Inda, the American non-woven industry association, has recently launched a global catalogue of pilot facilities for the development of non-woven / engineering materials products. This is the first and only briefing on the location of the facilities to provide commercial test machines, which is very helpful for the enterprises to realize the development and test of new non-woven or new structural materials. Non woven fabric can avoid the high cost caused by the use of commercial equipment in the product development process of new materials or new business, and small-scale trial production equipment can meet the needs of samples.

The catalog details the locations of 32 pilot facilities in the United States, Europe and Asia, and briefly describes the changes in process capacity, size, and upper production limit for each pilot line.

Among them, 14 enterprises or institutions are located in the United States, 15 in Europe and 3 in Asia. The only trial production line in China in the catalogue is the needlepoint line above Andritz in Wuxi.

U.S.A

Americhem Inc, Dalton, GA

Spunbond – 1 to 3 deniers per silk, PP, pet, PLA, nylon 6, TPU

Carver non woven, Fremont, NJ, USA

Serial card, super punch

Needle and thread - width 3.5m, GSM 300-2400

College of materials science and engineering, Clemson University, South Carolina

Carding and forming acupuncture - 12 'Lando, 24' garnet card, 12 'acupuncture production line

Groz beckert, millburg, South Carolina,

Loom - width 24 inches

Hill's company in West Melbourne, Florida, USA

Spunbond / melt blown line - width 500 mm, two-component, up to 450 ° C and 500 GSM

Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Needling - width 12 inches - multiple fiber types

Wet paper molding machine - width 22 inches

Monadnock non woven LLC, Pocono, PA

Melt blown – up to 800 GSM

Nonwovens Institute, North Carolina State University, North Carolina, USA

Trutzler high speed carding machine EWK 413 and loom + cross laying machine and oven,

Width 1 meters

Reicofil melt blown line - single beam, 1 meter wide, 10-100 meters per minute.

Reicfil r4s spunbond production line, two-component, width 1m, 10-100 GSM

Hydraulic tangle - width 1 meter, 50-200 GSM

Rando, Macedonia, New York, USA

Air cushion - 40 'wide, 10-3000 GSM

Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Needling - width 1m - must include cotton fiber

Spunlace method - width 1m - must include cotton fiber

Texas Institute of technology, Lubbock, Texas

Needling - 1.1m wide, straight through hot air oven - 1.0m wide

University of Georgia, Athens, USA

Melt blown - width 6 inches - multiple molds - high temperature capability - coating options

Southeast nonwovens, South Carolina clover, USA

Wet lay - width 12, 32 and 63 inches; diagonal; air dry

Pinprick - width 24 inches

Air cushion - width 1 m (rando)

Hydraulic tangle - 12 'and 32' wide (on wet lay lines)

University of West Michigan, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA

Wet - 610 mm, 26-750 g / m2

Europe

Andritzk ü sters, crayfield, Germany

Wet hydraulic tangle;

3 calenders; selection of engraved, smooth and flexible rolls

Andritz Asselin Tibo, Elbe River, France

Cross / needle opening and fusion; off-line velvet structure

Andritz Peugeot, monbonot, France

Water tangle - multiple options, and patterns

Valkeakoski anpap oy, Finland

Air Network - width 400mm

Autefa solutions, Linz, Austria

Keywords overlapped nonwovens; width 3.5mm;

Card – crossover – webdrafter – needleloom pneumatic mesh forming; width 2.4mm; air flow mesh forming – acupuncture – thermal bonding

High speed carding; width 500mm; hydraulic tangle injection card

Campen machinery a / s, hornslet, Denmark

Air flow forming network - width 600mm - hydraulic tangle - organize exhibition and start-up

CETI (European Centre for innovative textiles), Cedex, Turco, France

Hydraulic tangle - width 550 mm - bicomponent / tricomponent fiber

Acupuncture - width 1.3m,

Up to 1200 strokes / min

Air flow forming mesh - width 1.1 m, thickness 300 mm max. melt blown - width 550 mm, production

Max. 50 kg / h

Spunbond - width 550 mm, yield 10 to 150 kg / h

Grotz Beckett, albustadt, Germany

Acupuncture - width 2 m and 1.5 m

Ifth, Paris, France

7 sites in the main textile sector in France

Institute of nonwovens innovation, Leeds, UK

Air flow network - width 300 mm - 500 mm

Wet web forming - 6-inch round hand paper with TAPPI t-205 needles - width 300 mm and 800 mm hydraulic tangles - width 500 mm

Carding thermal bonding - width 500 mm chemical bonding / finishing / treatment - width 500 mm

Acupuncture - width 500 mm and 1 meter

Eurekonneumag (New Minster, Germany)

Spunbond-1200 mm, SMS as BICO or mono meltblow-500, spinning bundle 1 mono

Reifenh ä userreicfil GmbH & Co. kg, trossdorf, Germany

Spunbond - SSS single weight and BICO fabric weight lines, maximum throughput 150-270 kg / h / m, fabric 8-70 GSM spunbond / melt blown - SMMs single weight and BICO line - s throughput 150-270 kg / h / m, MB throughput 10-70 kg / h / m, fabric weight 8-70 GSM

Melt blown line - production 10-160 kg / h / m, fabric weight 5-400 GSM

Spunbond xsxsx series - two component, extensive

STFI, German Textile Institute. V., Germany

Spunbond - width 1m; output 150-500 kg / h

Hydraulic tangle - width 1 m;

Maximum speed 80 m / min

Needle width 600 mm and 2400 mm; 50-800 GSM

Melt blown - width 600 mm

Dust free paper - width 1.1m

Airform - width 1.1m

Lixin - width 2.5m and 1.6m

Technoplants SRL, Pistoia, Italy

Dry and air forming mesh thermal bonding machine - width 2.8m; carding thermal bonding - width 2.5m

Voith (dueren, Germany)

Wet lay - width 500 mm; diagonal and hydraulic tangle options

Asia

Andritz (China) Co., Ltd., Wuxi, China

Acupuncture - width 2.5m with cross shear

Birla cellulose, nagda, India

Spurs - width 1 m

Korea Institute of industrial technology

Air flow network wire - 1m wide hydraulic tangle - 1m wide acupuncture - 2m wide

Melt blown line - 1.2m wide, two-component wet laid line - 300mm wide

Linear speed: 1-10m / min