Ahlstrom offers benefits of HP Latex inks
Ahlstrom has taken part in the HP (Hewlett-Packard) Registered Latex Development Programme and a wide number of the company’s poster papers and wallcover substrates based on nonwovens have met the HP compatibility standard.

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Car seats set to slim down
Johnson Controls has teamed up with with luxury UK mattress manufacturer Harrison Spinks to integrate pocketed coil spring mattress technology – which makes intensive use of nonwovens and Yorkshire wool – into an automotive seat concept called ComfortThin.

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Natural fibre packaging points the way
Procter & Gamble partnered with moulded fibre supplier Be Green Packaging to develop its new packaging for the Fusion ProGlide – which provides an early indication of the consumer giant’s ambitious push towards eventual 100% renawable content for its vast product range.

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Neumag line for India
Goldman Sachs has famously predicted that India’s economy will exceed that of Europe and Japan by 2030 and that of the US by 2045, as a result of the increase in household incomes and predicted growth in the agriculture, manufacturing and service sectors.

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PLA progress highlighted in Florida
The Biopolymer World Congress, the premier conference on biopolymers and biobased chemicals will take place from 23-24 April 2012 in Mestre-Venice, Italy.

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ADVERTISE with Sustainable Nonwovens
In the second decade of the 21st Century, it’s no longer a question of just ‘business as usual’ for the global nonwovens industry. Big changes are taking place, impacting on everything from the raw materials used and the processes developed, to the role nonwovens will play in existing and future end-use products for myriad markets.

SUSTAINABLE NONWOVENS will reflect these changes, and advertising in the new web-site and printed magazine combination will ensure that your company is seen as one of the pioneers in the fast moving sector of the industry.

Call David Jagger on: +44 1977 708488 for more details.

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Like ducks to water with Ecorepel
Ducks can dive under water and re-emerge with their feathers still dry as a result of an oily secretion that makes their plumage repel water. This natural water repellent function has been the template for the development of Ecorepel, a new finish for textiles and nonwovens from Schoeller Technologies.

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Sustainable success at Sandler
The stringent management of resources and continuous technology expansion and product development programmes have seen Sandler AG double its turnover in just five years.

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Nanospider makes cleanroom setting debut
The National Tissue Centre (NTC) in Brno, Czech Republic, has become the first cleanroom to employ an Elmarco Nanospider industrial scale nanofibre nonwovens system.

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Shedding weight with StabilStrand
Johns Manville’s new StabilStrand is a specially-developed glassfibre nonwoven for engineered wood.

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PLA progress highlighted in Florida
The nonwovens progress made by NatureWorks with its Ingeo PLA fibre will be showcased at the forthcoming ‘Innovation Takes Root’ conference in Orlando, Florida from February 20-22.

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ADVERTISE with Sustainable Nonwovens
In the second decade of the 21st Century, it’s no longer a question of just ‘business as usual’ for the global nonwovens industry. Big changes are taking place, impacting on everything from the raw materials used and the processes developed, to the role nonwovens will play in existing and future end-use products for myriad markets.

SUSTAINABLE NONWOVENS will reflect these changes, and advertising in the new web-site and printed magazine combination will ensure that your company is seen as one of the pioneers in the fast moving sector of the industry.

Call David Jagger on: +44 1977 708488 for more details.

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Expansion plans for Winner
During 2012 Winner Medical plans to open 30 new stores in China for consumer products based on its  PurCotton nonwovens and including diapers, femcare products and wipes.

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Keeping the heat in
Erfurt – a key player in driving the success of nonwovens for wallcoverings in Europe – has developed KlimaTec as an interior wall range that can effectively reduce energy consumption, maintain air humidity at a healthy level and refurbish any damage caused by mould.

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PLA progress highlighted in Florida
The nonwovens progress made by NatureWorks with its Ingeo PLA fibre will be showcased at the forthcoming ‘Innovation Takes Root’ conference in Orlando, Florida from February 20-22.

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Stuctured for surgery
Biofelt is a new absorbable scaffold for implant devices in orthopedics, cardiology and general surgery being introduced by Biomedical Structures (BMS), based in Warwick, Rhode Island, USA, following its 2011 acquisition of medical textile manufacturer Concordia Medical.

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ADVERTISE with Sustainable Nonwovens
In the second decade of the 21st Century, it’s no longer a question of just ‘business as usual’ for the global nonwovens industry. Big changes are taking place, impacting on everything from the raw materials used and the processes developed, to the role nonwovens will play in existing and future end-use products for myriad markets.

SUSTAINABLE NONWOVENS will reflect these changes, and advertising in the new web-site and printed magazine combination will ensure that your company is seen as one of the pioneers in the fast moving sector of the industry.

Call David Jagger on: +44 1977 708488 for more details.

More info here