BRÜCKNER, which has been producing drying and finishing lines for the textile and nonwoven industry for more than 70 years, will meet with its visitors at IDEA 2022 in the USA. The German family-owned company supplies thermofusion ovens, dryers, coating and heat-setting lines worldwide in the nonwoven sector. It will exhibit new machine concepts and solutions for different applications in these fields together with its American representative FI-TECH. Visitors to the company’s booth 4101, located just at the entrance of the exhibition hall, will also have the opportunity to have personal conversations with experts on BRÜCKNER’s innovative technologies.
The production of nonwovens always requires a bonding process after the nonwovens formation, where the loosely laid fibres are bonded to a resilient fibre composite. For this purpose, depending on the process, different ovens and dryers are used. BRÜCKNER offers the specific know-how and supplies the necessary lines for all applications. The production program is completed by different impregnation and coating units as well as slitting and winding equipment. BRÜCKNER’s customers produce geo nonwovens, filter media, hygiene and medical textiles or different fabrics for the automotive and transport industry. An individual solution and a corresponding line layout is designed for each customer.
BRÜCKNER SUPRA-FLOW BX for highloft nonwoven fabrics
Recently BRÜCKNER realized several extraordinary installations in the field of highloft nonwovens and geotextiles and will exhibit the SUPRA-FLOW BX, a double band thermofusion oven used for the production of highloft nonwoven fabrics, at its booth. This oven system operates according to the air-through principle and can be perfectly adapted to the product requirements in terms of flow speed, flow direction and temperature on a field-by-field basis. Typical end products include mattresses, bedspreads, upholstery, wiping cloths, automotive components or insulating materials. The SUPRA-FLOW BX can produce nonwovens up to a thickness of 280 mm and a basis weight of maximum 8 kg/m² while the available working widths vary between 2400 and 5200 mm at production speeds of up to 100 m/minimum.
Another solution to be featured at the BRÜCKNER’s booth will be the proven POWER-FRAME stenter used for geotextile projects, which generally impresses with its high uniformity in terms of temperature distribution as well as maximum productivity. The machine enables the fabric to be stretched in a targeted manner by transporting it in the stenter chain and this has a controlled influence on fabric width, fibre orientation and fabric shrinkage. While working widths of up to over 7 meters are not uncommon with geotextile finishing systems, BRÜCKNER finds the optimum solution for each customer depending on the required width, maximum temperature, stretching forces and other process requirements. Fabric trials are also possible at any time in BRÜCKNER’s Technology Center in Leonberg, Germany.