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Nonwoven R&D institute NIRI unveils services at INDEX

10 Apr '14

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The Nonwovens Innovation & Research Institute (NIRI), a British company that specialises in helping clients develop novel and enhanced nonwoven products will be participating at INDEX 14 at stall no 4287.

Formed as a University of Leeds spin-out company in 2005, the NIRI team consists of leading nonwovens specialists providing a unique knowledge of nonwoven materials, technology, products and business, and their global network of contacts enables them to put together a supply chain to meets client requirements.

NIRI formally launched its commercial scale-up service at INDEX 14. It has an extensive range of nonwoven pilot equipment including:

• Blending and mixing plant

• Fibre and fabric pulling facilities

• 1 metre wide nonwoven carding line with cross-lapper and needle loom - 10 kg/day capacity

• 0.5 metre wide multi-headed hydroentanglement line

• Meltblown line

• Electrospinning line

• Comprehensive analytical facilities for quality control

All NIRI's equipment operates to fully commercial specifications, enabling prototype fabrication, product enhancement and small-scale production with small volumes of material.

This versatility allows for production of material that fits in between very small pilot-scale trials and large-scale production, enabling evaluation for commercial scale-up without the costs associated with traditional commercial trials.

NIRI has experience of developing medical products for stability trials and initial launch stock, and can operate to QC requirements, allowing validation studies to be conducted when required.

In addition, NIRI will be presenting a number of in-house technology developments. These include the revolutionary ‘wear2’ - a technology that enables rapid disassembly of fabric products with a low-cost, low-energy and electromagnetic treatment process.

A number of applications involving its patented HydroSpace technology like insecticidal fabrics that do not use conventional chemical pesticides and a new development in flushable nonwoven fabrics that can facilitate the easy disposal of a wide range of products.

Fibre2fashion News Desk - Switzerland

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