10.01.2016Promoting Open Innovation
Academia and industry successfully came together at the 2015 edition of EDANA’s Nonwovens Innovation Academy (NIA) where researchers...
Academia and industry successfully came together at the 2015 edition of EDANA’s Nonwovens Innovation Academy (NIA) where researchers...
The traditional textile and apparel industry has been the backbone for economic development in Turkey, as a fundamental sector for...
Nonwovens are employed in many components going into modern footwear, especially in today’s sports and training shoes.
Japan’s Unicharm was the first company to introduce superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) to baby diapers in the early 1980s, very quickly...
Different types of nonwovens fabrics are often much more effective working together with others than on their own.
Japanese futons were traditionally filled with beans or buckwheat chaff and, more recently, have contained plastic beads or thin and...
While millions of people drink coffee or tea each day, very few would link the flavour of their hot drinks with nonwoven...
The International Energy Agency (IEA) reports that between 2003 and 2012, – despite all initiatives to introduce renewable...
EDANA has recently completed full-spectrum sustainability studies on the benefit of several applications of durable nonwovens.
New industrial applications for natural fibre nonwovens continue to be found – and not least those based on flax – due to recenty...
Heat from an electric arc is a major hazard faced by workers in a number of industries, and one from which they must be protected by...
What are nonwoven-based hygiene and medical disposables likely to be able to do next? Quite a lot, if the fast-growing wearable...
For over a decade now, the nonwovens industry, represented by its organisations EDANA and INDA, has collaborated with relevant...
The rich diversity of nonwoven materials and their applications and the increasingly global nature of the industry are reflected in...
Protective clothing and accessories such as facemasks and shoe covers based on nonwovens are essential components of the comprehensive...
Although there are many applications for nonwovens in which the ability to pack multiple performance properties into an extremely thin...
Nonwovens and membranes are considered to be very separate products which in fact, in many filtration applications, are highly...
It is said that the ‘internet of things’, will soon be upon us, and sensors will be everywhere. Naturally, this will include them...
Incontinence products for adults are increasingly resembling regular cotton briefs as a result of sophisticated constructions and...
Suppliers of nonwovens and related materials to the automotive industry should pay special attention to what’s happening right now in...