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WEKO-NEO new innovative
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and contact-free spray applicator

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WEKO-NEO is the latest innovative and contact-free fixing, softening, hydrophobic. Whether wet or dry
spray applicator revolutionizing the whole textile fabric processing, knit or woven fabrics – WEKO
finishing process. The specially designed application technology gives you a huge benefits by
WEKO-NEO finishing system and the new reducing heat energy, chemical and water
processing is adaptable to any existing or new consumption as well as machine down times.
stenter frame, coating or Pad-Steam line. One
system fits it all spending the given savings in Water is one of the most important resources for
resources and costs. mankind! About 100-150 liters of valuable water are
required to process 1 kg of cotton and cotton blend
New innovative applications are revolutionizing the fabric. WEKO-NEO offers around 70% of water
whole textile finishing process. The worldwide textile saving.
production is suffering from immense cost pressure
and is driven by using high volumes of fresh water, Energy is mostly created by intensive processing of
energy and chemicals with comparatively slow diverse resources and beside its costs, it has a big
production speeds. influence on our PCF. Reducing costs and PCF is an
important goal of worldwide economic activities.
Therefore WEKO presents latest technology to During finishing on stenter frames, mostly
combine a more sustainable process with cost padder/foulard is used with an integrated squeezing
saving production. unit. Very high wet pick up rate is used, e.g. upto
60-70% in wet on dry and up to 100-120 in wet on
Whether you apply softening, sewability improvement, wet in some field of textile processing like knits. This
hydrophobic, dirt or soil repellent, flame retardant, color results in high energy consumption.
fixing, antibacterial or hydrophilic agents - the use of
auxiliary and the necessary dryer energy is significantly Production efficiency is a must for realizing
reduced by the exact pick-up control due to forced reasonable pricing to brand owners and retailers. On
spray application. diverse textiles, especially with higher weight, the
installed drying capacities are partly too low and
WEKO could adjust penetration level to fabric and speed must be dramatically reduced by up to 65 %.
therefore creates penetration only when needed. Constantly increasing product variety and shorter
Most of the finishing applications are needed purely batch length result in costly downtime of machinery,
on top surface with very less penetration e.g. in higher waste of material, power and auxiliaries.
May/June 2022