Extrusion Group™, LLC

The company took the loan to meet its current loan repayments and to extend the duration of its liabilities.

Thrace-LINQ Inc., a Summerville, S.C.-based woven and nonwoven geosynthetics products manufacturer, now offers its needlepunched nonwovens for several new applications including absorbent products, automotive, bedding, building materials, furniture and industrial.

According to Thrace-LINQ, there is growing interest in needlepunched nonwovens owing to their strength, durability and application flexibility. The company further notes that its needlepunch production capabilities enable it to offer product efficiently in both large and small quantities, and that it is able to process a range of fibers including polyester, polyethylene, polypropylene, and polymer and color blends. (more…)

The world’s largest non-woven fabric maker Freudenberg NOnwovens ( Germany ) in 2000 February launched a product called Evolon spunbond filaments Microfibre new spunlace nonwoven, comprising a spinning, with a web of spunlaced single production line. The proprietary technology are in nonwovens production on third major technological breakthroughs ( the company said that in 1948 the first batch of production of staple fiber non-woven fabric, in 1965 developed the first spunbond process ). (more…)

EC Europe 2012 – JX Nippon ANCI group manufactures and sells unique nonwoven fabrics, named Claf and Milife.

Wood pulp spunlace nonwoven in normal spunlace nonwoven coated with a layer of wood pulp paper produced by the special spunlace nonwoven.It has a unique absorptive capacity and liquid absorption capacity, excellent clean, soft, anti-static, does not damage the performance of the surface properties and tough enough to not use any chemical binder. He has the following characteristics:
1 Clean, use fiber shedding, no lint, to ensure wipe quality;
2 into a network of uniform, with excellent vertical and horizontal tension;
3 Material soft, clean material surface does not produce any scratches, no damage to the object surface;
4 powerful suction capability, more than four times faster than ordinary cotton cloth;
5 Efficient removal of water stains, degreasing capacity;
6 Excellent resistance to solubility;
7 static electricity;

 Johnson Controls Teams Up with Mattress Manufacturer Harrison Spinks Ltd to

                Create the ComfortThin Automotive Seat Concept

  PR Newswire

  BURSCHEID, Germany, January 31, 2012

BURSCHEID, Germany, January 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Seat features the bedding industry ' s innovative pocketed coil technology, a
100 percent recyclable alternative to traditional seat foam

Johnson Controls, a global leader in automotive seating, overhead systems,
door and instrument panels, and interior electronics, announced that it has
formed a development relationship with luxury mattress manufacturer Harrison
Spinks to integrate pocketed coil spring mattress technology into an
automotive seat concept called ComfortThin. The thin profile seats replace
conventional urethane foam pads with a 100 percent recyclable alternative, and
provide a five to 20 percent weight reduction. This technology will be
available for 2015 model year vehicles.

(more…)

TOKYO, JAPAN, February 14, 2012- Through a joint project, the University of Fukui (Bunkyo Campus: Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture; President: Masaru Fukuda; hereinafter “University of Fukui”) and Kuraray Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Fumio Ito; hereinafter “Kuraray”) have applied advanced fiber-processing technology-specifically, electron beam-induced graft polymerization-to successfully develop a special nonwoven fabric that selectively absorbs and separates metal ions. Building on this success, the University of Fukui and Kuraray are continuing to work together.

Rapid growth in demand in emerging markets is driving investment in nonwovens, according to a new report – with several nonwovens roll goods producers expanding to target markets in Asia, Australasia, the Middle East, North Africa, South America and Southern Africa.

In the Asia-Pacific region alone, demand for nonwoven fabrics is forecast to grow by 9.6% per annum between 2010 and 2015, according to Freedonia Group. Furthermore, China will account for almost half of additional demand worldwide.

Avgol, an Israel-based spunbond nonwovens producer which has facilities in Israel, China, North America and Russia, has added a second line at its facility in China and a third line is under construction. When the line has been completed, it will bring Avgol’s total production capacity in the country to 40,000 tons per annum. (more…)