EcoWipes, a leading manufacturer of private label products for the hydro-entangled nonwoven segment, has installed progressive and sustainable WLS (wet-laid spunlacing production lines for manufacturing wet-laid hydroentangled nonwovens by textile machinery firm, Trutzschler, and leader in systems, products, services, and digital applications, Voith.

The sale of the fifth WLS facility is testimony to the successful collaboration between Trützschler Nonwovens and Voith as established technology leaders in the wet-laid hydroentangled nonwoven segment.

The new production line at EcoWipes is a flexible wet-dry nonwoven facility. Voith is supplying the HydroFormer, one of the main components of the new line. The HydroFormer concept builds on Voith’s long experience in the paper and pulp industry. With HydroFormer technology the suspension is highly diluted, so nonwovens can be produced entirely from cellulose, a renewable and cost-effective raw material.

Trützschler Nonwovens is not just responsible for the hydroentangling, drying and reeling up, but will also supply its latest high-speed card. This flexible configuration enables EcoWipes to produce a broad product range of wet-laid/spunlaced or carded/spunlaced nonwovens. (GK)