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    NIRI Moves off Leeds Campus, Invests In New Equipment

    Investment reflects expansion of nonwovens across multiple technology platforms

    05.24.18
    The Nonwovens Innnovation & Research Institute (NIRI) has invested significantly in a range of new equipment. The U.K.-based institute was able to expand following its move off of the University of Leeds campus to a new facility. The expansion will allow NIRI, which has already completed 450 projects for more than 200 clients, to expand its scope to better help develop better-performing products.
     
    Using Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) to demonstrate the innovation process, each project undertaken by NIRI – whether consultancy for commercial clients or co-funded joint ventures – is evaluated against the parameters for each technology level and then assigned a TRL rating based on the project’s progress.  NIRI’s expertise is evidenced in its focus on the ‘valley of death’ stage, the point of no return from which many novel technologies fail to progress and the point at which the Institute’s expertise in developing proof-of-concepts and prototypes into commercially viable products—can be seen.  The investment in new facilities includes a range of equipment, which are already helping NIRI’s clients through the increased ability to develop, manufacture and test new products.
     
    The equipment includes an Inovenso NE300 electrospinner, responding to the increasing use of nanofibers across a whole range of sectors.  A laboratory scale electrospinning unit, able to produce uniform nanofibrous structures at an area of up to ~24x37cm and is designed to be compatible with a broad range of polymers including PA, PET, PVA and PU and various solvent systems.  The equipment applied voltage can be altered from 0–40kV, with the capability to alter the distance-to-collector from 3.5-23.5cm.  The unit works on a closed volumetric feed system to minimize solvent evaporation and is capable of utilizing one to nine of its nozzles.  This allows small-scale investigation and parameter optimization, before scaling to larger sample sizes.
     
    The center’s new Perfojet flatbed hydroentanglement pilot line can work with widths ~35cm and features enough flexibility for one to three injectors to be utilized with a varying hydro-entanglement pressure of 20-180 bars, at belt speeds of 0-22 m/min.  With various jet strip diameters available to NIRI, from 90-140 µm, key hydro-entanglement processing parameters’ adjustment allows the degree of entanglement to be tailored to specified requirements.
     
    NIRI’s new Phenom-Pro SEM is ideal for imaging nonwoven structures at micro-scale.  With an acceleration voltage of 5-10kV, high resolution images can be produced without the need for an additional conductive coating.  The SEM provides a powerful tool for understanding the characteristics of a nonwoven fabric, including; fibre orientation, manufacturing methods and blend composition.  With the aid of an integrated software package, NIRI can produce fibre diameter distributions and surface pore area distributions autonomously.
     
    Investment in a new liquid extrusion capillary flow porometer, a Porolux 100FW, will help NIRI’s clients through the quick quantification of through-pore diameters present in a nonwoven structure.  The equipment uses gas-liquid extrusion to detect the smallest, mean flow and largest pore diameters while providing a relative air-flow distribution through the detected diameter range. The Porolux 100FW has the potential to measure through-pore diameters ranging from 0.43-500µm, making it ideal for characterising the pore sizes of a broad range of nonwoven media.
     
    NIRI have responded to continued growth in the hygiene sector, where the balance of wet strength and user comfort  as well as biodegradability and dispersibility are important attributes. Its new liquid strike through time and re-wet testing equipment is designed in accordance to NWSP 070.7.RO (15) and NWSP 070.8.RO (15).  This can accurately measure the penetration time for successive insults of a desired liquid through a sample’s surface in conjunction with the sample’s resistance to release liquid to its surface under loading.  These measurements are particularly pertinent when analysing hygiene products, and considering end user comfort.  A new fluff pulp specific volume and absorption tester SCAN-test, designed in accordance to SCAN-C 33:80, measures the specific volume of a pulp fluff specimen in conjunction with its absorbent capacity and the speed of a desired liquid under a standard load. 
     
    Building on the expertise of Professor Stephen Russell, leader of University of Leeds’ Nonwovens Research Group and Technical Director at NIRI, the Institute’s investment in new facilities and new equipment reflects the expansion of nonwoven technologies across a vast range of sectors, while responding to an ever-increasing demand for product development and enhancement, cost-reduction and quality improvement for existing products, identification and evaluation of new markets, and the reduction of environmental impact. The NIRI team consists of highly qualified technical textile scientists with industrial experience and has a proven record of helping companies grow their business across many sectors including; medical, hygiene, filtration and transport.
     
    Dr Matthew Tipper, business director at NIRI, says, “With over 10 years’ track record in successful R&D, helping clients develop and improve products and processes across numerous sectors, this further investment in testing and production equipment enhances our extensive facilities, building on our research excellence and further helping realise the business imperatives of our industry collaborators and commercial clients.”
     
     
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