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India: Truetzschler Nonwovens & Man-Made Fibers Partners With DKTE To Commission Needling Line

• By  Henry Dsouza
• April 24, 2015

The Centre of Excellence for Nonwovens at DKTE, Ichalkaranji, has invested in a complete needling line. Trützschler Nonwovens & Man-Made Fibers supplied all the components, from bale opening, roller cards and crosslappers all the way to the two needling machines and a winder.

With a working width of 1,800 mm, the system is considerably larger than standard laboratory equipment. The production of functional nonwovens made of polymers such as polyester, polyamide and polypropylene is growing in India; the DKTE installation is precisely designed for the processing of these fibres for light-weight to medium-weight needled webs.

For the Trützschler technicians, the aim was to realise a hybrid installation for research and industry. The installation is mainly optimised in terms of complex product development, and not productivity:

• The components must be flexible enough to take the various tests and experiments in a research institute into consideration
• On the other hand, the installation is to be fitted with machines that can also be used in industrial production. This gives students the opportunity to study the operation, maintenance and behaviour of state-of-the-art machines that they will encounter again later in their working life.
• The end product, the finished web, should be saleable, i.e. the processes developed in the institute shall also result in the same products on larger installations with working width of 3.6 metres and more.

To DKTE it is important that textile companies can use the equipment of the institute also for industrial product development.

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