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Environmental news and technical innovation in the nonwovens sector
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Andritz

Cotton Inc

Hygienix

Outlook 2016

Nonwovens for High Performance Applications

ITMA Asia

Low & Bonar

Low & Bonar expands China facility

Performance materials manufacturer Low & Bonar is further expanding its China manufacturing facility, six months after beginning production at the site, to keep up with increased demand from customers in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

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Ahlstrom

Ahlstrom terminates business divestment

Fibre-based materials company Ahlstrom and fibre glass materials business Owens Corning have terminated their agreement regarding the planned divestiture of Ahlstrom's Building and Wind business unit to Owens Corning, citing challenges associated with obtaining regulatory clearance in Germany for the transaction.

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Waste2Aromatics

Bio-aromatics from waste

Turning waste, that would otherwise be incinerated or end up in landfill, into valuable raw materials for the chemical industry is the challenge being undertaken by a consortium of 12 companies, including absorbent hygiene recycling specialist Knowaste.

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Wipes

Flushable wipes market growth

The flushable wipes market continues to grow at an elevated rate, despite a slow growing global economy and a nonwovens market which has also slowed as a result.

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Avgol Lux

Avgol expands soft nonwoven range

Avgol has introduced a new collection of nonwoven fabrics suitable for diapers, adult incontinence and feminine hygiene products.

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Sustainable Nonwovens June July 2016
LATEST ISSUE: JUNE/JULY 2016 - SUSTAINABLE NONWOVENS 

Freshly served

Biopolymers in coffee systems

Thinner, lighter, softer

Hygiene developments insight

Record breaker

IDEA show review

Innovations in Turkey

Nonwovens at Hightex and ITM 2016

Ten questions for...

Pierre Wiertz, general manager, EDANA

Improving your serve

Single serve coffee systems and teabags are significant markets for bio-based polymers and nonwovens

Horizons 

Research and patents from across the nonwovens industry 

And much more...

Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for your copy of Sustainable Nonwoven's 
2016 media kit.. 

NART

NART 16

Andritz

Cotton Inc

Hygienix

Outlook 2016

Nonwovens for High Performance Applications

ITMA Asia

Recycled

Lenzing launches recycled fibre

Cellulosic fibre supplier Lenzing is launching a new Tencel fibre made from cotton waste fabrics in a bid to drive circular economy solutions in the textile industry.

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Cinte Techtextil

Cinte Techtextil welcomes European zone

China, the international trade fair for technical textiles and nonwovens, will return to Shanghai in October.

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Groz Beckert needles

Groz Beckert highlights R-PET potential

Industrial machine needles and fine machinery parts provider Groz Beckert has highlighted the growing potential for recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) in nonwoven applications.

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ARS scientist Crista Madison prepares optimized quat co-formulations for use with 100 per cent greige cotton disposable disinfecting wipes. The wipes successfully passed efficacy tests against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, MRSA, and VRE.

Nanotech expands cotton applications

Research scientists in the US say nanotechnology creates new uses for cotton nonwovens in devices for the medical sector.

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Dornbirn 2015

Programme announced for Dornbirn

Speakers have been announced for the Dornbirn Man-made Fibres Congress, organised by the Austrian Man-Made Fibres Institute, including Sebastian Basel, Kelheim Fibres, who will present on short cut viscose fibres and their application in hybrid nonwoven technologies, and Masaki Fujie, Mitsubishi Rayon Co., who will present on the development of high performance polypropylene fibres.

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Sustainable Nonwovens June July 2016
NEW ISSUE: JUNE/JULY 2016 - SUSTAINABLE NONWOVENS 

Freshly served

Biopolymers in coffee systems

Thinner, lighter, softer

Hygiene developments insight

Record breaker

IDEA show review

Innovations in Turkey

Nonwovens at Hightex and ITM 2016

Ten questions for...

Pierre Wiertz, general manager, EDANA

Improving your serve

Single serve coffee systems and teabags are significant markets for bio-based polymers and nonwovens

Horizons 

Research and patents from across the nonwovens industry 

And much more...

Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for your copy of Sustainable Nonwoven's 
2016 media kit.. 

NART

NART 16

Andritz

Cotton Inc

Hygienix

Outlook 2016

Nonwovens for High Performance Applications

ITMA Asia

A.Celli Nonwovens

A.Celli tech reuses cardboard cores

New technology from A.Celli Nonwovens allows the re-use of cardboard cores used in the production of large-sized nonwoven rolls.

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design2wall

New ownership for Sihl

Private investment firm Equistone Partners Europe has acquired a majority stake in Sihl, the specialist in coated nonwovens, fabrics, films and papers for digital printing.

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Venezuela

Kimberly-Clark suspends Venezuela operations

Personal care giant Kimberly-Clark Corporation has suspended all its operations in Venezuela with immediate effect, citing continually deteriorating economic conditions.

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Technical Absorbents

Superabsorbent technology for Filtech

Technical Absorbents will exhibit its superabsorbent fibre (SAF) technology at Filtech in October.

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Lydall

Lydall acquires nonwovens producer

Texel, a producer of nonwoven needle punch materials serving the geosynthetic, liquid filtration, and other industrial sectors, has been acquired by Lydall for approximately US$96 million.

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Sustainable Nonwovens June July 2016
NEW ISSUE: JUNE/JULY 2016 - SUSTAINABLE NONWOVENS 

Freshly served

Biopolymers in coffee systems

Thinner, lighter, softer

Hygiene developments insight

Record breaker

IDEA show review

Innovations in Turkey

Nonwovens at Hightex and ITM 2016

Ten questions for...

Pierre Wiertz, general manager, EDANA

Improving your serve

Single serve coffee systems and teabags are significant markets for bio-based polymers and nonwovens

Horizons 

Research and patents from across the nonwovens industry 

And much more...

Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for your copy of Sustainable Nonwoven's 
2016 media kit.. 

NART

NART 16

Andritz

Cotton Inc

Hygienix

Outlook 2016

Nonwovens for High Performance Applications

ITMA Asia

RadiciGroup

Europe boosts Radici Group

Italian synthetic fibres and nonwovens company Radici Group recorded consolidated sales of €1.011 million, down 1.37 per cent on 2014. Sales volume increased 3 per cent since the previous year, whilst the first half of 2016 saw RadiciGroup attain a gross operating margin of €60 million.

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Filtration 2015

Filtration conference celebrates anniversary

Nonwovens association INDA will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its annual Filtration conference and exposition in Philadelphia this November.

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 Nigel Walker, Technical Fibre Products’ director of technology, has been awarded the status of Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Chemistry fellowship for TFP director

Nonwovens and coated fibres manufacturer Technical Fibre Products' director of technology has been awarded the status of Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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Suominen

Suominen promotes sustainability

Suominen is to increase its output of products manufactured using certified raw materials as part of a new strategy to promote sustainability in nonwovens used in its wipes, hygiene products and medical applications.

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Definition

Move for nonwovens reclassification

Pierre Wiertz, general manager, EDANA, spoke to Sustainable Nonwovens on the necessity for an improved definition and classification for nonwovens.

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Sustainable Nonwovens June July 2016
NEW ISSUE: JUNE/JULY 2016 - SUSTAINABLE NONWOVENS 

Freshly served

Biopolymers in coffee systems

Thinner, lighter, softer

Hygiene developments insight

Record breaker

IDEA show review

Innovations in Turkey

Nonwovens at Hightex and ITM 2016

Ten questions for...

Pierre Wiertz, general manager, EDANA

Improving your serve

Single serve coffee systems and teabags are significant markets for bio-based polymers and nonwovens

Horizons 

Research and patents from across the nonwovens industry 

And much more...

Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for your copy of Sustainable Nonwoven's 
2016 media kit.. 

Trtutschler

Cotton Inc

Andtritz

Investkonsult

Hightex

Outlook

Hygienix

ITMA 2015

Careers in Textiles

Drylock Technologies

Drylock gains momentum

Drylock Technologies – the manufacturer of nonwoven-based hygiene products with game-changing fluffless absorbent cores – will start up its third plant, to be located at Kazan in Russia, before the end of this year.

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Sandler's

Sandler's €48 million new investment

Sandler will complete the construction of its €17 million, 22,750-square-metre Plant 5 at Schwarzenbach in Germany by the end of the year.

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Kimberly Clark

New K-C sustainability strategy

Kimberly-Clark has published its annual sustainability report, which introduces the company's new 2022 sustainability platform.

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 Technical Absorbents

Needlefelt line for TAL

Technical Absorbents (TAL), the developer of superabsorbent fibre (SAF) technology, has recently installed a needlefelt line at its plant in Grimsby, UK.

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 ITMA 2015

Market overview at ITMA 2015

According to a new market report by Smithers Apex, the global nonwovens market will experience projected annual growth rates of an average of 7.6% in tonnage in the next few years.

Sustainable Nonwovens June/July 2015
LATEST ISSUE: JUNE/JULY 2015 - SUSTAINABLE NONWOVENS

High Performance
Fibre ingenuity and expanding end-uses for nonwovens at Techtextil 2015

On course in the Carolinas
New investment and expansion plans come thick and fast

Bounty below the waves
Nonwovens for intensive seaweed farming

The future of function
Materials capable of large-area sensing and actuation

Greening the cities with SAF
Superabsorbents and photovoltaics make a winning new combination

Value recovery
Growing opportunities for recycled carbon fibres in drylaid nonwovens

And much more....

 
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