11th Nonwovens Network
Event
"ITMA 2007 REVIEW"
Thursday 19th June 2008
Cedar Court Hotel, Bradford, West Yorkshire
ITMA Review
The committee of the Nonwovens Network considered it their absolute duty to keep members and guests informed of the proceedings of ITMA 2007.
Consequently this year’s seminar concentrates largely on this 4 yearly event.
The Exhibition held in Munich was heralded as excellent in terms of access,
organisation, size and quality of exhibitors and exhibits.
Our emphasis, therefore, is concentrated on Machinery, both in overview and in
particular, as well as including such on-going issues as Research and
Sustainability.
This is our 11th annual event to which Network members, non members and
guests are all invited to attend.
Opportunities are available for all those wishing to exhibit and there is also a
wallet service available.
During the day there will be an opportunity to view the garments made by the
students at the University of Leeds. The garments were recently exhibited at
INDEX and are made from nonwoven materials generously donated to the
fashion department, at the University of Leeds, by Members of the Nonwovens
Network.
A booking form, with directions and programme description, can be downloaded here
2008 Programme
| 9.00 | Registration and coffee | |
| 9.15 | Chairman's Address, Andrew Leather, Group Managing Director, Cosmotec Technical Nonwovens | |
| Chair | Graeme Wood, Group Technical Manager, United Bonded Fabrics, Australia | |
| 9.30 | ITMA Review, Paper prepared by Adrian Wilson, Editor, NRI, Presented by Andrew Leather, Group Managing Director, Cosmotec Technical Nonwovens | |
| 10.00 | For Every Application The Right Web Forming And Bonding Equipment, Marc Wolpers, International Sales Manager, ERKO Trützschler GmbH, Germany | |
| 10.30 | Innovative Control Systems For The Nonwoven Industry In A Global Competition, Thomas Hoepfl, Sales Director, Mahlo GmbH, Germany | |
| 11.00 | Break - Bacon Butties and Coffee | |
| 11.30 | Research And Development Throughout The World, Professor Stephen Russell, Nonwovens Research Group, University of Leeds | |
| 12.00 | Technical And Economic Advantages Of Automatex Needlepunching Line, Piero Boso, Sales Manager, Automatex, Italy | |
| 12.30 | Oerlikon Can Fix It, Rodney Kershaw, Sales Manager, Oerlikon, Neumag Saurer, Austria | |
| 13.00 | Open Forum | |
| 13.15 | Lunch | |
| 14.30 | HDB Nonwoven Machinery, Frank Reisky, Managing Director, HDB, Belgium | |
| 15.00 | New Developments/Novel Ideas, Dr Helmut Fuchs, Director of Technology, Oskar Dilo Maschinenfabrik KG, Germany | |
| 15.30 | Sustainability In Textiles, Dick Budden, formerly Wellman International, Ireland | |
| 16.00 | Afternoon tea and end of seminar |
Membership of the Network is on a personal basis and costs only £50 per annum, the cost of which includes the dinner and all the rest of the advantages membership brings. To join, book a place on any of the events being held by the Nonwovens Network or if you just require any further information please contact:
Dinah Wharton
School of Textiles & Design
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
Tel: 0113 343 3758
Fax 0113 343 3704
Email: d.j.wharton@leeds.ac.uk
Previous Events
7th Nonwovens Network Seminar
"Global Perspectives"
Thursday 21st June 2007
Cedar Court Hotel, Bradford, West Yorkshire
2007 heralded the 10th Anniversary of the Nonwovens Network.
This friendly association has grown over the years and now supports around 170 members, many of whom have been loyal and supportive since day 1.
The Chairman and Committee all serve voluntarily and with great energy in their desire to enhance the perspectives of the industry in the United Kingdom. It is remarkable that from a standing start 10 years ago there is as much enthusiasm, if not more, for this successful association.
Those members who have been with the network since its inauguration will remember that we based its raison d’etre on member opinion and perceived
need, we have always taken into account your concerns and views.
In celebration of our 10th Anniversary we decided to take a global view as far as the industry is concerned and looking at overriding
influences that effect industry.
Also in celebration of the 10th Anniversary, we reduced the Seminar fee to Network members.
Seminar 2007 Programme
| 9.00 | Registration and coffee | |
| 9.15 | Chairmans Address, Andrew Leather, Managing Director, Cosmotec Technical Nonwovens | |
| 9.30 | A Sustainable Future for Nonwovens, Dr Richard Blackburn, Senior Lecturer, Centre of Technical Textiles, University of Leeds, UK | |
| 10.00 | Government Financial Support for Innovation Industry & Universities Working Together, Simon Macaulay, Managing Director, Anglo Felt Industries Ltd | |
| 10.30 | Reach - The Background & Requirements, Joe Smith, Product Safety Advisor, Clariant Production UK Ltd | |
| 11.00 | Break - Bacon Butties and Coffee | |
| 11.30 | KEYNOTE GUEST SPEAKER, Fibres for Nonwovens, Colin Purvis, Director General, CIRFS, Belgium | |
| 12.00 | CHINA - Threat or Opportunity?, Trevor Robson, Managing Director, TEXCONI Ltd | |
| 12.30 | The Effect of Energy Markets, Chris hinchcliffe, Senior EHS Consultant, Delta-Simons Environmental, Consultants | |
| 13.00 | Lunch & Questionnaire | |
| 14.15 | Getting the Most from the Internet, Martin Dower, Chief Executive Officer, Connected-UK.com LLP | |
| 14.45 | Impact of Globalisation on UK Industry & UK Economy, Russell Grazier, REgional Director - International Banking, Royal Bank of Scotland | |
| 15.15 | How to Connect with China, Jean Jameson | |
| 15.45 | Network - The Way Forward | |
| 16.00 | Afternoon tea and end of seminar |
Nonwovens Network 9th Annual Dinner
Thursday 7th December 2006
The Holiday Inn, Brighouse, West Yorkshire
This year's Christmas dinner was held again at the Holiday Inn, Brighouse on Thursday 7th December 2006.
This year were delighted to have Nirmal Singh MBE as our pre-dinner speaker.
From highly inauspicious origins Nirmal Singh by hard work and ability has
become a leading member of the local society in West Yorkshire. He established a nonwoven textile operation in Bradford following previous employment in
the textile industry which prospered and enabled him to expand his operation to the extent that he now owns the Mill that originally turned down his
employment. As a significant supporter of charitable causes he was awarded the MBE. He is an active participant in many community activities including the
Yorkshire Society and is ex-Chairman founder of the Sikh Forum and is currently Patron of the Sikh Forum.
The after dinner speaker was international entertainer Billy Bean.
Billy Bean started his career as a drummer in one of the many 60’s bands that appeared over the north of England. He then furthered his career in comedy
entertainment and has developed into one of the most entertaining comics on the After Dinner circuit. He has been resident, pre-match hospitality comic at
Old Trafford, the home of Manchester United and travelled abroad to many of their European Cup games.
6th Nonwovens Network Seminar -
"What’s Happening in Nonwovens"
Thursday 29th June 2006
Following our first international 2 day conference last year, we were so pleased with the quality of the speakers and high attendance, that we felt we must aspire to keep up the standard with our annual one day summer seminar.
This year we decided to take a wide view and look-around to find out what is going on in the worlds of academic research, industry and the commercial areas of nonwovens, hence the title ‘What’s Happening in Nonwovens’.
Seminar 2006 Programme
| 9.00 | Registration and coffee | |
| 9.15 | Chairmans Address, Andrew Leather, Managing Director, Cosmo-tec | |
| 9.30 | Bonding of Fibres in the Through-air Process, Dr Memis Acar, Senior Lecturer, Loughborough University, UK | |
| 10.00 | Structure and Properties of Nonwovens composed of Fibre Particulates, Dr. Stephen Russell, Director, Nonwovens Research Group, University of Leeds | |
| 10.30 | Nonwovens for Innovative Medical Devices, Prof Subhash Anand, Professor of Technical Textiles, University of Bolton, UK | |
| 11.00 | Break | |
| 11.30 | Customised Absorbent Cellulose Fibres for Nonwovens, Dipl Ing. Josef Schmidtbauer, of Innovation BU Nonwovens, Lenzing AG, Austria | |
| 12.00 | Composite Nonwoven Fabrics for the UK Construction Industry, David Avril, Development Manager, Don & Low Ltd, UK | |
| 12.30 | Lunch | |
| 13.50 | Fashion Update,David Backhouse, Head of Fashion, University of Leeds, UK | |
| 14.10 | Designing Nonwovens - Industrial & Craft Perspectives, Faith Kane, PhD Research Student, Loughborough University, UK | |
| 14.30 | Title to be confirmed, Ahlstrom Ltd, UK | |
| 15.00 | Advanced Application Systems for Hot Melt Coating and Laminating, Mr Riccardo Arnaboldi, Managing Director, HIP- Mitsu, Italy | |
| 15.30 | A View from a Converter, Adrian Bridge, Technical Manager, Nice-Pak International Ltd, UK | |
| 16.00 | Open Forum, Chairman's Closing remarks | |
| 16.15 | Afternoon tea and end of Seminar |
Nonwovens Network 8th Annual Dinner
Thursday 1st December 2005
The Holiday Inn, Brighouse, West Yorkshire
Once again the dinner was held at the Holiday Inn, Brighouse (off jctn 25 M62) on Thursday 1st December 2005. This year we were delighted to announce that The Baroness Lodckwood of Dewsbury was our pre-dinner speaker for the evening. Baroness Lockwood is Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, was first chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission from 1975 ro 1983 and founder of the Parlimentary Universities Group, of which she is now co-chair.
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - EXPANDING THE BOUNDARIES
25-26 May 2005
Village Hotel, Headingley, Leeds and Leeds University
The Nonwovens Network held its first International Conference on 25-26 May 2005 in Leeds UK, at the Village Hotel and Leeds University.
In our continuing efforts to help the nonwovens Industry to thrive and flourish we endeavoured to push the boundaries of nonwoven applications and to explore the future, whilst at the same time consolidating existing nonwovens markets. To this end we put together a programme of some 20 papers from 10 different countries of the world.
At the same time we invited Nonwovens Network members to present table top presentations of their work.
NONWOVENS NETWORK 7TH ANNUAL DINNER - Thursday 2nd December 2004
The format for this year's dinner was different from previous years. A salon-style fashion show will took place during the dinner and professional models showed off a collection of garments made from nonwoven materials, designed by students from the School of Design, University of Leeds.The After Dinner Speaker was Mike Smith from Jaguar
5TH Annual Seminar - Thursday 10th June 2004
"NONWOVENS COLLECTION"
The theme this year was about getting back to basics, looking to the future and includes innovation, design and fashion..
The Department of Fashion at the University of Leeds presented its first sortie into Nonwovens in Fashion garments when the creative youngsters showed off some of their initial work in this field. As their work develops in this area, we hope to follow it up by a live showing of their projects at the Christmas Dinner on Thursday 2 December this year.
All the presentations at Seminar 2004, ‘The Nonwovens Collection’ were geared towards innovation, marketing, expansion and changing direction.
Seminar Programme
| The Nonwovens Collection 10 June 2004 |
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| 9.00 | Registration and coffee | |
| 9.20 | Chairmans Address, Andrew Leather, Managing Director, Cosmopolitan Textiles | |
| 9.30 | The Importance of Innovation, Les Squires, Development Director, Web Dynamics | |
| 10.00 | Design for Function in Nonwoven Materials, Dr. Stephen Russell, Director, Nonwovens Research Group, University of Leeds | |
| 10.30 | Break | |
| 11.15 | "The Economics of Recycling" - Why doesn't waste fibre work very well in the UK ?, Simon Macaulay, Managing Director, Anglo Felt Industries Ltd | |
| 11.45 | Development of an Expert System for Manufacturing Needlepunched Geotextiles, Subash Anand, Professor of Technical Textiles, Bolton Institute | |
| 12.15 | Open Forum and Question Time | |
| 12.30 | Lunch | |
| 13.30 | Marketing Concepts - Back to Basics,Edele Moore, University of Leeds | |
| 14.00 | Marketing Case Study - Changing Direction, Dave Williams, Technical Manager, Terram Ltd | |
| 14.30 | Marketing Case Study - Diversification or Changing Direction, Tim Wilson, Director, John Cotton | |
| 15.00 | Nonwoven Fashion Design, Karen Dennis - Freelance Designer, David Backhouse - Head of Fashion, Lynne Webster and Dr. Stephen Russell (NRG), University of Leeds. FASHION DISPLAY, BY STUDENTS FROM THE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS |
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| 15.30 | Open Forum, Chairmans Closing Remarks | |
| 15.45 | Afternoon tea and end of Seminar |
NONWOVENS NETWORK 6TH ANNUAL DINNER
Thursday 4th December 2003
Holiday Inn, Brighouse
Details of the night to follow.
5th ANNUAL DINNER - December 5th, 2002
The Nonwovens Network held its annual dinner on Thursday 5th December at the Holiday Inn, Brighouse. Over 80 members and their guests attended.
The evening started with the Chairman's welcome and opening address. Malcolm Campbell, Commercial Director, The Woolmark Company, gave the pre-dinner lecture - Changing the Consumers Perception of Wool, No more itchy-scratchy, cheap and granny... Wool - think Madonna, David Beckham, robbie Williams and James Bond.
After dinner, Andrew Leather, the Chairman reiterated the aims of the Network and reminded the gathering of the manner in which the Network had fulfilled its commitments over the past year, in providing the dinner, the seminar, consultancy and training concessions.
The discussion was to invite members to say whether or not they would like the Network to have a presence at ITMA 2003 and also inviting financial support for the event.
Michael Winkley, of Hayton Winkley Kendal Solicitors gave a highly entertaining and extremely funny after dinner speech allowing every one to relax and enjoy themselves. The Network donated his fee to a Charity of his choice – this being the Roy McMechan Memorial Trust for supporting travel for secondary school students in financial need.
4th Annual Seminar - Thursday 20th June 2002
'DESIGNED-in'NONWOVENS
The Nonwovens Network was pleased to present its fourth seminar.
In order to benefit the Nonwovens Industry, the theme of adding value to Nonwoven substrates was pursued.
Seminar 2002 had been arranged so that it would continue to address Nonwoven traditional markets in technical and industrial applications, whilst at the same time looking at ways in which the markets can be expanded into other areas.
At last years seminar we began to introduce, the concept of aesthetic design when we welcomed a speaker from the United States who showed us experimental nonwoven fabrics using conventional surface patterning techniques. These techniques resulted in considerable financial gain for his business. We continued the theme at our pre-dinner lecture in December 2001, when Tim Hoyle showed us some advancements in digital printing.
As a result of the previous two meetings this seminar was, in part, designed to exploit this theme further and to endeavour to continue to excite the imagination by exploring the world of aesthetics and the possible market potential this could open up to Nonwovens manufacturers.
Consequently whilst keeping faith with our grass roots in technical product design for particular end use, speakers were introduced from the area of visual design, in order to investigate whether the application of surface pattern to traditional textiles could be transposed onto Nonwoven substrates.
For a more detailed report about the seminar click here
The programme that was presented is shown below.
Programme
| 1. | MASSEN - Automatic Inspection of Nonwoven Webs in the Production Line, Jim Freeman, Director, Jeftex (Agencies) Ltd. |
| 2. | Electrostatic and Flexible Materials, Dr. Paul Holdstock, Operational Head, BTTG - Manchester. |
| 3. | Designing Fabrics for the Future, Sarah Condie, Manager Design international, The Woolmark Company. |
| 4. | Printing of Fluffy Surfaces, Mike Ingram, Director, Sharps Fabric printers. |
| 5. | Innovative Printing for Nonwovens Fabrics - Digital and Transfer, Brian Stamper, Castle Industries. |
| 6. | An Overview of the OUTLAST® Temperature Regulation and Thermocule® Technology, Dr. Roy Seddon, Outlast Technologies Inc. |
| 7. | Tencel Fibre Design for Nonwovens Fabric Development, Andy Slater, Associate Research Fellow, Tencel Ltd (Acordis Group). |
| 8. | Technical Outlets for Nonwoven Material - Burying Nonwovens in the Ground, Jonathon Wynn, Geosynthetics Consultant, Golder Associate (UK) Ltd. |
4th ANNUAL DINNER - December 6th, 2001
The Nonwovens Network held its annual dinner on Thursday 6th December at the
Holiday Inn, Brighouse.
Over 100 members and their guests attended.
The evening started with the Chairman's welcome and opening address.
Tim Hoyle, who is based at the Huddersfield Textile Centre of Excellence working on digital printing, gave the pre-dinner address, where he
defined digital printing, outlining its advantages and disadvantages, the economics and applications. After dinner, Andrew Leather, the Chairman
reiterated the aims of the Network and reminded the gathering of the manner in which the Network had fulfilled its commitments over the past year,
in providing the dinner, the seminar, two newsletters, consultancy and training concessions. He also outlined the content of the Seminar 2002
which is to explore the value of design in all its concepts, and to be held on 20 June at the Huddersfield Textile Centre of Excellence.
Alan Brydon gave a highly entertaining and extremely funny after dinner speech allowing every one to relax and enjoy themselves.
Nonwovens Network Seminar - Thursday 28th June 2001
Textile Centre of Excellence, Red Doles Lane, off Leeds Road,
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
Tel: 01484 346500 Fax: 01484 346501
The Nonwovens Network was pleased to present its third Seminar designed to provide a showcase facility for practitioners in the nonwovens and related industries in the form of exhibitions and side presentations. Companies were allowed to demonstrate, describe and talk about their involvement, either formally in the form of mini presentaions or informally by simply being at their stands to answer questions.
The Venue for this years Seminar had been changed in order to accommodate our exhibitors.
For a more detailed report about the seminar click here
The program that was presented is shown below.
Programme
| 1. | Innovations in Fibres, Jeff Dugan, FIT Inc., Johnson City, Tennessee, USA. |
| 2. | 'Spunlace Hydroentanglement Technology, Products and Markets', Dr. Mohammad Chowdhury, General Manager, Spunlace Technology Ltd, UK. |
| 3. | Finishing Nonwovens, Geoff Hollings, Partners in Innovation Inc., Piedmont, South Carolina, USA. |
| Tour of Exihibitions and Presentations | |
| 4. | 'NWPD Blues - How do we solve this case', Roger Tattersall, Technical Consultant, Lantor, UK. |
| 5. | 'Humanitex: Technical Textiles for Humanitarian Relief', Tim Woodbridge, Chief Executive, Web Dynamics Ltd. |
Nonwovens Network Dinner - 7th December, 2000
Sir Hal Miller was the guest speaker at this year's network dinner. Sir Hal is an ex-member of parliament, ex-director of the Motor Manufacturers and Trade Association, ex-main board member of Cosmopolitan Holdings and recieved his Knighthood for his work with the Automotive Industry. Robin Anson also presented an analysis of the nonwovens industry.
Thursday 29 June 2000 Cedar Court Hotel, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
"Adventures in Nonwovens" the second Nonwovens Network Seminar was held on 29 June 2000. Papers were directed at innovation in materials and methods of production. In addition to presentations on fibre developments, dry-laid, wet-laid and spunbond technologies were covered. In addition applications for nonwoven materials in the automotive, medical and civil engineering industries were also presented. The full programme is presented below.
Programme
| 1. | Advanced Polymers including Polylactic Acid in Nonwovens, Dr. Jim Lunt, Cargill Dow, USA. |
| 2. | Innovations in Needles and Needling, George Swarbrick, Foster Needles. |
| 3. | Superabsorbent Fibres, Richard Heath, Technical Absorbents. |
| 4. | Innovative Wetlaids, Nigel Walker, Technical Fibre Products. |
| 5. | Principles of STRUTO, Terry Saunders, Georgia Textile Machinery, USA. |
| 6. | Spunbonds from Recycled Polyester, Meccaniche Moderne, Italy. |
| 7. | Geotextiles - Quality Assurance - An Environment Agency View on Application to Landfill Engineering, David Walmsley, Planning Licensing Officer, North East Environment Agency. |
| 8. | Nonwoven Fabric for Surgical Uses, Dr. Julian Minns, Consultant Clinincal Scientist, Dryburn Hospital, Durham. |
| 9. | Nonwoven Textiles in Automotive Interiors, John Williams, Senior Materials Engineer, Global Dept. of Ford Motor Co.,Research and Vehicle Technology |
Dry Laid Nonwovens and the exciting areas of ITMA’99
On 30 June 1999 the Nonwovens Network held its first seminar.
Nowhere has textile progress been more dramatic in recent years than in the field of nonwovens.
An increasing number of end-users around the world rely on nonwovens and production in Europe continues to increase. With apparently unlimited scope for market innovation, this industry is of enormous scale in both technology and application.
The pace of development is such that it is not always easy for individual companies to keep abreast of the latest trends and advances. With ever changing consumer demands and new emerging technologies it is vital that our industry has the information necessary to respond to these changes in order to gain or retain its competitive edge.
The Nonwovens Network, is a tremendously valuable and unique information and contact resource for everyone involved in the industry. The conference was attended by more than 100 industrialists.
Nonwovens Network Dinner
The Nonwovens Network dinner was held at the Posthouse Hotel, Brighouse, West Yorkshire on 2 December 1999 and was attended by around 100 people from the nonwovens industry. The dinner provided members with an opportunity to discuss developments in nonwovens in an informal and friendly environment.
Mr. Adrian Wilson of Nonwovens Report International gave a presentation on web-based sources of information on nonwovens and Dr. Stephen Russell of the University of Leeds' Nonwovens Research Group gave a report on developments presented at the INDA-TEC 99 technical nonwovens conference held in the USA.