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NC State University
NCSU-Nonwovens Institute
2401 Research Drive,
College of Textiles
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8301
Phone: 919-515-6551 Fax: 919-515-4556
Dr. Behnam Pourdeyhimi, Associate Dean for Industry & Extension & NWI Director, 919-515-6551 Email: nonwovens@ncsu.edu
Genevieve Garland, NWI Director of Marketing & Business Development 919-513-4777
Email: nonwovens@ncsu.edu
Mr. Sherwood Wallace, NWI Operations Manager, 919-513-1326
Email: nonwovens@ncsu.edu
Web site: http://www.NCRC.NCSU.edu
All inquiries: nonwovens@ncsu.edu
Academic Research Facilities:
- High Loft Equipment, Pilot or Full-Scale
- Truetzschler Scan Feed High Loft.
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Bonders for Point or Overall Bonding
- Calender, Thermal Bonding 2-roll 24 inch Fairview. 2 additional hot oil rolls with different patterns and bond areas available., Fleissner 5 head belt/drum Hydroentangler for surface and drum for back (Many patterns available)
- Carding Equipment, Pilot or Full-Scale
- Card Roller top nonwovens card - single main cylinder with six workers and strippers, 40 in. width.
- Truetzschler 903 flat top 40-in. width.
- Truetzschler Scan Feed
- Carding Cross-Lapping Line The line is capable of producing up to 16 opsy x 50 inch.
- Sonobond ultrasonic bonder.
- Asselin Cross lapper and tacker
- Asselin 4 board needle loom
- Fleissner Thru-Air oven 4 zone
- Dryers, Thru-Air, I-R, Etc.
- Tenter Frame (Marshall & Williams 2000) Pines, clips & overfeed assembly. 212° - 450° F (hot air). Max. width 82 in., min. width 34 in. (approx.).
- Fleissner Thru-Air(Drum) 24” gas oven.
- Dying
and Finishing Equipment
- Coater and Drying Unit, Laboratory (Mathis LTF/LTSV) 33 x 43 cm max. sample size. 28 x 30 cm max coated surface; 20° - 250° C.
- Finishing Pad (Greenville Machinery Corp.) 82 in. max. fabric width; pressure load 10 tons
- Foam Finishing Unit (Gaston County Dyeing Machinery Co.) 20 in. max. fabric width. 18 in max. application width. 0-50 ypm. Top & bottom applicator.
- Padder, Lab (Mathis HVF) Horizontal and vertical nip padding, 500 mm roll width, 2.5-5 m/min.
- Predryer, Gas (Marshall & Williams) Max width: 18 in.
- Steamer, Laboratory (Arioli) 105° - 150° C. 18 in. x 24 in. sample size.
- Thermosoling Range, Laboratory (Mathis THN) Working width: 300 - 600 mm. 0.2 - 10 m/min. 20° - 250° C.
- Wash Range (Greenville Machinery Corp.) Max. width: 82 in. Three wash boxes 250 gallons each. Yards of fabric per box - 18, laced. 30 ypm.
- Tenter Frame (Marshall & Williams 2000) Pines, clips & overfeed assembly. 212° - 450° F (hot air). Max. width 82 in., min. width 34 in. (approx.).
- Laboratory Equipment - General Purpose
- Favimat for single filament testing (Textechno)
- Air Perm (Textest)
- Absorbency Testing System
- Instron
- United Testing multi station for bulk tensile testing
- Servo- hydraulic Instron
- Microscope , confocal
- Microscope , Tulerference
- PMI Pore Size Distributors
- Rheometer, Capillary (Instron)
- Permatest
- Vibroscope Measures fiber denier.
- Water Vapor Transmissions , Mocon
- Hydrostatic Head Tester FX3000 by Textest
- Minilab (Therm O Hakke)
- Melt Blowing Spun Bonding Equipment, Pilot or Full-Scale
- Nordson/Hills Bi-Component Melt Blowing Pilot Line with sheath/core and Side-by-Side capabilities
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Needlepunch Equipment
- Asselin 4 board needle loom
- Asselin Rotary Tacker
- Spunbond Equipment, Pilot or Full-Scale
- Nordson/Hills Spunbond equipment in line with compaction roll and Fairview Calender 24” 2 roll hot oil all capable of productions speeds and thru-puts. Bi-Component with sheath/core and Side-by-Side, segmented pie, tipped tri-lobal, islands-in-the-sea and other capabilities.
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Spunlace/Hydroentangling
Equipment, Pilot
- Flessiner 5 head belt for surface and drum for back (Many patterns available). Up to 250 bar pressure per head. 24” width.
- Testing
Equipment, Physical
- Instron testing
- Air Permeability Tester (Frazier)
- Burst Strength Tester (Mullen/Scott)
- Diaphragm bursting strength method (Mullen)
- Steel ball bursting strength method (Scott)
- Linting - Clean Room Evaluation (Gelbo) Gelbo dry particle generator
- Pilling Tester, Sponge & Brush Method
- Tear Tester (Elmendorf)
- Ultrasonic Bonding Equipment
- Ultrasonic Bonder for Stitching (Branson)
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Wetlaid Nonwovens Equipment
- Wetlay, Inclined-Wire, for Nonwovens (Neue Bruderhaus) Laboratory machine with 12 in. width. Not currently installed
- Yarn
Preparation and Spinning
- Small homo-component extrusion line capable of producing single and multifilament strands.
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Phone
(919) 233-1210 Fax (919) 233-1282