09.08.22
Tel Aviv, Israel
www.avgol.com
2021 Nonwoven Sales: $450 million
Key Personnel
Tommi Bjornman, CEO; Sivan Yedidsion, CFO; Bart Stubbe, CPO; Itamar Shai, chief administrative officer & Legal Counsel; Nick Carter, vice president of Marketing; Michael Kihlgren, vice president, EMEA Sales; Fatih Erguney, vice president Research and Development
Plants
Israel, North Carolina, China, Russia, India
Major Markets
Hygiene, medical
A manufacturer of spunmelt nonwovens with operations in North Carolina, China, Russia and Israel, Avgol continues to take a broad approach to ensuring a strong value proposition to its customers. Ranging from innovation projects addressing all three phases of material design—reduce, displace, replace—to its environmental impact (beginning of life, in use, end of life), the company has focused on a number of other sustainability touchpoints such as energy sourcing, production methods and sourcing.
Along with its parent company, Indorama Ventures, Avgol has focused on the development of sustainable manufacturing solutions and identifies the importance of supporting eco-friendly principles throughout the supply chain.
“We are seeing significant changes throughout the sector, and one of the most exciting is the drive towards closing the plastic loop,” says Tommi Bjornman, chief commercial officer. “The lifecycle of plastics has a great deal to do with how the consumer lives, but manufacturers have a significant responsibility too.”
Through its natureFIT family of technologies, Avgol has replaced several traditionally synthetic components with naturally derived alternatives to displace resin and polymer content with a specially designed mineral-based filler, bestowing cotton-like qualities into the material.
“We stand united with our sister businesses in pushing for a robust circular economy,” Bjornman adds. “We’ve already started to play our role in the development of our natureFIT model, and we count ‘reduce, replace, displace’ as one of our core tenements of business. By reducing the use of plastics, resins and polymers in the hygiene supply chain, we are working to safeguard the environment.”
Additionally, Avgol has been working with Polymateria to develop a pioneering biotransformation technology for nonwovens. This technology offers unique functionality allowing a conventional nonwoven fabric to be modified to react to certain triggers to then begin a cascade, and importantly a fundamental chemical transformation of the polymer resin into a wax that is readily degraded by natural bacteria, microbes and fungi normally found in the environment.
In investment news, in June 2021 Avgol announced a three-line investment at its Uzlovaya, Russia, operation to enhance its role in existing markets and help it expand into new areas.
While the company has not provided an update on the investment, which includes a Reicofil 5 spunbond line, meltblown equipment and a cutting edge laminator, since the Russian invasion in Ukraine, Carter reports that Avgol is closely watching all aspects of the conflict and how it is impacting its customers both in the region and across the globe. “Once we feel confident that a more predictable and steady-state business case for future investment is viable, we will then look at the most appropriate ways of moving forward,” he says.
Meanwhile, at its other global sites, Avgol continues to upgrade and improve its operations. Notably, its biotransformation technology is being globally implemented in collaboration with key brands across various industries.
“Avgol has always been a leader in the market for ‘more from less’ products, i.e., obtain more performance from less raw materials. We continue to utilize our knowhow to operate our lines to achieve such materials that closely link to sustainability goals of reducing total material consumption,” Carter says.
In the U.S., earlier this year, Avgol forged a partnership with YanJanSA LLC, a professional material supplier to the disposable hygiene products market, to deliver exclusive product offerings to the North American market.
Under the terms of the partnership, Avgol is now offering apertured spunbond products made exclusively by YanJan USA using its specific know-how and capabilities. YanJan USA will obtain the base spunbond materials exclusively from Avgol. The partners will each develop and manufacture products tailored to each company’s skill set and to meet customer needs while allowing each company to diversify their overall product ranges.
For Avgol's 2020 top company profile, click here.
www.avgol.com
2021 Nonwoven Sales: $450 million
Key Personnel
Tommi Bjornman, CEO; Sivan Yedidsion, CFO; Bart Stubbe, CPO; Itamar Shai, chief administrative officer & Legal Counsel; Nick Carter, vice president of Marketing; Michael Kihlgren, vice president, EMEA Sales; Fatih Erguney, vice president Research and Development
Plants
Israel, North Carolina, China, Russia, India
Major Markets
Hygiene, medical
A manufacturer of spunmelt nonwovens with operations in North Carolina, China, Russia and Israel, Avgol continues to take a broad approach to ensuring a strong value proposition to its customers. Ranging from innovation projects addressing all three phases of material design—reduce, displace, replace—to its environmental impact (beginning of life, in use, end of life), the company has focused on a number of other sustainability touchpoints such as energy sourcing, production methods and sourcing.
Along with its parent company, Indorama Ventures, Avgol has focused on the development of sustainable manufacturing solutions and identifies the importance of supporting eco-friendly principles throughout the supply chain.
“We are seeing significant changes throughout the sector, and one of the most exciting is the drive towards closing the plastic loop,” says Tommi Bjornman, chief commercial officer. “The lifecycle of plastics has a great deal to do with how the consumer lives, but manufacturers have a significant responsibility too.”
Through its natureFIT family of technologies, Avgol has replaced several traditionally synthetic components with naturally derived alternatives to displace resin and polymer content with a specially designed mineral-based filler, bestowing cotton-like qualities into the material.
“We stand united with our sister businesses in pushing for a robust circular economy,” Bjornman adds. “We’ve already started to play our role in the development of our natureFIT model, and we count ‘reduce, replace, displace’ as one of our core tenements of business. By reducing the use of plastics, resins and polymers in the hygiene supply chain, we are working to safeguard the environment.”
Additionally, Avgol has been working with Polymateria to develop a pioneering biotransformation technology for nonwovens. This technology offers unique functionality allowing a conventional nonwoven fabric to be modified to react to certain triggers to then begin a cascade, and importantly a fundamental chemical transformation of the polymer resin into a wax that is readily degraded by natural bacteria, microbes and fungi normally found in the environment.
In investment news, in June 2021 Avgol announced a three-line investment at its Uzlovaya, Russia, operation to enhance its role in existing markets and help it expand into new areas.
While the company has not provided an update on the investment, which includes a Reicofil 5 spunbond line, meltblown equipment and a cutting edge laminator, since the Russian invasion in Ukraine, Carter reports that Avgol is closely watching all aspects of the conflict and how it is impacting its customers both in the region and across the globe. “Once we feel confident that a more predictable and steady-state business case for future investment is viable, we will then look at the most appropriate ways of moving forward,” he says.
Meanwhile, at its other global sites, Avgol continues to upgrade and improve its operations. Notably, its biotransformation technology is being globally implemented in collaboration with key brands across various industries.
“Avgol has always been a leader in the market for ‘more from less’ products, i.e., obtain more performance from less raw materials. We continue to utilize our knowhow to operate our lines to achieve such materials that closely link to sustainability goals of reducing total material consumption,” Carter says.
In the U.S., earlier this year, Avgol forged a partnership with YanJanSA LLC, a professional material supplier to the disposable hygiene products market, to deliver exclusive product offerings to the North American market.
Under the terms of the partnership, Avgol is now offering apertured spunbond products made exclusively by YanJan USA using its specific know-how and capabilities. YanJan USA will obtain the base spunbond materials exclusively from Avgol. The partners will each develop and manufacture products tailored to each company’s skill set and to meet customer needs while allowing each company to diversify their overall product ranges.
For Avgol's 2020 top company profile, click here.