Hollingsworth & Vose Company’s technical, filter, and specialty papers, nonwovens, and advanced composites are driving higher performance in many industries. They make products that benefit the air we breathe, the cars we drive, the clothes we wear, and the places we live and work.
Engine & Industrial Filtration
We offer products for engine filtration applications such as automotive air, automotive lubrication, oil, diesel, fuel, hydraulic, and other specialty filtration applications. Our R&D team holds special expertise in creating filter media with superior product performance for use in harsh environments. We continuously partner with customers to apply the latest materials technology to their unique applications.
Our highly flexible production capabilities include wet laid, drylaid, and meltblown processes. We combine cellulosic, synthetic media, and glass fibers with a variety of resin bonding agents to produce materials with precisely controlled pore structure and physical properties. The result is high performance filter media that improves the efficiency and longevity of passenger and commercial engines.
High Efficiency Air & Liquid Filtration
H&V’s product lines include more than 400 grades of high efficiency, air, and liquid filter media for applications including HEPA and ULPA cleanroom, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), face masks, respirators, and gas masks, vacuum cleaner, and room air cleaners. These filter media are produced using a variety of microfiberglass and synthetic fibers by wet laid, drylaid, and meltblown web forming techniques.
Battery Separator and Additive Materials
Using our talented R&D staff, we generate a competitive advantage for customers by designing battery separator materials around their specifications. We choose the precise material and technique to formulate just the right separator for your unique battery.
Our manufacturing process yields tightly controlled fiber formation and uniform pore structure, chemical stability, high wicking and absorbency, mechanical strength, and state of the art control over thickness and grammage.
Engineered Composite Materials (ECM)
H&V has invested substantial technical resources to the engineering, testing, and manufacturing of high performance composite materials for the engine gasket industry and a broad range of unique, specialized applications. H&V’s composite and fiber gasket materials are used in Original Equipment and Aftermarket applications. Customers appreciate that their most demanding performance parameters will be met with gasket paper and materials that are specifically engineered and manufactured for optimum performance. They know our technical staff will ensure timely completion of development projects.
Industrial Specialties
Hollingsworth & Vose Company manufactures a broad range of nonwoven materials that enhance the products consumers use for everyday living. These high-performance fibrous materials, produced in roll form, are designed to each customer’s unique specifications. Our window coverings, printable garment label stock, embroidery backing, computer disk liners, and advanced composite materials make life better for people around the world.
We have extensive expertise in polymer, fiber, and process technologies. Our wet laid, dry laid, and melt blown manufacturing processes enable the creation of new materials with exceptional capabilities. H&V’s facilities include laminating, liquid coating, calendaring, slitting, and collating. Integrated manufacturing from design to finished roll reduces your lead times and cost while improving quality.
AFN® Advanced Fiber Nonwovens
H&V’s Advanced Fiber Nonwovens Group (AFN) produces 100% synthetic nonwovens with exotic, high performance fibers. These specialized advanced composite materials are particularly appropriate for demanding applications.
We formulate these long fiber nonwovens to customers unique specifications for use as mats and surfacing veils in a variety of composite applications. AFN is the only supplier that offers custom blending and short runs of high value products. Our materials are found in aerospace, corrosive tank/pipe, radar signature management, thermal insulation, sporting goods and EMI shielding applications. Our materials are exceptional due to their long fibers and uniform dispersion. At both extreme light weights (6 g/m2) and heavier weights (350 g/m2), AFN nonwovens are nearly isotropic with very little directionality in the plane of the fabric. PAN carbon, nickel-coated carbon, PBO, para-aramid, and ECR-glass are just a few of the types of fibers utilized. Several different types of binder systems are also available.
All AFN nonwovens are manufactured in H&V’s Hawkinsville, Georgia plant. The facility is AS 9100 REV B(aerospace) and ISO 9001:2000 certified. The Hawkinsville plant is a 24/7 operation. Most referenced AFN items are available from stock with low minimum order requirements
Key Benefits
- Excellent high-temperature, abrasion, and chemical resistance
- Extraordinarily smooth surfaces
- High torsional rigidity and excellent stability
- High or low conductivity for absorbing or reflecting electromagnetic radiation
- Applications
Radar Aborbing Veils (Tailored Resistivity®)
AFN manufactures lightweight fibrous veils for a variety of radar signature management and low observable applications. These AS 9100 materials are recognized for their uniform and finely tuned electrical properties. We can tailor a web to your specifications.
Tank & Pipe Composites
Our materials are used in this industry for corrosion resistance applications and static dissipation. Tank manufacturers have used AFN materials for decades to conform to the most complex bends and corners. Fast wet out and quick de-airing are also pluses. Roll goods are immediately available from stock with low minimum orders.
Fuel Cell
AFN produces high-quality GDL (Gas Diffusion Layer) substrates for use in PEM fuel cells. Our highly conductive GDL material is strong, highly flexible, and durable.
EMI Shielding and ESD
AFN manufactures highly conductive nonwovens for use in EMI, RFI, and MRI shielding, ESD (Electro-Static Discharge) and ground plane applications. These veils and mats are extremely uniform and are made from a variety of fibers including carbon and nickel-coated carbon.
Composite Rolls
AFN materials are used in the fabrication of composite rolls for industrial machinery. Our nonwoven sheet’s uniformity and isotropic nature make it ideal for applications requiring smooth and durable surfaces. A full range of material is kept in stock including para-aramid, carbon, glass, and blends.
Industrial Specialties
AFN® customers are currently using our products as pultruded tube covering, honeycomb facing, circuit board stabilizers, thermal insulation, battery electrodes, and adhesive substrate.
Sporting Goods
Fly rods, kayaks, snowboards, skateboards, skis, and bicycles represent just some of the equipment that incorporate our products. Customers most often request impact resistance, stiffness, vibration damping, appearance, and weight savings properties.
ViaMat Nonwoven Aramid Paper for PCBs
Introducing ViaMat nonwoven aramid paper for use as core substrate in the manufacture of high-performance printed circuit boards and chip carriers. ViaMat provides low coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) for dimensional stability making it ideal for avionics, military, medical devices, and high-capacity server applications.
HVision Technology Overview
The HVision technology platform is a collaborative process designed to enhance the development and commercialization of breakthrough products in applications such as engine filtration, high efficiency air and liquid filtration, battery separators, gasket materials, and specialty and industrial nonwovens. This R&D process is focused on creating a new generation of products that exceed present industry performance benchmarks. The HVision technology platform consists of a development process focused on three key principles:
- Benchmarking the industry’s best performance on the metrics most important to the customer
- Developing technologies that exceed those benchmarks to achieve breakthrough performance levels
- Focusing on creating core materials technologies that deliver unequaled performance across multiple products and markets
This R&D platform provides customers with innovative products that offer new standards of excellence for the performance characteristics that matter most, accelerating product development cycles and improving quality.
The new products developed with the HVision technology platform are:
- Next generation Hydraulic Filter Media
- Embossable Synthetic Filter Media
- Molecular Filter Media
- Technostat Plus Electrostatic Filter Media
- Capaceon Air Filter Media
- PerForm® next-generation HEPA/ULPA filter media for clean room applications.
- NanoWave® patented, extended surface, high loft all-synthetic media for the ASHRAE bag filter market.
- H2Oudini water dispersible paper for a variety of applications.
- NANOWEB Advanced Nanofiber Technology®
- ViaMat Nonwoven Aramid Paper
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