Spinning a good yarn

From the report

Fiber Extrusion Technology Limited (FET) took a major role at the Dornbirn Global Fiber Congress in Austria in September, with Dr Jonny Hunter presenting “Spinning a good yarn.” The exhibition brought together over 100 expert speakers, leading innovators, and global stakeholders for a focused program of events. Over 400 attendees came from a range of industrial and academic organizations. Industrial examples included Barmag, Sembis, and Fraunhofer, while from the academic world CETI (France), Aachen (Germany), Fibernamics (Portugal), and many others were present. As global challenges mount – from decarbonization pressures to shifting markets – this year’s congress reaffirmed its role as a key platform for forward-looking solutions and collaborative progress.

Hunter’s presentation took a broad view of the immense challenges and innovations that have emerged in the fiber industry over recent years. FET has been at the forefront of many of these innovations – designing, developing, and manufacturing bespoke fiber equipment, thus enabling customers in a wide range of industries to find solutions to their individual challenges. FET’s reputation has been founded predominantly on melt spinning solutions – in multifilament, monofilament and nonwoven formats – and the first part of the presentation highlighted this aspect.

However, FET’s more recent success has been grounded in further niche developments and technological variations: