There are many types of non-woven fabrics. Because the types of non-woven fabrics used in different industries are not the same, the following introduces which industries different types of non-woven fabrics are used in.
1. Geosynthetics
Geosynthetics is a high-tech and high value-added industrial textile material with a wide range of uses. Non-woven geotextiles mainly include: spunbonded geotextiles, short fiber needle-punched geotextiles, hot-melt bonded geotextiles, geonets and grids, geomembranes, and composite geotextiles. Geotextile has the functions of reinforcement, isolation, filtration, drainage and seepage prevention in geotechnical construction.
2. Non-woven filter material
Filter material has become an indispensable and important product in modern society. As a new type of filter material, non-woven filter material is gradually replacing traditional textile filter material with its unique three-dimensional network structure, uniform pore distribution, good filtering performance, low cost, and multiple varieties, and has become the leading product of filter media with rapid development.
3. Non-woven fabrics for medical and health use
Medical non-woven fabric is a product with development potential. It gives full play to the advantages of fiber as a health care material. It is a product of emerging industrial disciplines formed by the integration and intersection of multiple disciplines and technologies. It includes surgical gowns, protective clothing, disinfection wraps, masks, diapers, civilian wipes, wiping cloths, wet face towels, towels, soft towel rolls, beauty products, sanitary napkins, sanitary pads, disposable sanitary cloths, etc.
4. Agricultural non-woven fabric
Agricultural non-woven fabric has the advantages of long service life, good effects and low investment. The popularization of agricultural non-woven fabric is conducive to the promotion of agricultural modernization. The main agricultural uses are matting, heat insulation, heat preservation, wind barriers, fruit protection, prevention of diseases and insect pests, seedling cultivation, seeding, covering, etc.
5. Non-woven fabrics for clothing
The non-woven fabric used in clothing has the characteristics of light weight, softness, low cost, wide range of thickness variation, strong adaptability, non-directional fiber arrangement, and large stretchability and so on. It is easy to be compatible with various fabrics, including lining, fusible interlining, wadding, shaped cotton, various synthetic leather base fabrics, etc.
6. Home decoration, daily necessities and packaging materials
It mainly refers to sofa and bed lining cloth, curtain, table cloth, home appliance cover cloth, suit cover, car interior decoration, car protective cover, wiping cloth, equipment material commodity packaging cloth, etc.
