TEXTILE COATINGS EVOLVING IN LEAPS AND BOUNDS TO MEET NEW CHALLENGES
February 1st, 2021
In the modern textile industry, coating, surface modification and laminating are the key means to tailor textiles and nonwovens to create functional products for specific, often high-performance, applications.
Such techniques have offered the sector potential advantages as it entered uncharted terrain in 2020, being at the forefront in humankind’s fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Indeed, it is not hyperbole to say decision-makers and consumers soon realised that the difference between life and death maybe a piece of nonwoven, woven or knitted, whose ...
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