|
|
 |
|
Hygiene: disposables versus re-usables
The global hygiene market will grow 6.4 per cent annually until 2021, in terms of both volume and value, with the nonwovens segment growing at over twice this rate, as the surgical gowns and drapes market transitions to disposable nonwoven-based products globally, and the industrial wipes market continues to benefit from the US Environmental Protection Agency’s wiper rule, according to new research.
Read more
|
|
|
 |
|
Lenzing to up fibre production
Lenzing, manufacturer of textile fibres and pulp raw materials, is to invest more than €100 million in its production capabilities and aims to expand its capacities for specialty fibres by 35,000 tons by mid-2018.
Read more
|
|
|
|
|
DAK majority stake in PET producer
Fibres, monomers and resins company DAK Americas has acquired a controlling interest in Selenis Canada Inc.
Read more
|
|
|
|
|
‘PFOA-free’ repellent for medical nonwovens
Medical products including surgical gowns, masks, drapes and packaging must be able to repel fluids, oil and alcohol, and quickly release stains when laundered.
Read more
|
|
|
|
|
Self-healing coatings breakthrough
Scientists in America have released details of a research paper on new chemical coatings for self-healing textiles, which they claim can be applied to garments to neutralise toxins and protect the wearer from exposure to pesticides, chemicals or biological attack.
Read more
|
|
|
|
 |
|
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…
2016 media kit..
|
|
|
|
