Success Stories - Fibres

We have helped:

A leading manufacturer of bio-plastics to:

  • Understand and develop nonwoven applications for fibres made from a new polymer

Several major manufacturers of wood-pulp to:

  • Understand the raw material requirements of the viscose and lyocell production processes.
  • Understand the opportunities for growth of cellulosic fibres in the world's nonwoven markets.

A major US consumer goods manufacturer to:

  • Educate and train new R&D personnel in fibre and nonwoven technology
  • Develop and source new nonwoven materials for new consumer products
  • Understand new opportunities emerging from rapidly evolving nonwoven technology
  • Understand opportunities arising from new biodegradable natural and synthetic polymer fibres
  • Specify a small production plant to manufacture a speciality hydroentangled nonwoven

A major US chemicals manufacturer to:

  • Identify fibre and nonwoven market opportunities for a new biodegradable synthetic polymer
  • Estimate market sizes
  • Prepare a justification for investment in the new polymer

A Far-Eastern Textile Fibre Producer to:

  • Re-design their production plant to produce fibre suitable for hygienic disposables
  • Identify and quantify new opportunities for their fibre in nonwoven markets
  • Assess the performance of their fibre in various nonwoven production processes

An international fibre manufacturer to:

  • Quantify opportunities for replacing cotton in medical textiles
  • Quantify opportunities for new fibre types in an air-laid nonwoven process
  • Quantify opportunities in the rapidly-growing wet and impregnated wipes market
  • Prepare technical literature and PR articles for exhibitions
  • Stay up to date with developments in the rapidly changing nonwoven market

A UK publishing company to:

  • Specify, commission additional authors for, and edit a new text-book entitled "Regenerated Cellulosic Fibres".