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NONWOVENS EVENT

CALENDAR

13-17 October 2013

35th Annual INSIGHT

Conference

St. Petersburg, Florida,

U.S.A.

 http://www.marketing

technologyservice.com/ Organizer: MTS

23-25 October 2013

Shanghai International

Nonwovens Exhibition

(SINCE)

Shanghai, China

www.since13.com

Organizer: CNTA 

27-30 January 2014

 VISION Consumer Products

Conference

Dallas, TX U.S.A.

 http://www.inda.org/ 

 inda-events/vision

Organizer: INDA 

08-11 April 2014

INDEX 2014

Geneva, Switzerland

 http://www.index14.ch/en/ 

Organizer: Edana

MARKET TRENDS

Wetness IndicatorMarket Advisory Wetness indicators are becoming increasingly common in diapers and pants used or baby care as well as adult incontinence as producers seek to addconsumer-valued eatures to gain a competitive edgeand increase market share. While the applicationhas been used in adult incontinence or more than

20 years, there is now increased interest in adding this eature to baby diapers. Multinational “brands”are implementing the use o wetness indicators on a global basis, with increased activity in emerging markets. And, it is expected that private label producers will ollow.

For those unamiliar with these eatures, a wetness indicator material reacts with exposure o liquid (urinas a visual sign (color change) or parents or caregivers that a disposable absorbent hygiene article needschanging. Wetness indicator material is typically applied similarly to a hot melt adhesive on the insideo the backsheet material where it contacts the absorbent core. Tese materials require special equipmentconsiderations to be successully and reliably applied in production. A Market Advisory is available thatdetails this market trend, the opportunity and the Nordson solution. Tis is the rst in a planned series ocommunications identiying nonwovens applications and their Nordson system solutions.

 TrendsIN THIS ISSUE

Nonwovens Initiatives:

 Variation Management 2

Nordson Capabilities 3

Melter Positioning 4

Nordson Products 5

Product Updates 6

Employee Spotlight 6

 Trade Shows/Conferences 7

Issue 2 2013

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Nordson Patent AwardsEach year the Nordson Patent Awards ceremony is heldto recognize the contributions o Nordson inventors,both past and present. Nordson’s ability to continueto innovate is critical to both our and our customers’ongoing success. Among this year’s honorees were Joel Saine, product development engineer, and Chuck 

Ganzer , senior projectengineer. Saine andGanzer ormally receivedtheir patent or their

pioneering work onthe Allegro nozzle or elastic attachment at theMay 2013 ceremony.Congratulations toall patent holders andmany thanks or yourcontributions.

Chuck Ganzer (above)

and Joel Saine (right)

each received their patent

awards from Corporate

 Vice President Jim DeVries

for “Nozzle for applying

adhesive to strands”

patent - Allegro elastic

attachment nozzles

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Nonwovens Initiatives: Variation Management 

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Ramp Up:• Delivery lags

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Target Flow:

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production line

MD Variation

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• Variation from

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Long time to stabilize system =

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• Poor Quality • Contamination 

• Excess Material• Contamination 

Measurement is Enabled (UNDERSTAND)

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Ramp Up:• Vastly improved

Ramp Down:

• Vastly improvedTarget Flow:

• Follows

production line

Production:

• Close tracking

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MD VariationControlled

CleanClean

Closed-Loop Flow Control Enabled (IMPROVE)

Variation management is at theheart o our OptiBond Solutions orNonwovens. Te goal is to advancethe state-o-the-art in delivery anddispensing o material through

improved process control. Te benetsto our customers are higher-quality products produced aster, moreeciently and at lower cost. Our basic methodology to enable variationmanagement is captured as Measure, Understand and Improve (MUI).

In 2013 we have expanded our portolio o OptiBond Solutions in ourthree product categories:

Controls – Controls can be either melter integrated or standaloneto accommodate variation management capability on new or existing production lines. As mentioned, a number o recent developments ortiy the portolio o control capabilities. VersaBlue Plus melters recently  joined AltaBlue ouch melters to comprise the oerings eaturing melter-integrated fow monitoring and control support; melter-integrated

controls are ideal or new systems, oering the most economical andelegant solutions. Additionally we have released the Concert series standalone controllers. Te Concert fow controllers oer a means toretrot the installed base o melters to enable fow verication and vastly improve control o material delivery, as well as oer fexibility to move a system rom production line to production line.

Intermediate Devices – Tese consist o either active-metering or passive-metering devices. An example o active metering is theGP200 remote metering station, equipped with one or more motor-driven pumps. ruFlow dividers and our new meters represent passivmetering, that is the material fows through a gear set that turns reel

– there is no motor; an encoder and sotware are used to enable fow measurement or control. Te new ruFlow meter is key to enabling the rst step in the MUI process: Measure. Te meter enables real-time measurement with the option to enable closed-loop fow controlIt is compatible with melter-integrated controls and the Concert fowcontrollers. In some cases customers will take the signal directly romthe meter and process it with the parent machine’s PLC. In all casesthe new ruFlow meter helps customers Understand material deliveperormance and their opportunities to Improve.

Point of Application – Again, these devices can be characterizedas either active or passive metering. Te Universal Slice applicator represents an actively-metered design and ruFlow applicators repres

passive metering. Both support production fexibility and stringentadhesive dispensing control.

 We continue to pursue opportunities to expand the OptiBond Solutions portolio supporting variation management. Expectadditional new or enhanced products eaturing improved integration ruFlow devices to improve customer value and return on investmen

OptiBond ™

Solutionsnonwovens

Best PracticesNozzle Cleaning Tips/Tricks

Please ollow specic instructions in equipment manuals, but a ew aspects o nozzle cleaning are essentially universal.

• Heat adhesive to softening point to ease nozzle removal.• After heating nozzle or immersing in cleaning solution, scrub with

sot, non-metallic brush and wipe with sot cloth.• Gently blow air through orices through mounting side of nozzles

(with the direction o fow).• To clean orices: insert pin-type probe one-size smaller than the

orice in the opposite direction o adhesive fow; do not twist probe when removing.

 Additional details and recommended methods or cleaning nozzles areavailable in Nordson’s nozzle cleaning instruction manual.

System Purging Procedure

Tere are numerous reasons to purge your hot melt system:• Routine maintenance to remove char and build-up• When changing adhesive chemistries• When changing adhesives of the same chemistry but unsure about

compatibility o materials

Purging a complete hot melt system – melter/tank, hose and nozzle –a reasonably simple task to keep your system running smoothly.• Drain adhesive from tank and system• Remove, clean and reinstall lter• Fill tank with purge material and heat to specied temperature• Run heated purge material through the hot melt system until mate

appears clear/clean; then drain purge material rom system• Add adhesive to newly clean system

Please reer to equipment manuals or specic instructions or eachmelter and/or system.

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o help customers produce the highest-quality goods most economically and eciently,Nordson must continually create and recreateever-improving product oering added-value. A commitment to investment in R&D ishelping in this ongoing endeavor, and is

critical to development o our next generationproducts and systems.

Chris Chastine, senior designer and CADadministrator reports, “A ew years ago,Nordson began investigating 3D productionsystems, commonly called 3D printers, tocreate equipment models and prototypes,ultimately selecting a Fortus 400mc systemater a rigorous analysis o available options.Tis system provided the broadest, mostfexible eatures such as a large-capacity build envelope and thecapability to process a variety o materials including polyphenylsulone

(PPFS), a material with high heat and chemical resistance.”

Chris goes on to say, “Te Fortus products use used depositionmodeling (FDM), a rapid-prototyping technology that producesthree-dimensional (3D) parts layer-by-layer directly from our CADles. ese 3D parts are created to exacting specications and can beused or everything rom testing the aesthetics o a design to t withother parts, or being used in lab-based testing with actual materialprocessing, even under high heat or pressure conditions.”

“raditionally creating and testing parts in challenging shapes was virtually impossible,” explains Justin Clark , project engineer.“est parts had to be either machined, which could sometimes beimpossible, or injection molded (cost prohibitive or one-o tria lpieces) so much experimentation or cutting-edge innovation wasimpractical. Having an in-house 3D printer has made prototypeproduction both time and cost ecient.”

CAD model les, which are created for all our system or productparts, are loaded into the Fortus sotware program, and theappropriate thermoplastic material is selected and loaded. Te printerthen begins building layers as thin as 0.005 inch (0.127 mm) toproduce an accurate model/prototype o the designed part, bothinside and out. Tere is even a smoothing station to remove the smallridges between the layers and to seal the parts i necessary or testing purposes or aesthetics.

 As these parts have the real ttings, or example threads or opening

or pins, the individual prototype parts can be put together to ensurproper connections. And then, they can even be tested to make surethe individual pieces and the system as a whole unction as expectedand needed. Additionally, the Fortus 400mc allows us to develop anproduce specialized tools that we can use to streamline and simpliyour manuacturing processes.

Being able to create unctional prototypes reduces developmenttime and saves costs, including tooling. Tis allows Nordson moreopportunity or testing and experimentation o theories and concepso new, innovative Nordson products can continue helping customimprove their product quality and process eciency.

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NORDSON CAPABILITIES

As Good as the Real Thing…Well, Just About

Can you tell which are machined/molded

and which are printed parts?

“ Tese 3D parts are created to exacting specifcation

and can be used or everything rom testing the 

aesthetics o a design to ft with other parts, or bein

used in lab-based testing with actual material 

 processing, even under high heat or pressure 

conditions.” 

—Chris Chastine, senior designer and CAD administator

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Melter Positioning

 VersaBlue XN

n Very large capacity/dual tank n Very high speed

n Flexible/expandable controls

n Remote metering 

n ruFlow capable (2013)

n Wide pump selection

n Enhanced design

n Distributed controls

 AltaBlue Touch

n Medium to large capacity 

n Medium speed

n Flexible controls

n ruFlow capable

n Modest pump selection

 AltaBlue TT

n For niche applications

n Small capacity 

n Low speed

n Limited proprietary controls

n Limited pump selection

 VersaBlue N

n Medium to large capacity 

n High speed

n Flexible/expandable controls

n Remote metering 

n ruFlow capable

n Wide pump selection

n Integral pattern control (2013)

 AltaBlue Classic

n Medium to large capacity 

n Medium speedn Limited proprietary controls

n Modest pump selection

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NORDSON PRODUCTS

Product Introductions AltaSpray Plus Applicators 

 AltaSpray Plus applicators were introduced at the recent IDEA (Miami, Florida, U.S.A.) andCIDPEX (Shenzhen, China) trade shows. ese applicators, designed expressly for mid-tierapplication support, enhance production fexibility and eciency by:

• supporting production speeds, up to 350 m/min, with improved process air heating 

• reducing maintenance by reducing overspray and implementing the AirGuard feature to protect

the air chamber during module changes

• accommodating numerous spraying and coating technologies with interchangeable modules andnozzles

 Additional details regarding the benets realized with AltaSpray Plus applicators are available in the AltaSpray Plus product data sheet.

TruFlow Meters 

e new TruFlow meter was released in May, following demonstration and display at the IDEA andCIDPEX trade shows. e TruFlow meter joins the TruFlow divider and TruFlow applicator as anaddition to our portolio o variation management tools. Te meter in particular oers a cost-eectivemeans or enabling monitoring and control o material delivery, even during rapidly changing ramp upor ramp down phases. It is ideally used in conjunction with melter-integrated controls such as AltaBlue 

ouch or VersaBlue Plus, or it can be used with standalone controllers, or instance the new Concertseries fow controller. Te latter represents a retrot option or existing production lines. Te outputcan even be accepted directly to the parent machine’s PLC to enable monitoring o material delivery (but not control). Please reer to the product literature or additional details.

Concert Series Standalone Flow Controllers 

e Concert series standalone ow controller has been released following introduction at the IDEA and CIDPEX trade shows. e new controller supports up to two ow monitoring and controlcircuits and eatures the Optix user interace, data logging, on-screen graphing, local languagesupport and a host o other eatures. Concert fow controllers compare the measured actual materialdelivery to the production requirement and continuously adjust melter pump output in real-time;this closed-loop control vastly improves accuracy o material delivery especially during productionstart. Te controller will also support heating channels associated with the addition o ruFlow 

equipment (meter or divider) to a system. Te product data sheet provides more inormation on theConcert fow controllers.

Concert Series Standalone Temperature Controllers 

Te new Concert temperature controller has been released. Tese controllers are designed tosupplement the temperature control capabilities o current melters to maximize melter utilization.Te controller will support up to six heating zones, as well as I/O – specically a ready input and warning and ault outputs. Te Concert temperature controller utilizes the same economical colorLCD touch screen Optix user interface as the ow controller, which signicantly modernizes andstandardizes controller options. Additional details are available in the product literature.

 VersaBlue Plus Melters – Melter-Integrated Flow Monitoring and Control

VersaBlue Plus melters now oer fow monitoring and control capabilities or up to our (4) channelsas an integrated option that can be specied at the time o order or added through a kit at a laterdate. Integrated closed-loop control continuously measures and compares material fow rate to theapplication’s fow requirement, automatically adjusting material delivery in real-time to minimizethe dierence between the requirement and actual fow rates. Integrating fow control simpliesinstallation and provides ease-o-use through the melter’s touch screen interace. TeVersaBlue melter’s intuitive, easy-to-use graphical touch display simplies set-up and operation, and provides systemstatus or various melter unctions. Graphing and data reporting o fow control are also available. A published market advisory is available with additional inormation about VersaBlue Plus melters.

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Employee Spotlight Jens Fahrenholz has been business manager or nonwovens Europe the past three years, managing all aspects o our European nonwovencustomer care rom application development to sales to projectengineering, and everything in between. Fahrenholz brings a vast levo experience to this role.

He has spent his entire working career at Nordson starting as an intepost-university with Nordson’s automotive group in Ohio, U.S.A.back in 1993. Since then, Fahrenholz has spent time in project/systemengineering, programming and product development unctions – justo name a ew.

Te VersaBlue melter development and evolution has been oneof Fahrenholz “specialties” while at Nordson. He worked on the

initial VersaBlue melter project and then served as project leader orVersaBlue XN melters. Now, as nonwovens business manager, he’s

helping drive VersaBlue Plus melter denition and design. Additionally, Fahrenholz has been integral to helping dene the ruFlow variationmanagement needs, and guiding development o the product amily portolio.

 While he’s enjoyed working on hundreds o projects and opportunities or automotive, web coating and nonwovens, he has a particular sense osatisaction or one. In 2007, there was a web coating project or a Japanese company with Chinese operations but or this application the actualmanuacturing acility was in oronto, Canada. Tis truly global endeavor took massive coordination between Nordson colleagues, and numerocustomer contacts, across Europe, North America and Asia. But ultimate completion o a successul project design and install brought a lasting sense o satisaction and accomplishment.

Married with a teenage daughter and pre-teen son, Fahrenholz participates in a wide range o sports – including tennis, gol and soccer. And, when time permits, he enjoys traveling to the Mediterranean to relax and explore.

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PRODUCT UPDATES

“Happy Anniversary”to Allegro Nozzles Where does the time go? We are already celebrating the one-yearanniversary o the introduction o Nordson’s Allegro nozzle or elastic attachment applications. Market acceptance o our newest addition tothe portolio o Universal nozzles has been exceptional. In act, the goal

or nozzle sales in the rst ull scal year post-introduction has beensurpassed two-thirds o the way through the year. We are pleased toreport that the transition rom Nordson oerings (e.g., SureWrap andCF) as well as competitive oerings is well underway and exceeding our expectations. Customers are citing the ollowing benets o the Allegro nozzle:

• Improved performance at high production speeds (in excess of 400 m/min).

- Extended production rate support (by more than 30%)accommodates the industry trend to aster machinery.- Allegro has been qualied at speeds up to 650 m/min, the limit o 

our current test stand.

• Improved process robustness when elastic strands are in closeproximity.- While the perormance o most elastic attachment processes begins

to suer when elastics are positioned less than 4mm on center, Allegro accommodates elastic strands as close as 2mm on center with no degradation in perormance, providing product designers with additional fexibility.

• Reduced maintenance requirements.- Allegro nozzles eature all-steel design delivering vastly improved

durability to resist wear and withstand repeated handling.- Te modied contact coating process (air is applied ater applicati

o adhesive to the elastic) is inherently more stable than spray processes.

- Maintenance and inspection o nozzles are enhanced with theadhesive supply port and discharge being machined to allow cleaning by a pin probe as well as simple visual verication o 

cleanliness by holding up to a light.

• Ease of use: drop-in physical replacement for SureWrap nozzles –only small adjustments to process settings needed to optimize.- Allegro nozzles have been qualied with numerous materials and

under a broad range o operating conditions o fow rates andproduction speeds.

- As part o the Universal nozzle portolio, nozzles are interchangeab

Customers unamiliar with Allegro are encouraged to review theanimation detailing the operation o the nozzle posted on Youube. A comprehensive manual is also available or download rom ourtechnical documentationsite that makes “bestpractices” available or the Allegro nozzle. Contactyour Nordson representativeto discuss how we cansupport your qualicationo the Allegro nozzle in yourproduction environment.

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Trade Shows/ConferencesIDEA13

 An international Nordson team hosted a mix o active and static displays atthe IDEA 2013 trade show in Miami Beach, Florida, U.S.A. 23-25 April.

Te centerpiece was an active coater display eaturing many o ournewest product oerings. Tese included:

• VersaBlue Plus melter with melter-integrated point-of-applicationclosed-loop control

• Allegro nozzles for high-speed elastic attachment

• TruFlow meter for real-time material ow measurement

 Additionally static displays eatured both new and existing nonwovenstechnologies, mostly supporting OptiBond solutions.

• A “new installation” example had the screen of the AltaBlue ouch melter powered to show the new Optix user interace. Teinterconnected static equipment demonstrated how a ruFlow dividerexpands the melter’s capability to eed multiple applications.

• A retrot solution showed a classic AltaBlue melter with our new ruFlow meter and Concert fow controller demonstrating how variation management can be added to existing production lines.

• e display of serial-metered material delivery architecture showed a VersaBlue XN melter connected to a GP200 remote metering station that split the material eed to several dierent streams.

 A brochure detailing Nordson’s entire IDEA 2013 display is available.

CIDPEX 2013

e 20th China International Disposable Paper Expo (CIDPEX) washeld 28-30 May in Shenzhen, China. Nordson was one o approximately 500 exhibitors eaturing the latest products, machinery and raw materialsor China’s tissue paper and disposable hygiene industry.

Te Nordson booth continued the “Innovative Solutions or an

Innovative Industry” theme introduced at the IDEA13 show. Nordson’sportolio o OptiBond solutions supporting variation management waseatured and the methodology o “measure, understand, improve” wasa ocus. Products supporting the theme included the AltaBlue ouch melter along with the newly-released ruFlow meter and Concert series fow controller. A ruFlow divider and a new  AltaSpray Plus applicator rounded out the Nordson product oerings on display.

SINCE

e biennial SINCE (Shanghai International Nonwovens Conference &Exhibition) show will be held 23-25 October in Shanghai, China. Te2011 show saw 13,000 visitors rom nearly 50 countries and this year’sshow is anticipated to have an even larger, more diverse audience.

Nordson China will host a 40.5 m2 booth showcasing Nordson’s latestadvanced technology. An active demonstration will eature the AltaBlue ouch and VersaBlue Plus melters with integrated, closed-loop fow control. Additionally, other OptiBond variation management products  will be demonstrated, including ruFlow meters and Concert fow  controllers.

Static displays will include Nordson Universal spray nozzles, such as Allegro elastic attachment nozzles. Also, metering applicators including Universal Slice will be on display.

Nordson trademarks in this issue o rends include:

Nonwovens rends is a publication o Nordson Corporation.Please submit any eedback or suggestions to:

Co-editor: Alan Ramspeck, aramspeck@nordson.com

Co-editor: Elizabeth Jordan, ejordan@nordson.com

 Allegro AltaBlue

 AltaSpray CF

ConcertNordson

OptiBondOptix 

SureWrapruFlow 

UniversalVersaBlue

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Nordson IDEA13 active new

product offering demonstration

Nordson CIDPEX new variation

management product offerings

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