Welker wins innovation award.

The Vacumaster vacuum dryer for glass fiber yarns has been awarded with the Innovation Prize of the German government. This award is granted for outstanding and innovative products of the German machinery industry. The Vacumaster developed by the machinery company Welker GmbH, based in Lambrecht, Germany, is a glass fiber dryer, which substitutes the utilization of classic ovens using heated air by a low temperature vacuum drying process. The results of this dryer are quite impressive, as yarn damages caused by overheated temperatures are reduced to zero, the energy cost is reduced by 70 percent against prior processes, and the lead time is reduced by 50 percent.