Game-Changing Surface Pre-Treatment Technology for Nonwovens, 2010 Innovative Nonwovens Conference

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The Nonwovens industry, despite the still-ebbing recessionary downturn, continues to experience a technological revolution aimed at adding high-performance properties to substrates to increase consumer motivation as well as to deliver sustainable solutions for a host of challenges throughout the manufacturing and distribution chain. High performance nonwoven constructions and new graphic technologies continue to drive nonwovens into existing as well as completely new markets. As new state-of-the-art nonwoven technology is installed in these markets and with processing costs under pressure to enable nonwovens ramp-up in 2011, surface pre-treatment technologies must become a key enabler relative to higher processing speed, wider widths, and requirements on inks and coatings to transfer and adhere to substrates at these speeds and widths. This paper presents evidence of new nonwoven surface enhancement performance opportunities using new atmospheric plasma treatment (APT) technology.