FEEDERS, FOLDERS AND IRONERS


drive and sensor technology to achieve higher acceleration and ensures transport precision as well as process stability. Operators won’t have to wait for the next item, resulting in shorter process time. The swivable bar ensures faster feeding process with ideal depositing and tension for a wide range of articles. Its lift function ensures the highest edge quality on the market. With the swivable bar, the leading edge gets into the feeder with perfect quality. The item is elegantly picked up, gently laid down without overspreading and fixed with the strong vacuum without a clamping bar.


A vacuum force five times higher than


MAXING OUT: Lapauw’s IronMAX (see box, below)


Lapauw steams ahead with flexible chest ironer Steam


Wim Demeyer of Lapauw is keen to share


information on the success of the Lapauw hinged chest which he says is the only flexible chest that works with steam heating “Lapauw has seen an increase in orders


for steam-heated ironers for some time now. Steam boilers and systems are becoming increasingly efficient, making operations with the steam heated ironer more energy-efficient. The steam ironer itself also offers numerous advantages, one of the most important of which is easy maintenance. “However, steam heating is not compatible with the thin, flexible chest, as high steam pressures exert high forces on the thin chest, which can lead to cracks and deformation.” That’s where Lapauw comes in, he explains: “Lapauw is one of the very few manufacturers that still has ‘home-grown’ chest manufacturing. Moreover, Lapauw is the only manufacturer with a dedicated chest for gas heating and steam heating.”


The Lapauw steam chest consists out of 2 thick chest halves that are joined with a hinge: - The thickness of the chest halves provide the necessary robustness to withstand the high steam pressure of 8-15 bar without bending or leaking. • The hinge connecting the two chest


halves offers the same advantage as a flexible ironing plate: an ironing path just as long as with a thin, flexible plate. • The chest material is made of carbon


steel, which provides optimal heat transfer and thus ensures a uniform temperature across the entire ironing surface. Like the thin, flexible chest of Lapauw gas


ironer, the steam ironer is also equipped with parallel steam circuits, ensuring maximum


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efficiency.“Naturally, the gas ironer with a thin, flexible chest remains an important part of the Lapauw range, as does the electrically heated ironer.


The heat exchanger of the electric ironer has exactly the same shape and dimensions as the gas-heated version, so a gas-heated ironer can be easily converted into an electric ironer and vice versa, even on-site in the laundry., explains Demeyer. Pre Texcare International 2024, Demeyer told LCNi: “First of all we see that the market for chest heated ironers is picking up rapidly. As tourism is already surpassing pre-Covid levels, laundries need higher production capacities and the small, commercial laundries ‘grow out’ of their roll-heated ironers rapidly, replacing them with a single roll chest ironer with folder. Here Lapauw offers a wide range, from 800 mm diameter up to 1600 mm roll diameter, while the flexible chest technology combines efficiency with a high quality finish. “Needless to say that the spiraling energy costs also still are an issue.” The IronMAX is the latest generation 2-roll and 3-roll diameter 1200 mm ironer. With features like a heated bridge that spans more


than 1 metre, the individual Lapauw spring technology and true parallel circuit for the thermal oil (gas heated versions) and steam (steam heated versions), the IronMAX is one of the most efficient ironers in the industry, offering an energy consumption of lower than 0,9 kWh/kg removed water. “Next to increased demand for production


capacity, the post-COVID world sees another issue : increased cost of personnel and difficulties to find and keep people. This prompts the laundries to put their


efforts on automatisation and look for smart feeding and folding solutions. Together with the Japanese manufacturer,


TOTO, Lapauw offers a wide range of feeding and folding solutions, among them the VS-line folding equipment. The VS folders are large piece folders which have 3 to 5 individual stackers that are positioned inside of the footprint. This not only allows you to save valuable space (no stackers on the side) but also to already sort the folded linen to size, which reduces the workload of the personnel in the finishing and expedition departments.Additionally, we also offer centralised conveyors.”


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