The Nonwovens Institute (NWI) enjoyed a very productive Hygienix™ conference Nov. 18-21 at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. More than 500 attendees from across the nonwovens value chain were in attendance, providing an excellent opportunity for NWI to showcase its capabilities for absorbent hygiene applications from novel raw material options for nonwoven substrates to sustainability concepts and more.
NWI had some really interesting conversations during the tabletop sessions, with Tom Daugherty, NWI’s deputy director, and Matt Migliore, NWI’s marketing director, showing off unique material samples produced at NWI and fielding a steady stream of application and technology questions.
Key topics covered during the Hygienix™ conference program included talks focused on the shifting global economy for absorbent hygiene products; an overview of the disposable hygiene market in China; the impact of reusables on the absorbent hygiene market; reduce, reuse, recycle, recover strategies in absorbent hygiene; and the presentation of the Hygienix Innovation Award™. The conference also featured ample opportunities for professional networking, with an opening-night reception on Monday and tabletop exhibits on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, just to name a few. A series of pre-conference workshops were presented on Monday as well.
“Hygienix™ is an excellent conference for those involved in the absorbent hygiene space, with many opportunities for continuous learning and professional networking,” said Daugherty. “For those companies who are seeking to innovate in this category, NWI can be an excellent resource with more than 100 years of combined experience in product development and manufacturing across the full range of nonwovens technology platforms. We encourage companies with new product ideas and application challenges to reach out to us for more details on how we can help.”
NWI is an ideal partner for companies operating in absorbent hygiene, with 100-plus years of combined experience in this sector and opportunities to engage from fundamental research to training/workforce development to problem solving and product incubation. NWI’s pillar service offerings include:
- Knowledge Creation: The NWI consortium of industry, government and academia fosters an environment of collaboration around fundamental nonwovens research to advance the knowledge on topics of significant interest to our industry.
- Workforce Development: NWI’s regularly scheduled and custom short courses cover the full spectrum of the nonwovens value chain, ranging from raw materials to processes to products.
- Fabrication and Testing: NWI’s facilities include lab-scale and large pilot-scale production and testing equipment covering the leading nonwoven platforms. This equipment, along with our expert staff, is available to support your experimental trials and testing needs.
- Problem Solving: NWI collaborates with companies at all stages of growth to embrace and advance exciting new discoveries and product concepts in areas relevant to nonwovens, such as absorbent hygiene.
- Product Incubation: Through its non-profit affiliate, LINC (Leaders in Innovation and Nonwovens Commercialization LLC), NWI has the capability to ramp up and commercialize new products, specializing in low-to-medium volume manufacturing.
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Hygienix™ is annual conference organized by INDA, Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry. INDA serves hundreds of member companies in the nonwovens / engineered fabrics industry doing business globally.
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