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  • Adult Incontinence | Feminine Hygiene
    TSL

    TSL

    Crigglestone Industrial Estate High Street Crigglestone Wakefield WF4 3HT England Tel: +44 (0) 1924 250017 Fax: +44 (0) 1924 254964 office@tslhealthcare.com www.tslhealthcare.com Since launching in West Yorkshire, U.K., in 1984, TSL has b…
    10.08.20
  • BAHP Playing Role In #ENDHEALTHSTIGMA

    BAHP Playing Role In #ENDHEALTHSTIGMA

    By Jane Wishneff BAHP, Executive Director With the addition of NorthShore Care Supply to the membership of The Center for Baby and Adult Hygiene Products (BAHP), the association is reinvigorating its focus on issues surrounding adult incontinen…
    10.08.20

  • Bigger and Better

    The rate of nonwovens investment during the last six months has been unprecedented. Of course, much of this has centered around meltblown and materials destined to face masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) applications, but investments…
    Karen McIntyre, Editor 10.08.20
  • Lidersan / Altunkaya Group

    Lidersan / Altunkaya Group

    Ba¸cpınar (Organize) OSB Mah. O.S.B. 4. Bölge 83409 Nolu Cad. No:3 S¸ehitkamil / Gaziantep / Turkey Tel: +90 342 357 0 357 Fax: +90 342 357 0 377 info@altunkaya.com www.altunkayagroup.com Altunkaya Group of Companies is a…
    09.11.20

  • Russia Nonwovens Experiences Production Booms

    Biggest growth seen in SMS for medical materials
    09.11.20

  • The New Normal

    Last month, Fitesa, Brazil’s largest nonwovens producer and one of the biggest suppliers of spunbond materials to the global hygiene market, announced it would purchase Tredegar Personal Care, a major supplier of films and other components to m…
    Karen McIntyre, Editor 09.11.20
  • Fine Hygienic Holding

    Fine Hygienic Holding

    Amman - Jordan Tel: +962 6 4652688 Fax: + 962 6 4645669 Info@finehh.com www.finehh.com More than six decades ago, Fine Hygienic Holding’s (FHH) founder Elia Nuqul established Nuqul Brothers Company as a trade and import business for fo…
    08.06.20

  • Going Global

    Investment in nonwoven materials designed to increase production of personal protection equipment (PPE) like face masks and surgical gown—as well as lines to convert these items — has led to an unprecedented expansion in global capacity,…
    Karen McIntyre, Editor 08.05.20
  • Eastern Europe/Russia | Wipes
    Biosphere

    Biosphere

    1-L Bazhana Avenue Kyiv, Ukraine +38 044 390 33 43 office@biosphere-corp.com www.biosphere-corp.com Biosphere Corporation is a manufacturer and distributor of household and hygiene products in Ukraine and one of the largest in Eastern Europe…
    07.09.20

  • Mask Up. Or Stay Home.

    As we went to press, Lydall, one of the U.S.’s leading makers of meltblown nonwovens, had announced it had received a $13.5 million government contract to support investments that will help expand its supply to the face mask market. The contrac…
    Karen McIntyre, Editor 07.09.20
  • Feminine Hygiene
    BAHP Seeks Extension from FDA for UDI Policy on Tampons

    BAHP Seeks Extension from FDA for UDI Policy on Tampons

    Survey shows that many retailers do not have the appropriate technology to read and interpret standard UDI technology
    Jane Wishneff, BAHP, Executive Director 06.10.20

  • Good Times, Bad Times

    It’s been six months since the world first learned about a new Coronavirus, known as Covid-19, originating out of Wuhan, China. Since then, millions have been infected, hundreds of thousands have died, billions have faced lockdowns and economie…
    Karen McIntyre, Editor 06.10.20
  • Rusvata

    Rusvata

    8, 2i Mervinskii proezd Ryazan, Ryazanskaia oblast’ 390044 Russia Tel.: +7 (4912) 55-98-99 Fax: +7 (4912) 34-18-94 sales@rus-vata.com www.rus-vata.com Founded in the late 19th century as a producer of cotton wool, Rusvata today focu…
    06.10.20
  • Pacific Rim
    Ace Pack Pacific

    Ace Pack Pacific

    185 Station Street Corio VIC 3214 Melbourne, Australia Tel. +61 (3) 5274 1060 sales@acepackpacific.com www.acepackpacific.com www.soakerpads.com www.chill-pack.com.au Based in Melbourne, Australia, with manufacturing facilities in Australi…
    05.05.20

  • Face Masks on the Rise

    Suddenly face masks are everywhere…or at least on everybody. With stopping the spread of the Coronavirus a top priority globally, mask use has been mandated in public in many areas. And,  even in places without mandate, more people are we…
    Karen McIntyre, Editor 05.05.20
  • BAHP Quarterly Briefing: Transparency demands for menstrual products continue in the United States

    BAHP Quarterly Briefing: Transparency demands for menstrual products continue in the United States

    By Jane Wishneff Executive Director, BAHP It’s no surprise that passage of the 2019 New York Menstrual Product Labeling law is leading other jurisdictions to follow suit with proposed legislation mandating disclosure of ingredients in men…
    04.03.20

  • Wipes—Open for Business

    The global Coronavirus Pandemic, from which the entire world is reeling as I finish this issue (from home), is already having an impact on the disposable wipes market. In the run up to the March 11 declaration that the situation had reached pandemic…
    Karen McIntyre, Editor 04.03.20

  • Nonwovens in Crisis Mode

    On March 19, U.S.  textile and nonwoven associations issued a joint statement urging federal, state and local governments to deem textile and nonwoven manufacturing facilities as “essential” when drafting “Shelter in Place&rdqu…
    Karen McIntyre, Editor 04.03.20
  • SOFTTECH

    SOFTTECH

    SOFT S.A.R.L Route 110, Km 11- AinSebaâ Casablanca, Morocco +21252352060 softtech@softgroup.ma www.softtech.ma www.softgroup.ma Based in Casablanca, Morocco, nonwovens manufacturer SOFTTECH’s roots date back to 1918. For genera…
    04.03.20
  • Looking Outside Africa’s Biggest Market

    Looking Outside Africa’s Biggest Market

    What to do when you want to enter the Nigerian market but you find it is too complex for your appetite? Create your own Nigeria.
    04.03.20