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Car interior

US firm acquired by Fibertex

Fibertex Nonwovens is to acquire Non Woven Solutions, a manufacturer of technical and industrial needlepunched products based in Ingleside, Illinois, USA. 

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 Sustaina

More Sustaina for OC

Owens Corning is building a new advanced technology facility in Gastonia, North Carolina, it says will help meet demand for bio-based products

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 Fitesa

Second Fitesa line in Brazil

Fitesa is to invest $160 million in a new spunmelt nonwovens manufacturing plant at Cosmopolis, 140 km from in Sao Paulo in Brazil.  

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 Tortech Nanofibres
Triple output for CNT nonwovens

Tortech Nanofibres has installed additional capacity for the manufacture of its nonwoven carbon nanotube (CNT) sheet at its manufacturing plant in Ma’alot, Israel. 
 

 Feed spacers
Reverse osmosis expansion
 
Conwed manufactures a full range of feed spacers specifically designed for reverse osmosis applications and in response to increasing demand for drinkable water worldwide, is expanding production capacity at its European plant based in Genk, Belgium.
 

 SNW Issue 3 2014
NEW ISSUE: SEPTEMBER 2014
 
 Sweeping change: Is China really surging ahead in the areas of both innovation and sustainable development? Flushable wipes: Strong enough to do their job but weak enough to disperse in water? Carbon fibre leader: The ongoing repercussions of BMW’s ambitious i Series programme. Closed loop care: Big opportunities for manufacturers of renewable nonwovens for hospitals and institutions. Electrospun SAPs: BASF reports a high surface area and improved fluid absorption and retention properties with a new technique for making SAP nanofibres. Cradle-to-gate LCA study on a new spunbond and pulp technology.

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Bostik

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Eco Composites


 

Protective clothing

Responding to a crisis

Manufacturers of protective clothing for healthcare workers are currently working around the clock to meet demand in response to the current Ebola crisis. 

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 Reifenhäuser Reicofil

Reicofil’s ‘Meltblown Toolbox’

Reifenhäuser Reicofil is now offering three separate meltblown options for the configuration of individual advanced spunmelt (SMS) nonwoven lines.

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 quality and sustainability director Thomas Broch

Establishing boundaries

Fibertex Personal Care saved 100,000 tons of virgin polypropylene between 2000 and 2011 through a combination of waste reduction and recycling measures.

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 Structure
Structured performance with Pleat2Save

Ahlstrom’s latest Pleat2Save HVAC air filter has a patent pending depth structure that is not just based on moving from a thicker to a thinner web structure in its construction. 
 

 EDANA
Henkel emissions reduction plan
 
Something of a disconnect between governmental policy and business developments was inadvertently highlighted at the recent EDANA Outlook conference for the hygienic disposables industry held in Barcelona (September 24-26) by Uwe Bergmann, of leading adhesives supplier Henkel.

 SNW Issue 3 2014
NEW ISSUE: SEPTEMBER 2014
 
 Sweeping change: Is China really surging ahead in the areas of both innovation and sustainable development? Flushable wipes: Strong enough to do their job but weak enough to disperse in water? Carbon fibre leader: The ongoing repercussions of BMW’s ambitious i Series programme. Closed loop care: Big opportunities for manufacturers of renewable nonwovens for hospitals and institutions. Electrospun SAPs: BASF reports a high surface area and improved fluid absorption and retention properties with a new technique for making SAP nanofibres. Cradle-to-gate LCA study on a new spunbond and pulp technology.

SNW 6 issues
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Bostik

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P&G

Less water, more recycling for P&G

Procter & Gamble is expanding its already-ambitious sustainability goals with an emphasis on water conservation and product packaging.

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 Wet wipes

Harper rolls out Arvell-based wipes

Harper Hygienics, headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, has commenced the launch of a range of wet wipes manufactured using the new Arvell technology of Teknoweb, based in Palazzo Pignano, Cremona, Italy.  

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 Cella

Cella teams up with Safran

In the first print issue of Sustainable Nonwovens at the start of 2012, we reported that a UK company called Cella Energy was employing nanofibre nonwovens as a component in the technology for safe and low-cost hydrogen storage.

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 EDANA
Positive effect with Biosoft

At the recent EDANA Outlook in Barcelona, Lenzing shared the results of consumer tests using Tencel Biosoft, the ultra-soft hydrophobic Lyocell fibre type, in the top-sheet of incontinence products.
 

 BOSTIK
New R&D centre for Bostik
 
Bostik has inaugurated its new €12 million R&D Centre in Venette, near Paris.

 SNW Issue 3 2014
NEW ISSUE: SEPTEMBER 2014
 
 Sweeping change: Is China really surging ahead in the areas of both innovation and sustainable development? Flushable wipes: Strong enough to do their job but weak enough to disperse in water? Carbon fibre leader: The ongoing repercussions of BMW’s ambitious i Series programme. Closed loop care: Big opportunities for manufacturers of renewable nonwovens for hospitals and institutions. Electrospun SAPs: BASF reports a high surface area and improved fluid absorption and retention properties with a new technique for making SAP nanofibres. Cradle-to-gate LCA study on a new spunbond and pulp technology.

SNW 6 issues
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Berlin

Filter media – beyond the car

It’s notable that in Berlin – the location of the 2014 EDANA Filtrex conference on nonwoven filter media which took place on October 1st and 2nd – traffic is now extremely light for a city with 3.5 million inhabitants and a steady stream of visitors passing through it. 

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 Glatfelter

Glatfelter acquires SPO

Glatfelter – which is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2014 – has acquired Spezialpapierfabrik Oberschmitten GmbH (SPO) from FINSPO Beteiligungs-GmbH, for €8.5 million. 

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 Rockline

Transparency drives at Rockline

In its 2014 Sustainability Report, nonwovens converter Rockline Industries – one of the world’s largest private-label manufacturers of coffee filters and wet wipes – reports key achievements in the areas of greenhouse gas emissions and solid waste reductions.

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 Porus Power
Porous Power separators unviable
 
Ahlstrom is make no further investments in Porous Power Technologies because the US-based subsidiary has been unable to develop its nonwoven battery separator solution into a product that would be qualified by potential customers.

 Graphene
Graphene nonwovens for supercapacitors?
 
Crumpling a piece of graphene ‘paper’ – formed by bonding together layers of the two-dimensional form of carbon – can yield new properties that could be useful for creating extremely stretchable supercapacitors to store energy for flexible electronic devices.

 SNW Issue 3 2014
NEW ISSUE: SEPTEMBER 2014
 
 Sweeping change: Is China really surging ahead in the areas of both innovation and sustainable development? Flushable wipes: Strong enough to do their job but weak enough to disperse in water? Carbon fibre leader: The ongoing repercussions of BMW’s ambitious i Series programme. Closed loop care: Big opportunities for manufacturers of renewable nonwovens for hospitals and institutions. Electrospun SAPs: BASF reports a high surface area and improved fluid absorption and retention properties with a new technique for making SAP nanofibres. Cradle-to-gate LCA study on a new spunbond and pulp technology.

SNW 6 issues
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Pictured at Outlook are Fater’s sustainability assistant manager, Guido Poliseno, Marcello Somma and secondary raw material developer Nicola D’Alessio.

Addressing ‘the elephant in the room’

Fater Spa will open an absorbent hygiene products recycling plant with an annual capacity of 8,000 tons in Veneto, Italy, at the start of 2015.  

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 PGI

PGI expands capacity and portfolio

At the Oulook conference in Barcelona (September 24-26), PGI announced plans to increase its European capacity for personal care speciality materials to 100,000 tons and also introduced its new Soft range of materials based on proprietary technologies.  

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 Outlook

The must-attend for personal care

In opening the 13th edition of Outlook, the world-leading conference for the nonwovens personal care industry, Pierre Wiertz, general manager of EDANA, told delegates there was a close relationship between many of the conference themes and his organisation’s daily mission to support the growth and sustainable development of the industry.

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 HB Fuller
Adhesives expansion in China

H.B. Fuller has expanded its Chinese plants in Guangzhou and Nanjing to support its nonwoven hygiene customers manufacturing primarily for the domestic market and for the broader Asia Pacific region.
 

 PCI Fibres conference
The future of fibres
 
Revolutionary routes to synthetic fibres – as already known and in new forms – are changing the whole discourse concerning the sustainability of the manufacture of modern textiles and nonwovens. Will the supply of biomass be enough for this purpose?

 SNW Issue 3 2014
NEW ISSUE: SEPTEMBER 2014
 
 Sweeping change: Is China really surging ahead in the areas of both innovation and sustainable development? Flushable wipes: Strong enough to do their job but weak enough to disperse in water? Carbon fibre leader: The ongoing repercussions of BMW’s ambitious i Series programme. Closed loop care: Big opportunities for manufacturers of renewable nonwovens for hospitals and institutions. Electrospun SAPs: BASF reports a high surface area and improved fluid absorption and retention properties with a new technique for making SAP nanofibres. Cradle-to-gate LCA study on a new spunbond and pulp technology.

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