Freudenberg Performance Materials, producer of high-quality performance technical fabric, non-woven and textile, has installed a state-of-the-art spunlaid line in Taiwan and will start manufacturing of nonwoven for diverse markets.
The production line is the first to be integrated with the new spunlaid technology developed by Freudenberg.
The technology features an enhanced filament distribution for increased material uniformity which eases out the processing of nonwoven for a variety of applications.
It also leverages the use of AI for detecting variances in the material and automatically adjusting uniformity and a high-grade IR camera to identify small melt defects.
Moreover, the production line also features enhancement to reduce environmental impacts.
The parts used in the machine were chosen based on their energy efficiency to reduce the CO2 emission during operation.
The spunlaid line will run partially on solar energy from the panels that were installed last year on the site. Also, the Taiwan site has installed a recycling system that recycles all start-up material and scrap material during normal operations. This will further help the manufacturer reach their target of zero-waste operation.
“The new production line will not only allow us to better serve our customers in Asia, but also do so in a sustainable way. We are always researching and implementing new ways to reduce our carbon footprint and that was something we focused on heavily while building up the line – how we could make our operations better for the product and the environment,” said Lin Gow Ming, President of Freudenberg Far Eastern Spunweb.
