In India geotextiles, automotive products, wipes, sanitary napkins and baby diapers showing very promising growth rates. Typical applications of needle-punched nonwovens are artificial leather, automotive felts and carpets. Products for thermal and noise insulation are typical applications for the Airlay technology.
Overall, India’s nonwovens industry is entering into a rapid development stage with huge market potential ahead, the company reports. Energy saving, higher machine availability and reduced maintenance cost are market requirements. There is also an increasing product quality demand.
The company says that the major nonwovens industry trends of high productivity paired with low maintenance cost and high flexibility for various nonwovens products increase the demand for top quality machines from Autefa Solutions.
Autefa Solutions hosted a Symposia for the Indian nonwovens industry in January, showed hospitality to a high number of potential customers and industry experts in Mumbai, where it shared its latest developments in needlepunching, spunlace and airlay technology, as well as retrofit solutions.
According to Alexander Stampfer, Regional Sales Director Autefa Solutions, Autefa Solutions is a leading full line supplier for complete nonwovens lines and represents companies with a long tradition and many years on the market. Combining the experience of the companies Autefa, Fehrer, FOR and Strahm, the company stands for high quality, durability and performance made in Europe.
He explains that, “Our overall goal is to be close to our customers to better understand their needs. As a full line supplier for carded- crosslapped needlepunch lines, spunlace lines and thermobonding lines we offer a wide product range for the nonwovens sector, including fibre preparation, carding, needling, thermobonding, hydroentanglement, drying as well as end-of-line equipment. The customer today is more demanding and requires lowest possible Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).â€
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