Innowo Print solutions redefine wetness indicators in baby diapers and adult incontinence care products.
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Our 2024 ESG report outlines our commitments to responsible business practices and documents a wide range of concrete actions and progress across environmental, social and governance areas.
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By digitising order preparation and the recording of measurement data, we have significantly reduced paper consumption at our printing site in Germany.
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At Fibertex Personal Care, how we work matters just as much as what we produce. Our values are present in everything we do – guiding our decisions, shaping our culture and connecting us across roles and regions.
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What our colleagues sayOur four product lines – Loft, Dual, Elite and Comfort – are used in key components that optimise both functionality and aesthetics of the final product.
Optional post-treatments such as printing, embossing, 3D embossing, and aperturing can further enhance functionality, such as softness cues and breathability.
Together, these solutions elevate product performance, design and end-user comfort.
Absorbent hygiene products are made of several layers. Each serves a specific purpose – among others staying soft against the skin, absorption and containment of fluids. Our nonwovens and printed nonwovens are key components in applications like top sheets, back sheets, cores, barrier leg cuffs, poo pockets and closure systems – all working together to provide comfort.
Whether it is barrier, strength, softness or functional and aesthetic properties, we customise to fit customer needs.
| Basis weight | 5 g/m2 – 100 g/m2 |
| Bonding patterns | Standard 18% oval pattern. Special softness enhancing patterns. Other patterns can be developed jointly upon request. |
| Treatments | Hydrophilic/Hydrophobic Soft Antistatic Embossing Aperturing Various botanicals are possible including: Aloe Vera, Olive Oil, Silk Protein, Vitamin E & Chamomile. |
Fibertex Personal Care in Germany has received a Gold Medal – and Denmark, Malaysia and USA have each received a Silver Medal from EcoVadis. EcoVadis is a global, independent agency that rates companies on their performance across environment, labour and human rights, ethics and procurement. The Silver rating places us in the top 15% of more than 100,000 companies worldwide.
Explore more about the EcoVadis assessments – and also, get an overview of our certificates in Quality and Sustainability.
Our mindset “Sustainable is Possible” expresses our drive to
always believe in and prioritise sustainability. Whether we are
facing a new challenge or repeating a known procedure, we are
determined to be driven by this fundamental way of thinking
and behaving. Always asking: “Can this be done in a more
sustainable way?
It is not new to us. This is how we work, how we act – and how
we interact. The new part is how to continuously set new targets,
formalise expectations, share our successes and determine
common methods of measurement.
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The production process uses polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE) polymer resins along with selected additives.
The raw materials are melted and extruded into fibres. In spunbond, the polymer passes through a die plate with multiple rows of holes. The fibres are stretched and deposited on a moving belt. In meltblown, the fibres are extruded through a single row of holes and stretched using high-velocity hot air.
Spunbond fibres generally have a diameter of 13–17 microns (1.2–2.0 dtex).
Meltblown fibres are finer, typically ranging from 1–5 microns in diameter.
Spunbond fibres provide strength and structure. Meltblown fibres create a barrier layer due to their fine diameter.
These terms refer to the structure of the nonwoven: Spunbond-Meltblown-Spunbond (SMS) or Spunbond-Meltblown-Meltblown-Spunbond (SMMS), where meltblown layers are enclosed by spunbond layers.
The fibre web is thermally bonded using heated rollers, ensuring optimal strength and softness.
A surfactant is applied in-line during production to provide hydrophilic or antistatic properties when needed.
The fabric is scanned by cameras for defects before being rolled into jumbo rolls. These are later slit and packed according to customer requirements.
Yes. Through our Innowo Print brand, we use advanced Flexographic technology to print colours and images directly on the nonwoven and other challenging substrates.
PP/PE polymer resin and various additives.
The raw materials are melted/extruded and spun to form spunbond fibres and meltblown fibres in the respective fibre spinning beams.
In the spunbond process, the raw materials pass through a die plate with holes spread over multiple adjacent rows. The fibres are stretched and deposited on a moving belt.
For the meltblown process, it passes through a die plate – with holes in a row. It results in a layer of thin filaments. These filaments are afterwards stretched while passing through a high velocity hot air stream. Meltblown fibres typically have a diameter in the range of 1-5µm.
The spunbond fibres provide strength to the final web, whereas the thinner meltblown fibres provide barrier to the final web.
The web is thermo-bonded using heated rollers to form a final nonwoven with optimum characteristics.
For some products, hydrophilic or antistatic properties are desired. This is obtained by in-line application of surfactant.
The spunbond/spunmelt fabric is scanned by cameras for quality control before being rolled onto shafts in large jumbo rolls and subsequently cut into smaller rolls and packed according to customer requirements.
Through our Innowo Print brand, we possess a unique flexographic technology, where colours and images are printed directly on the nonwoven fabrics.
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