SolveTech, developer of gauging systems, has now adapted their proprietary, non-nuclear gauging systems to meet the needs of nonwoven producers and converters.

The company have taken their PR2000 Profiler, MultiChannel and FX21000 which have been very successful in the plastic film industry and modified them for use in the nonwoven industry.

SolveTech’s capacitance based gauging technology is being custom configured to provide basis weight or weight per unit area uniformity for thin nonwovens less than 0.25” thick. The proprietary technology averages basis weight over a specified area, similar to a cut and weigh measurement. This greatly reduces the noise in the reading due to the rough nature of the material and can in many cases read with accuracies 1 per cent or better depending on process conditions. It is also fast, producing data every 0.01 seconds on the FX2100, completely customisable, and not sensitive to optical properties. The technology has no nuclear or x-ray hazards which eliminates regulatory headaches.

Doug Lawrence, president, SolveTech, Inc. said, “We are excited about introducing our technology to the nonwoven market. It has now been proven to provide a unique value to producers and purchasers of nonwoven materials that want to inspect uniformity.” (GK)