Conwed, a leading plastic netting manufacturer, acquired by Schweitzer-Mauduit International (SWM), a leading global provider of highly engineered solutions and advanced materials, earlier this year, is set to exhibit at Techtextil Europe 2017 Conference & Exhibition, to be held in Frankfurt, Germany, from May 9 to 12, 2017, in hall 3, level 1, stand F62.

At Techtextil 2017, SWM will showcase its entire portfolio of extruded square, diamond, flat, bi-component, multilayer, and elastomeric netting that provide reinforcement, containment, grip, protection, and stretch capabilities in diverse product designs. Typical netting applications in the textiles and nonwovens industry include reinforcement of other substrates such as film, foil, paper, foam, bubble wrap, nonwoven, and other types of fabrics.

Ivan Soltero, senior strategic marketing manager at Conwed said, “Our netting configurations usually hide behind the scenes but provide essential performance to the final product. We specialise in customising our netting designs to help our customers improve their composites in automotive, apparel, medical, filtration, hygiene, cleaning, and building products.”

SWM will continue to display its co-extrusion netting technology. Co-extrusion is a multi-layer extruded netting than can be subsequently oriented where different polymers can form different layers on the same netting configuration. It is a square netting construction and Conwed has the ability to build netting with A/B, A/B/A, and A/B/C layer combinations. By using co-extrusion netting with adhesive layers, manufacturers, and converters may eliminate adhesive steps in their manufacturing and converting processes for specific product applications. Co-extrusion netting can be used in industrial wipes, building & construction composites, automotive acoustic composites, filtration pleat and media support, bedding insulators, vacuum bags, etc. (GK)