03/2013

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What does the Perfect Filter look like?

What applies to paper, also applies to filters: the properties of a filter can be precisely controlled and optimised by the addition of speciality viscose fibres.

For example, the porosity or surface characteristics of a filter can be controlled exactly by adding the appropriate viscose fibres with specific cross sections. The incorporation of functional additives can also allow the manufacture of tailor-made fibres according to the exact demands of the end product.

The benefit: the additives are locked in the fibre and have no impact on the filter’s physical properties – and at the same time, they maintain their effect!

coffee pad delivers an additional water softening effect

Our medically and environmentally compatible, ISEGA certified fibres are therefore ideally suited for sensitive applications such as hygiene or medical products, for example in HME filters (Heat and Moisture Exchange filters) used in respiration equipment. Viscose fibres have a neutral taste and can be used in filters for food and beverage applications such as tea bags or coffee pads. If viscose fibres with ion exchange properties are used here, the coffee pad also delivers an additional water softening effect.

We are currently analysing a whole new range of possible applications.

Thanks to the diversity of our product catalogue – from extra absorbent to water repellent fibres, from flame retardant to ion exchange fibres – there are almost no limits to what is possible.

Learn more about what is possible with our viscose fibres in filtration at this year’s FILTECH (see below)!

There is a 70% Chance
that Your Products are being Copied!

And then sold to your customers at knock down prices! And damaging your reputation for quality! Almost 70% of all businesses are affected by product piracy.

With our speciality fibres for tailored counterfeit protection for cellulosic products we offer a range of different solutions:
Visible protection can be achieved by the incorporation of spun-dyed fibres in all kinds of papers, for example in packaging. Even small amounts of fibres can create a significant effect, as demonstrated below with spun-dyed Leonardo fibres.

For a higher level of security, invisible protection using viscose fibres as a carrier material for UV-active particles is an ideal solution. The particles are permanently incorporated in the fibre and only become visible under an UV light.

And finally, our “Fibres with a fingerprint”, offer the best possible protection against illegal product copies using a customised range of 300 billion pigment combinations, detectable by spectroscopy.

Depending on the security level you need for your products, we offer the perfect solution. And you have one less worry on your mind.

Paper with 1% Leonardo viscose fibres

Detectable under an UV light: UV-active viscose speciality fibres

A unique fingerprint: Luminescent pigments in viscose fibres are detectable via spectroscopy

More Short Cut Capacity

For some years now, our short cut viscose fibres have been at the centre of our attention. We have developed new speciality fibres and established them in new end applications. We have carried out a series of research projects and practical tests and their success has proven us right.

To meet the growing demand for short cut viscose fibres, we have now acquired an additional plant for the cutting of fibres.

True to our motto “fast, flexible, innovative”, this new plant gives us more flexibility and allows us to respond even faster to our customers needs – take us at our word!

Events

This autumn, you can meet us at ...

the world’s largest filtration event,
"FILTECH" (October 22-24; Wiesbaden, Germany).
Attend the lecture of our Dr. Philipp Wimmer or visit our stand (hall 1, stand C8).
www.filtech.de
"specialty papers" conference (November 6-8, Stuttgart, Germany).
Follow the presentation of our Sebastian Basel about our counterfeit protection products.
www.specialtypaperconference.com
the "40th International Meeting of Slovenian Papermakers" (DITP)
(November, 20-21, Bled, Slovenia),
where Sebastian Basel will inform the international auditorium about our anti-counterfeit products.
http://icp-lj.si/ditp/simpozij_drustva_ditp

We look forward to seeing you there!

Kelheim Fibres GmbH is one of the leading producers of viscose speciality fibres. Innovative products, flexible technologies and strong customer orientation as well as active environmental protection are the basis for our company's success.

From our production plant and headquarters which are located
in Kelheim in Southern Germany, our products are to be found worldwide. Our viscose fibres are used in widely diverse applications ranging from fashion, hygiene and medical products through to the nonwovens industry.