Story: Importance and use of nonwoven products today

Nonwoven fabrics are sheets of fibers, continuous filaments, or spun yarns of any nature or origin, formed into a web and bound together by any means other than knitting or weaving. Nonwoven fabrics have certain properties including but not limited to absorbency, strength, liquid resistance, elasticity, softness, flame retardancy, washability, cushioning, filtering, bacterial barrier, and sterility.

Today, the nonwoven manufacturing industry is characterized as an industry that has accomplished the penetration of products into consumers' daily lives in ways that users can clearly see, touch, and feel. Its product range has grown larger and its applications have expanded. It is impossible to make a complete list of applications of non-woven fabrics. As a result, its importance today is not the same as the last one, its importance emerges in its use.

Non-woven fabrics are effectively used to optimize the productivity of crops, orchards, and greenhouses. The use of non-woven fabric covers on land increases yield and improves crop quality. Light, flexible sheets are laid over the seedbed, creating a microclimate in which heat and humidity are regulated. Plant growth is accelerated, and they are protected from harsh weather and insects. Its protective nature means that the need for pesticides is reduced and manual labor is kept to a minimum.

Tens of thousands of automotive parts are made from non-woven fabrics, from trunk liners and carpets to air and fuel filters. By creating essential properties required for excellent performance and safety, nonwoven fabrics help reduce vehicle weight, enhance comfort and aesthetics, and provide superior insulation, fire resistance, and resistance to water, fuel, temperature extremes, and abrasion. Nonwoven fabrics are easy to handle during assembly. Due to its versatility and numerous advantages, it is also widely used in the design and construction of other vehicles and means of transportation – airplanes, trains, boats, spacecraft, and satellites.

Nonwoven fabrics are increasingly used in geotechnology; For example, it is used in soil engineering and for laying foundations in road construction and on building and land reclamation sites, and as a structural, permanent, or temporary material. A common feature of these materials is that they are used in all geotechnics, that is, it come into contact with soil or rock. In the past few decades, nonwoven fabric production techniques have evolved rapidly.

Insulation refers to various systems and equipment to limit damage or unwanted entry from forces or mediums such as fire, heat, noise, electricity, moisture, etc. A wide range of materials and manufacturing processes provide nonwoven fabrics with desirable performance in absorption.

Nonwoven fabrics have long secured a place in fashion in less visible and support functions as interlinings and materials for clothes, shoes, and bags. Nowadays, young designers are increasingly fascinated by introducing nonwoven fabrics as creative and versatile new materials in their design concepts.

Nonwoven fabrics for household products are used for a wide range of applications, from cleaning and filtering to adding an aesthetic touch to the home.

Nonwoven fabrics are widely used in sanitary products such as baby diapers, feminine hygiene products, and incontinence products. In the past, these products were made from natural fibers for multiple uses, especially in the diaper sector. Over the past few decades, as a result of the ever-evolving non-woven fabric industry, it has evolved into a single-use or disposable product. –Editor