01.01.10
Location: Masserano, Italy
Sales: $120 million
Description: Key Personnel
Matteo Moltrasio, vice president; Luigi Cassano, managing director; Alessandro Taramasso, commercial director
Plant
Masserano, Biella, Italy
Processes
Spunbond, spunmelt, carded thermal bonded
Brand names
Spundounce
Major Markets
Hygiene, wipes, medical, agriculture, industrial
Sales dropped slightly for Masserano, Italy-based Union Industries due to lower raw material prices, tougher market conditions and a weaker currency exchange rate but the company reported that its production lines operated continuously at high yields throughout the year. This trend has continued into 2010 and the company has been able to increase its prices as raw materials costs have begun to rise again.
Sales are expected to receive a further boost this year when the company finishes work on a new facility, dedicated to a brand new, state-of-the-art Reicofil spunmelt line which will add 24,000 tons per year to the operation, bringing its total output to 84,000 tons per year. The SSMMMS line is expected to begin production during the third quarter of 2010.
“We expect to allocate the additional volume generated within our core business, hygiene chiefly, yet we think we may have as well the opportunity to explore other fields of application,” said vice president Matteo Moltrasio.
Currently, all of Union Industries’ 60,000 tons of nonwovens are made using Reicofil technology which are largely targeted at the hygiene market however medical, wipes, industrial and agriculture are other interests.
According to executives, the decision to build the new line was driven by Union’s goal of supplying the hygiene and medical nonwovens markets with high quality, ultra-lightweight nonwovens. Union Industries’ latest investment—a 4.2-meter line—came onstream in late 2006
Sales: $120 million
Description: Key Personnel
Matteo Moltrasio, vice president; Luigi Cassano, managing director; Alessandro Taramasso, commercial director
Plant
Masserano, Biella, Italy
Processes
Spunbond, spunmelt, carded thermal bonded
Brand names
Spundounce
Major Markets
Hygiene, wipes, medical, agriculture, industrial
Sales dropped slightly for Masserano, Italy-based Union Industries due to lower raw material prices, tougher market conditions and a weaker currency exchange rate but the company reported that its production lines operated continuously at high yields throughout the year. This trend has continued into 2010 and the company has been able to increase its prices as raw materials costs have begun to rise again.
Sales are expected to receive a further boost this year when the company finishes work on a new facility, dedicated to a brand new, state-of-the-art Reicofil spunmelt line which will add 24,000 tons per year to the operation, bringing its total output to 84,000 tons per year. The SSMMMS line is expected to begin production during the third quarter of 2010.
“We expect to allocate the additional volume generated within our core business, hygiene chiefly, yet we think we may have as well the opportunity to explore other fields of application,” said vice president Matteo Moltrasio.
Currently, all of Union Industries’ 60,000 tons of nonwovens are made using Reicofil technology which are largely targeted at the hygiene market however medical, wipes, industrial and agriculture are other interests.
According to executives, the decision to build the new line was driven by Union’s goal of supplying the hygiene and medical nonwovens markets with high quality, ultra-lightweight nonwovens. Union Industries’ latest investment—a 4.2-meter line—came onstream in late 2006