A team at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a process that enables recycled paper and cardboard to be used as a raw material for non-wovens.
Hygiene and home care products are among the items that can be manufactured from the biodegradable non-wovens.
The manufacturing costs of cardboard-based non-wovens are said to be around 20 per cent lower than for non-wovens produced from wood raw materials.
Read the complete article published by The Engineer, 15 March 2013
