Why use nonwovens in packaging?
Nonwovens are ideal for a variety of packaging end-uses, as their exceptional lightweight, their energy-efficient production, shipping and storage, and their long life and robustness allow for two important features: volume reduction and reusability.
The different uses are:
Transportation
- Envelopes
- Sacks and bags
- Bale wrap
Protection
- Sterilisation wrapping
- Sheets, bags, sacks, wraps for delicate products (e.g. electronic products, car bumpers, leather goods, pharmaceutical goods, cosmetics)
- Bulk products (e.g. steel, lumber, glass)
Other areas
- Luxury inner and outer packaging
- Laundry and dry-cleaning products
- Vacuum cleaner bags
- Metal wrap
- Industrial bags
For example:
Nonwoven solutions such as oxygen-scavenging packaging for foodstuffs and anti-static packaging for computer equipment are just two of the innovative packaging solutions available today. Packaging industry experts are looking to nonwovens for alternative solutions. The flexibility the materials provide is testament to the potential nonwovens have as a packaging medium of the present and the future.