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Editorial
January 14, 2010
Last week French machinery specialist and spunlace technology leader Rieter said it would exit the nonwovens market following the sale of its Perfojet… Read More »
December 8, 2009
The other day, my four-year-old and I were playing with dolls when she asked me to make some new clothes for her princesses—she wanted to create some sort of uniform for them. Read More »
December 4, 2009
A lot has been said about globalization in the nonwovens industry in recent years. Read More »
December 3, 2009
Back in the late 1990s, when airlaid manufacturers still had cause for optimism, industry pundit Ivan Pivko published a book titled Technology in Search of Markets. Read More »
December 2, 2009
We are feeling it at the gas pumps and we will feel it when we heat our homes this winter, but where will be the next area we feel the squeeze of increasing petroleum prices? Read More »
November 17, 2009
They say good things come in small packages and as someone who is barely five-foot-two, I'm apt to agree. When it comes to nonwovens technologies, it… Read More »
October 20, 2009
Last month, Polymer Group Inc., one of the world’s largest nonwovens producers, broke new ground in the nonwovens industry. Read More »
October 19, 2009
After two straight quarters of declines, Procter & Gamble expects its business to turn a profit for the final quarter of the year, or so… Read More »
September 15, 2009
For most people, the dog days of summer mean long, lazy days at the pool, battling the heat and humidity; others use the last weeks of August to prepa… Read More »
September 15, 2009
These days, it seems, the state of the wipes market depends on who you ask. Some will say that growth has slowed, innovation is stagnant and pricing l… Read More »
August 18, 2009
As this issue went to press, Fiberweb and Fitesa announced they were going forward with a plan to merge their spunmelt businesses in North and South A… Read More »
July 15, 2009
If the Beijing Olympics was China's coming out party to the world, May's ANEX '09/SINCE '09 show was its coming out party to the nonwovens industry. C… Read More »
June 10, 2009
It seems the two biggest concerns facing nonwovens producers today are how to make a product with a lesser environmental footprint and how to make the… Read More »
May 11, 2009
Despite global economic challenges, the value of U.S. nonwovens increased 11% to $11.4 billion last year, representing a new record, accordi… Read More »
April 14, 2009
Like the rest of the world, China's nonwovens industry is facing its share of challenges—rapid changes raw material prices, currency fluctuation… Read More »
