Richard Hough: Calendering and squeezing rollers

Richard Hough Ltd. manufactures a specialist range of calendering and squeezing rollers for the world's textile industry.

Applications for RHL's rollers

Calendering: Universal textile calenders, schreiner calenders, friction calenders, embossing calenders, bonding and nonwoven calenders, geo-textile calenders.

Squeezing/de-watering: Mangles, padders, stenters, dyeing ranges, loose stock fibre processing

Syncast Polyamide Rollers: Richard Hough Ltd. has developed its own hi-tech polyamide textile calender roll product known as Syncast. This is an 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 complete roll or the Syncast sleeve can be supplied to the customer's required specification. Syncast rolls can be produced up to 7m face length and 1m diameter with parallel or crowned profile. Syncast sleeves are spun cast on industry leading equipment, fully annealed and ultrasonically checked guaranteeing optimum quality and performance.

Cotton Calender Rolls: Cop Cotton calender rolls are produced to the highest quality and are specified by the world's leading calender manufacturers. Richard Hough Ltd. has 3500 tonne hydraulic presses ensure the maximum cotton roll density, which ensures the highest calendering performance and roll service life. RHL cotton rolls achieve the optimum surface finish on woven and knitted, natural and synthetic fabrics.

Roberto Squeezing Rolls: Roberto high expression squeezing rolls are exclusively manufactured by Richard Hough Ltd. Roberto rolls are a high-performance replacement for conventional rubber or PU squeezing rolls, with significantly improved expression and greatly improved service life over rubber and PU. Roberto's squeezing performance (20-50% greater expression than rubber/PU rolls) is achieved through a combination of the squeezing action and powerful capillary suction.