Herty Advanced Technology Nonwovens Machine, 1990 Nonwovens Conference Proceedings
Nonwoven materials have a proven place in the market place for both commercial and consumer products. As research leads to new and improved fibers, one can only believe that the use of nonwoven products will continue to expand into the twenty- first century, which is only ten years away. This paper describes the plans that The Herty Development Center has for meeting the industry’s needs for product development on into the twenty-first century.
A new pilot/semiproduction process will have the capability (Figure 1) to produce heavy, medium, and ultra-light weight one-, two-, three-, and four-ply products from multiple similar or dissimilar fiber sources, including recycled synthetic waste. The new state-of-the-art equipment (Figure 2) will include an inclined wire, rotoformer/sigmaformer, hydroentanglement, dry forming, cylinder, and air thru-drying.
Herty Advanced Technology Nonwovens Machine, 1990 Nonwovens Conference Proceedings