BRADFORD, England — April 29, 2019 — At ITMA 2019, Tatham Ltd. will focus on three products:

Hemp Fiber Processing

Recent legislative changes in many countries now allows the growing of the the virtually zero tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) Cannabis Sativa plant for the production of hemp fiber, shiv, seeds and the bi-products of cannabidiol (CBD). Governments and farmers are attracted to hemp cultivation for the reduced water consumption, sustainability and that all the hemp plant can be used for commercial products.

Tatham manufactures hemp decorticating and cleaning machinery to provide clean hemp fiber suitable for onward processing for the home textile, apparel and nonwoven automotive market.

Bi-products of decortication are construction products, briquettes and animal bedding. The hemp plant after growing, harvesting and retting is baled and transported to the hemp fiber decorticating and cleaning unit.

Input weights up to 4000 kilos per hour can be processed on one line.

Cleaning of the fiber can be prepared both for nonwoven and apparel fiber products.

Tatham can provide a turnkey proposal for the complete line and installation including the processing of the shiv and dust bi-products for onward use in briquettes, animal bedding and construction products.

Tatham’s expertise in nonwoven can also supply nonwoven machinery for the production of hemp needled mats, felts for automotive, home textiles and thermo bonded products for hemp insulation.

Recycling Carbon Fiber Waste

The world fiber consumption of carbon for automotive, aerospace, wind turbine and leisure products demand innovative solutions to carbon fiber waste and its recycling. Carbon process manufacturers generate up to 50% carbon waste from prepeg, plycutter waste, dry fiber and cured components

Tatham is meeting this challenge with innovative carbon fiber recycling and web formation machinery for reclaimed carbon fibers that have been obtained through pyrolysis of scrap prepreg materials or cured laminates, or recovery of dry manufacturing waste.

In the United Kingdom, Tatham has delivered commercial carbon fiber opening, blending, carding, cross lapping and needling technology for both recycled carbon waste and virgin staple fibers.

It also is manufacturing small scale machines for R&D research facilities to enable them to develop the technologies for the future.

TS Drive Technology

TS Drives can be retrofit to all other manufacturer old machinery to save energy and improve production control.

Tatham manufactures TS drive and weight control systems for nonwoven blending, webforming, cross lapping and needling machinery.

Replacing old and unreliable motors and drives with new generation AC motors and drives is proven to reduce energy consumption, improve machine efficiency and reduce downtime of repairs and sourcing of obsolete components and reduce waste materials.

TS weight control systems reduce waste. To manufacture nonwoven materials to specific gsm requires the ability to control precisely the input weights. The TS Microfeed and TS Microweigh controls the delivery of fiber starting with chute control of the spiked lattice relatively to the chute level improve the accuracy of the target weight by adjusting the input web forming machine roller speed according to any variations in fibre density from the chute feed or weigh pans.

Finished Product Predictor – simply input the required finished product and let the intelligent system automatically adjust the settings to achieve the target weight.

Posted April 29, 2019

Source: Tatham

