Leading expertise in filtration
Neumünster, 02 September 2024 –Oerlikon Nonwoven will showcase its customer- and market-driven system solutions for filtration applications at FILTECH, the premier trade show for filters and filtration systems in Cologne from November 12–14. The plant engineering business for nonwoven production technology, located in Neumünster, is inviting trade show attendees to meet the team at hall 8, exhibit B18, and see the company’s extensive product and process knowledge firsthand.
Filtration: Leading meltblown solutions for the highest demands
Oerlikon Nonwoven meltblown technology makes it possible to produce distinctive and extremely complex nonwovens for sorption, insulation, and filtering applications in an effective and straightforward manner. The range of applications for filter media and membranes is matched by the diversity of polymers utilized in their manufacture. The spectrum includes specialty plastics like PPS and TPU as well as traditional polyolefins like PP and PE, PET, PLA, PBT, and PA. The Oerlikon Nonwoven Meltblown technique can be used to securely process all of these raw materials as well as others.
A conventional FFP2 filter medium’s pressure loss can be lowered to less than a quarter by using the extremely effective electret filter media produced by the hycuTEC hydrocharging technology, which has won the Edana Filtrex Innovation Award. According to Dr. Ingo Mählmann, Director of Sales & Marketing at Oerlikon Nonwoven, “Filtration efficiencies of over 99.99% are easy to achieve with typical filter media of around 35 g/m² with a maximum pressure loss of 35 Pa.” “What’s more, this innovative process eliminates the need for an additional drying process for the production of high-separation electret filter media for most applications,”
Spunbond solutions: High-performance technology for filter applications
In filtration applications, spunbond products are playing a bigger role as the filter media itself as well as the backing materials for the media. Customer-specific needs for various functions can be realized because of a nonwoven structure designed for their particular tasks; it is also conceivable to integrate many functionalities into a single layer. Years of expertise in the field of bicomponent spinning techniques, in particular, have made it possible to build entirely new nonwoven structures and, as a result, fulfill several purposes with a single material. Different fiber cross-sections can be coupled with the Oerlikon Nonwoven Bico spunbond method, which also allows for the simultaneous production of multiple fibers from one or more polymers on a single system. The spectrum includes splitable fibers as well as traditional core-sheath and side-by-side bico filaments.
About Oerlikon Polymer Processing Solutions Division
Oerlikon is a leading provider of comprehensive polymer processing plant solutions and high-precision flow control component equipment. The division provides polycondensation and extrusion lines, manmade fiber filament spinning solutions, texturing machines, BCF and staple fiber lines as well as nonwoven production systems. It also develops and produces advanced and innovative hot runner systems and multi-cavity solutions for the injection molding industry. Its hot runner solutions serve business sectors, including automotive, logistics, environmental, industrial applications, consumer goods, beauty and personal care and medical. Moreover, Oerlikon offers customized gear metering pumps for the textile, automotive, chemical, dyes and lacquers industries. Its engineering competence leads to sustainable and energy-efficient solutions for the entire polymer processing value chain with a circular economy approach.
Oerlikon Polymer Processing Solutions Division serves customers through its technology brands – Oerlikon Barmag, Oerlikon Neumag, Oerlikon Nonwoven and Oerlikon HRSflow – in around 120 countries with production, sales, distribution and service organizations.
