Pneumatic conveying and cutting of non-woven fabric trims - Poland

This Polish manufacturer produces mattresses.

• The company needed a pneumatic solution that could convey the trims, when producing non-woven fibers used for the mattress production, and separate the dust from the conveying air
• To make the trim conveying easy and reduce the kW consumption, the trims had to be cut into small pieces. By cutting trims you can also have more production machines in one system
• The conveying air has to be filtered and re-introduce in the production plant in winter time to save heating costs
• In the summertime, the filtered hot air will be released outdoors

• A solution using Kongskilde in-line cutter MC 3000 was designed, as this reduces the air volume needed to convey the trims and therefore also the kW consumption of the blower. By cutting the trims, it was possible to use the KS 5 Separator (today RVS 5000)
• The blower used for the project was a Kongskilde MTK 200 blower, which is strong enough to overcome the backpressure from the filter unit and at the same time create enough vacuum to convey the trims pieces
• The CPC6 Filter cleans the air from dust and leads it back into the production plant or outside the production building depending on the outside temperature

• The Kongskilde trim cutting and conveying solution keeps the factory environment cleaner as dust from the fiber trims is now eliminated
• The control and minimizing of the dust helps to create a healthier working environment
• The pneumatic solution has a relatively small power consumption which reduces the production cost
• The reused air contributes to lower air condition costs during winter
• As all Kongskilde systems are customized, we guarantee the right air speed in all pipe dimension to achieve a smooth and trouble-free trim extraction

• Material: Non-woven mattress fiber trim
• Requested solution. To convey the non-woven trims and de-dust the conveying air
• Suction points: 4
• Speed: 45 m/min
• Bulk density: 1,41 kg/m2
• Conveying distance: H: max 50 m with 4 bends