Comfort,compactness and cost effective features have become the most demandingcharacters for any technology introduced in the textile and apparel industry.Betty McVey, director of BBAs medical business highlights that nonwovens haveproven themselves more effective than traditional fabrics but we need to focuson how we can optimize the use of nonwovens in different applications. Shealso opines that though the growth of nonwovens in Europe and Asia is only inits infant stage, there is going to be a tremendous improvement in its researchand applications in the near future. In this scenario, this paper will focus onthe technology updations happening in the nonwovens manufacture in the mostintimate health product THE DIAPERS. To read more

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This article wasoriginally presented at ATNT 2007. The author of this article V. Bhanu Rekhaand Dr. Bhaarathi Dhurai is associated as a Senior Lecturer at KumaraguruCollege of Technology, Coimbatore, India.