ANDRITZ Nonwoven & Textile is one of the world’s leading suppliers of technologies for the nonwoven and textile industry. Its key competences lie in technologies for airlaid, air-through bonding, airlay, needlepunch, spunlace, spunbond, wetlaid/Wetlace, converting, textile finishing, recycling, bast fiber processing and Dry Molded Fibers.

Long years of experience in the hands of the well-known companies Küsters, Perfojet, Asselin-Thibeau, Diatec, Laroche and Dan-Web form the foundation of the ANDRITZ Nonwoven & Textile technology. The innovative technologies of these companies complement one another ideally in process solutions for a great variety of applications. By uniting forces in engineering and process development, ANDRITZ can provide unrivalled expertise to the benefits of their customers.

Complete lines, rebuilds, upgrades and automation are part of the portfolio, as well as business with individual machines.

As a major player, ANDRITZ Nonwoven & Textile is compelled to continuously seek innovative technologies that fulfill customer demands. ANDRITZ Nonwoven & Textile has manufacturing facilities and technical center worldwide that comply with international standards, thus providing high quality assurance and quality control practices.

ANDRITZ shares technologies and unite market experience, cultural diversity, as well as well-established customer and supplier relations all along the value chain. Listening to customers and understanding their products is the initial step in all development work. International R&D teams from all competence and service centers have joined together to create innovative and visionary concepts for sustainable products.

ANDRITZ also works in close partnership with well-known universities, institutes, and associations to evaluate and improve processes, and at the same time identify talented future employees for engineering, process or project management positions.

Running complete lines calls for in-depth nonwoven expertise and excellent service. ANDRITZ offers a full service portfolio and thus can ensure improved uptime, productivity, and product quality. This includes on-site support, specific training, line audits and troubleshooting, upgrades and modernizations, genuine spare parts, and service and roll repair centers in Europe, North America, and China.

With state-of-the-art installations at the Technical Centers in Krefeld (Germany), Montbonnot (France), Elbeuf (France), and Cours (France) ANDRITZ expert process engineers work as partners to nonwovens producers in product development, evaluation of new processes and the definition of parameters for product guarantees. The technical center in Montbonnot has complete spunlace and Wetlace cp pilot line and a dry molded fiber line, whereas the Krefeld site is equipped with a wetlaid/Wetlace pilot line, production and pilot calenders, as well as various wet finishing machines and the technical center in Elbeuf shows a full needlepunch pilot line. In Cours, France, ANDRITZ offers a technical center for textile recycling, airlay and bast fiber processes. All processes are analyzed continuously and meticulously about performance and consumption of resources.