Oerlikon to cooperate with Shaoyang Textile Machinery on Spunmelt line solutions in future.
Oerlikon’s business unit Nonwoven will cooperate with the Chinese machine and plant manufacturer Shaoyang Textile Machinery for nonwoven solutions in the hygiene market. This was announced by the Manmade Fibers segment at ITMA ASIA + CITME 2018.
Oerlikon Manmade Fibers Segment expands its activities in the nonwoven sector. The aim of both cooperation partners is to jointly advance the international sales of Spunmelt lines for hygiene applications in the field of disposable nonwovens outside China.
Oerlikon’s business unit Nonwoven will be responsible for the entire project in the future. To this end, the Neumünster-based company will contribute its know-how in plant engineering to the partnership. Additionally, Oerlikon acquires the CE certifications of all exported Shaoyang Spunmelt lines. Oerlikon will also be responsible for product and process guarantees and will provide worldwide customer services outside China. Shaoyang Textile Machinery, on the other hand, supplies the Spunmelt plant technologies.
“With Shaoyang Textile Machinery, we have found a renowned Chinese plant manufacturer with extensive know-how in the construction of Spunmelt plants for hygiene applications, which achieves international standards with its nonwoven qualities,” explains Oerlikon Manmade Fibers Segment CEO Georg Stausberg.
Rainer Straub, Head of Oerlikons Nonwoven Business Unit, adds: “The partnership with Shaoyang Textile Machinery enables us to gain a foothold in the highly competitive hygiene market. Our many years of engineering experience guarantee our customers production lines according to international standards for high-quality nonwovens”.
About the Oerlikon Manmade Fibers Segment
With its Oerlikon Barmag and Oerlikon Neumag brands; Oerlikon Manmade Fibers Segment is the World market leader for manmade fiber filament spinning systems; texturing machines, BCF systems, staple fiber systems, solutions for the production of nonwovens; and – as a service provider – offers engineering solutions for the entire textile value added chain. As a future oriented company; the research and development at this division of the Oerlikon Group is driven by energy-efficiency and sustainable technologies (e-save). With the continuous polycondensation and extrusion line systems and their key components; the company caters to the entire process with automated and digitally networked Industrie 4.0 solutions; from the monomer all the way through to the textured yarn.
The primary markets for the product portfolio of Oerlikon Barmag are in Asia; especially in China, India and Turkey; and – for those of Oerlikon Neumag – in the USA, Asia, Turkey and Europe. Worldwide, the segment – with just under 3,000 employees – has a presence in 120 countries; of production, sales and distribution and service organizations. At the R&D centers in Remscheid, Neumünster (Germany) and Suzhou (China); highlyqualified engineers, technologists and technicians develop innovative and technologically-leading products for tomorrow’s world.