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INDEX™20 Innovation Awards - Innovation in Machinery

The winner of the category "Innovation in machinery of special relevance to the nonwovens industry" is GDM with Expandable Welding Wheel

The nominees were:

  • CAMPEN Machinery – New patented airlaid beater forming technology
  • Dienes Werke für Maschinenteile - Depth Control Senso Plus (Led)
  • GDM - Expandable Welding Wheel
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Winner - This innovative solution generates a side seam welding in baby and adult pant-type products. This technology enables the production of an extended number of sizes with the same unit. Side-seam bonding and performance are guaranteed for a wide range of raw materials. The unit is composed of welding stations mounted onto a wheel-like system, allowing high-speed operation and requiring zero size-change time..

Nominee - The unique CAMPEN beater forming head technology fills a gap in current web forming methods as it can efficiently process different types of fibre blends with a high fibre length. The technology is able to process natural and man-made fibres from 1.5 to 18 mm in fibre length such as bicomponent fibres, PP/PET/viscose fibre blends as well as recycling fibres from textiles, cardboard boxes, newspapers, wood pulp, natural fibres, glass, stone-based fibres and more.

Nominee - Senso Plus is a depth adjustment tool that ensures the correct knife overlap thanks to sensor technology, a LED display and an integrated knife size identification. Unlike knife holders with a scale ring for adjustment where it is crucial to know how large the diameter of the knife is, Senso Control's sensor automatically detects each individual knife diameter and reproduces the exact overlap depth.