Statement: Tobias Schurr, WEKO

WEKO is changing traditional finishing processes to more cost effective and environmentally friendly - with innovative and precise rotor spray technology.
Todays traditional finishing method are padder and kiss roller systems. Since decades they are well-known application methods and bring high flexibility. Everyone knows how to use them most efficient.
But is it really cutting-edge technology?
Are they the most cost, energy, waste and water saving working principle?
The Padder also comes with many disadvantages because it is a full contact system (dip and squeeze):
- Fleet contamination and tailing
- center-side variations
- only double-sided application possible
- permanent full penetration and high pick-up from 50-130%.
- high required drying capacity due to high pick-up
- high consumption of chemicals and water
- mechanical stress on the fabric
- high application tolerance
The revolution in Textile and Nonwoven finishing - contactless minimum rotor spray application.
Easily could be brought down the wet pick-up and therefore reducing the high drying energy and your carbon footprint.
Due to the contactless, uniform application, there is no tailing or listing and you get an excellent and easy reproducible quality. Single-sided, double-sided or different functions per side can be applied. The penetration level can also be influenced and adapted to the respective application. The high chemical flexibility – also compared to other spray technologies - ensures versatile use.
Where can you use the non-contact minimum application?
In Textile they are typically used on stenter frames, coating lines or dyeing ranges.
For Nonwovens they are mostly used in highspeed Spunbond or Meltblown lines spending the fabrics a specific additonal function by spray application with low add-on.
For more information please visit our booth on TechTextil in Hall 12 Booth C55 and our website www.weko.net