Bekaert has recently added two new products to its portfolio: EvoStep worker and doffer wire for medium speed carding and CTS cylinder wire for short staple carding. The various carding possibilities and advantages of EvoStep and CTS cylinder wire can be seen at Bekaert booth 211/C in hall 2 at ITM Texpo Eurasia 2013.
EvoStep.
EvoStep is specifically designed for indirect nonwoven manufacturing processes, where cross lapping and needle punching are typically used as bonding technology. This wire is particularly suitable for carding various natural and man-made fibers as well as recycled material like PET fibers, more specifically for the filtration, geotextile, automotive, carpet and bedding industry.
humped teeth. This feature enables the wire to keep fibers closer to the tip of the teeth enabling a more intense carding process and a more efficient neps removal as well as a yarn IPI that is about 20% better as compared with standard cylinder wires. The delicately determined hump depth of each product vouches for an optimized fiber accommodation to facilitate ideal carding process. To accommodate any type of short staple card, Bekaert offers six different types of CTS cylinder wires suitable for any carding application that requires the best possible IPI and NRE values.
had already been the focal point of visitors' enquiries at the 2012 event in Istanbul,' declared the regional sales manager from KARL MAYER. 'This innovative machine offers numerous production possibilities, especially for the manufacture of embroidery grounds, upholstery fabrics and net curtains, those product groups which are currently much in demand,' he added.
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