ANDRITZ Nonwoven is one of the world’s leading suppliers of technologies for the nonwoven and textile finishing industry. Its key competences lie in technologies for drylaid, wetlaid, spunbond, spunlace, needlepunch, converting and textile calendering.
Recycling technologies by ANDRITZ
Recently, ANDRITZ acquired Laroche SAS, a leading supplier of fiber processing technologies such as opening, blending, and dosing, airlay web forming, textile waste recycling, and decortication of bast fibers. The product portfolio further complements and enlarges the ANDRITZ Nonwoven product range. One focus of this product range lies on complete recycling lines for post-consumer and industrial waste to produce fibers for re-spinning and/or nonwoven end-uses.
Customer awareness and regulations are pushing apparel brands to recycle their waste in their own products. Recycled fibers can also be used in the nonwovens industry for various applications such as automotive, insulation, mattresses, and furniture felts. To support ANDRITZ customers, a process know-how team is at customers’ disposal to conduct customized trials in our advanced technical center located at the ANDRITZ Laroche facilities.
Production technologies to produce biodegradable wipes
ANDRITZ Nonwoven’s processes play a pioneering role in the production of biodegradable materials. For many years, ANDRITZ has offered different processes, like spunlace, Wetlace and Wetlace CP, all with one goal in mind: Elimination of plastic components while maintaining the high quality of the desired product properties. Such processes achieve high performance entirely with plastic-free raw materials. The added benefit of using a blend of fibers, like wood pulp, short-cut cellulosic fibers, viscose, cotton, hemp, bamboo or linen, without chemical additives results in a 100% sustainable fabric, thus meeting customers’ needs exactly as well as supporting the strong tendency to move away from plastics and synthetics.
All these technologies have been exhaustively tried and tested on the frontline of nonwoven wipes producers and has passed the test of the most decerning of end-users. In addition, producers can test these technologies within the ANDRITZ technical center in Monbonnot, France, which has recently been upgraded with an innovative pulp application system to conduct trails for carded-pulp wipes.
The very latest development in this field is the ANDRITZ neXline wetlace CP line. This process combines the benefits of two forming technologies (inline drylaid and wetlaid web forming process) with bonding by hydroentanglement. Natural fibers, like pulp or viscose, can be processed smoothly and generate a high-performance and cost-efficient carded-pulp wipe that is fully biodegradable and plastic-free.
