Bekaert Carding Solutions NV

Carding solutions for revolving flats

Through partnerships with textile machine builders and customers worldwide, Bekaert strives to be the recognized leader in the card clothing business. By enabling our customers to benefit from our knowhow, technological strengths and operational excellence, we believe that we can deliver you unique carding solutions. Therefore, Bekaert has integrated the strengths and experience of ECC, Damgaard and Sobelcard

Bekaert Carding Solutions offers a complete range of clothing for short staple applications. The range contains blow room, feed roller, cylinder, doffer and Lickerin wires as well as flexible tops, fixed flats and ancillary products ( e.g cleaning fillets). The products range covers a very wide rage of cards and applicants used in today's textile industry. Bekaert Carding Solutions offers its help to specify card clothing depending on card and on applications in order for the customer to achieve the best performance in terms of carding and spinning quality as well as lifetime of the cardclothing.

Steel qualities.

Bekaert Carding Solutions offers products in three different steel grades :
SUPER, DURATECH and ULTRA.

SUPER is a high carbon steel. it is Bekaert entry product, for low production rates (e.g below 50kg/hour) with lifetime of up to 600 tonnes for cylinder wires.

DURATECH is micro alloyed steel. It has slower wear rate than Super products and is recommended for higher quality requirements in term of consistency of carding and for higher lifetime. Resulting lifetimes are up to 800 tonnes for cylinder wires.

ULTRA is Bekaert high end steel grade giving the highest wear resistance and highest lifetime, up to 1200 tonnes for cylinder wires. Bekaert recommend Ultra card clothing for cylinder and lickerin especially for cards of the newest generation, especially if production rate are in excess of 70kg/hour.

As wear rates depend on card, throughput volumes and raw material. We are more than happy to advise our customers to make the best choice for their card clothing.