ANDRITZ at Techtextil North America 2018

ANDRITZ IN THE USA – THE RIGHT PARTNER FOR NONWOVEN TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES
With the two companies, ANDRITZ Küsters in Spartanburg, SC, and ANDRITZ SHW in Torrington, CT, ANDRITZ is close to its US customers. ANDRITZ offers sales, service, training, retrofits, spare parts, and roll repair tailored to customer needs.

ANDRITZ Küsters focuses on machinery and processes in nonwovens production, offering technologies and services for a variety of applications. Be it for needlepunch, spunlace, wetlaid or thermobonding, ANDRITZ offers the right solution, perfectly suited to customer requirements. In addition, the location hosts an excellent roll repair center with experienced staff and state-of-the-art equipment.

ANDRITZ SHW, a part of the ANDRITZ GROUP since the end of 2016, concentrates on high-grade roll repairs, spare rolls, cast iron and chilled iron rolls and shells, and services. Together with the facility in Spartanburg, ANDRITZ SHW offers highest quality and reliability in repairs, reconditioning, and upgrades to all types of rolls. The two companies work closely together and pool their expertise to provide an excellent range of services, high availability, and wide coverage of the entire NAFTA region.

CUTTING-EDGE NEEDLEPUNCH TECHNOLOGIES – A RECIPE FOR SUCCESS
Based on many years of experience in all fields of needlepunch technology, ANDRITZ creates cost-efficient, flexible, and reliable turnkey needlepunch lines from opening and blending, to the winder. As one of the worldwide market leaders, ANDRITZ has strongly evolved its technology working in close cooperation with its customers and has always designed new solutions in order to improve fabric evenness, bring added value to nonwoven webs through additional fabric performance, or develop systems to optimize productivity and minimize maintenance requirements.

Driven by the vibrant market for durable nonwovens, ANDRITZ presents the neXline needlepunch with the innovative, high-speed Dynamic crosslapper, operating at up to 205 m/min at the input. The renowned ProDyn capabilities are able to reduce fiber consumption drastically, so customers can profit from fabric weight evenness and a significant cost reduction.

The ANDRITZ team is looking forward to meeting you at Techtextil North America (booth 2847).

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ANDRITZ GROUP
ANDRITZ is a globally leading supplier of plants, equipment, and services for hydropower stations, the pulp and paper industry, the metal working and steel industries, and for solid/liquid separation in the municipal and industrial segments. Other important fields of business are animal feed and biomass pelleting, as well as automation, where ANDRITZ offers a wide range of innovative products and services in the IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) sector under the brand name of Metris. In addition, the international technology Group is active in power generation (steam boiler plants, biomass power plants, recovery boilers, and gasification plants) and environmental technology (flue gas cleaning plants) and offers equipment for the production of nonwovens, dissolving pulp, and panelboard, as well as recycling plants.

A passion for innovative technology, absolute customer focus, reliability, and integrity are the central values to which ANDRITZ commits. The listed Group is headquartered in Graz, Austria. With over 160 years of experience, 25,600 employees, and more than 250 locations in over 40 countries worldwide, ANDRITZ is a reliable and competent partner and helps its customers to achieve their corporate and sustainability goals.