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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.
• 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
• 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.

• 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)
• 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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