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            IntroductionAbout 370 delegates registered for this meeting despite its “off the beaten track” location’ and others arrived to take part in the numerous private meetings set up in the same hotel.   EDANA had courageously invited 2 key speakers with decidedly anti-disposable views and these added a dimension not experienced at earlier Outlooks.            Cradle to CradleProfessor

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IntroductionThree overlapping conferences and a large exhibition meant that only a selection of the available presentations could be covered.  Themes included Materials and Technology, Medical Applications, Natural Fibres, Textiles in Construction, Sports and Outdoor Clothing, Fashion and Design, Wearable Electronics, Protective Textiles, and in Vehicles and Buildings. The numerous European

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IntroductionThe economic climate and the fact that several companies were restricting travel meant that this meeting was less well attended than in previous years.  Nevertheless EDANA reported a total of 200 delegates.Hydroentangled Spunlaid NonwovensAchim Grefenstein, Director of Corporate R&D for RKW (Germany) described their experiences with the world's first spunbond system with on-line

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window.google_analytics_uacct = "UA-1069508-2"; Dubai, United Arab Emirates: 10th-11th Feb 2009IntroductionGert Ries of Johnson and Johnson, Chairman of EDANA, opened the Middle East Symposium at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Dubai. In his introductory remarks, EDANA’s General Manager, Pierre Wiertz welcomed the 300 delegates on behalf of EDANA's most international Board ever, observing "We are

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Key Points · Bioplastics production is growing at the rate of 20% per year in the EU from a low base of 1% of total plastics. · At this conference the main areas of interest were packaging and those biopolymers being made from annual crops. · Legislation favouring bioplastics packaging is emerging and bioplastics will be exempt from, or attract lower levels of, the

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The EDANA Cocktail Party at Jumeirah Beach Dubai, 10th Feb 2009. Yet another magical EDANA evening, this time in the luxuriant surrounds of the Burj al Arab and Jumeirah Beach Hotels.Gert Ries of Johnson and Johnson, the current Chairman of EDANA opened the Middle East Symposium at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Dubai. Pierre Wiertz, EDANA's General Manager is on the right and Mahdi Katbe,

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The conference list gets bigger every year, and gone are the days when any one person could cover them all. We generally plan to attend at least 6 to keep ourselves and our clients up to date. If you are interested in having a report from any of these conferences, tailored to your own information needs, please email us:EDANA Middle East Nonwovens Symposium - Dubai, UAE: 10-12/2/2009The second

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Marcia Zaroff, founder of Under the Canopy USA is dedicated to providing the consumer with a fusion of fashion, wellness and social responsibility, and hence specialises in providing a range of “cool organic fashion” without compromising quality or performance. She stressed the significant link between organic food and organic garments: not only did they appeal to the same consumers, but 60% of

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Dr Alfred Strigl of the Austrian Institute for Sustainable Development recycled his Outlook 2006 paper and listed the challenges of the age of rising temperatures and sea-levels:· 1 to 3oC average temperature rise by 2050.· Sea-level to go up by 0.1 to 0.3 metres by 2050.· More natural catastrophes due to more energetic climate.· Water shortages due to run-off pattern

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Previously:IntroductionDiaper TrendsWipes and Femcare TrendsRaw material and Manufacturing TrendsGlobalisation and Climate ChangePeak Oil?The consumers viewFuture Diaper Raw MaterialsIn the last 2 years, massive expansions in viscose production, and the pulp required to produce it have been announced – totalling in excess of half a million tonnes of new fibre. Surprisingly none of the expansion

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Previously:IntroductionDiaper TrendsWipes and Femcare TrendsRaw material and Manufacturing TrendsGlobalisation and Climate ChangePeak Oil?The consumers viewWhile synthetic polymers account for only a small percentage of the oil usage, and could be obtained from coal or tar more easily than could transportation fuels, they will become increasingly costly to a point where the use of natural

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Previously:IntroductionDiaper TrendsWipes and Femcare TrendsRaw material and Manufacturing TrendsGlobalisation and Climate ChangePeak Oil?The disposables on which the nonwovens market has thrived for the last 40 years are now coming under pressure due to increasing consumer concerns revolving around concepts of sustainability, carbon footprint, renewability. They currently ignore the problems

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Previously:IntroductionDiaper TrendsWipes and Femcare TrendsRaw material and Manufacturing TrendsGlobalisation and Climate ChangeThe growth of industry in general and the nonwoven industry in particular has been driven by the availability of cheap energy and cheap polymers derived from oil. For absorbent hygiene products polypropylene, polyethylene and sodium polyacrylate are the key polymers and

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Irina Barbalova (Euromonitor), Pieter Meijer (Fibreweb) and Prof Suzanne Berger (MIT) all sitting listening to Geleyn Meijer (LogicaCMG) talking about the life-changing www.Irina Barbalova of Euromonitor International gave these listings of the world's largest nonwoven markets and those that are growing fastest.Prof Hans Rosling of the Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) presenting compelling data on

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Krzysztof Malowaniec of Paul Hartmann at the podium to open the conference with Richard Brennan (Kraton Polymers), Robert Stargel (Kimberly Clark), Jaap Favier (Forrester) and Gunnar Preifors (SCA Hygiene) left to right.Pieter Meijer (Fiberweb) on the big screen questions Robert Stargel (Kimberly Clark) after his speech on Innovation in K-CExxonMobil's view on Energy Demand to 2030 as presented

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Previously:IntroductionDiaper TrendsWipes and Femcare TrendsRaw material and Manufacturing TrendsThe first and most obvious answer is Globalisation leading to more of the same as the established technologies and markets of the developed world are applied to raise the living standards of the rest. Increased global demand for nonwovens and disposables is assured for at least 10 years as the most

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Previously:IntroductionDiaper TrendsWipes and Femcare TrendsThe theme of the last 35 years has been the progressive replacement of fibres and absorbents obtained from biomass with fibres and absorbents obtained from fossil reserves. Within that megatrend we’ve seen: Polyester replacing viscose rayon and cotton in blends, initially as a cost saving measure.Embossed latex-bonded

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Previously:IntroductionDiaper Trends Even wipes, one of the original disposables, have in the last decade grown dramatically as clever marketing made them increasingly essential for a wide range of personal, domestic and industrial cleaning jobs. Here too, a sector once dominated by cellulosics has evolved to use increasing percentages of the non-renewables. Back in the 1960’s the

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The fabulous growth of the nonwoven industry in general and the disposable diaper in particular has been fuelled by the availability of low-cost synthetic polymers, by-products of low-cost energy production from fossil reserves priced close to extraction –as opposed to replacement- cost. Fibre forming, web forming and web bonding technologies have evolved to use these synthetics ever more

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Previously:IntroductionFor the last 40 years the growth of the nonwovens industry has been driven by the ready availability of synthetic fibres cheaply made by exploitation of non-renewable fossil reserves. Disposable nonwovens, from coverstock to core-wrap, and durables from geotextiles to home furnishings, have evolved to use polypropylene, a low-cost by-product of petroleum refining, which

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Rolf Altdorf - PGI Nonwovens and EDANA Chairman, opened this Monte Carlo meetingProfessor Dr Elgar Fleisch, Director of the Institute of Technology Management at the University of St Gallen (Switzerland) indicated how the next generation of computer chips would be capable of communicating wirelessly despite being less than 0.5mm square.Prof Fleisch admitted the RFID tags could be counterfeited

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Lana Irish of Invista, the company formed from KoSa and Dupont’s Textiles and Interiors business, provided data to illustrate how future fiber requirements would be met.World fiber consumption continued to rise...the growth being driven by population growth and increasing use per capita...The most populous regions use a fraction of the fiber of the developed economies...so phenomenal growth can

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Ron Zhao the R&D Director of Biax Fiberfilm Corporation has developed a 15 inch wide melt-blowing head with 12 rows of holes giving 200 holes per inch compared with the 35 holes/inch of conventional heads. Spinnerette Cross Section Without a water spray the melt-blown cellulose is over self-bonded and over brittle Spraying water onto the web improved matters... ...but spraying the filaments

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Peter Gladstone of Gillette (USA) argued that between toothbrushing (most effective/least convenient toothcare) and chewing gums (least effective/most convenient) there existed a gap which could be filled by a disposable cleaner worn on a finger.The oral care opportunity to be filled by Brush-UpsThe cleaning side was a thermal-bonded bulky spunbond laminated to a thin waterproof spunbond. The

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Gail Zielinski of AC Nielsen has been mining the database to find out who is driving private label sales growth, discovering that upscale families are increasingly switching from brands. Consumers now trust private label quality and will buy even if the cost savings are not so great. Private label nonwovens are a billion dollar business... ...but sales performance is worse than that of branded

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Richard Jackson of the Centre for Strategic International Studies gave a stark warning: population ageing will wreck the economy of any nation that fails toprepare for it. Fertility in every developed country has fallen below the replacement rate Life expectancy has been rising rapidly throughout the world In many fast ageing countries the size of the working population will shrink dramatically

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The main INDA-TAPPI conference was preceded by a 1 day Nonwoven Enhancements conference organized in conjunction with the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists. The main INTC conference comprised 3 simultaneous sessions and only those attended are reported. This was the largest and busiest nonwoven conference of recent years comprising 98 full presentations, 14 Poster

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Frederic Noelle of Rieter Perfojet described trials with wipes substrates where PLA had replaced the polyester. Old data from Courtaulds (circa 1990, now rebadged "Lenzing") showed how lyocell, viscose and cotton degraded in a sewage farm and old data from Cargill-Dow showed how PLA degraded after pre-hydrolysis when wipes disappeared in 60 days. Without prehydrolysis PLA (poly lactic acid

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Pricie Hanna, VP of John Starr Inc, previewed a study done with HelenaEngqvist Consulting on the likely impact of advances in drugs on the market for hygiene products. The prevalence of incontinence is rising due to population ageing and the increasing prevalence of prostate surgery, obesity and diabetes. By 2050, 20% of the world’s population will be over 60, including 35% of Europe and 26% of

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The first man-made fibres were intended to replace silk in apparel, and the yarns were marketed as art-silk (artificial silk).(from "Courtaulds: An Economic and Social History", Clarendon Press, 1969)The artificial silk spinning machine designed and built by Count Hilaire de Chardonnet c. 1889 for spinning cellulose nitrate (dissolved in an alcohol/ether mixture) into hot air to make fine yarns.

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Rayon made by the viscose process was the first commercially successful man-made fibre and in staple form it was the first fibre to be used in disposables by the emerging nonwovens industry, cotton being too hydrophobic before it was bleached and too hard to process afterwards. The Courtaulds plant in Coventry UK was the first in the world to produce viscose filament yarn, starting production in

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André Lang of Jacob Holm Industries GmbH (Germany) has been developing scrim-reinforced spunlaced nonwovens as replacements for needled products in hot gas filtration. He listed the performance advantages of spunlace over needlefelts, including tightly controlled pore size distribution and improved dust-holdingReduced levels of particles in clean-gas resulted.Spunlaced PTFE filter bag after 3

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Lüder Gerking of Nanoval GmbH & Co KG (Germany) claimed that in his new Nanovlisz® process a single 0.6mm die hole surrounded by a concentric 4mm diameter Laval nozzle could produce 10 gms/min of PP nanofibers and 15 gms/min of titania-dulled PET nanofibers. The fibres were probably more micro- than nano-, but the process was more like meltblowing than electrospinning... using significantly less

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Mr. Nataraj Gosavi, Director of Business for Ahlstrom Asia Pacific presented the Ahlstrom view of flushable product development and regulation. Flushable wipes were getting some adverse publicity and the products were attracting regulatory attention The Nonwoven Industry in the shape of a combined EDANA/INDA Taskforce was developing guidelines for development and test protocolsdispersibility of

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Mr. Hajime Tatsumi of Mitsubishi Rayon Engineering described the steam jet process which has been in development for 7 years. Contrary to earlier reports in the press, this is not an alternative to water-jet entanglement, more an extension of hydroentanglement when faster drying, improved bulk and thermal bonding are required. The MRE Pilot Line: Steam jets shown on the right... ...the web is

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Tokyo Big Sight - the site of Anex 2006 organised by ANNA, ANFA, and E J Krause The Statue of Liberty next to Whitestone Bridge: this must be Tokyo (and its the Rainbow Bridge) The Keynote address was from Unicharm's... ...exuberant founder and Chairman, Mr Keiichiro Takahara, and was a personal view of the people-related issues involved in leading and growing a successful business through 45

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Alessandro Celli, Managing Director of Celli Nonwovens S.p.A (Italy) provided more information on the design of the new Wingformer air-lay head highlighting the significant differences from the established systems from Neumag (M&J) and Danweb. Pulp was distributed through a thin flexible screen which could be cleaned on each rotation. The system was now working in Rieter Perfojet's pilot plant

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Josef Schmidtbauer, Director of Innovation for Nonwovens at Lenzing AG (Austria) reviewed the absorbency of rayon fibres using tests appropriate to the evaluation of hygienic disposables, with special emphasis on demonstrating the superiority of cellulosics over synthetics. Several fibers now under development were mentioned in passing. High surface area viscose rayon fibres give the highest

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Marc van der Elst, General Manager PP for Total Petrochemicals Research (Belgium) pointed out that proven conventional oil reserves at the end of 2004 amounted to 40 years supply at 2004 consumption levels. 67 years supply of gas remained on the same basis. Oil and gas reserves are still significant, but they lie mainly in "at risk" regions 75% of the polypropylene produced in Europe is from

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At EDANA's Vienna symposium (June 2006), Sylvain d’Incau of DuPont (Switzerland) observed that the slow down in the hygiene market was leading consumer wipes producers to turn their attention to the industrial market, dumping fabrics designed for consumer use at very low prices. Industrial wipes markets are highly fragmented with varying technical requirements...... but hygiene issues with the

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Rory Holmes, President of Inda (USA) provided an excellent update of world nonwovens market data from Inda’s 2004 report on nonwovens in the Asia-Pacific region at EDANA's Vienna Nonwovens Symposium - June 2006. Photos of selected slides follow: World Nonwovens Outlook: Millions of Tonnes by Region China's share of World nonwoven production is growing rapidly but on a per capita basis there's

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Barry Davies, Director of Fibers for CMAI Europe had used the Chemical MarketsAssociates Inc cost model to investigate the impact of raw material price changes on the costs of the various nonwoven processes. These photos were taken during his lecture at the EDANA conference in Vienna in June 2006 China has plenty of spare polyester capacity Brent Crude and Naphtha c.i.f. prices through 2006 Asia

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At EDANA's nonwoven technology conference in Vienna (June 2006)Klaus-Dietmar Wagner of Freudenberg GmbH said 11,000 fuel cells were built in 2004, up from 1000 in 2000. The most promising cells are the Polymer Electolyte Membrane (PEM) varieties which rely on membranes to transport protons, insulate anode from cathode and separate the gases between anode and cathode. The Fuel Cell Alliance road

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Outgoing EDANA Chairman, Knud Wade Hansen introduced the conference Rory Holmes, President of Inda, Nenad Pacek of the Economist Intelligence Unit and Geoff Katz of Dupont spoke in the opening session. Mr Pacek gave the keynote address. Sylvain d'Incau of Dupont observed that consumer wipes producers were now turning their attention to industrials Edana cocktail party in the Vienna Fine Arts

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Andrew Battista, Consumer Products Director for RISI (USA) summarised the US Wipes and raw materials scene for 2005.Hadjira Mezaiti, the Industrial and Scientific Affairs Manager of EDANA Belgium) introduced the EDANA Wet-Wipe Working Group (WWWG) and reviewed the impact of the EU cosmetic regulations on wet-wipes. Future of Wipes audience (1) Future of wipes audience (2)

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Ewa Wesolowska of the Institute of Biopolymers and Chemical Fibers(Poland) presented studies aimed at optimizing the Biocelsol dissolution process and the yarn spinning process. Photos from her talk at TITK's Alternative Cellulose Conference at Rudolstadt - Sept. 2006 follow: Diagram of the Biocelsol fibre spinning process The effects of draw on denier and tenacity of Biocelsol filaments

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Dr Grazyna Strobin of the Institute of Chemical Fibers (Poland) had been trying to develop improved medical dressings by making alloys of cellulose and silk fibroin. Biocelsol solutions of cellulose were blended with soda solutions of silk fibroin to make a range of alloys up to 15% silk. These photos were taken during her talk at the Alternative cellulose conference at TITK Rudolstadt - Sept

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Dr Christian Schuster of Lenzing (Austria) recorded the “inherentphysiological properties of Tencel using modern approaches to make customers aware of the high functionality of the fiber”. Some photos from his section on absorbency given at the TITK Alternative Cellulose Conference in Rudolstadt (2006) follow: Water distribution in cotton, Tencel, Modal, and regular viscose rayon Struture of

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Dr Horst Ebeling of the Fraunhofer Institute (Germany) introduced the first fruits of the collaboration between Weyerhaeuser, Reicofil and his Institute to develop a process for making melt-blown lyocell. Some photos taken at his talk in Rudolstadt (TITK - 2006 Alternative Cellulose Conference) follow: The Lyocell melt-blown process flow chart The benefits of melt-blown cellulose nonwovens Die

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Dr Bernd Riedel of TITK introduced the collaboration between Lenzing, TITK and Nanoval to explore the production of spunlaid lyocell using Nanoval’s Laval nozzle version of melt-blowing. The following are some of the more interesting photos taken during this excellent talk at TITK's Alternative cellulose conference in Rudolstadt (Sept 2006). The Nanoval spun-laid lyocell pilot line at TITK

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Ralf Bauer, Head of TITK - Rudolstadt opens the meeting Mechanical Properties of various man-made cellulose fibers as presented by Fraunhofer Institute Nanofibre application development Cellulose nanofibres with a collosal absorbencyApparatus for spinning cellulose nanofibres SEM's of oriented cellulose nanofibresAbove nanofibre slides shown byB. Laszkiewicz of the Technical University of Lodz

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Downtown Houston Cocktail Party 1 Cocktail Party 2 Cocktail Party 3

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Houston from the Hilton Hotel - the INTC 2006 venue Self Assembled Electrospun Nanofibers - slide shown bySeshastri Ramkumar of Texas Tech University Production of nonwovens in Europe 1995-2004 - tonnes: Source unknown - please advise using "comment" below.Nonwovens Production worldwide 1994-2009, drylaid versus spunlaid: Source unknown - please advise using "comment" below.

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Gerard Bol of the Shell International Gamechanger team Irina Barbalova of Euromonitor International (UK) withKris Malowaniec Cocktails at the Codorniu Wine Cellars Delagates arriving at the Codorniu Wine Cellars

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Sitges in September (l-r)Eamonn Tighe of Natureworks Ingeo Fibers, Alfred Strigl, Director of the Austrian Institute for Sustainable Development, Marina Franke of Procter and Gamble Germany and Luc Maes, Chairman of Edana. Gregg Vandersteeg of 3M Global Health Care, Gerard Bol of Shell International Gamechanger Team, Thomas Broch-Nielsen of Fibertex A/S and Gunnar Preifors of SCA Hygiene

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Martin Dauner, Head of Nonwovens Technology at ITV Denkendorf (Germany), the Moderator of this session, stepped in to give this unlisted paper when the second of the session’s speakers cancelled. Electrostatic spinning at ITV Denkendorf (Germany)Centrifugal Spinning at ITV Denkendorf. A Comparison of polyethylene oxide nanofibres electrospun and centrifugally spun from 5% solutions. Dr Dauner

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Mauro Roperto of Ahlstrom (Turin) SpA, with Andreas Mayer of TTM Switzerland and Christophe Peuchot of the Institute of Filtration and Separation (France) Mauro Roperto has been adding fine meltblown and nano-fiber layers to wet-laid airfilter media and measuring their effects on initial efficiency and dust holding capacity using NaCl, DEHS (Di-Ethyl-Hexyl-Sebacate) and ISO-fine dust

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Pierre Wiertz, the General Manager of EDANA opened the meeting... ...with the Air Filtration speakers, Jerome Barrillon of Ahlstrom USA, Alain Langerock of Devan Chemicals Belgium, Norman Lifschutz of Hollingsworth and Vose USA, and Peter Tsai of the University of Tennessee looking on. Lutz Bergmann of Filter Media Consulting introduced Filtration with this slide of filtration efficiency versus

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The first EDANA Nonwoven Research Academy was the conference component of last year’s INDEX in Geneva . This second NRA was the first “stand-alone” meeting, the first to encourage student participation with a special registration fee of €25, and the first to feature EDANA grants to cover fees, travel and accommodation expenses for 11 selected MSc and PhD students of nonwovens.Wolfgang Schilde and

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