SolvTech Adapts Technology For Nonwovens

SolveTech has  adapted its proprietary, non-nuclear gauging systems to meet the needs of nonwoven producers and converters.  The PR2000 Profiler, MultiChannel and FX21000  have been very successful in the plastic film industry.

“We are excited about introducing our technology to the nonwoven market," says Doug Lawrence, president. "It has now been proven to provide a unique value to producers and purchasers of nonwoven materials that want to inspect uniformity."

Their capacitance-based gauging technology is being custom configured to provide basis weight or weight per unit area uniformity for thin nonwovens less than a quarter inch thick.  After several successful trial installations, SolveTech is confident in the technology's superior performance on nonwoven materials.

The proprietary technology is not a point measurement.  Instead it averages basis weight over a specified area, similar to a cut-and-weigh measurement.  This greatly reduces the noise in the reading due to the rough nature of the material and can in many cases read with accuracies 1% or better depending on process conditions.  It is also fast, producing data every 0.01 seconds on the FX2100, completely customizable, and not sensitive to optical properties.  The technology has no nuclear or x-ray hazards which eliminates regulatory headaches.