In addition, some nonwoven fabrics can be recycled after use, given the proper treatment and facilities.

These wind socks are made by drawing carp patterns on paper, cloth or other nonwoven fabric.

Knitted fabrics is the third major class of fabric, after woven and nonwoven fabrics.

Air-laid paper is a textile-like material categorized as a nonwoven fabric made from wood pulp.

Modacrylics are also used in fleece, knit-pile fabric backings, and nonwoven fabrics.

Typically, a certain percentage of recycled fabrics and oil-based materials are used in nonwoven fabrics.

Nonwoven fabric is a fabric-like material made from long fibers, bonded together by chemical, mechanical, heat or solvent treatment.

Kendall's fiber products division, which makes nonwoven fabrics for consumer and medical applications, will be sold to the International Paper Company.

One method of extracting uranium from seawater is using a uranium-specific nonwoven fabric as an absorbent.

ECTFE can be melt blown into a nonwoven fabric.

This was usually a damask ticking or, for inexpensive bedsets, a nonwoven fabric covering all surfaces of the mattress and foundation.

Nonwoven fabrics are engineered fabrics that may be a limited life, single-use fabric or a very durable fabric.

Nonwoven fabrics made by electrospinning have the potential to assist in the growth of organ tissue, bone, neurons, tendons, and ligaments.

Materials with high tensile strengths with negligible elongation properties are reinforced with woven or nonwoven fabrics.

"Vinyl, plastic, woven or nonwoven fabric, real or fake fur - if you like the material, you buy it," Karl Lagerfeld said.

Flashspun fabric is a nonwoven fabric formed from fine fibrillation of a film by the rapid evaporation of solvent and subsequent bonding during extrusion.

A plastic bag, polybag, or pouch is a type of packaging made of thin, flexible, plastic film, nonwoven fabric, or plastic textile.

Nonwoven fabrics are broadly defined as sheet or web structures bonded together by entangling fiber or filaments (and by perforating films) mechanically, thermally or chemically.

Mr. Butler said the company's specialty and distribution businesses, which account for about a third of sales and include nonwoven fabric products, imaging products and chemical operations, "don't have cyclicial swings in earnings."

Nonwoven fabrics provide specific functions such as absorbency, liquid repellence, resilience, stretch, softness, strength, flame retardancy, washability, cushioning, thermal insulation, acoustic insulation, filtration, use as a bacterial barrier and sterility.

In the nonwovens market, in 1998, Nordson acquired J&M Laboratories Inc, a manufacturer of melt-blowing systems used to produce synthetic nonwoven fabrics and adhesive dispensing equipment for the assembly of diapers, medical disposables and feminine hygiene products.