Needling is the most universal bonding method in the nonwovens sector with a percentage of over 50 %. Needlelooms can be used for a wide range of fabric weights and fibre fineness, and due to the mechanical operating principle are extremely economical with resources. All types of fibre, man-made, natural, mineral and metal can be needled. DILO offers the optimum machinery for all needling tasks due to its experience for decades since the 1950s:

• In working widths from 0.6 m to 16 m
• Stroke frequencies up to 3.500 strokes/min
• Needle densities between 870 and 80.000 needles/m of working width.

Innovations from Dilo like the DI-LOOP and DI-LOUR processes, circular and endless needling, RONTEX and BELTEX, have initiated important steps in needling technology.

Apart from standard needlelooms for one-sided pre- and finishneedling, we also offer double needlelooms for needling from top and bottom as well as Hyperpunch needlelooms with elliptical needle beam kinematics for high speed needling with minimal draft.

The needling zone is decisive for needlefelt quality. For this reason, DILO offers about 300 different needleboards to find the most suitable needle distribution for any application. 

DiloTemafa offers opening and blending equipment for synthetic and natural fibres, machines for the extraction of natural fibres and their cleaning. High fibre throughput and high blending precision.

Production portfolio:

• Opening, cleaning, dosing and blending systems for the nonwoven-industry and for spinning mills
• Feeding equipment for cards and for web-forming machines
• Fibre preparation systems for natural fibres (flax, hemp, kenaf etc.)
• Specialized machines and systems for dye and bleaching plants
  • wool scouring and wool combing plants
  • the waste regenerating industry
  • the manufacture of security paper
  • the processing of glass and bast fibres, linters and others
• Machines for opening of webedge trimmings and off-quality

The portfolio of DiloSpinnbau comprises universal cards with single or double doffer, double main cylinder cards, random and airlay cards. Special experience has been gained with wide cards designed for working widths up to 6000 mm. Spinnbau is known in the field of card design as a pioneer, with developments such as random card technology using random and condenser rollers. 

Portfolio:

• Wide cards
• High-speed cards
• Universal cards
• Lab cards

DiloGroup consists of DiloSystems, the specialists for design and engineering of production plants, DiloTemafa for opening and blending machinery,

DiloSpinnbau for mechanical and aerodynamic web formation and DiloMachines, builders of crosslappers and needlelooms.

The crosslapper lays down the single web coming from the card in layers on top of each other at a predetermined width and transports the total web mass to the infeed of subsequent machines. In this way the required web mass can be created while cross strength and homogeneity of the product are increased at the same time. The DILO crosslappers  are characterized by a high layering precision at web infeed speeds. For narrow layering widths and lower infeed speeds we offer an economic alternative with the DLA of our Alpha Line series. For layering very lightweight felts with a low number of layers and finest fibres the Hyperlayer is especially suitable.