BTMA - British Textile Machinery Association

A specialist range of calendering and squeezing rollers is manufactured by Richard Hough Limited (RHL) for the textile industry.

The company regularly supplies new and recovered rolls to its customers in over 40 countries worldwide and offers a high level of technical support on all aspects of roll use, from specification through to maintenance.

Applications for RHL's rollers include:

Calendering

• Universal textile calenders
• Simili calenders
• Schreiner calenders
• Friction calenders
• Embossing calenders
• Bonding and nonwoven calenders
• Geotextile calenders

Squeezing/De-watering

• Mangles
• Padders
• Stenters
• Dyeing ranges
• Loose stock fibre processing

Product range highlights:

Syncast™ Polyamide Rollers

RHL's Syncast calender rolls have rapidly become the world's market leading polyamide calender rolls. Syncast polyamide calender rolls are a state of the art solution for many textile calendering and embossing applications. Excellent resistance to surface damage ensures minimum maintenance and a very long service life. Syncast can be supplied as a complete roll or the Syncast sleeve can be supplied to a customer's required specification. Syncast rolls can be produced with a face length of up to seven metres and diameter of up to a metre with either parallel or crowned profiles. Syncast sleeves are spun cast on industry leading equipment, fully annealed and ultrasonically checked, guaranteeing optimum quality and performance.

Cotton Calender Rolls

RHL's Cop Cotton calender rolls are produced to the highest quality and are specified by the world's leading calender manufacturers. The company's industry leading 3,500 tonne hydraulic presses ensure the maximum cotton roll density which guarantees the highest calendering performance and roll service life. RHL cotton rolls achieve the optimum surface finish on woven and knitted, natural and synthetic fabrics.

Resilio™ Squeezing Rollers

RHL has developed the revolutionary new Resilio roll covering technology for fabric dewatering applications. Dramatic improvements in water expression and major cost and energy savings in drying can be achieved with Resilio rolls. Extensive trials have identified substantial performance benefits over the existing market-leading elastomer roll cover - typically 30% better expression on knitted goods and wovens.

RHL has applied for a patent for the new Resilio roll, which utilises a specially-developed dual-layer cover technology. The secret is in the integration of the squeezing power of a hard rubber sub-layer with a revolutionary profile-hugging softer rubber top layer, devised by RHL.

Roberto™ Fibre Rollers

 RHL’s Roberto (Neutral) rollers are the original fibre high expression squeezing roller. Many thousands of Roberto’s have been sold world-wide. The Roberto gives excellent expression of moisture by squeezing out moisture as well as sucking in water with its capillary qualities.

RoberteX™ Fibre Rollers

 RHL is proud to announce the brand new chemical resistant RoberteX roller. The RoberteX will perform in all aggressive textile and metal processing environments and is the ideal choice for use in harsh caustic or acidic environments with an operating pH range of 0-14. Additionally, by reducing carry-out and cross-contamination, RoberteX can help reduce fluid consumption and cut the cost of waste disposal. With the RoberteX, the RHL portfolio now covers all high-expression dewatering requirements.

Nollap™ High expression rolls for Viscose De-watering

RHL is the undisputed leader in Viscose de-watering technology and the Nollap squeezing roll is specified throughout the industry for high performance, long life and reliability. The newly developed Yellow Nollap material is a further advance in squeezing technology.