10.01.2016Promoting Open Innovation
Academia and industry successfully came together at the 2015 edition of EDANA’s Nonwovens Innovation Academy (NIA) where researchers...
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4 – 7 april 2017 Geneva - Switzerland
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30.09.2015Istanbul-Leeds-Milan: EDANA plans a period of intense activity in November
The traditional textile and apparel industry has been the backbone for economic development in Turkey, as a fundamental sector for...
28.09.2015Thinking with your feet
Nonwovens are employed in many components going into modern footwear, especially in today’s sports and training shoes.
28.09.2015Core issues for diapers: Thin is in
Japan’s Unicharm was the first company to introduce superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) to baby diapers in the early 1980s, very quickly...
28.09.2015Hybrids, sandwich structures and composites: Winning combinations at INDEX™17
Different types of nonwovens fabrics are often much more effective working together with others than on their own.
28.09.2015Go easy with the tataki!
Japanese futons were traditionally filled with beans or buckwheat chaff and, more recently, have contained plastic beads or thin and...
28.09.2015Tea or coffee? Nonwovens for better brews
While millions of people drink coffee or tea each day, very few would link the flavour of their hot drinks with nonwoven...
21.05.2015Catering for King Coal
The International Energy Agency (IEA) reports that between 2003 and 2012, – despite all initiatives to introduce renewable...
21.05.2015Good stories to tell at INDEX™17...
EDANA has recently completed full-spectrum sustainability studies on the benefit of several applications of durable nonwovens.
21.05.2015From farm to finished product
New industrial applications for natural fibre nonwovens continue to be found – and not least those based on flax – due to recenty...
21.05.2015Dealing with daily explosions
Heat from an electric arc is a major hazard faced by workers in a number of industries, and one from which they must be protected by...
21.05.2015The decade of the sensor
What are nonwoven-based hygiene and medical disposables likely to be able to do next? Quite a lot, if the fast-growing wearable...
21.05.2015Breaking up is easy to do
For over a decade now, the nonwovens industry, represented by its organisations EDANA and INDA, has collaborated with relevant...
04.01.2015INDEX 14 survey points to satisfaction
The rich diversity of nonwoven materials and their applications and the increasingly global nature of the industry are reflected in...
04.01.2015Fighting a devasting epidemic
Protective clothing and accessories such as facemasks and shoe covers based on nonwovens are essential components of the comprehensive...
04.01.2015Adjusting the vertical for bulk benefits
Although there are many applications for nonwovens in which the ability to pack multiple performance properties into an extremely thin...
04.01.2015Brothers in arms for fine filtration
Nonwovens and membranes are considered to be very separate products which in fact, in many filtration applications, are highly...
04.01.2015More chips with everything!
It is said that the ‘internet of things’, will soon be upon us, and sensors will be everywhere. Naturally, this will include them...
04.01.2015An adult matter
Incontinence products for adults are increasingly resembling regular cotton briefs as a result of sophisticated constructions and...
04.01.2015On your bike
Suppliers of nonwovens and related materials to the automotive industry should pay special attention to what’s happening right now in...