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Performance and Properties of Reusable Surgical Gown in Medical Textiles |
| Textiles are no more restricted for apparel use only. That is why the products of important segments such as agrotech, buildtech, geotech, mobitech, hometech, meditech, indutech are of recent interest under technical textiles |
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Bonding Techniques Used in Making Elastic Nonwoven Composites |
| This report encompasses some of the most interesting processes of forming composite elastic nonwoven webs. Elasticity is a desired property in nonwoven webs to be used in bandages, diapers for a tight yet comfortable fit, garment linings for a body-hugging fit, bandages that should be stretchable to cover the wound well and several other applications |
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Development of Nonwoven Fabrics for Military Application |
| The United States Marine Corps and the U.S. Army have taken the initiative to develop state-of-the-art fire retardant nonwoven composite fabric technology for use mainly in Combat Utility Uniforms (CUUs) and coveralls. This effort is being conducted via Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contracts awarded to Nanosyntex |
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Nonwovens For Value-added and Defense Applications |
| Nonwovens are part of technical textiles which find applications predominantly in disposable and semi-durable sectors. The nonwoven industry became an organized sector during the late 1960s and early 70s with the formation of the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry (INDA) in the USA and the European Disposables and Nonwovens Association (EDANA) |
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Nonwovens as medical textiles |
| The use of nonwovens in medical arena goes back to the time of Second World War when need for new and large volumes of medical product had arisen. In several reports published, nonwovens were regarded as the most effective materials for bacterial barriers. They were also found superior to linens in the reduction of air-borne contamination |
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Chinese technical textiles and nonwovens industry |
| Technical textiles are one of the two fast growing sectors of the textile industry worldwide. Since 1985, the global market size of this particular sector has, on an average, grown by 3.8% per year. By 2010, the consumption of technical textile will is anticipated to be as high as US$ 128.6 billion, according to estimates of international market research firm DRA Co. Eyeing the strong growth rates in the technical textile market |
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Coloration technology for nonwovens |
| The production of nonwoven fabrics is carried out either as a continuous process, with fiber or resin as the input material and a roll of fabric as output, or as a series of batch processes. Nonwoven bonded fabrics are, by definition, textiles and they can be finished in exactly the same way as other textiles such as woven |
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