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Sustainability


Next-Gen Options For Eco-Friendly Stretch Materials

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Investments Cue Optimism for Circular Textiles That Can Scale

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Eton’s Role in Automating the Reuse Market

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Veocel cleansing wipe from Lenzing. Photo courtesy of Lenzing

Approaches to Responsible Sourcing As a leader in wood-based cellulosic fibers, Lenzing has a particular responsibility and ambition to help raise the bar for sustainability in nonwovens industry. Wood and …

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Forecasts report that global PLA capacity could be fivefold from 460 thousand metric tons in 2022 to 2.38 million metric tons by 2027.

Solutions to Environmental Impacts of Current Materials Today, the world’s nonwoven production is dominated by petroleum-based resins, most prominently polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET). But bio-based materials have also …

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INDA’s 2024 Capitol Hill Fly-In Meet-and-Greet with legislators in Washington, D.C. was successful.

Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities Facing the Industry in Light of a Growing Consumer and Policymaker Focus on Sustainability Sustainability topics are top of mind for virtually every industry across …

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The issue of Post-Consumer-Recycled (PCR) in nonwovens is becoming a huge issue.

Q+A With Matt Seaholm, President & CEO and Patrick Krieger, Vice President, Sustainability, Plastics Industry Association The nonwovens industry faces a huge challenge to transition from non-sustainable product applications to …

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Smaller plastic particles look like food to many small creatures including turtles and fish; this is how plastic gets into the food chain. Photo courtesy of iStockphoto/Slavadubrovin

Plastic has been part of our lives for the past 70 years. For the sake of history, in 1953, high-density polyethylene (HDPE) brought expansion to low-density radical polyethylene (LDPE), used …

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