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What Are Nonwovens?
Description: In combination with other materials or used alone, nonwovens are used in a wide range of consumer and industrial products with diverse properties, including absorbent hygiene products, apparel, home furnishings, healthcare and surgical fabrics, construction, filtration, engineering, and wipes to name but a few.
Nonwovens have specific characteristics that allow them to deliver high-performance across a wide range of applications. Specific functions include: absorbency, liquid repellency, resilience, stretch, softness, strength, flame retardancy, washability, cushioning, filtering, bacterial barrier and sterility.
Features: The versatility of nonwovens means that they can provide innovative, cost-effective and sometimes unexpected answers to innumerable business challenges. Innovative products and solutions can be created; problems can be solved; and needs met by incorporating appropriate properties. These properties are often combined to create fabrics suited for specific jobs, while achieving a good balance between product use-life and cost. Specific properties can be achieved by selecting raw materials and methods or by applying finishing treatments to nonwovens, such as printing, embossing, molding, laminating etc. Properties include
- Abrasion resistant
- Absorbent
- Antistatic
- Biodegradable
- Breathable
- Color fast
- Conductive
- Crease resistant
- Dense
- Color fast
- Dry cleanable
- Durable
- Dust free
- Dyeable
- Elastic
- Filtration
- Flame resistant
- Foldable
Specific properties can be achieved by selecting raw materials and methods or by applying finishing treatments to nonwovens, such as printing, embossing, molding, laminating etc.
- Heat sealable
- Impermeable
- Ironable
- Kind to skin
- Light
- Lint free
- Liquid repellent
- Long-lasting
- Moldable
- Non-conductive
- Non-fading
- Permeable
- Porous
- Printable
- Protective (bacterial barrier)
- Resilient
- Rot and mildew resistant
- Serializable
- Smooth
- Soft
- Stable
- Sterilizable
- Stiff
- Stretchable
- Strong
- Tear resistant
- Washable
- Weatherproof
- Color fast
