Mitsui Chemicals : Develops AIRIFA™, The World's First Flexible Nonwoven with High Strength
May 24, 2017 at 10:10 pm EDT
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Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo: 4183; President & CEO: Tsutomu Tannowa) has successfully developed AIRYFA™, the world's first flexible nonwoven with high strength by exploiting its proprietary polyolefin spinning technology.
AIRYFA™ is a high-performance nonwoven that is gentle on skin, simultaneously materializing softness and strength. By capitalizing on the company's proprietary polyolefin spinning technology and producing this thin textile with a hollow structure that is characterized by a superior soft feeling and evenness, Mitsui Chemicals has simultaneously realized both softness and strength, which the conventional technology could not achieve.
This is an eco-friendly nonwoven that takes global environmental issues into consideration since the thin textile with a hollow structure reduces the amount of plastic used as a raw material. The name AIRYFA™ is intended to represent airy (very light and soft) fabric.
Mitsui Chemicals has developed various high-performance nonwovens, such as bulky and highly flexible nonwovens, nonwovens with excellent elasticity, and the new nonwoven AIRYFA™ for sanitary goods, including disposable diapers. To reinforce its leadership in Asia, Mitsui Chemicals, as a solution provider capable of meeting customers' requests for quality improvement, will continue to contribute to an enhanced Quality of Life (QOL) while further developing new high-performance nonwovens.
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Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. specializes in the manufacture and marketing of chemicals products. Net sales break down by product family as follows:
- basic chemicals and fine chemicals products (48.8%): polypropylene, polyethylene, phenols, polyolefins, polyurethane, etc.;
- performance chemicals products (25.5%): elastomers, urethane, polymers, etc. intended in particular for the automotive industry;
- coating materials, films and agrochemicals (14.6%): resins, adhesives, polypropylene films, polyethylene films, industrial films, agrochemicals (insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, etc.) for the food and packaging sectors;
- specialty materials (10.2%): ophthalmic lens materials, photochromic materials, non-woven fibers, dental products, etc. dedicated to the medical and healthcare industry;
- other (0.9%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (52.2%), China (14.5%), Asia (13.6%), America (11.8%), Europe (7.3%) and other (0.6%).
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