Spunbond Nonwovens Directory

One Line, Filament to Fabric

A spunbond line extrudes polypropylene or polyester through spinnerets, cools and pneumatically draws the continuous filaments to develop their strength, then lays them at random on a moving belt. Thermal point bonding — a patterned calender that welds small spots across the web — gives the fabric its strength and hand in the same pass. Because the filaments never become yarn, spunbond achieves woven-like strength at a fraction of woven cost, and modern lines run several metres wide at hundreds of metres per minute.

Polypropylene dominates on cost, softness of processing and chemical resistance; polyester spunbond serves where heat resistance, dimensional stability or UV life matters more, as in roofing carriers and filtration supports. Bi-component filaments add softness or bonding range, and spunbond's favourite role in composites is as the strong skin protecting a meltblown core — the SMS fabrics of medical and hygiene fame are two spunbond layers doing exactly that job.

The Producers Listed Here

Action Nonwovens Co., Ltd (China) is listed for polyester and polypropylene point-bonded spunbond fabrics for interlining, footwear, fashion accessories, packaging, medical and agricultural applications, as part of National Bridge Industrial, Ltd. Almina Nonwovens (Turkey) covers spunbond fabrics for industrial, medical, agricultural and ground-engineering applications from polypropylene. Asahi Chemical Co, Ltd (Japan) appears with cellulose filament spunbond wiping media for medical and hygiene uses among its wider chemical business.

The full list runs to dozens of producers across Asia, Europe and the Americas, each carried with its country and description as originally stated. It is one of the longest directories in this section — a fair reflection of spunbond's position as the highest-volume nonwoven technology and the usual first entry point for new producers and new producing countries.

Specifying Spunbond

The working specification is polymer, basis weight, tensile strength in both directions, elongation, and — for hygiene and medical uses — softness, strike-through and barrier treatments. Light weights around ten to twenty grams serve coverstock; agriculture uses similar weights with UV stabilisation; heavy grades above a hundred grams serve roofing, geotextile and industrial roles. Colour, print and embossing are line options most producers offer from stock patterns.

Buy on tested properties from the actual line, and expect roll-to-roll uniformity to be spunbond's strength — its continuous process holds weight and strength tighter than most carded webs. The meltblown directory in the chips lists the partner-layer producers for composite grades, and the wholesale directory lists distributors stocking standard spunbond weights for smaller buyers.

Grades, Colours and Finishes

Standard spunbond is a starting point, not a product range. Producers offer it hydrophilic for hygiene acquisition layers or hydrophobic for barrier backsheets, antistatic for electronics packaging, flame-retardant for contract uses, printed and embossed for table and gift applications, and in colours that let a crop cover double as a marketing surface. Each finish is a production decision with a minimum quantity attached, which is why the listings below distinguish producers by the markets they state — a hygiene-focused plant and an agriculture-focused plant run different finish kitchens.

Agriculture deserves its own sentence, because spunbond crop cover is one of the technology's largest quiet successes: a seventeen-gram fabric that floats on the crop, passes light and rain, holds off insects and frost, and raises yields enough to pay for itself many times over. Roofing and construction consume the heavy end, filtration the precision end, and packaging everything in between — the breadth behind this directory's length.

Spunbond Producers Listed Here

57 companies and organisations are listed in this directory, carried from the original Apparel Search listing with each company's country and description as originally stated. Follow a name to the company's own website.