Nonwovens and Textiles Contribute to Sustainability

Nicolai Strauch, press officer for VDMA Textile Machinery Association, Germany, representing medium-sized companies in the capital goods industry, spoke to VDMA member companies about textiles, textile machinery, and nonwovens contributing to a sustainable world, in the run-up to ITMA Asia CITME 2016, to be held next week, Oct. 21-25, in China. 

Discussing sustainability, Christian Gerking, project manager, Nanoval, Germany, metal melting machine manufacturers, said that "unlike solution spinning processes, melt spinning is indeed much easier as you do not need any solvent recovery, like for PAN, viscose, or lyocell. While PAN is neither biodegradable nor made of renewable raw-materials, cellulose–either dissolved by carbon disulfide as solvent (viscose) or NMMO (lyocell)–is both. Furthermore, cellulose is hygroscopic without any surface treatment by surfactants." 

 

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