calemard skills. More than even, Spoolex is committed to assist and support its customers involved in the struggle against the virus. Recently, it made a decision to increase the involvement of Calemard in face mask production. www.spoolex.com Teknoweb Converting Founded in 2004, since the beginning committed in never-ending product and process improvements also driven by continuous patent activity, today Teknoweb Converting fulfills the role of global technology leader in supplying wet wipes production equipment thanks to design, development and sale of ultra-fast, innovative and ultra-flexible lines, with minimum total cost of ownership. The capabilities cover the entire transformation cycle, starting from raw materials processing to wipes packaging and pallets handling, while still ensuring ease of use, maximum levels of integration and high performance for each industrial customer. Teknoweb Total Solution line includes:

Being part of IMA Group, a leader in design and production of automatic process and packaging machinery, increasingly reinforces the company in its role of potential technology single partner for any wet wipes manufacturer in the world. www.teknowebconverting.com Tentoma The RoRo StretchPack machines from Tentoma have quickly become successful for packaging of nonwoven rolls. During recent years, more RoRo StretchPack machines have been installed at global customers worldwide. The machines provide packaging and waterproof sealing using horizontal stretch hood packaging. This innovative packaging technology reduces film consumption by 25-60% compared to conventional ways of packaging. Customers not only save film cost but will also have a packaging system with a positive environmental impact. Horizontal stretch hood packaging is perfect for the nonwoven rolls. Due to the hood packaging, the rolls will be completely sealed and protected from the penetration of dirt and water. Packaging and sealing are done in one automated operation, so there is no need e.g. a heat shrink system. The nonwoven rolls can be tightly packed which ensures a uniformed packaging with a smooth surface. This is optimal for the branding of a logo printed on the film. Stretch film is not sticky as other film types, which makes it easy to stack and handle the packed rolls. As an option, customers can have an applicator for automatic insert of a plug at the end of the roll. The horizontal stretch hood packaging is based on well-proven technology for vertical stretch hood packaging of pallets. Tentoma has refined this technology, so it also can be utilized horizontally integrated into a production line. Tentoma is located in Denmark and installs packaging systems worldwide. www.tentoma.com Vac-U-Max Vac-U-Max’s Signature Series vacuum conveyors offer processors a “Plug-and-Play” solution for conveying powders, super absorbent polymers, pellets and other granular bulk materials from sources like totes, drums, bulk bags, bins and gaylords to destinations like processing or packaging lines. Each five-part system includes pick-up wand, convey hose, vacuum receiver with automatic pulse filter cleaning, vacuum producer, and UL-listed controls. Units are available in 1500 Series for vacuum conveying applications from handfuls to 1500 lbs/hr (680 kg/hr) or the 3500 Series for conveying rates up to 3500 lbs/hr (1600 kg/hr). Systems are available in general purpose or sanitary designs. www.vac-u-max.com Weima Weima’s WLK single-shaft shredder series offers many custom options for the recycling of nonwovens. The F+ Rotor is most often used for the initial destruction of nonwoven products. It can be outfitted with bolted or welded knife holders and is ideal for shredding filament-based materials (the “F” stands for “filaments.”) Weima also offers a chilled rotor option for those materials that have lower melting points. The chilled rotors are hollowed out in such a way that cool water can be consistently run through the inside of the rotor as it shreds. This keeps the rotor temperature down and allows the shredder to process this material as efficiently as possible without melting. Nonwovens are extremely durable, but when they are cut or shredded, dust is released into the air. For example, when the leg holes are cut out of baby diapers, the dust that is released can be both messy and extremely dangerous in production environments. Installing a briquette press at the discharge of the dust collection system can help eliminate dusting in the plant and increase overall safety. A dust collection system can pneumatically convey any residual dust into a covered briquette press. This controlled system eliminates the need for an employee to spend time cleaning up and transporting the dust and keeps the nearby machinery functioning in a dust-free environment. Weima briquette presses use pressure (not adhesives) to compress dust or shavings into small, hockey-puck-shaped briquettes. With a compaction rate of up to 9:1, briquetting can save a company quite a bit of money in dumpster haul-away costs alone. Fewer dumpsters being hauled away means a bigger bottom line and a smaller environmental footprint. www.weima.com Weko The worldwide pandemic of Covid-19 is raising the demand of specialized and individual products to fight microbial, viral or bacterial impact and diversity of finishings is growing. Future products will be added with those functions in much more industrial sections than today - not only in the medical and hygienic industry. More flexibility in production is required while consumption of chemicals, water and heat energy becomes a bigger point in terms of sustainability and optimizing the margins. Rotary atomizers offer the user some advantages which cannot be covered or only insufficiently by alternative application methods, such as top process stability and reproducibility at any time. Rotary atomizers work in a non-contact manner and are therefore particularly gentle on the nonwovens to be finished. In times of increasingly scarce resources, sustainability has become a central topic in the nonwovens industry. Finally, the finishing should be as material and resource-saving as possible, yet effective. Weitmann & Konrad (Weko) with its headquarters near Stuttgart, Germany, develops and produces concepts and systems for the non-contact minimum application with rotary atomizers which focus on sustainability. Rotary atomizers work in the micro-droplet range. Encapsulated versions such as Weko-ProTec provide the rotor carrier with an enclosure and connect it to an extraction system. Contamination of the working environment is thus counteracted. This is particularly advantageous when using oil or silicone-based fluids. Substances which have been excluded from rotary atomizers for health reasons can also be used more often with this variant for example with antimicrobial, antiviral or antibacterial finishing. Weko-ProTec enables high production speeds without spray-off effect. Experience the “Innovation at work.” In the in-house Weko pilot lane, many trials outside of the running production chain can be tested in advance in order to guarantee customers the greatest possible flexibility and to enable their own test series outside of the production. www.weko.net

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