ANDRITZ is a leading supplier with more than 70 years of experience to fall back on, so you can rely on long-standing expertise and comprehensive project management – prompt and top-class. With more than 600 nonwovens calenders in operation worldwide, and installations in all high-end nonwovens lines, ANDRITZ stands for top performance, reliability, flexibility, and proven technologies.

Whether it is thermobonding, embossing, compacting, lamination or perforation, we provide spot-on solutions to suit your needs. Our product portfolio offers complete system solutions, single units, rebuilds, automation systems, and comprehensive life-cycle services. Together we can design and innovate technologies to leverage any end use in the nonwovens market.

Core competences
Drawing on our S-Roll core competence, all rolls are manufactured and mechanically tested at our facility in Krefeld, Germany. Roll technology efficiency is crucial to the success of the final product. We ensure top performance and ultimate flexibility.

Whether your technology is spunlaid, drylaid, airlaid, or wetlaid, we provide the perfect solution to suit your special needs and final product demands. Benefit from our unlimited portfolio and our broad know-how for thermobonding, embossing, perforation, compacting, and lamination.

Depending on your final product and its parameters, like strength, softness, or air permeability, our nonwoven calender portfolio ranges from low and medium capacities (aXcess range) to high capacities (eXcelle range), precisely designed to meet your needs.

Be it home textiles, technical textiles or traditional textiles, ANDRITZ Küsters offers exactly the right textile calender solution targeting your needs in an ever more demanding market. With more than 150 years of experience in textile calendering, it is not just our daily business. It is our passion – and part of our DNA.

ANDRITZ has made its way to the top of the textile calender market. The ANDRITZ teXcal calender range is characterized by highest quality standards, top performance, reliability, flexibility, and state-of-the-art, deflection-controlled rolls for any textile application. Take advantage of this all-embracing, first-class product and service portfolio. We are the right partner for spot-on solutions that perfectly suit your needs.

Core competences
ANDRITZ Küsters is currently the only supplier that can offer three different deflection-controlled roll technologies from one source. The technology set-up of the S-Roll, Raconip Roll, and Xpro Roll is our core competence, and all rolls are manufactured and tested at our facility in Krefeld, Germany, before delivery. We ensure top performance and ultimate flexibility.

ANDRITZ offers complete wetlaid production lines from low to high volume for the production of glass fiber mats — the ANDRITZ neXline wetlaid. Different types of lines are available depending on the capacity level. However, they all encompass stock preparation, wetlaid forming, binder application, flat dryer, and winder, and are perfectly suited to your needs. 

The neXline wetlaid includes a revolutionary development for glass fiber mats in the manifold, diffusor, and former equipment. The double diffusor concept ensures uniform fiber distribution with optimal structures during the laying process. This results in reduced raw material costs because less chemicals and fibers are needed.

Set new standards for flushable wipes. The original ANDRITZ Wetlace™ combines wet forming and hydroentanglement. This tried-and-tested process has proven ideal for producing flushable wipes from 100 % natural and/or renewable raw materials without chemical binders.

The ANDRITZ Wetlace™ technology incorporates contradictory properties. The process behind the core solution to provide excellent web uniformity blends the web on the inclined wire and bonds it mechanically in the hydroentanglement unit.  This process results in superior web uniformity and product quality. The final strength is achieved by mechanical bonding of the web via hydroentanglement, which ideally complements the wetlaid technology by entangling fibers without any chemical binders or thermoplastic fibers.

ANDRITZ offers various nonwoven processes to produce best and cost-effective wipes, like spunlace, Wetlace and Wetlace CP. ANDRITZ also accompanies nonwoven producers in the move to sustainability with the aim of reducing or eliminating plastic components while maintaining the high quality of the desired product properties. The latest development in this field is the ANDRITZ neXline wetlace CP line, which integrates the card-pulp (CP) process. This is a fully engineered production line combining the benefits of drylaid and wetlaid technologies to produce a new generation of biodegradable wipes.