ATE is a well-known engineering group with seven decades of experience and domains expertise in textile engineering, flow technology, print and packaging solutions, machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions and clean technology. In textile engineering domain, it provides complete solution across the textile value chain ie, spinning, weaving, processing, knitting, embroidery and garmenting. ATE living up to its reputation as a “total solution provider”, has joined hands with the technology leader, Fleissner GmbH, Germany to bring cutting-edge technology in the fast emerging areas like nonwovens and technical textiles for the Indian textile industry.

Fleissner is a leading machinery manufacturer for man-made fibre and nonwoven lines. Fleissner provides one stop shop solution for all nonwoven manufacturing machinery for spunlacing, hydro-entanglement, needle punching, thermal bonding and chemical bonding.

With development of belt woven systems, Fleissner has designed an option for effective but gentle bonding of nonwovens by means of hot air. It has option of invariable, variable or manual adjustment for air-flow through the fabric and to control the thickness of fabric. The technology can be used for various applications like: Coating substrates; Fibrefill webs; Upholstery webs; Rubberised coir; Industrial nonwovens; Geo-textiles; Nonwovens for the building industry, for thermal and acoustic insulation; Pressed fibre parts; Textile finishing; Functional clothing; Automotive nonwovens; Shoes and synthetic leather; Household wipes; Medical and sanitary nonwovens.

Salient features are: Air guiding systems; Control temperature and fan speeds when machine is at a standstill as per customer's requirements; Optimised energy consumption; Heating system -- Direct gas heating with optimum usage of thermal efficiency; Extremely short warming-up periods; Infinitely variable control range of 1:40 ratio; Low-maintenance and sturdy burner design; Indirect thermal oil or steam heating; No mixing of flue gases with circulating air; No chemical reactions between flue gases and fabric; Gives option to re-use heat for saving resources; Energy consumption -- Energy-saving EFF1 motors; Optimum air guidance for efficient use of energy; Energy saving by optimised insulation and new door design.

Special design details-- Sturdy design for a long service life; Conveyor belt cleaning system; Incorporation of calender and calibrating units between heating and cooling zone; Fabric transport systems (draft-free); Needle chain for heat-setting operations; Adjustable flow direction in double-belt oven; Prevention energy losses by infinitely variable working width.

Control and visualisation -- Simple process control with easy-to-read screen display; Short set-up times by optimum recipe management; Recipes can be created, saved and loaded easily; Simple operation by intuitive setting and control of production processes via, touch screen; Coupling and data exchange through industrial ethernet interface.

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