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Performance Nonwovens

Apertured webs with high extensibilities for hygiene products

1 January 2005
US-based Procter & Gamble Co is developing ways of making nonwovens that contain apertures and have high degrees of elongation.
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Pads have contoured surfaces

1 November 2004
A US company claims to have devised a way to make nonwoven pads with convoluted surfaces.
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Diaphanous hydroentangled fabric

1 October 2004
Polymer Group Inc (PGI) has developed what it claims is an extremely lightweight nonwoven with an abrasive surface and high absorbency.
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Stronger fabric

1 September 2004
A filament nonwoven with greater strength in the cross-machine direction (CD) is the subject of European Patent EP 1 382 731.
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Electrostatic duster indicates when it is saturated

1 September 2004
An Italian has invented a nonwoven that develops an electrostatic charge to attract and retain dust, and can indicate when it is saturated.
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Low-density insulation

1 July 2004
A low-density nonwoven offering good thermal and acoustic insulation is the subject of US Patent 6 579 396.
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Bi-functional wipes

1 June 2004
One of the largest nonwovens manufacturers in the USA, Polymer Group Inc, has developed a dual purpose material that it believes has potential as an industrial wipe.
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Crimped homofilaments

1 May 2004
A heat-treated nonwoven based on crimped homofilaments is the subject of International Patent WO 02/05725.
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Absorbent article for hygiene products and bandages

1 January 2004
An absorbent article for use in sanitary protection, hygiene and bandage applications has been developed by Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products.
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Electrically conducting carbon fibre fabric designed for fuel cells

1 December 2003
A flexible matrix of pyrolysed carbon fibres is suitable for use as the substrate for a fuel cells electrode, according to its US inventor.
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Stabilized filaments help make better absorbents

1 December 2003
A nonwoven structure that incorporates stabilized filament assemblies is the subject of International Patent WO 00/63479.
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Multi-component nonwovens

1 November 2003
BBA Nonwovens Simpsonville Inc has developed a process to make a multi-component spunbond fabric
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Self-crimping spunbonds

1 November 2003
A UK company has patented a variation of the traditional approach to making spunbond fabrics.
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Lightweight triboelectric

1 September 2003
Carl Freudenberg has developed a method for making lightweight triboelectrically charged nonwovens for use in filter media.
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Hydroentangled fabrics get patterns and images

1 September 2003
US inventors have disclosed a method based on hydroentanglement for forming durable nonwovens with patterns and images.
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Converting thick webs to contoured materials

1 July 2003
A US company has invented a system for converting a thick web of nonwoven fabric into a contoured material.
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Hydroentangled hybrid

1 May 2003
A way of continuously making a complicated nonwoven is the subject of European Patent EP 1 246 958.
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High cross-direction elongation

1 March 2003
A nonwoven fabric in which the fibre density varies between strips of relatively high density and strips of relatively low density is disclosed in International Patent 01 12888 by First Quality Nonwov
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