Index 2002 attracted 450 exhibitors, including nonwoven fabric manufactures, raw material suppliers, and nonwoven fabric manufacturing machinery manufactures. Fleissner GmbH & Company has sold 45,000 through air drums. 1,000 continuous nonwovwn fabric manufacturing lines, 50 advanced through air dryers with speeds of up to 2,000 meters per minute, and 40 AquaJet Spunlacing lines. Its AquaTex Enhancement lines provide thermal, chemical, and spray bonding of nonwoven fabrics. Its nonwoven manufacturing lines have applications in floor coverings, geotextiles, roofing membrances, automotive fabrics, sanitary and hygiene products, wipes, industrial fabrics, filters, footwear, healthcarde and medical textiles, and home furnishings. Thibeau and Asslin's ProDyn self regulation control system for nonwoven fabric manufacturing lines manufactures fiber batts using Dynamic carding and corsslapping machines or the Airweb dry laid nonwoven fabric and batt manufacturing machine. Trutzschler GmbH & Company KG displayed its new bale opening and weighting machines, feed chutes, and dispensing machines for long or short staple fibers.