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- Nonwoven.co.uk is a trading name
of Calvin Woodings Consulting Ltd., a company registered
in the UK (No. 3585139) and founded in early 1998 to provide new product and new market development services to the world's fibre and nonwoven industries.
- Calvin
Woodings obtained a BSc in Chemistry on a Courtaulds
scholarship before joining Courtaulds Research Division
in 1966. His passion for nonwovens began the following year
while seeking applications for the family of inflated/collapsed
viscose rayon fibres he developed and patented.
- Before becoming Courtaulds Group’s
first Research Fellow (in 1985) he managed several research
teams including Staple Fibre Development, Tyre-yarn Research,
Nonwovens Development, Surgical Product Development and
Tampon Development.
- As a Research Fellow he had broad
responsibility for identifying market trends, new product
opportunities and strategy for any Courtaulds Group company
with interests in the nonwovens or speciality paper industries.
- He also set up and ran a multi-client
nonwoven pilot plant utilising the latest nonwoven technology
(dry-laying, wet laying, spun-laying, hydroentanglement,
sonic bonding, thermal bonding, needlepunching, latex bonding)
to develop nonwoven applications for Courtaulds Fibres in
general and for the new solvent-spun rayon (Tencel®)
in particular.
- He left Research in 1994 to become
Market Development Director - Courtaulds Lyocell® with
responsibilities for commercialising this industrial version
of Tencel®.
- He has presented papers and chaired
sessions at many nonwovens conferences around the world
and has lectured on man-made fibres and nonwovens in China,
Russia and at Coventry University.
- He wrote the Regenerated Cellulosic
Fibers chapter in the latest editions of the Encyclopaedias
of Chemical Technology and Polymer Science.
- He has numerous patents
on fibres and nonwovens including several on new applications
for lyocell fibre. He served on several EDANA
committees and is a past Chairman of the Technical
Committee and its task-forces.
- He is a Technical Consultant to
Nonwovens
Report International, a contributing editor to ITS-Publishing’s
Textile News Network and on the Editorial Board of INDA's Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics
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