Conwed will exhibit at Techtextil along with its new parent company Schweitzer-Mauduit International (SWM). SWM, which has historically focused on specialty paper manufacturing, purchased Conwed earlier this year, as part of an effort to diversify its product line to include an expanded range of fiber- and resin-based offerings such as netting, fibers, yarn, advanced materials.

At Techtextil, SWM will showcase its entire portfolio of extruded square, diamond flat, bicomponent, multilayer and elastomeric netting that provides reinfrocemnet, containment, grip, protection and stretch capabilities in diverse product designs. Typical netting applications in the textiles and nonwovens industry include reinforcement of other substrates such as film, foil, paper, foam, bubble wrpa, nonwoven and other types of fabircs. "Our netting configurations usually hide behind the scenes but provide essential performance to the final product," says Ivan Soltero, senior strategic marketing manager at Conwed. "We specialize in customizing our netting designs to help our customers improve their composites in automotive, apparel, medical, hygiene, cleaning and building products.

SWM also owns DelStar Technologies. The three companies will exhibit together at Techtextil.