Oerlikon Neumag will focus on nonwovens for technical applications when it presents its product portfolio at next month’s Shanghai International Nonwovens Conference and Exhibition (SINCE), which takes place in Shanghai from 23-25 October.

Strong market

According to Oerlikon Neumag, more than 3 million tons of technical nonwovens were produced last year and an increasing demand for these materials, in particular from emerging countries has resulted in good opportunities for the machine builders.

“Thinner, lighter, more efficient materials are demanded by the market. For this reason, the trend is obviously setting towards nonwovens,” explains Dr Ingo Mählmann, product manager for nonwovens at Oerlikon Neumag.

Oerlikon Neumag offers an efficient one-step spunbond process which is said to considerably lower manufacturing costs. The company supplies the complete process, from spinning to rolled goods for bitumen roofing, roofing underlayment and geotextiles.

Plug & Produce

Oerlikon Neumag is expanding its nonwovens product line and apart from its stand-alone plants, it is now also offering meltblown technology which can be subsequently integrated into existing or new, outside vendor SXS plants.

“This enables a cost-efficient upgrading of new or existing spunbond plants and offers nonwoven producers access to markets with high quality demands”, explains Ed McNally, Sales Director Nonwovens at Oerlikon Neumag. The company says that due to the numerous processible polymers and producible fibre finenesses, a wide product spectrum can be covered with its meltblown technology.

Homogeneity with thin webs

With its newly developed forming head, Oerlikon Neumag says it is setting new standards in the production of extremely thin airlaid webs. According to the company, high uniformity and homogeneous web formation today enables the production of high-quality, light airlaid webs which are economically attractive and have good production speeds and plant throughputs. With the new forming head, not only very light airlaid materials, but also combination webs, fully utilizing the plant capacity and simultaneously saving raw materials, can be produced.