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Turnkey Lines From Oerlikon NeumagThe initial idea supplying turnkey plants for carding, airlaid, spunlaid, and combinations of these, has proven to be the right strategy for the global market and its key players, according to Oerlikon Neumag. Apart from complete lines, a sizable portion of the overall business remains the sale of components from Oerlikon Neumag’s “Technology Toolbox” and the retrofitting of existing lines.The following published projects are examples of this: • A retrofitted polypropylene homo-polymer spunlaid line to bicomponent technology for Freudenberg Vliesstoffe in Germany. • The Oerlikon Neumag flagship, the seven meter spunlaid line for Albis started up just before INDEX and one of the first produced seven meter rolls is exhibited at Albis’ INDEX booth. • Oerlikon Neumag also won a contract for a 3.2 meter SMS line from the Russian company Zavod Elastik which is due to start up at the end of the year. • In carding, Oerlikon Neumag has acquired a turnkey project from Freudenberg for an installation in China including opening, blending, cards, crosslappers, and needle looms. • Oerlikon Neumag has installed an M&J Airlaid web forming system for Polymer Group, Inc. in Benson, NC, which was part of a project to retrofit and expand an existing nonwoven production line. • Ahlstrom has invested in a new carded needlepunch line from Oerlikon Neumag for its production in Bethune, SC, which includes a fiber opening and blending line and FOR carding, Autefa crosslapping with WebMax technology, followed by Fehrer needle punching. Oerlikon Neumag offers the most comprehensive portfolio of turnkey solutions in all major nonwoven formation technologies. This broad approach enables the company to target markets like hygiene, medical, filters, automotive and a variety of industrial end uses. In fact, Oerlikon Neumag’s technology sets a new benchmark for the production of hygiene nonwovens. The concept taps the full potential of its huge economical advantages especially when producing filament sizes below 1.6 dtex and web weights below 18 gsm. Other leading edge technologies are stand-alone meltblown, aerodynamic carding and festooning. The key to future product and cost innovation are multi-technology lines—an excellent example being the Ascania 4.2 meter wide spunlaid, airlaid, carding line hydro-entanglement. The J&M meltblown equipment, which is now manufactured at the Neumünster facility in Germany, has undergone a redesigning process. This technology offers an outstanding price/performance ratio, whether part of a spunlaid plant or as a stand-alone solution. The new redesigned M&J Airlaid technology provides engineered capacities with different product categories which range from simple binder bonded to complex multi-layer structures of different raw materials and bonding techniques. The latest generation of the Kortec festooner technology allows a pack height of up to 1.700 mm and is featured with the most advanced Siemens drive and control system. Oerlikon Neumag’s carding team offers a series of improvements on FOR preparation and carding, Fehrer needle punching, and Autefa in crosslapping. Technical improvements include: cards with the “Easy Opening” (simple cleaning and maintenance), crosslappers with new drive technology and improved profiling, needle looms with improved feeding systems and optional features like MMD (elliptic needling), optimized needle patterns, and automatic needle board exchange. Oerlikon Neumag machines are produced two locations in Germany as well as in Austria and Italy. |
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