Nonwovens

Sateri, the world’s largest producer of viscose fibre, is planning to increase its Lyocell production in China, with total planned capacity of up to 500,000 tpy by 2025. The first phase of this expansion kicked off recently with ground breaking works for a new 100,000 tpy facility in Changzhou, Jiangsu province....

Mondi is commissioning new production lines to produce medical face masks and melt-blown nonwoven fabric at its German site in Gronau. The company says it has many years of experience in the production and processing of films, nonwovens and elastic components for hygiene products. The production volume is estimated at...

A consortium consisting of Ahlström Capital/Ahlstrom Invest, Bain Capital, Viknum AB and Belgrano Inversiones Oy has made a public tender offer for all shares in Ahlstrom-Munksjö....

Reacting to an increasing demand for healthcare goods in the present market situation, Ahlstrom-Munksjö is increasing its output capacity across its entire protective medical fabrics product portfolio. The company also said it was expanding manufacturing of fabrics production lines normally used for producing other...

Chinese viscose fibre manufacturer Sateri will invest CNY700m (approx. €90m) in the recently acquired Sateri (Jiangsu) Fibre Co plant to increase capacity from 220,000 to 300,000 tpy. The measures are expected to be completed by the end of the year. This was announced by Sateri-COO Zhang Wentao on the occasion of...

Shanghai-based company Sateri has acquired Jiangsu Xiangsheng Viscose Fiber Co. This acquisition brings Sateri’s number of viscose plants in China to four, making it the world’s largest viscose producer with a total production capacity of 1.1 million tpy. Xiangsheng Viscose Fiber operated a viscose mill in...

Ahlstrom is selling the last part of its former Home and Personal wipes fabrics business to Suominen after a thirty-month delay. Suominen and Ahlstrom have signed an agreement on the sale of Ahlstrom’s wipes fabrics Paulínia plant in Brazil. According to the companies involved, Suominen will buy all the shares in...

German private holding company Kajo Neukirchen Management und Beteiligungs GmbH plans to acquire Neenah Lahnstein GmbH, a specialty paper and nonwovens manufacturer from the US company Neenah Paper. Pending approval from the competition authorities, the transaction is to be closed in the autumn of 2015. "The aim of...

Fortress Security Papers will sell all of the shares in Dresden Papier to Glatfelter Gernsbach and its parent company P.H. Glatfelter. Dresden Papier to become part of Glatfelter's composite Fibers business unit....

Ahlstrom will close its spunlace composite production line at the UK Chirnside plant. The company blames its decision on the low level of activity being not sufficient to support the line’s economic viability....