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Article: Machinery for making industrial and technical nonwovens
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- Technical Textiles International : TTI
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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CopyrightCopyright International Newsletters Oct 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The use of nonwovens technology in the industrial and technical sectors is expanding globally. Virtually every nonwovens system can be used for making nonwoven roll-- goods for some industrial or technical application, the optimum requirements of which cannot be met by any other form of fibrous structure. Derek Ward outlines the major systems, the associated machinery and the main suppliers.
Most nonwovens systems differ from more traditional forms of fabric manufacture, such as weaving and knitting, in that they use a single, continuous operating line to transform fibre or polymer into a consolidated structure. Nevertheless, within the integrated line, the raw materials pass through ...