At the recent Techtextil fair in Frankfurt, Dilo and group members TEMAFA, and Spinnbau exhibited innovations at booth B81 in hall 12, alongside Groz-Beckert and industry peers, showcasing advancements in textile technology.

In addition to the four days in Frankfurt, Dilo had invited customers for a tour of DiloGroup’s headquarters in Eberbach as a supplementary event to demonstrate relatively shortly after ITMA 23 its range of latest machine and line innovations.

More than 80 visitors visited the company’s R&D and demonstration centres which had been specifically prepared by the deputy CEOs Rebekka and Riccarda Dilo and their team from the sales, R&D and technology departments, the company said in a press release.

The complete lines and individual machinery were on display in a space of approximately 3.100 m2 to include the MicroPunch S research and demonstration line for needling light-weights in a range of 35 up to 160 g/m2 including the MultiCard MCRR CC with FRS-P feeder which was returned from ITMA and reinstalled for the product development of hygiene, cosmetic, medical and technical lightweight nonwovens. This line was accompanied by a Hypertex line for the production of lightweight sandwiches of reinforced nonwoven layers to increase strength and stiffness in MD and CD directions for use as needled filtration and roofing material as well as shoe and garment applications. The layered mesh of filament or yarn is laid inline between a base and a cover of pre-needled material with speeds up to ca. 40 m/min.

The MicroPunch S intensive needling line can thus be combined with the Hypertex process to include all areas of applications for lightweights needled from fine fibre.

Three buses had carried the seven groups of visitors to take part in machine demonstrations which processed the special fibre material until wind-up in the end-of-line section.

In Technology Centres I and II three complete nonwovens lines ran demonstrations including a 7 m wide needling line consisting of the VQC Card (Quadro), the high speed DLSC three apron layer capable of ca. 200 m/min infeed speed and the 7 m wide pre-needler. Also, the HyperPunch machine in 3.5 m was included in the demonstration.

At the aerodynamic web forming section ‘additive manufacturing’ was on display through the 3D-Lofter which comprises a series of individual web formers programmable to lay down additional fibre material.