Process Profile: Hydroentanglement bonding process for nonwovens
Hydroentanglement (sometimes referred to as spunlacing) is a bonding process used in the manufacture of nonwoven materials. It can be employed with either carded, wetlaid webbed, or drylaid webbed fibers. Hydroentanglement systems utilize rows of highly pressurized water jets to impinge on the fiber web and twist fibers around each other. The higher the pressure …
PPSS Group touts new high-performance cut-resistant fabric
UK based PPSS Group has a fine global reputation when it comes to high performance body armour and their passionate desire to protect public facing frontline professionals, such as police, prison and security professionals. However, it really is their knitted cut resistant fabric Cut-Tex® PRO that has made headlines over the recent months. The firm …
Monforts to showcase coating and finishing technologies at Techtextil India
Monforts Textilmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG will be providing information on its range of coating and finishing technologies for the production of nonwovens and technical textiles at the forthcoming Techtextil India exhibition. “India is already a very important market for Monforts and there are exciting prospects ahead for Indian manufacturers of technical textiles, who are …
Student Spotlight: Electrospun biomaterials
Allison Fetz is pursuing a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Memphis, where she is conducting research on electrospun biomaterials within the Tissue Template Engineering and Regeneration Laboratory, a joint program by the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Memphis and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Fetz’s research is …
Demand for wipes in healthcare settings to increase 3.8% annually
Demand for wipes used in healthcare settings is expected to increase 3.8% per year to $594 million in 2023, according to a new report. Gains will be driven by robust growth in hard surface disinfectant wipes sales, following concerns over the risk of cross-contamination and healthcare-associated infections (HAI); continued adoption of wipes over alternative products, …