Single-Use Wipes – An Industry Never Far From Drama
As Industry-Wide Circular Solutions Rise, Consumer Education is Critical On March 8, 2024, South Carolina’s Charleston Water System (CWS) settled a class action lawsuit against the wipes retailers and manufacturers Costco, CVS, Procter & Gamble, Walgreens, Target and Walmart. It should go some way to ensuring that all wipes marketed to consumers across the USA …
In The Bag
When Longevity is a Necessity for Nonwovens Durability is critical to the high performance of many nonwovens, and two of the most extremely demanding uses they are put to where a long life must be guaranteed is firstly as the filter media employed in industrial baghouses, and secondly, as geotextiles which are widely used in …
Absorbent Hygiene Products
Training Pants and Retailer Brands Come of Age As a leading supplier of spunmelt nonwovens to the absorbent hygiene products (AHPs) industry, Fibertex Personal Care, headquartered in Aalborg, Denmark, reports that the market is still being impacted by excess capacity in Asia. Manufacturers have invested heavily in recent years to ramp up their production capacities …
Machinery Goes Digital
Technologies That Can Close the Loop From Fiber to Fiber An emerging theme at the huge ITMA 2023 textile machinery exhibition held in Milan, Italy, last June, was the need for advanced technologies for the recycling of fibers and textiles. By the time of the next edition of this major industry event, which will be …
DOMEination in Geotextiles
A New Approach to Water Storage in the City of Dawn When it rains in Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India, it certainly rains. In this monsoonal region, 90% of annual precipitation can occur in just two months, making water storage a huge challenge. Rising to this challenge is a project currently being undertaken …