1. Glens Falls Interweb, Inc.

2. Business Plan
To provide equipment, engineering, and design services to the Pulp and Paper, and Nonwovens Industries with an emphasis on machines and auxiliary systems.
These services are provided cost effectively, and on a timely basis in order to satisfy the short-term and long-term goals of our customers.

3. History
Founded in 1996
Experienced core group of custom machinery/systems engineers and designers
Purchased Wet Laid Nonwovens business from Valmet in 1998

4. The GFI Team Jeff Riggi – General Manager
Ray Stevens – Applications Manager
Roger Ahrens – Engineering Manager
John Harke – Nonwovens Product Manager

5. Services/Products Design Services Conceptual Development
Project Management
Engineered Equipment & Systems
Nonwoven & Specialty Machinery

6. Design Services Machine design and layout Installation drawings
Evaluation of existing machinery and systems

7. Conceptual Development
Engineering studies
Machine rebuilds and retrofits
Machine expansion
Process improvement studies

8. Project Management Bid Specification preparation
Evaluation of vendor specifications
Project scheduling
On site management & supervision
Coordination with vendors

9. Engineered Equipment and Systems
Machine components
Rebuilds
New machine sections
Turnkey installations

10. Nonwovens and Specialty Machinery
Sandy Hill Deltaformer™
Sandy Hill Rotoformer™
Rotoformer™ 2000
Saturator with Microflow Applicator™
Hydro-Entanglement Units

11. Deltaformer™

12. Rotoformer™

13. Rotoformer™2000

14. Saturator Unit

15. Hydro-Entanglement Unit

16. High Dilution Forming
Major Markets
Food
Medical
Filtration
Industrial

17. High Dilution Forming Forming consistencies of 0.01 to 0.2%
Higher stock dilution to keep longer fibers from entangling
Fiber lengths from 5 mm to 38 mm

18. High Dilution Forming Longer fibers require high dilution forming
Natural fibers
Abaca, sisal, kenaf, cotton linters
Man made & synthetic fibers
Polyesters, rayon, nylon, glass, polyolefins

19. High Dilution Forming Two basic forming configurations
Inclined wire former (Deltaformer™)
Vacuum cylinder former (Rotoformer™)

20. Deltaformer™

21. Deltaformer™ Inclined wire former - 15° to 35°
High dilution forming up to 400 gpm/in.
Can form synthetic fibers up to 38 mm long
Machine widths up to 5 meters wide
Machine speeds up to 600 m/min
Over 40 units delivered

22. Deltaformer™ Primary grades: Glass mat for roofing Teabag
Cigarette papers
Auto filter
Vacuum dust bag

23. Rotoformer™

24. Rotoformer™ Vacuum cylinder forming unit In use since 1953
Medium dilution forming up to 70 gpm/in.
Machine speeds up to 700 fpm
Machine widths up to 150 inches
Over 90 units delivered

25. Rotoformer™ 2000

26. Rotoformer™ 2000 Improvements Reduced CD profile variation
Wider flow range
Wider range of fibers
Improved headbox adjustments
Improved repeatability of process settings
Better internal access to headbox

27. Rotoformer™ Primary grades produced: Filter Automotive specialties
Air bag
Catalytic converters
Ultra- filtration
HEPA / ULPA
Battery separator
Electrical circuit board

28. High Dilution Forming Benefits/Advantages Formation of long fibers
Blending of wood fibers and synthetic fibers
Excellent formation at low basis weights
Excellent basis weight control at low basis weights

29. Glens Falls Interweb, Inc.
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