Natural fibre products
- Printing and writing papers
- Paperboards
- Tissue
- Nonwovens
- Speciality papers
- Production of paper and board
- Stock and water systems
- Web forming
- Wet pressing
- Drying of natural fibre products
- Surface sizing
- Pigment coating
- Finishing
- Converting of paper and board
- Papermaking chemistry
- Paper physics
- Printing
Nonwovens The word nonwoven means basically textile-like material made of fibres with technology which binds fibres together without weaving. The fibres can be natural, man-made or a mixture of both and they are carried to the web-forming section by means of water or air. 1 Originally nonwovens were developed to substitute textiles in some less
Authors & references
Author:
Professor Jouni Paltakari, Aalto University
References:
- Niemi, T., Air-laid paper (Chapter 4). In Paulapuro, H. (ed,), Paper and Board Grades, (Book 18), Papermaking Science and Technology. Fapet Oy. Jyväskylä. 2000. P. 95-98.
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