Karen McIntyre, Editor07.08.21
The 2021 Asian Nonwovens Exhibition + The 19th Shanghai International Nonwovens Exhibition will be held at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center from July 22-24, 2021. At present, more than 500 domestic and overseas nonwoven raw materials, nonwoven production equipment and related accessories, nonwoven fabric rolls, testing and inspection equipment, and related finished products nonwoven industry enterprises have confirmed their participation. Here is a look at what some companies plan to present.
Andritz
Booth: 1L10
International technology Group Andritz will present its state-of-the-art nonwovens and textile production technologies such as air-through bonding, needlepunch, spunlace, spunbond, wetlaid/Wetlace, converting, textile finishing, airlay, recycling and bast fiber processing.
Andritz (China) Ltd.’s Wuxi Branch has an experienced platform for production and service specially geared to the Asian nonwovens industry. It designs and manufactures cutting-edge lines for the Andritz aXcess product range, which includes complete lines and individual machines for air-through bonding, needlepunch and spunlace processes. Thanks to its expertise, nonwovens producers have access to a full range of technologies for the production of high-quality nonwoven roll goods.
Andritz needlepunch technology provides customers with a full range of solutions. For needlepunch materials, the Andritz ProWin web control system optimizes web distribution, uniformity, profile, and structure. The ProWin system is a smart combination of the Andritz weight profiling control technologies – ProDyn and ProWid – used to gain the most advantages from both technologies in terms of fiber weight profiling on delivery to the crosslapper.
Berry Global
Booth: 1R20
Berry is committed to “always taking the protection of important things as its own responsibility.” As a Fortune 500 company in the U.S., Berry has more than 47,000 employees in 295 regions on six continents. At present, Berry’s HHS Division has established two nonwoven fabric production bases in Suzhou and Nanhai, China: Pujie Non-woven Fabric (China) Co., Ltd. and Nanhai Nanxin Non-woven Fabric Co., Ltd. With the industry’s leading German imported equipment, Industry 4.0 intelligent manufacturing platform and unique patented technology, it provides differentiated spunbond, spunmelt, hot air nonwoven fabric and film product solutions.
Bidford Nonwovens
Booth: 1F01
Bidford Nonwovens focuses on the R&D and manufacturing of spunmelt nonwovens and the production of deep-processed products. It has been developing and continuously cooperating with customers to integrate a complete production chain, so that customers can enjoy high quality and high efficiency in the product procurement process.
The company mainly produces high-end medical and health nonwoven fabrics, including SSS\SMMMS\SSMMS. The current annual production capacity of nonwoven fabrics is 100,000 tons. The company produces various products based on nonwoven composites, covering medical, sanitary, industrial, special applications and other fields.
DiloGroup
Booth: 1Q66
The DiloGroup is composed of DiloSystems, DiloTemafa, DiloSpinnbau and DiloMachines. DiloGroup has provided more than 320 production lines for the global nonwovens industry. Therefore, DiloGroup has the required expertise and a complete set of machines to provide customers with the best production lines. These highly modern and innovative production lines are the result of its own textile research center maintaining stable engineering and product development work. DiloSystems is the leading supplier of the entire nonwoven production line. DiloSystems is an engineering partner who can meet customers’ production needs, and provides various short fiber web forming and consolidation technologies.
Donglun Technology
Booth: 1G70
Since 1998, Donglun Technology has specialized in the production of spunlace cloth and its products. There are currently five internationally advanced cross- and direct-laid spunlace production lines with an annual production capacity of over 10,000 tons. It is a global professional non-ferrous fiber (such as black, red, green, etc.) spunlace fabric manufacturer, which can process various patterned spunlace fabrics and flame retardant, water-repellent and other functional products. Weight range: 30-250 grams/square meter. The company has the qualification to produce disposable sanitary products, and wet wipes.
Farè SpA
Booth: 1J08
Farè provides staple fiber, spunbond, and meltblown production lines. Farè provides production lines and technology to cover all the needs of sanitation-technical nonwoven fabrics. Five hundred Farè industrial production lines are in operation all over the world. Farè provides customers with tailor-made services. Farè is a pioneer in the manufacture of polyolefin and polyester extrusion machinery, and is the protagonist of processing synthetic fibers that the market demands today.
Innovatec
Booth: 1K70
Innovatec makes fibers perform – 365 days a year, located in Troisdorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Its nonwoven products - meltblown, spunbond, composites and laminates – are distributed worldwide and available as roll-goods, individually converted.
Being certified according to ISO 9001 and ISO 50001 reflects its own quality demand. The in-house laboratory ensures the quality requirements of its customers at any time.
Ogilvy Medical
Booth: 1G80
Ogilvy (Jingmen) Medical Products Co., Ltd. was established in March 2017. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ogilvy Medical Products Co., Ltd. with a registered capital of 200 million yuan. It is a professional manufacturer of medical care products and sanitary products.
The company has four international advanced level of spunlace nonwoven production lines. The products include cotton spunlace nonwoven fabrics, full viscose nonwoven fabrics, cosmetic cotton sheets, polyester-viscose nonwoven fabrics. These nonwovens are used as industrial electronic wipe materials, high-end beauty materials, electrostatic jacquard dust-removing materials, civil cleaning wipes (wet wipes, baby wipes, cotton soft wipes, baby cotton soft wipes), wet wipes/cotton soft wipes OEM business and women’s hygiene, as well as a cluster of multi-field and multi-purpose serialized products such as medical supplies and medical care products.
Oerlikon Nonwoven
Booth: 1H20
Oerlikon Nonwoven will be showcasing market- and customer-oriented solutions for hygiene and medical, filtration and other industrial applications at ANEX-SINCE.
This includes the company’s comprehensive spunbond portfolio including a broad range of technology products and services. The process for manufacturing geotextiles from polyester or polypropylene has been optimized; it is characterized by the superb production quality achievable and the high production capacities and yields for manufacturing innovative, future-oriented nonwoven products.
For the manufacture of hygiene and medical nonwovens, Oerlikon Nonwoven offers its new QSR (Quality Sized Right) systems. The advantage for nonwovens manufacturers: highly-competitive solutions, which can be combined with innovative features that enable differentiation within the market.
Within meltblown, Oerlikon offers technology to produce new, unique and highly-sophisticated filter media and numerous other high-end nonwoven applications, which can be easily, flexibly and efficiently manufactured thanks to Oerlikon Nonwoven’s optimized meltblown technology. Whether as a stand-alone system with one or several positions, as ‘plug & produce’ installations for already existing systems or in conjunction with other technologies: the Oerlikon Nonwoven meltblown process already enables the cost-efficient manufacture of meltblown nonwovens with the quality requirements of tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Oerlikon’s airlaid technology offers sustainability and environmental compatibility. In this area, the patented Oerlikon Nonwoven formation process – which also permits the homogeneous mixing of the most diverse raw materials, while simultaneously guaranteeing superb evenness and homogeneous fiber laying – offers low running meter weights.
Also being showcased at the trade fair is Oerlikon Nonwoven’s P&G-patented Phantom technology for hygiene products and wipes. Oerlikon Nonwoven has a sole worldwide licensee for this technology. The Phantom technology offers an alternative for manufacturing wet wipes from pulp and polymer fibers. Compared to conventional, known processes, this technology offers ecological, performance and cost advantages, with consumer tests conducted across the globe confirming the material’s superiority. As a result of dispensing with hydroentanglement with subsequent drying – the manufacturing process itself helps make this material more sustainable overall.
Saueressig
Booth: 1W05
Saueressig Group, a subsidiary of Matthews International Corporation, is a recognized expert in the field of gravure printing rolls, embossing rolls, flexographic printing rolls and special machinery manufacturing. The brand integrates the packaging, surface, roll, engineering and elastomer business units. The Saueressig Group has accumulated decades of valuable experience, paying great attention to quality, versatility and the strength of an international group. As an industry expert in the manufacturing and engineering industries and an innovative partner in the field of creative and digital solutions, the company supports its customers in all areas of its business to actively shape the market today and in the future.
Sateri Group
Booth: 1H78
Sateri is the world’s largest producer of cellulose fibers. Cellulose fibers are derived from natural sources and are widely used in textile and nonwoven products such as baby wipes and personal hygiene materials.
In order to better serve the Chinese market, the largest and fastest growing market in the global cellulosic fiber industry, Sateri owns five cellulosic fiber factories in China, two nonwoven fabric factories, a yarn factory and a lyocell project. The annual production capacity of cellulose fiber reaches 1.4 million tons; at the same time, Sateri is rapidly expanding its production capacity through new construction and acquisitions. The company’s headquarters is established in Shanghai, providing a complete marketing network and customer service for Asian, European and American markets.
Trützschler Nonwovens
Booth: 1J20
Trützschler Nonwovens will focus on launching high-performance spunlace nonwoven production lines at ANEX-SINCE. The outbreak of this epidemic has fully demonstrated that we need efficient and reliable technology to manufacture low to medium weight nonwoven wipe materials. Trützschler Nonwovens has developed a three-comb concept for this purpose to support the mass production of disinfectant wipes.
In addition, the company will focus on promoting sustainable and environmentally friendly nonwoven fabric production solutions for disposable products. The latest breakthrough in the field of wet wipes is the carding/wood pulp (CP) product, which is a nonwoven fabric formed by wetlaid wood pulp and a separate carded layer through hydroentanglement. Pulp, as a cost-effective raw material, greatly reduces production costs. The CP production line, provided by Trützschler and its partner Voith, produces baby wipes and body wipes that are fully functional, cost-effective, biodegradable and come from renewable resources.
Toray Advanced Materials
Booth: 1L01
Toray Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. is a comprehensive chemical materials company with a wide range of business and the core of the industry for the production of materials for daily life. Toray High-Tech Poly (Nantong) Co., Ltd. and Toray High-Tech Poly (Foshan) Co., Ltd. are located in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province and Foshan City, Guangdong Province respectively. Toray Polytech Jakarta, located in Jakarta, Indonesia, mainly provides SSMMMS multilayer nonwoven fabrics for sanitary materials for the Southeast Asian market.
Andritz
Booth: 1L10
International technology Group Andritz will present its state-of-the-art nonwovens and textile production technologies such as air-through bonding, needlepunch, spunlace, spunbond, wetlaid/Wetlace, converting, textile finishing, airlay, recycling and bast fiber processing.
Andritz (China) Ltd.’s Wuxi Branch has an experienced platform for production and service specially geared to the Asian nonwovens industry. It designs and manufactures cutting-edge lines for the Andritz aXcess product range, which includes complete lines and individual machines for air-through bonding, needlepunch and spunlace processes. Thanks to its expertise, nonwovens producers have access to a full range of technologies for the production of high-quality nonwoven roll goods.
Andritz needlepunch technology provides customers with a full range of solutions. For needlepunch materials, the Andritz ProWin web control system optimizes web distribution, uniformity, profile, and structure. The ProWin system is a smart combination of the Andritz weight profiling control technologies – ProDyn and ProWid – used to gain the most advantages from both technologies in terms of fiber weight profiling on delivery to the crosslapper.
Berry Global
Booth: 1R20
Berry is committed to “always taking the protection of important things as its own responsibility.” As a Fortune 500 company in the U.S., Berry has more than 47,000 employees in 295 regions on six continents. At present, Berry’s HHS Division has established two nonwoven fabric production bases in Suzhou and Nanhai, China: Pujie Non-woven Fabric (China) Co., Ltd. and Nanhai Nanxin Non-woven Fabric Co., Ltd. With the industry’s leading German imported equipment, Industry 4.0 intelligent manufacturing platform and unique patented technology, it provides differentiated spunbond, spunmelt, hot air nonwoven fabric and film product solutions.
Bidford Nonwovens
Booth: 1F01
Bidford Nonwovens focuses on the R&D and manufacturing of spunmelt nonwovens and the production of deep-processed products. It has been developing and continuously cooperating with customers to integrate a complete production chain, so that customers can enjoy high quality and high efficiency in the product procurement process.
The company mainly produces high-end medical and health nonwoven fabrics, including SSS\SMMMS\SSMMS. The current annual production capacity of nonwoven fabrics is 100,000 tons. The company produces various products based on nonwoven composites, covering medical, sanitary, industrial, special applications and other fields.
DiloGroup
Booth: 1Q66
The DiloGroup is composed of DiloSystems, DiloTemafa, DiloSpinnbau and DiloMachines. DiloGroup has provided more than 320 production lines for the global nonwovens industry. Therefore, DiloGroup has the required expertise and a complete set of machines to provide customers with the best production lines. These highly modern and innovative production lines are the result of its own textile research center maintaining stable engineering and product development work. DiloSystems is the leading supplier of the entire nonwoven production line. DiloSystems is an engineering partner who can meet customers’ production needs, and provides various short fiber web forming and consolidation technologies.
Donglun Technology
Booth: 1G70
Since 1998, Donglun Technology has specialized in the production of spunlace cloth and its products. There are currently five internationally advanced cross- and direct-laid spunlace production lines with an annual production capacity of over 10,000 tons. It is a global professional non-ferrous fiber (such as black, red, green, etc.) spunlace fabric manufacturer, which can process various patterned spunlace fabrics and flame retardant, water-repellent and other functional products. Weight range: 30-250 grams/square meter. The company has the qualification to produce disposable sanitary products, and wet wipes.
Farè SpA
Booth: 1J08
Farè provides staple fiber, spunbond, and meltblown production lines. Farè provides production lines and technology to cover all the needs of sanitation-technical nonwoven fabrics. Five hundred Farè industrial production lines are in operation all over the world. Farè provides customers with tailor-made services. Farè is a pioneer in the manufacture of polyolefin and polyester extrusion machinery, and is the protagonist of processing synthetic fibers that the market demands today.
Innovatec
Booth: 1K70
Innovatec makes fibers perform – 365 days a year, located in Troisdorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Its nonwoven products - meltblown, spunbond, composites and laminates – are distributed worldwide and available as roll-goods, individually converted.
Being certified according to ISO 9001 and ISO 50001 reflects its own quality demand. The in-house laboratory ensures the quality requirements of its customers at any time.
Ogilvy Medical
Booth: 1G80
Ogilvy (Jingmen) Medical Products Co., Ltd. was established in March 2017. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ogilvy Medical Products Co., Ltd. with a registered capital of 200 million yuan. It is a professional manufacturer of medical care products and sanitary products.
The company has four international advanced level of spunlace nonwoven production lines. The products include cotton spunlace nonwoven fabrics, full viscose nonwoven fabrics, cosmetic cotton sheets, polyester-viscose nonwoven fabrics. These nonwovens are used as industrial electronic wipe materials, high-end beauty materials, electrostatic jacquard dust-removing materials, civil cleaning wipes (wet wipes, baby wipes, cotton soft wipes, baby cotton soft wipes), wet wipes/cotton soft wipes OEM business and women’s hygiene, as well as a cluster of multi-field and multi-purpose serialized products such as medical supplies and medical care products.
Oerlikon Nonwoven
Booth: 1H20
Oerlikon Nonwoven will be showcasing market- and customer-oriented solutions for hygiene and medical, filtration and other industrial applications at ANEX-SINCE.
This includes the company’s comprehensive spunbond portfolio including a broad range of technology products and services. The process for manufacturing geotextiles from polyester or polypropylene has been optimized; it is characterized by the superb production quality achievable and the high production capacities and yields for manufacturing innovative, future-oriented nonwoven products.
For the manufacture of hygiene and medical nonwovens, Oerlikon Nonwoven offers its new QSR (Quality Sized Right) systems. The advantage for nonwovens manufacturers: highly-competitive solutions, which can be combined with innovative features that enable differentiation within the market.
Within meltblown, Oerlikon offers technology to produce new, unique and highly-sophisticated filter media and numerous other high-end nonwoven applications, which can be easily, flexibly and efficiently manufactured thanks to Oerlikon Nonwoven’s optimized meltblown technology. Whether as a stand-alone system with one or several positions, as ‘plug & produce’ installations for already existing systems or in conjunction with other technologies: the Oerlikon Nonwoven meltblown process already enables the cost-efficient manufacture of meltblown nonwovens with the quality requirements of tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Oerlikon’s airlaid technology offers sustainability and environmental compatibility. In this area, the patented Oerlikon Nonwoven formation process – which also permits the homogeneous mixing of the most diverse raw materials, while simultaneously guaranteeing superb evenness and homogeneous fiber laying – offers low running meter weights.
Also being showcased at the trade fair is Oerlikon Nonwoven’s P&G-patented Phantom technology for hygiene products and wipes. Oerlikon Nonwoven has a sole worldwide licensee for this technology. The Phantom technology offers an alternative for manufacturing wet wipes from pulp and polymer fibers. Compared to conventional, known processes, this technology offers ecological, performance and cost advantages, with consumer tests conducted across the globe confirming the material’s superiority. As a result of dispensing with hydroentanglement with subsequent drying – the manufacturing process itself helps make this material more sustainable overall.
Saueressig
Booth: 1W05
Saueressig Group, a subsidiary of Matthews International Corporation, is a recognized expert in the field of gravure printing rolls, embossing rolls, flexographic printing rolls and special machinery manufacturing. The brand integrates the packaging, surface, roll, engineering and elastomer business units. The Saueressig Group has accumulated decades of valuable experience, paying great attention to quality, versatility and the strength of an international group. As an industry expert in the manufacturing and engineering industries and an innovative partner in the field of creative and digital solutions, the company supports its customers in all areas of its business to actively shape the market today and in the future.
Sateri Group
Booth: 1H78
Sateri is the world’s largest producer of cellulose fibers. Cellulose fibers are derived from natural sources and are widely used in textile and nonwoven products such as baby wipes and personal hygiene materials.
In order to better serve the Chinese market, the largest and fastest growing market in the global cellulosic fiber industry, Sateri owns five cellulosic fiber factories in China, two nonwoven fabric factories, a yarn factory and a lyocell project. The annual production capacity of cellulose fiber reaches 1.4 million tons; at the same time, Sateri is rapidly expanding its production capacity through new construction and acquisitions. The company’s headquarters is established in Shanghai, providing a complete marketing network and customer service for Asian, European and American markets.
Trützschler Nonwovens
Booth: 1J20
Trützschler Nonwovens will focus on launching high-performance spunlace nonwoven production lines at ANEX-SINCE. The outbreak of this epidemic has fully demonstrated that we need efficient and reliable technology to manufacture low to medium weight nonwoven wipe materials. Trützschler Nonwovens has developed a three-comb concept for this purpose to support the mass production of disinfectant wipes.
In addition, the company will focus on promoting sustainable and environmentally friendly nonwoven fabric production solutions for disposable products. The latest breakthrough in the field of wet wipes is the carding/wood pulp (CP) product, which is a nonwoven fabric formed by wetlaid wood pulp and a separate carded layer through hydroentanglement. Pulp, as a cost-effective raw material, greatly reduces production costs. The CP production line, provided by Trützschler and its partner Voith, produces baby wipes and body wipes that are fully functional, cost-effective, biodegradable and come from renewable resources.
Toray Advanced Materials
Booth: 1L01
Toray Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. is a comprehensive chemical materials company with a wide range of business and the core of the industry for the production of materials for daily life. Toray High-Tech Poly (Nantong) Co., Ltd. and Toray High-Tech Poly (Foshan) Co., Ltd. are located in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province and Foshan City, Guangdong Province respectively. Toray Polytech Jakarta, located in Jakarta, Indonesia, mainly provides SSMMMS multilayer nonwoven fabrics for sanitary materials for the Southeast Asian market.