Via Enrico Fermi 10
24060 Bolgare (BG) – ITALY
Tel. +39 035 84 16 42
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info@effe4.eu  
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EFFE 4 srl, Bolgare, Italy, is a major spunlace converter in Europe. Giuseppe Finardi, one of the company’s founders, spent years working in the household industry and joined the nonwovens industry in 1993 when a large Italian needlepunch manufacturer was looking for a converter. Finardi and his two eldest sons, Dario and Ivan, purchased converting machinery from this company and began working for them as a third party, printing mother rolls, slitting in desired widths, packaging and sending them directly to customers. In 1997, the company moved to a 3500 square meter plant, near one of the most important European motorways—A4 Milan-Venice.

Seven years later, the company broke out on its own and began working with spunlace waste—second grade materials and unsold lots. Today, EFFE 4 is managed by the four sons of the Giuseppe: Dario, Ivan, Roberta and Marco.

According to Marco Finardi, EFFE 4 purchases over production, second grade stocklots, waste and trims from spunlace manufacturers. There are several reasons second grade materials could be defective: imperfect distribution of fibers, grammages that are too low or too high, incorrect width or imperfect cut, Marco says. “Thanks to our more than 20 years experience in converting, we are able to slit these rolls in widths our customers need and we sell second grade material that often has no difference from first grade materials. Our customers can find what they are looking for in short time because we always have big quantities of material available,” he explains.

EFFE 4 also offers slitting services to companies that don’t have the machinery to do it. The company can make rolls from 40mm to 1800mm wide, and can also cut in pieces and package.
Additionally, thanks to its regular supply of spunlace trims, EFFE 4 sells material for the manufacture of mops. According to Marco, EFFE 4 is the only known company that puts all material designed for mop production into a drying process. “This is the only way to guarantee the end user with a quality product that has a very low and constant humidity rate,” he says.

The company’s Plissè spunlace and Twisted spunlace are used for mop production. Plissè spunlace is the result of a two-step process involving first the folding and then the rewinding of a strip of nonwoven fabric. Twisted spunlace is obtained from twisting, using advanced equipment, two strips of nonwoven fabric. “We can affirm that we are the European leader company in this field,” Marco says.

EFFE 4 distributes its products, which are mostly used in hygiene, industrial and cosmetics markets, mainly in Europe, but also to over 25 counties across the globe. The company is now beginning to work with new customers in North America, South America and Asia.

In a vast nonwovens market, EFFE 4 has found its niche as a company that converts secondary materials. “Company’s that use nonwovens start by thinking about the final product to find the best material to realize it. We start from the product available on the market and look for the best application for it, so our customers can find good quality materials at lower prices and without waiting times. In 48-72 hours we can slit 10 tons of material,” Marco says.

He adds, “The nonwovens industry is constantly changing and this is the right time to be in nonwovens. Every day there are new business opportunities.”