What Is Non Woven Fabric? What's the Advantage of it?

The exact name of non woven fabric should be non-produced-by-weaving fabric, or non-knitted fabric. Because it is a kind of fabric which does not need spinning and weaving, it is just a kind of fabric which is made of short textile fibers or filaments arranged randomly or directionally to form a fiber net structure, and then reinforced by mechanical, thermal adhesive or chemical methods. Nonwovens break through the traditional textile principle, and have the characteristics of short technological process, fast production speed, high output, low cost, wide use and rich sources of raw materials.

Advantages and disadvantages of non-woven fabric:

There are many advantages of non-woven fabric: 

• ventilation; 

• filtration; 

• heat preservation; 

• water absorption; 

• water resistance; 

• expansion; 

• not messy; 

• good feel and softness; 

• lightness; 

• elasticity and recoverability; 

• no fabric directionality; 

• high productivity and high production speed compared with textile fabrics; 13) low price and mass production.

The disadvantages are: 

• poor strength and durability compared with textile fabrics; 

• unable to clean like other fabrics; 

• fibers arranged in a certain direction, so it is easy to crack from a right angle, etc. 

Therefore, the recent improvement of production methods mainly focuses on the improvement of prevention of division.

Its main uses can be roughly divided into:

• Non woven fabrics for medical and health use: surgical clothing, protective clothing, disinfection bag cloth, mask, diaper, civil dishcloth, wipe cloth, wet face towel, magic towel, soft towel roll, beauty products, sanitary towel, sanitary pad, disposable sanitary cloth, etc;

• Non woven fabric for home decoration: carpet, wall covering, tablecloth, bedspread, bedspread, curtain, cleaning cloth, mop, etc;

• Non woven fabric for clothing: lining, adhesive lining, flocs, set cotton, various synthetic leather base cloth, etc;

• Industrial non-woven fabric: automobile roof cloth, filter material, insulation material, cement packaging bag, geotextile, wrapping cloth, etc;

• Agricultural non-woven fabric: crop protection cloth, seedling raising cloth, irrigation cloth, heat preservation curtain, etc;

• Military non-woven fabric: high performance fiber bullet proof clothing, gun cleaning cloth, military map base cloth, etc;

• Other non-woven fabrics: space cotton, heat preservation and sound insulation materials, linoleum, smoke filter, tea bag, color flag, etc.