A new LCA study indicates significant benefits in the production of wipes substrates with Teknoweb’s Arvell technology.
A wet wipes substrate currently accounts for between 65-70% of costs for a wipes converter and Arvell technology has been developed by Italy’s Teknoweb in order to drive this cost down with an acceptable alternative.
The patented technology involves simultaneously spunbonding polypropylene and forming pulp into a single product, making it a relation to Kimberly-Clark’s heavily-patented Coform spun-pulp-carded (SPC) process. An alternative biobased version, Arvell Bio, replacing the polypropylene with PLA, is also currently under development.
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